Surprised no mention here yet of a Pixel 3a? Both Ubuntu Touch and PostmarketOS seem to run best on it, so I've had it on my eBay search notifications for a while hoping to be able to toy with one. I really don't expect it to be daily driver material though.
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If you have a Mac, have you ever tried installing an app and have it refuse because it's not signed by Apple, and then you had to go into settings and click "allow anyway?"
This is that, except without the allow anyway feature, like iOS. It doesn't matter if it comes from the play store or elsewhere, as this story originally had us believe.
surely there will have to be "no smart glasses" rules
They have this rule for ebikes at the lake I love to walk and the kids are zooming by anyway. I think we'll struggle to enforce it and that really sucks. I hope this fails. It's hard not to be pessimistic about it, as much as I can see some legitimate use cases. I just don't trust big tech with it, least of all Meta.
Heh...these days I kinda long for devices for for specific purposes again 😅 and I'm a software engineer.
Right, but this is the exact reason even Bernie refuses to use that word. Because then we are supposed to do something about it.
Buy refurb then, it's what I did and it's super fast. Returns are diminishing these days and your money will go further.
Someone else had mentioned Magic Earth but I was under the impression that it was another big tech thing (I guess I was thinking of Google Earth) but you saying it again made me check it out.
Seems like not OSS but their claim of privacy focus actually makes me interested so I'll try it out! I'm even okay with the small fee, I know servers cost money to run. Glad to see they're working on a non-Google or Apple payment.
haha I'm with you here, though tbh this is something I would have cared about some years ago but these days with tech fatigue I don't even mind the Stephen Hawking guidance (I usually have it off anyways).
Thanks for sharing this! I just started using OsmAnd for biking and missed this nice detail.
Google Maps would take me through some awful stroads pretty regularly, so I'll be glad for a safer route even if it takes longer.
Oh I'm aware of the "Osm" meaning.
I still think it's a bad name 😅 how does someone unfamiliar with OSM pronounce it? Why is there a tilde?!
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Ah shit, I'm in the Chicagoland area. I wonder if this affects me. That's good to know.