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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 71 points 1 week ago (5 children)

So it will be an overly expensive, bloated, but ultimately ineffective jet that will become known for its much higher rate of friendly fire incidents than any other jet in history.

Also it will look ugly and have oddly small wings.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

The traffic data, at least in my area of the US, is pretty good.

Road closures are a rough point for sure. Generally, Magic Earth does have them marked, but not always. And the map data is only updated once a month. So even if a new closure does show up on Magic Earth, it takes several weeks to a month.

This isn't a terrible issue for me in my area, because I know the major roads and highways decently well, but when in other states or cities, it can be a problem.

That being said, it's still about 80% accurate on the whole. And on rare occasion, it has actually had a closure marked correctly that Google Maps didn't.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The #1 Google service/app that I used in the past was Google Maps. I've replaced it with Magic Earth for the last few years and it's been great. It uses Open Street Map for its navigation data, handles addresses very well, has live crowd-sourced traffic and hazard data, and can record rolling footage if you want it to act like a dashcam.

It works on Android and iOS, and supports Apple watch and Android car play if you use those.

For email I use Protonmail, for Google drove I use Proton Drive and my own self hosted NAS. For browsing I use several different Firefox forks like Zen, Floorp, LibreWolf, etc. UnGoogled Chromium for the rare times that a website "needs" Chrome to run.

My phone runs GrapheneOS which works great.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Good, fuck "AI" fuck copyright, fuck patents, fuck proprietary closed-source software, fuck capitalism, fuck billionaires, and fuck you, Sam, in particular.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Big Soylent fan here, firstly, Soylent isn't designed as a 100% meal replacement, or at least it isn't approved as such.

That being said, the inventor claimed in an interview that he had gone for a month on pure Soylent, and there have been many people who make similar claims.

Stay hydrated, Soylent does make you poop, it's just delayed because of the high fiber. Trust me, try it for a few days straight, you're colon will get cleaned out lol.

Make sure you drink lots of water, that goes for any diet, (lots of people are mildly dehydrated without realizing it.)

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Isn't always true. Just because a country/political faction opposes US hegemony doesn't automatically make them morally superior.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jellyfin is love, Jellyfin is life.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

My company's buyout has been completed, and their IT team is in the final stages of gutting our old systems and moving us on to all their infra.

Sadly, this means all my Linux and FOSS implementations I've worked on for the last year are getting shut down and ripped out this week. (They're all 100% Microsoft and proprietary junk at the new company)

I know it's dumb to feel sad about computers and software getting shut down, but it feels sucky to see all my hours of hard work getting trashed without a second thought.

That's the nature of a corpo takeover though. Just wanted to let off some steam to some folks here who I know would understand.

FOSS forever! ✊

Edit: Thanks, everybody so much for the kind words and advice!

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

alternate title: "Bosses frustrated that Gen-Z hires aren't interested in becoming good little drones."

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Totally, one of the boomer managers at my company was ranting about remote work a few months ago, saying stupid stuff like, "If somebody is remote working, how do I know they are actually working and not just mowing their lawn or cleaning their house?"

  1. That's the point, it's better for people to have free time in their day to actually take care of life stuff.

  2. If your management method requires you to constantly monitor your employees to make sure you're squeezing every last ounce of "productivity" out of them, you're a shitty manager.

  3. How do you know your employees are working now and not just idly clicking their mice and staring at their screens zoned out? How do you know if an employee is deliberately sandbagging you and pretending they are at 100% capacity when they are actually at 75%?

All those questions betray the fact that they don't actually care about their employees well-being, they don't actually care about creating intelligent metrics for productivity or work capacity, they just want control. They want to impose the same brutality they had imposed on them.

It's very similar to the mentality that those anti-student loan forgiveness folks have. "It's unfair that I had to slave away to pay off my student loans and they don't. So I want everybody else to suffer just as much as I did."

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Snaps are a standard for apps that Ubuntu's parent company, Canonical, has been trying to push for years.

The issue that most people have with them, is that Canonical controls the servers, which are closed source. Meaning that only they can distribute Snap software, which many Linux users feel violates the spirit & intention of the wider free and open source community.

Appimages and Flatpaks are fully open source standards, anybody can package their software in those ways and distribute them however they want.

.deb files are software packaged for the Debian distribution, and frequently also work with other distros that are based on Debian, like Linux Mint.

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