It’s exactly as stupid as it sounds. Landlord decided we need to pay through an app. My budget overrules my principles, and the local laundry mats are at least five times the price, so… Yeah.
You add money to the app, then the app checks your location (for “reasons”) and connects to the machine via bluetooth then you press start. I’m not confident about running it through other things, but I don’t want to say it’d be impossible – certainly not worth the hassle though. Eventually, I’ll move and it won’t be a problem after that.
Buy a second hand pixel 8, 9, 10 pro, xl or not, based on your budget. I wouldn’t recommend older. Then after loading GrapheneOS create a couple user profiles. While in this screen remove the ability of the profile to run in background. Use one of these sandboxed users as a Google phone. Install Google Play Compatibility through the graphene installer. Now you have a Google option. Some banking apps won’t work, and the McDonalds app won’t work. Google is then sandboxed and not running constantly. If you need a Google app, you can switch over. And without background profile running enabled Google services will completely closed when switching back. No reset needed, just like 3 seconds loading. If you install Wattz (fdroid) you can see the power draw reduced in nongoogle mode. The root profile can share apps, create and delete profiles. I guess one downside is you need to learn multiple login passwords. Also no tap to pay ever.
It’s exactly as stupid as it sounds. Landlord decided we need to pay through an app. My budget overrules my principles, and the local laundry mats are at least five times the price, so… Yeah.
Is it just an app to add money to an account or do you need to tap something? Could you run the app through bluestacks?
You add money to the app, then the app checks your location (for “reasons”) and connects to the machine via bluetooth then you press start. I’m not confident about running it through other things, but I don’t want to say it’d be impossible – certainly not worth the hassle though. Eventually, I’ll move and it won’t be a problem after that.
That’s messed up. Wow. It’s how they get you.
Good luck getting out of there.
It would probably work with a laptop. But yeah eventually you’ll move. I just hate being vendor locked by things.
Buy a second hand pixel 8, 9, 10 pro, xl or not, based on your budget. I wouldn’t recommend older. Then after loading GrapheneOS create a couple user profiles. While in this screen remove the ability of the profile to run in background. Use one of these sandboxed users as a Google phone. Install Google Play Compatibility through the graphene installer. Now you have a Google option. Some banking apps won’t work, and the McDonalds app won’t work. Google is then sandboxed and not running constantly. If you need a Google app, you can switch over. And without background profile running enabled Google services will completely closed when switching back. No reset needed, just like 3 seconds loading. If you install Wattz (fdroid) you can see the power draw reduced in nongoogle mode. The root profile can share apps, create and delete profiles. I guess one downside is you need to learn multiple login passwords. Also no tap to pay ever.