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by hexointed 825 days ago
My experience generally is that avoiding both Google and Apple is pretty difficult. I've been running both un-googled android and trying out the pinephone, and while it's generally been technically feasible to run BankID together with microG, it's definitely not officially supported, which you'll notice immediately as there's no official way to download the BankID apk. I also found out that setting up an new ID isn't currently working with microG when I bought a new phone a few weeks ago, so I'm still stuck with the old one for now.

I'm also kind of at a loss for how to work this situation, living without Swish and BankId is certainly possible, but it's incredibly impractical, and continuously getting harder. I think we should be allowed to choose whether to agree to contracts written up by private companies, but most people don't seem to care.

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Is this something that you are willing to help me with?

I want to right a letter to the appropriate ministry and political parties to raise awareness about the issue and see what their positions are.

However, while my Swedish is decent, I can't express complex issues like this well, and my grammar is clearly that of an immigrant. I would like to work with someone like you, who understands the technology and has an interest in the technology, to help me write these letters.

Yeah, maybe that's the way to go. I could be up for joining such a venture maybe
My email is my HN account name at dalkescientific.com.