A personal website built with markdown and javascript. A website generator to keep that personal site up to date. A utility to download and parse Electronic Programme Guides to schedule TV shows I want to watch. Scripts to build dynamic email signatures for my multiple email accounts. Many others that I no longer use.
Not coding, but my daughter Aelyth and I are a musical duo. Our first album (https://sidesister.bandcamp.com) took four years to complete thanks to COVID lockdowns and living in different cities.
On Thursday evening we rendezvoused at an equidistant AirBnB to sketch out our second album. It's now Sunday morning, Aelyth's just caught the train home because she's working today, but we have a concept, a title and ten songs for the new album!
There are admittedly another seven song ideas we've not had time to explore, but we've accomplished much more, much more quickly, than either of us thought possible. We've also committed to an overall musical style, plus boundaries on arrangements and instruments with the intention of keeping the production phase as concise as possible.
I cancelled my Google account more than five years ago and no longer use any of their services. Email is via a shared hosting account. I host my own CalDAV and CardDAV servers as well as shared notes and backup services. I run Linux on my computers, LineageOS on my phone. I browse with Firefox and use Open Street Maps. I've never been a YouTube user, preferring reading to watching video.
Sailfish OS is a non-duopoly option. There are community builds for a wide range of devices, and official licenses which support a smaller number of devices but include extras including an Android compatibility subsystem so you can run Android apps which don't have Google dependencies (ie, a majority of them). https://sailfishos.org/
Lineage OS offers a Google-free Android operating system that also runs on a wide range of devices. https://lineageos.org/
I understand these exist. However, that doesn't mean BankID or Swish will work on them, or will continue to work with them in the future.
BankID says the risk is entirely mine. That is not a risk I want to take. I figure it's easier stay with what I know works than to backtrack in the future from a temporary technical workaround.
This requires a political solution, not technical one.
That such solutions exist can help inform the political decision. The government could require BankID, etc. to support additional options, and in the interest of national sovereignty could even provide funding for that goal. If the banks require a higher level of security on the servers, the government could provide those servers instead of a non-EU monopolist.
