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.
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magguzu@midwest.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-DroidEnglish5·7 days agoIf 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.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New GlassholesEnglish11·14 days agosurely 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.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New GlassholesEnglish3·14 days agoHeh…these days I kinda long for devices for for specific purposes again 😅 and I’m a software engineer.
magguzu@midwest.socialto Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•Mamdani, if Elected Mayor, Pledges to Order N.Y.P.D. to Arrest Netanyahu2·21 days agoRight, but this is the exact reason even Bernie refuses to use that word. Because then we are supposed to do something about it.
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.socialOPto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc1·27 days agoSomeone 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.
magguzu@midwest.socialOPto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc2·27 days agohaha I’m with you here, though tbh this is something I would have cared about some years ago but these days with tech fatigue I don’t even mind the Stephen Hawking guidance (I usually have it off anyways).
magguzu@midwest.socialOPto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc1·27 days agoThanks for sharing this! I just started using OsmAnd for biking and missed this nice detail.
Google Maps would take me through some awful stroads pretty regularly, so I’ll be glad for a safer route even if it takes longer.
magguzu@midwest.socialOPto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc3·27 days agoOh I’m aware of the “Osm” meaning.
I still think it’s a bad name 😅 how does someone unfamiliar with OSM pronounce it? Why is there a tilde?!
magguzu@midwest.socialOPto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc1·27 days agoHey thanks for sharing this! I’ll try Bimba. I’m planning on switching to GrapheneOS soon so the less stuff reliant on G services the better, as much as I like the Transit app.
Edit seems like it’s a bit limited on its coverage, with little to speak of in the US :(
Was hoping to get Chicagoland metro area transit.
magguzu@midwest.socialOPto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc6·27 days agoI’m not sure this is possible without crowd sourced data
magguzu@midwest.socialOPto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc4·27 days agoThe transit app is for public transit. Trains buses etc. I probably should have specified sorry!
But yeah there really isn’t a way around reviews I think I’m going to have to come to peace with that.
magguzu@midwest.socialto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Important Notice of Security IncidentEnglish113·27 days agoBy your logic the *arr suite isn’t self hosted either since they rely on metadata cache servers.
In fact Jellyfin relies on external services for their metadata too!
magguzu@midwest.socialto World News@lemmy.world•Wife of Ex-Nepali Prime Minister Burnt Alive, Parliament Set on FireEnglish422·27 days agoBit weird to pin it on an age generation
Obviously photoshopped shit like this is a bad look on real issues man come on.
There’s plenty of actual real trash urbanism you can share.
Hate to say it but it honestly doesn’t sound crazy hard to just block any instance that pops up. Yes it’s whack a mole but if it’s an automated script, it can just crawl through a backdoor instance and ban any domain it sees.
Like you, I value my relationships and by extension my mental health more than which messaging app I use.
I hate Meta with a passion and them acquiring Whatsapp is probably the most disappointing acquisition of all time to me, but I’m going to continue using it because my wife, family in Latin America, and world friends all use it. And being lonely and out of touch isn’t worth the satisfaction of knowing my data isn’t being scraped to me. Others in these threads always seems to disagree here, and they’re free to do that but it’s not a lifestyle I’m interested in.
I’m making changes where I can; I self host a server for my media, photos, files. I’m going to install Graphene on my phone soon. I’m interested in picking up a cheaper older phone to try a Linux mobile OS on. I have my phone auto connect to my pihole to block trackers when I’m out of the house, etc. But I know as soon as it’s something I have to inconvenience others with, it’s not going to work.
Pick your battles.
Ah shit, I’m in the Chicagoland area. I wonder if this affects me. That’s good to know.