I am a creative soul. Materials are but a medium for creativity. All my content is created with FOSS , and the operating system I’m using is Linux Mint. I am not a professional and I am learning as go.

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  • 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).





  • Ohh you… That’s very nice of you to say.

    No I don’t work with writing documentation, but I’ve found that often times the "how to’s " miss the explanation part between steps, or don’t show enough examples for novices. Understanding what you are doing is sort of the point, and not adding context will make it harder for the reader to navigate any roadblocks that they may encounter. A step by step instruction shouldn’t leave you stuck on a step because the writer expects that you know how to navigate or find a specific menu. Unless it is explicitly stated of course. I don’t expect expert level documentation to also go through all the basics.







  • 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.







  • 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.



  • I do some self promotion, although I try to; 1: only post in relevant forums. 2: also engage outside of my own posts an then not talk about said posts.(this time is an exception but its kind of a meta discussion.)

    Due to the nature of the fedivers what I post on mastodon and pixelfed might get federated on to Lemmy, which unfortunately might give the appearance of spamming, I’m aware of this but I don’t see a way around that. And lastly. I don’t think my videos on Peertube would get any views unless I post them outside of peertube since there is no real algorithm or good discovery functions across the instances. But I’m open to being in the wrong here.