Sweden,Lituania,Denmark, Norway, Poland, that I know of, off the top of my head. And for the dystopian feeling you have, consider that its required for banking, tax filing and things where you would otherwise have to prove your identity with a government issued ID or passport. So no more dystopian than being required to show Id when taking out a house loan.

Same here. I guess we are doomed to be mistaken for clankers.

One of my friends from Uruguay told me that in spanish his name is pronounced Juan Poroto.

If you clear app data for Advanced Privacy, it solves the glitching. Had that same issue earlier this week.

Well since I’m located in Sweden I’ve initially focused on how to set up a non profit organisation here. And the process is pretty straight forward. Until you get to taxes, salaries, expences and such. Even if you are a non profit you still need to pay employer fees, taxes on salaries and pensions, if you have employees or any salaried personnel or consultants. If they are volunteers but have expences well they need to be declared. But all that would be normal business for an accounting.(I’m not an accountant)

Basically to get started you need to have a charter, voted on at the first board meeting. After that your organisation is born. Then comes registration, getting an organisation number, setting upp tax accounts, bank accounts, seeking grants and subsidies, an office(for lack of a better word) if needed. Also the non profit needs to have a mission that is to the benifit of society, a bit of a open interpretation here, but it can’t just be “let’s have a we three men go on fishing trips non profit”. Oh and yes it needs to be open for anyone to join (there are exceptions here. But that needs to be stipulated in the charter. Think a historical society, excluding history revisionists, or that dude from ancient aliens).

Well we can organise, set up a non profit (this also lets us bypass CC2 if its ever enacted). I’ve been thinking about this for a while and already have a framework for statues and a draft for a mission statement. If done correctly there are country and EU grants that can help (yes, I spent some time looking through grant processes). What I mean to say is; you have my axe

To quote Adam Savage; The one skill to focus on, is how easy you are to work with. People will always take the less skilled but easy to interact with person, before the “full of them self” savant.

I’m using the word quote here in the broadest of sense. Cause I know I’m butchering the quote. Only remember the gist of it.

No, I mean I might have ADHD, and I do sometimes fixate on very specific things. But this time I was just out in the woods and thought hey that Tree throw might be meme material.

This is probably true. That treeworkers make up the vast majority of casualties seem more than reaonable.

People sometimes dies from the trunk falling back down. This can happen if the decomposition of the tree has come far enough or the forces eventually make the tree snap.

App images, love the fact that they exist thou sometimes graphically jarring. Sure… ever only used them for two different applications. Both pretty niche. And not available in my distro repo or flathub. Not advocating for it to become something universal,or anything but they seem pretty distro agnostic. Which I’m guessing is easier to maintain? Or not? Not a developer.

I misspelled it and didn’t see my mistake, but you understood what I meant. And that’s what’s important.

Yeah you are basically soft-locked out of society without a phone with bank ID here in Sweden.

In Sweden we have something called “Bank-ID” its a digital ID. Most services such as logging in to renew medical receipts, access your tax information, and file your taxes, pay your bills, access your bank. Buy insurance, cancel insurance. Think anytime it would be unreasonable to not verify your identity, you need bank-id. It is basically a certificate you generate together with your bank, that can only be accessed through the bank-id app/application depending on if you have it installed on your desktop or phone. Everytime a website has Bank-id integrated as a login method. You will need to scan a QR-code with the app or initiate the app from the website. Then type in your code to authenticate. Voila you have verified yourself. This requires their proprietary application, and the certification that lives in the app is issued by Bank-id. So you are locked in

Edit: basically in Sweden any linux phone without working bank-ID would be dead in the water from the start.

But I still won’t be able to use it to access those mentioned services, due to the Digital ID not working on Linux.

This is the worst part. They all have functional websites, but to login you need digital ID(bankID) so one app is acting as the gate keeper

I can drive a manual, does that help?

I know some people on the internet is against the whole idea behind digital identification. But if its only used for things that would normally require identification in the physical world. Like banks and government interactions. I don’t have anything against it per say. It can even be administered and handed out by a company (although that is against my personal ideology) but they have to then be forced to either release the source code or support at least one distro of Linux, or flatpack works too. Let’s not get in to snap packages, it opens a whole other can of worms.

I agree with you, I think there is a huge market for cheap functional smartphones that just gets the day-to-day things done.

The most important thing fo me is not to fix a new Linux phone or linux compatible phone. It is to pressure the banks and digital ID providers here in Sweden and EU to support Linux.

I wanted a Linux phone, I was open and prepared to have a worse camera, battery, stability, user experience. You name it. Just to break free from the duopoly. But then I wouldn’t be able to use my bank, healthcare services, insurance, file my taxes, etc. Cause there is no support for Linux only Android and iOS, windows, Mac OS.

Services needed to exist in a modern society locked to platforms owned by private corporations. Even if ASOP gets a fork that continues without Google’s version of ASOP for future version’s, there is a good chance none of the bank apps would function without integration of google services.

I’m running /e/OS on a fairphone, that was the best option out there for my requirements. But with the latest developments around ASOP I’m not sure about how long this will be an option.