Organic Maps is better for "normal" users if you ask me. Osmand is better for pro users but quite clunky.

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Well I live in an area with little to no previous mapping and I'm practically the only person doing the area. It's good and bad at the same time! I can go for an extended survey and either literally put hamlets on the map, or go to towns with streets drawn in but no POIs. Or pore over satellite imagery and draw landuse in.. or paths... or lakes.... Neverending fun. I tell my friends it's like doing a geo-sudoku.

I live in a place where under 30% of people own a computer/laptop. Classic Anglocentric worldview in that top level comment.

Carbon Maps

This doesn't have anything to do with privacy.

I read this this morning and was raging that they didn't mention OSM at all in it!!

Wilmott worries that these maps, now dominant, lack information that more traditional maps like Britain’s Ordnance Survey (OS) still have: “An OS map shows you where a stile is for horses; I’m not sure Google Maps even knows what a stile is. When you’re surveying a space, you find that information but geo AI doesn’t have that information. I’m from Australia – you can look at a space where Google Maps might tell you to walk a route through tall long grass, but if you’re from a place you know: there will be snakes in there. Most of this kind of mapping, because it was developed out of urban maps, privileges urban information, not rural information.”

OSM absolutely knows what a stile is.

It's up to you to define "functional" based on your use case. If you are unhappy with the current state of Comaps or other open source map apps, then of course you are free to use Google or Apple.

Edit just to expand somewhat: For what it's worth, I find Comaps great for my use case, so it is more than "funcional" for me. That's what I was getting at.

Make two POIs. Done.

you can now enter google meet rooms without a google account. i did it last week

a spoon

I know you're asking about transmission, but.. Qbittorrent has an option in the GUI that allows you to specify what network interface it uses to communicate through. Therefore if your VPN isn't up, it won't use your normal network. And if your VPN drops out, it also won't use your normal network. Just another option in case you're interested.

I read this post as along the lines of: "Isn't it a shame that even if you don't use instagram because of privacy issues, it is so pervasive in modern society that you will end up on it regardless"

Instagram almost certainly do facial recognition/tracking on a huge scale, and due to the popularity of instagram it's practically impossible to opt out of it.

That was my reading of the article.

I would put her on the latest Ubuntu LTS, make a single-user Ubuntu pro account so she keeps getting security updates and don't do major OS updates on that machine for the next decade. You and her can decide which DE, either Gnome (more mac-like) or Budgie, Mate, or KDE (more windows-like. Those are my win-like preferences in that order)

A play on organic meaning carbon-based (as in organic chemistry). Also I feel like it should be easy(ish) for speakers of other languages to pronounce. I may be wrong though!

My Latin American friend took one look at an English sentence written in this script and said it was a lot easier for them to understand.

OH I forgot! Delocated. Adult Swim live action from the (late) 2000s. Very funny.

Homicides in the country I live in are down, and so are homicides by police.

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