magguzu

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[–] magguzu@midwest.social 1 points 8 minutes ago

Had to scroll too far for Stratum! The watch app is also why I use it so that I can keep my phone far away from me while I work. Game changer. Surprised more don't use it.

[–] magguzu@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks for this, looks like it took a long time to put together!

Some corrections with Windscribe since I use it: on Android you can get the APK directly ("sideload" - I use Obtanium) or through F-Droid. Also I think that pricing is for the full service. I pay like $3 a month with 30GB data and a choice of (I think) 3 or 4 countries IIRC. This has been more than enough for me and probably most people.

[–] magguzu@midwest.social 4 points 6 days ago

There's more, he criticized protests against ICE in LA turning into riots, and had some nice things to say about Kirk after he was killed.

That said I think it's really unproductive for people to turn on him after he was a big spark in a movement and is still outspoken. He has irritated me a few times lately but he's still one of the most influential leaders.

[–] magguzu@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah shit, I'm in the Chicagoland area. I wonder if this affects me. That's good to know.

[–] magguzu@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Surprised no mention here yet of a Pixel 3a? Both Ubuntu Touch and PostmarketOS seem to run best on it, so I've had it on my eBay search notifications for a while hoping to be able to toy with one. I really don't expect it to be daily driver material though.

[–] magguzu@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

If you have a Mac, have you ever tried installing an app and have it refuse because it's not signed by Apple, and then you had to go into settings and click "allow anyway?"

This is that, except without the allow anyway feature, like iOS. It doesn't matter if it comes from the play store or elsewhere, as this story originally had us believe.

[–] magguzu@midwest.social 11 points 3 weeks ago

surely there will have to be "no smart glasses" rules

They have this rule for ebikes at the lake I love to walk and the kids are zooming by anyway. I think we'll struggle to enforce it and that really sucks. I hope this fails. It's hard not to be pessimistic about it, as much as I can see some legitimate use cases. I just don't trust big tech with it, least of all Meta.

[–] magguzu@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Heh...these days I kinda long for devices for for specific purposes again 😅 and I'm a software engineer.

[–] magguzu@midwest.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

Right, but this is the exact reason even Bernie refuses to use that word. Because then we are supposed to do something about it.

[–] magguzu@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

Buy refurb then, it's what I did and it's super fast. Returns are diminishing these days and your money will go further.

[–] magguzu@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Someone else had mentioned Magic Earth but I was under the impression that it was another big tech thing (I guess I was thinking of Google Earth) but you saying it again made me check it out.

Seems like not OSS but their claim of privacy focus actually makes me interested so I'll try it out! I'm even okay with the small fee, I know servers cost money to run. Glad to see they're working on a non-Google or Apple payment.

 

What's your go-to OSS navigation app? I've been trying the three in the title. CoMaps is a fork of Organic but Osm seems to be its own thing. Honestly haven't seen a reason yet to prefer one over another besides Osm's pretty bad name.

For public transit (trains buses etc) I use Transit, it's not OSS but the company aligns strongly with me and I like that their employees get four-day workweeks: https://transitapp.com/vision However if there's a OSS alternative I'm not aware of I'm always willing to try it.

For finding businesses I would not expect much.. there seems to be no good answer that isn't Yelp or Google Maps, and of course that kinda goes by the nature of crowd sourced reviews and information. I have GMaps WV but it's kind clunky and I just ended up falling back to Maps unfortunately.

EDIT: Forgot to mention biking. I live in a not-so-bike friendly suburb and have actually found that Google gives me WORSE bike routes than OsmAnd, for what it's worth. The OSM route tends to be more roundabout but safer. My guess is you get more urbanist minded people contributing to these, so that's nice to see.

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