Yesss fcast looks incredibly promising. Sadly the only app implementing it seems to be GrayJay, I really hope it will catch on more.
Yesss fcast looks incredibly promising. Sadly the only app implementing it seems to be GrayJay, I really hope it will catch on more.
Public transport in Magic Earth mostly works for me. It’s not as good as Google Maps, but it’s better than nothing.
I don’t know how it works in America, but in Germany and presumably most parts of Europe, red light cameras are triggered by coils under the road (similar to speed cameras). There’s usually one coil right past the stopping line (for cars being halfway over) and another coil somewhere closer to the center of the intersection (for fully running a red light).
If your hate only goes towards touchscreens and not having physical buttons, Mazda is (or at least was) very anti-touchscreen. I haven’t done any research on their current stance or if they have good EVs, but a neighbor of mine was really happy with his Mazda ICE car for having a button for everything.
It’s not a full car or even entertainment system, but comma.ai is an opensource autonomous driving software. Last time I looked into this was a few years ago, but basically for most newer cars you can rip out the adaptive cruise control, and effevtively replace it with autonomous driving. Either powered by certain supported phones or dedicated hardware.
In that case you can try adding before:2023
or similar to your search
Not quite, it stands for Quantum-Dot: https://www.samsungdisplay.com/eng/tech/quantum-dot.jsp
I bought an LG TV, connected it to the internet once to download Jellyfin, blocked internet access directly after.
If you’re cool with connecting it to the internet once, I’d recommend LG, the Magic Remote is light years ahead of the competition.
Other than that, just get any OLED TV and don’t give it internet access (or one of the new QD-OLEDs if you have the money for it).
Yes, but as you say, they have a good privacy policy. Also their revenue model backs up their privacy policy, and I find their reasoning as to why they aren’t FOSS fair:
Will Magic Earth be Open Source?
No; since it is also used commercially (we have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners), we cannot make the code public.
(from the FAQ)
At least in terms of addresses, I feel like Magic Earth is significantly better than Organic Maps.
I really enjoyed Tetris (2023). The story was super riveting and I also really liked the soundtrack (mostly just “modernized” Tetris music).
I use Magic Earth for driving directions and Organic Maps for looking around on a map, as imo Magic Earth sucks for inspecting a map.
I occasionally pair them with Transportr for public transit.
I do also still keep Google Maps around, as it just still is the best app for navigation. Sometimes I will check which rough route Google Maps prefers, and then use Magic Earth for the actual navigation.
If you want to fully ditch the Google Maps app without losing Google Maps completely, you could also try GMaps WV, a WebView wrapper for the Google Maps website.
I think Organic Maps can do that, possibly with the help of RHVoice.
While I do mostly agree with your statement, it’s incredibly annoying when I type in a local IP for my router or server and it automatically gets turned into https.
I have bots on and it’s mostly ever these two.
There are still reddit repost bots, but they are all on reddit repost instances. As I have those like two or three instances blocked, I don’t see any of them.
There’s a lemmy profile setting whether to show bots, you probably have that turned off.
It’s not decentralized, everyone connects to one central server.
I could see this coming in handy if you’re sharing links to places and send them to less privacy oriented friends, so you don’t have to hear the “Ugh why can’t you just use Google Maps?” again.
The user reported events don’t directly affect routing AFAIK.
I share your experience though, no problems for me yet. Their FAQ
heavilymentions that you should contact them in case any of the data is wrong.