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- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 5 months ago:
I significantly prefer it for car navigation, it seems to always pick ‘more sensible’ routes than Organic Maps. Also the live traffic is very nice to have.
I prefer Organic Maps when I’m on foot, ie. walking through the city or hiking. Imo it feels less cluttered when you just want to look at a map.
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 5 months ago:
While not FOSS, the closest thing we have to a drop-in replacement would be Magic Earth. It uses openstreetmap data, supports fully offline usage, has satellite images (only online though) and best of all, no tracking or telemetry.
- Comment on Modern online banking 5 months ago:
You could use OBS to setup a virtual webcam, which would then show your receipts.
- Comment on Sony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable 5 months ago:
I believe Blurays are still a very good medium for long term data storage, like a cold offsite backup.
- Comment on You cannot make any post/comment containing the string [slash]etc[slash]passwd on lemmy.world 6 months ago:
Damn even though you explained the abbreviation I still read it as Wife Approval Factor for a second and was very confused
- Comment on Got a Switch today, need some recommendations. 8 months ago:
I absolutely loved Splatoon 2, especially the DLC. It’s such a shame that you have to pay for online battles though.
- Comment on You have to type www. to access the Texas DMV website. 8 months ago:
While I do mostly agree with your statement, it’s incredibly annoying when I type in a local IP for my router or server and it automatically gets turned into https.
- Comment on Use WhatsApp without a smartphone? 8 months ago:
I believe WhatsApp needs the mobile app to connect to WhatsApp’s servers at least once every two weeks.
I think your best bet would be getting the cheapest phone you can find that will run a recent WhatsApp version, and then just leaving that at home connected to the internet. You could then use any WhatsApp web client (the website, some app, a matrix bridge, …) to actually use WhatsApp on the go.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 8 months ago:
While it’s not at the same level as Graphene OS, Samsung is pretty well supported by Lineage OS. AFAIK at least in Europe Samsung phones have an unlockable bootloader, but YMMV.
- Comment on Me trying to insert a flash drive at night 8 months ago:
Duude I tried blindly plugging in a USB-C at the back of my PC ones, I was like “Aha, gotcha” and then my PC just shut down. First came confusion, then I realized it wiggled left and right. That was incredibly scary, luckily ASRock has good protection circuits so nothing happened.
But I sure as hell haven’t blindly plugged in USB-C since then.
- Comment on Need android game recommendations 8 months ago:
Dolphin (Wii and Gamecube emulator) sounds like something for you.
MineTest should also fit your criteria.
I believe there are a few games on F-Droid, I haven’t tried any of them tho. Other than that, I believe the best games for you would be Wii games or an older console. Possibly also switch (with yuzu if you find an apk), but that requires a beefy phone.
- Comment on Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down 9 months ago:
And the system would need to be installed in all street legal ebikes for that to happen.
Wouldn’t street legal ebikes not go too fast by default anyway? I feel like if that’s the case, this would mostly inconvenience people with legal ebikes and have barely any effect on illegal ones that can go faster.
- Comment on Being forced to download the Reddit app onto my phone to view any 'NSFW' post, even though I'm on my desktop 11 months ago:
I can highly recommend rdx for browsing reddit without an account
- Comment on A lesson in Input Validation 11 months ago:
Yooo this reminds me, I think there was an AITA on reddit some time ago about a guy who burned down a Pizza place due to putting the entire bee movie script in a message box
- Comment on You guys need to stop 1 year ago:
Oh damn I wasn’t expecting to see a 2023 car with an AUX port
- Comment on You guys need to stop 1 year ago:
There actually is an EV with engine sounds and a “manual transmission” from Toyota. According to ArsTechnica, it’s supposed to be pretty good:
- Comment on The Minecraft wiki has been moved from Fandom to Minecraft.wiki 1 year ago:
If you have to access wikis from fandom, you can use breezewiki