Am I the only one who is put off by the way this is presented?
It might be a great app, I'm not judging that, but seeing it shared in Lemmy via a hype YouTube video ("we made something amazing, wow!") makes me wary. No objective text description, no link to their project website. Not even a name in this post!
It was the same 2 weeks ago when people were sharing the same kind of hype video about their speech-to-text tool (which they called a "Voice app").
Edit: edited text to make clear I was talking mainly about the Lemmy post, not the video (although the video screenshot also looks like clickbait).
2023 is the hottest year ever in record. Everything suggests that it won't hold that record for long. Why would I bring children to this world to suffer the hell that 2050 will be?
You're both right: most people don't know what any of this means, but also people who know often don't care. In my group of friends there are 2 programmers, they perfectly understand this yet they still share links full of trackers in the group chat.
My strategy is to friendly scold them (a programmer should know better) and in the same message share the same link without tracking rubbish. This way my non-technical friends can also see how short the same link can become.
Maybe they just added it between your comment and mine. After all these things have to be added and updated at some point... maybe we caught the magic moment!
The fact that you can use bangs in DDG is so powerful that I don't understand why not more people use it as their main search engine. The few times when it's not good enough just add the !g after your search (it doesn't even need to be before) and get redirected to Google.
Who talked about banning cars? Don't put words in my mouth and don't be so rude.
Cars are a source of different problems: pollution, traffic congestion, lack of space in cities due to parking needs... and accidents too, yes. All of these issues can be solved with his public transport, and 95% car rides can be replaced by public transport (unless I'm transporting the furniture I just bought back to my house).
There's no need to go live in a padded cell (although if you wish to, be my guest), just stop whining online and look for solutions instead.
Well, we can all actively contribute to OSM to improve the maps. I personally enjoy doing it and knowing that the map data doesn't belong to a private company like Google.
No bus/train schedule
I am used to check those on an external app from the service provider. I understand how that is an issue for you, but in my case I don't miss it.
(no) car accident alerts on place
this could be useful, indeed, but it is hard to implement while keeping user's privacy. It can also be unreliable if users don't report them properly.
(no) places reviews from users.
I personally prefer it like this: it means less clutter on my maps, and unfortunately online reviews have become quite useless in the last years: businesses push to remove negative review and buy fake positive reviews. I no longer trust them.
Sorry, I don't use Android Auto so I don't know about this feature. You could check on their GitHub page and even open an issue if there is no support.
It is not. It used to be, but it got acquired by a third party company and became closed source and started tracking its users.
The good news is that the original developers of Maps.Me developed an Open Source fork of the original app: Organic Maps which is an excellent app that is actively developed by a team that listens to the users needs and is therefore constantly improving. I recommend everyone to check it out.
That's a tricky question and I feel like the answer is very personal. Simplifying it too much:
Organic Maps: basic, simple, easy to set up and understand.
OsmAnd: heavy, complicated and with looots of information.
I personally find that Organic Maps works for 90% of my needs: it's easy to use and navigate through. The remaining 10% I need more advanced functions not present in Organic Maps and OsmAnd comes to the rescue.
Yes, I was taking about the Lemmy post. I didn't open the video link (for the reasons explained above). Thanks for sharing this info.