Comment Re:That's not what Waze is for (Score 1) 186
I have no idea why it was better then, but It was.
I have no idea why it was better then, but It was.
Waze is a navigation app. Making speeding harder doesn't affect its utility for that.
When my family went to Costa Rica in 2024, Waze had much better road information than Google Maps.
I had an uncle I never met because he was kiled by a speeder. I've never been sympathetic to people who want to get away with driving fast.
Do you know where else those substances are found in abundance? Earth.
Is there any reason to suppose they weren't formed here, by the same or similar processes by which they ended up on the asteroids?
I have used Amazon Prime Video on my LineageOS for microG phone.
You can't even run LInux on most Apple Silicon SoCs.
It's kind of amazing how many Android devices actually have custom ROMs.
Google tracks how many people install these alternative app repositories
If true, this is totally creepy. It means they're already watching everything you sidelload.
I don't have any Google apps installed (I use LineageOS for microG), but it's amazing how much spying their apps do.
That's really not true, because most users keep a large number of tabs open in their browser.
8GB is plenty for people who close tabs and keep bookmarks, but we're in the minority.
The huge difference is macOS. Chromebooks don't even run a real OS and application software.
You want information from podcasts? I'd rather read to learn.
Podcasts are my entertainment, and the most reliable treatment for insomnia I've ever found.
My laotop triple-boots FreeBSD, Manjaro Linux, and OpenBSD.
I power it down most nights. I certainly never cared about uptime.
I don't use a boot menu; it boots FreeBSD by default. I press a function key when I want to choose another OS.
Using the stopwatch on my wristwatch just now, I measured 7 seconds from power on to the FreeBSD logo.
Yesterday I had to call someone as part of my job. Just a few sentences in, her phone started translating everything we said into Spanish. She eventually got it turned off, but it was a really strange experience.
I've had about 11 Android devices over the years; I've installed custom ROMs on 3 of them, and rooted 2 of the others.
But I have never, never put a Google account on any of them. When you start up an Android device for the first time, it asks for a Google account, but it does let you skip that step. You don't have to hack it or anything.
That's just for people who want to use some of the Google servics, like Gmail, Google Photos, or calendar syncing. I've never done any of that.
Downloading and sideloading non-F-Droid APKs was a pain for a while, until the advent of apps like Aurora Store that let you get apps from the Google Play store without a Google account.
Is it one of these models?
Of course bad credit risks get mad at the credit rating agencies for telling lenders that.
It's because of these agencies that lenders have access to the information to make lending decisions, and good credit risks can get loans with favorable terms.
The official KDE toot says it's a misunderstanding.
I've been using Plasma on FreeBSD (with SDDM) for several years now, so this matters to me.
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -- William E. Davidsen