Jhex
@Jhex@lemmy.world
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 3 weeks ago:
The incentive simply isn’t their for anyone when there is already a perfectly working solution—as much as I hate to say—from Google
So you enjoy corporate oversight and ads? or at least they don’t bother you enough to seek alternatives?. It’s not political, I am spelling out what you seem to be trying to avoid saying.
I wish OSM and the maps & navigation apps using it were more popular and better but they aren’t simply because they don’t have dedicated teams.
But you don’t wish it enough to contribute in any way…
Google Maps also get contributions from the community (which is much larger than OSM). So google benefits from volunteer contributions as well as their own teams mapping stuff around the world which OSM can never match. It isn’t something like Search, Drive or Photos that can be replaced by a community driven FOSS alternative. It requires huge funding.
I think you are just doubling down on this to convince yourself that it is not that you are being selfish here, you are just being smart by not choosing a losing battle you made up in your head.
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 3 weeks ago:
Ooops, thanks for pointing it out. I have corrected the post
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 3 weeks ago:
I have observed no issues. Every once in a while, when choosing large targets like an airport, it’s hard to chose the right “destination” from the many available as the labels don’t always have all details.
Other than that, no issues whatsoever.
PS: to put it in context, I am a casual user who basically never remembers street names or directions so I use it often but it’s not like I am an Uber driver
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 3 weeks ago:
I throw a lot of shit at Google but Google Maps is the best piece of software they have ever created
Agreed but that is not really saying much considering Google’s resources and how often the fuck everything up
because there ain’t no way I am going out to volunteer for free to map out my neighbourhood accurately.
because you enjoy corporate oversight and ads? or because you don’t see the benefit to you personally?
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 3 weeks ago:
and a shitty one at that… DDG was good, now it’s just Bing + Apple maps which is bad on both fronts
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 3 weeks ago:
www.openstreetmaps.org
Stop using Apple
- Comment on The US bans all new foreign-made network routers 3 weeks ago:
I think you guy are forgetting Occam Razor… the most likely scenario (least assumptions) here is that some inept appointee from the orange pedo thought this would be a good idea and pushed it with the research, planning and preparation we all put at farting after eating Taco Bell
- Comment on The "unhackable" Xbox One has been hacked — and Microsoft can’t patch it 4 weeks ago:
this would be funnier, were it not so sad
Oh wait, it’s sad for Microslop so it’s even funnier!!!
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 4 weeks ago:
do you think people all over the world who have held a general strike were all well off and had plenty of savings to hold them through it??
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 4 weeks ago:
Half of the USA already have internet id in some form or another… also, I am not in Europe
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 4 weeks ago:
They would just call it a terrorist attack from antifa. Americans are terrified of an uprising from black people
even better
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 4 weeks ago:
The Orange pedophile already executed a coup to not give up the power on his first term… expecting he would give up power willingly now is just “ignorant and proud of it”
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 4 weeks ago:
yes, a General Strike… if the people of the USA stop working for a week, that would be enough to cripple the Orange pedophile supporters
In the meantime, you can do very easy stuff like deleting your Meta (Facebook, Instagram, etc), Google, Xitter and Amazon accounts… but that seems like too much to ask of the American people… better descend further into fascism and drag the world down than stop using X
- Comment on I think this is the first war we aren't hiding by bad guy vs good guy scenario. So lets say the US and allies get control of the oil..how do that solve dependence on it? 4 weeks ago:
They are not trying to wean off oil… the Orange pedophile regime is actually looking at paying a BILLION dollar to cancel existing wind farms so that the USA depends harder on fossil fuels
That is the equivalent of a terminal alcoholic deciding coffee is woke and switching it with bourbon for breakfast
- Comment on Microsoft's AI wants to be your medical middleman, but is a "Secure by Design" promise really enough for Copilot? 4 weeks ago:
lope
- Comment on 'They Were All I Had': Lebanese Father Buries Parents, 4 Daughters Killed by Israeli Bombing 4 weeks ago:
lol yeah right… Muricans are too meek to save themselves…
- Comment on 'They Were All I Had': Lebanese Father Buries Parents, 4 Daughters Killed by Israeli Bombing 4 weeks ago:
he is already doing that
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 4 weeks ago:
stop drinking the koolaid… companies make mistakes and run themselves out of business all the time
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 4 weeks ago:
says the people profitting from selling ad space
- Comment on Is there any reason we were taught in school that blood is blue in the body until it reaches oxygen and then it turns red other than our veins look blue? 5 weeks ago:
you were actually taught that?? for the love of Snoopy
- Comment on BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient 5 weeks ago:
I hear you but it’s not like western tech does not outright lie about their specs and/or make up awards to seem better than it is
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 5 weeks ago:
that’s nowhere near enough testing for such a large change… special one written by the slop machine
- Comment on US State Dept Approves ‘Emergency’ Weapons Sale to Israel 5 weeks ago:
let the spread of misery continue!
- Comment on Trump tells CNN Cuba is soon going to fall: ‘I’m going to put Marco over there’ | CNN Politics 5 weeks ago:
there are less cruel ways to get rid of Rubio
- Comment on AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles 1 month ago:
then what’s the point? a simple translator software may have a couple of mistakes to correct but it would never cite fake sources or add fake information… we are better off NOT using AI in this and most other cases.
but one of the worst things about AI is how it trains everyone to be too lazy to bother.
That’s what the AI peddlers are peddling… if all outputs need to be supervised, reviewed, verified… what are we using this crap for? just to burn through electricity harder?
- Comment on AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles 1 month ago:
One more category AI sucks at
- Comment on Make it Shitty 1 month ago:
Say hello to the newest Microslop hire!
- Comment on Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS 1 month ago:
Meet Microslop’s new Head of Design and Engineering!
- Comment on Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS 1 month ago:
If there was ever hope that Microslop would correct its ways, this is proof that there is no reason to hope
- Comment on 1 month ago:
unhinged lunatic.
that’s a step up from child rapist and human trafficker