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  • On the plus side, it worked without internet!

    So you're saying that you can't drive this speed limit on those roads because of the amount of traffic, right? not because of some sort of geographic feature or shape of the roads?

    Yeah...hard to imagine much of a way to get traffic updates in comaps, or any OSM project honestly. It seems like it would have to be a separately maintained service. And either way, I'm guessing the number of users that would buy into something like that just wouldn't be enough to get meaningful data most of the time. Especially since it pretty much relies on tracking people's locations, which I feel like is counter to the purpose of most people's reason for getting into those services.

  • It depends on what you use Google Maps for. For straight-up navigation, CoMaps is good. And I mean it's good at the navigation itself for the most part. Although sometimes when you enter in an address it thinks you're referring to the entire street. But most of my favorite restaurants and a lot of locations that have been open for a while aren't on it, which I've been happy to add. Locations that have been closed for a while are still on it, which I've been happy to delete.

    But if you use Google Maps for discovering places or looking at pictures or seeing reviews of businesses, or if you do a lot of multi-stop trips, comaps doesn't have those features even in the littlest, tiniest bit, and in that sense there is legitimately no (Foss) competitor. For instance, if you're out and about on a vacation and you're trying to find a restaurant, nope, comaps is useless for that. If you're trying to plan a trip by seeing what's around somewhere, nope, useless for that too.

    It really just focuses on navigation itself, and it does a pretty good job of that. I use it to get around when I drive.

  • Yeah, it strikes me as a bona fide "no good way out of this" situation. Only the passage of time can save us now.

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  • I've noticed that lately shit posting communities have really gone down the drain because there seems to be some sort of cultural notion that you can just post anything and it's fine because... "It's a shitpost, it's not that serious, you just don't get it". I remember back in my day shitposting used to mean something 😤

  • And just like it was a stupid them for them to say to you it's a stupid thing for others to say to them

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  • Bro thank you for saying this. I was gonna say I'm starting to dislike this yes but person. No surprise since they're probably popular on Instagram. Not many Instagram popular people that aren't kinda stupid. Gotta be peddling stupid to appeal to a majority of that crowd tbh

  • Nah just last week he posted a comic with the author's name cropped out

  • Yeah I agree, definitely such people exist and I don't wanna be running around calling everything I don't like a bot. I do respect trying to keep Lemmy saturated. But yeah either way if you're posting so often you don't even remember what you've posted before, or if you're reposting stuff posted by bots on reddit, then you essentially function as a bot anyways in terms of post quality. So yeah maybe it's just about being a little more curatorial.

  • Wait which references?

  • Oh shit it's Sanitation again. Sus indeed. Only reason I'm confused is I don't see much agenda, but also idk how bot strategies work. If sanitation is a real person I'd be curious to know the rationale too.

    I agree Lemmy has been weirdly different the last 3 days exactly, maybe 5? More reposts

  • The fact that this is essentially a swamp has to be one of the craziest things yet. in terms of life imitating art. I mean, it's exactly what you'd expect out of a book. Absolutely beautiful IRL symbolism and irony

  • It's insane that they'll say it's designed to be addictive, and then just let the company keep doing that. Like maybe go after the entity producing the addictive substance directly then?

  • I mean not entirely. Kids who are tech savvy or dedicated or even just kids who are fine with "borrowing" their parents' laptops and using social media on that. Etc.

    But I do think that for a lot of kids it'll put up enough of a barrier to reduce their usage and access to it immensely.

  • Tab groups on mobile?!?! Ahhhhh!!!! REALLY? when?? Why doesn't it say when? I neeeeed it

  • The fact they ended up buying an Alexa is disappointing, depressing, and upsetting. Normies will understand 95% of the problem and then end up doing something that reinforces the problem anyways. No wonder everything is so fucked

  • Person who will do anything for money continues to do anything for money

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  • Yeah, I think it could definitely be done, but unfortunately it would be completely not worth the time since you wouldn't have any degree.

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  • I guess, but nothing about this really pertains to gendered strength or weaknesses. At least not in reality.

  • "We never thought that would happen here."

    When will they learn lmao.

  • Just give it another few years, and half the people with the same political views as you will tell you you're equivalent to the far right unless you vote for the right! 🤗