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Same. In my experience as well, almost all alternatives to Google Maps either:

  • don't have Android Auto support (a must for me)

  • don't have local coffee shops (you'd be surprised how often these apps fail to find 7-Brew coffee shops...)

  • don't actually give you enough time to turn (Waze... Which is also owned by Google btw)

Waze is the closest of these but man it's annoying with that third bullet point. It's also not FOSS.

I can only imagine Magic Maps falls into one of those three categories too.

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I definitely like Organic Maps the best of the options I've tried, but unfortunately it doesn't have Android Auto support.

It looks like they tried to do Android Auto support about a year ago in a branch, but they abandoned the branch. There is a new "aa" branch that is active though, so hopefully that works out.

If it does get Android Auto support, I will definitely switch to it permanently though!

Since we need some discussion and activity, here are some of my must-watch tv shows.

Hi! I am normally not an active user, but I am definitely someone who spent countless hours watching TV shows. Since I have just recently joined Lemmy, thought I can share my all-time favorite TV shows and maybe be able to get one or two new shows and have a nice discussion about them. Here is the list:...

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Just gonna drop Avatar: The Last Airbender in here.

Starts out a lil slow but it's an absolute masterpiece. It's also still pretty funny and entertaining in general as an adult

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Nice! One thing you may want to look into is using vscode.dev. Since VS Code is an Electron app, they can host the entire editor on this site. This effectively means you can code from that 😉

You could also try simply connecting to your normal desktop and using your phone to control it. That's worked for me in the past

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I don't understand personally why Lemmy.world isn't utilizing load balancing (specifically, horizontal load balancing). Is it due to budget concerns?

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This was such a cool video. I love Sebastian Lague

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Somehow Joey for Reddit seems to still be working???

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Not sure! There hasn't been any communication between the dev and userbase for quite some time

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Wow, this is incredible news. Boost was my main for years on Reddit!!!

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There was definitely a bottom banner but it was quite unobtrusive

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Why is this game always so blue?

Anyway, Battlefield 3 is pretty good so far

Linus Torvalds Takes On A Performance Patch: "I Relax By Playing With Inline Assembly" (www.phoronix.com)

'Some people relax with a nice drink by the pool, I relax by playing around with inline [Assembly code],' as a nice quote of the day as Linus Torvalds explained after he took on improving upon a performance optimization patch that was proposed for the ongoing Linux 6.5 merge window.

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I'd use Ecosia still if it weren't for the fact that the filter is missing the "last year" setting. I'm a software engineer - 9 times out of 10, I want to find the bugs for a very specific version of a software, so having the year filter helps.

I now use Brave Search.

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I think there's quite a bit to say about cost. I'm not sure how Mongo is, but I'm quite familiar with DynamoDB and it gets quite expensive at scale. I'd be worried it'd be unsustainable, especially since postgres is very cheap most of the time (aka, unless you go with RDS).

Also, I'm sure Postgres can be optimized to work well at kbin's scale (since it has worked on sites with millions of users for years). I'm hesitant to say it's an issue with postgres itself, it may be an issue with the queries to the database (maybe the lock?) or even with database auto-scaling (or possible lack thereof).

Also, kbin's general data seems to be highly relational - articles will always have an author, a title, how many votes it has, how many boosts, and all of the comments on it. I think (personally) SQL makes more sense than NoSQL here for that reason, among the others I've listed.

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I don't know how they don't see the overlap between Gog users and people who use Linux

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Just because it's made by Google doesn't mean literally anything. Google hacks happen literally all the time.

Just heed the warning and slap new Android on it or an up-to-date alternative OS. Otherwise you're pretty likely to get gotten

What minor songs from anime do you think are underrated?

I was thinking of two songs I've met through anime that are really special to me, namely, "...To You" by Ayako Kawasumi, the opening from the small anime "Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart"; and "Never Looking Back" by Shizukunome, the second ending to You-Gi-Oh!! SEVENS....

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"Kanashimi no mukou he" (悲しみの向こうへ) from School Days. This and the intro are the only redeeming qualities of this anime imo.

Speaking of "only redeeming qualities of the entire anime", Rosario + Vampire's Season II op "Discotheque" is also fantastic and is an honorable mention.

James Cameron reacts sub implosion: 'I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself' (www.youtube.com)

Film director James Cameron has expertise in designing and testing these submersibles, and he has many criticisms of the design of the sub that imploded, and of the hubris of the CEO who ignored repeated safety warnings from the diving community. He also mentions that the sub seems to have been attempting to resurface when it...

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I thought it only dived three times total?

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I personally love Alacrity. Fast, written in Rust and pretty stable in my experience. Was able to install zsh and oh-my-zsh, then daily-use Vim no problem!

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