Well, totp is no problem, but the weird proprietary stuff may well be.
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I am talking weird proprietary banking stuff.
The banking software both our banks use is actually written locally (I applied to work at the place last year but it is not where I work now) there is a non-zero chance that it would work on non-standard androids.
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Iāve been using /e/ on a Fairphone5 for a couple of weeks. It seems okay so far. Thereās an app store equivalent that you can use to filter for open source, tracker free apps, and it assigns everything a privacy rating (although the service used for that seems a bit flaky). The biggest complaint I have so far is that i canāt get autocorrect to work in a browser 
There are some other built-in privacy tools as well:
(Bonus points for guessing the worst culprits on the data leak list)
From the research I did beforehand, I understand that GrapheneOS is popular with the especially security and privacy concious, although it only works on Pixels
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Is there a way to check which apps would work?
We only have a handful that I really really need to work (banking 2f as mentioned and public transport tickets, Home automation things, Lightroomāonly me)
My biggest problem will be Lightroom. I donāt think I can go away from the playstore because I want to keep using Lightroom which as of now is non-negotiable for me having recently tested some alternatives and finding only suckage.
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Only if someoneās tried and posted about it.
Key things if you go non-Google Android: F-Droid is its own fully-open app repository. From that, you can get Aurora Store, which is an illicit view onto the Google app store.
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Thereās a list of banking apps that work on /e/ here:
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Thanks 
Thatās hugely helpful. Because my bank is indeed listed with both apps even. My partnerās bank isnāt but since they are using the same software just with different branding I am assumingā¦ it will work as well.
PS: I keep forgetting that for ease of use I have my work-phone on the same hardware and I doubt that would ever work on non-standard android.
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Our optical fiber router appears to have died overnight. Since itās owned by NTT, not us, thereās nothing we can do except wait for them to replace it, and apparently the earliest that can happen is tomorrow.
So, canāt work today. This is awkward.
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Trying to figure out what was going on in a complex web site, I enabled the debuggerās tracing feature. I could tell it was having an effect, because the web request now took a really long time, but I couldnāt find the trace file. I checked the docs and found a function to tell me the file path, and that worked and told me it was writing it under /tmp. Which would have been great if the file was there. I then spent a really long time trying to figure out what might be preventing it from writing the file.
Turns out that it had successfully written the file every single time, and that systemd has a āPrivateTmpā feature which was causing what the web server believed to be /tmp to actually be /tmp/systemd-private-a5761e3e695840ce872b6b39dec0468d-apache2.service-ni9mIr/tmp
So it wasnāt lying to me, but it also had absolutely no way of giving me a useful answer. So far as I can see, systemd doesnāt even set an environment variable that programs could look for if they knew about it?!
I only discovered this by doing a system-wide find as the root user.
Edit: This was still driving me nuts because the directory changes every time you restart the service (which I need to do to change the debug settings), at which point it purges the old directory (which makes things lot more temporary than one would expect)! I expect I could have told it to write the trace files somewhere else, but stackoverflow told me how to disable the behaviour for a given service, and Iāve opted to do that for my local dev environment.
A list of services configuring this feature:
find /lib/systemd -type f -print0 | xargs -0r grep PrivateTmp | sort
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systemd may have some uses for some people (specifically people who want fast-booting desktops and VMs) but every time I have interacted with it has reinforced my determination not to use it.
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I just ordered a Microbit for myself to prepare for the upcoming Girlās Day in AprilāI will participate for the first time and somehow landed the job of āpresenter/coach/teacherā at my new company (someone else does the organizing). I think they are quite happy to have a female dev to the whole thing and I really want to try and convince some girls that tech jobs are for themāafter all I am after the split of my department into two halves once more the only woman in my half department.
We plan on doing some programming with the Microbit and I need to figure out what exactly it can do.
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