dantheclamman @ dantheclamman @lemmy.world

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I care about anticompetitive behavior from tech companies

For sure, totally agree. In other countries where I've lived, I've noticed less selfish blocking of local infrastructure. There are just a lot of selfish people in America, and more pain points they can exploit to throw up roadblocks (both politically and literally)

Yes, this is an underappreciated angle. Ridesharing bridges the gap for many people excluded by other forms of transit. My mom has limited mobility and ridesharing has really helped her.

Yes, if anything it helps expose that we rely too much on cars as a society. That being said, I can make eye contact with a driver, judge their attention more effectively. I do hope driverless tech eventually improves but am concerned about the responsibility of some of the companies currently in the lead of developing the technology.

Yesterday I saw a couple, including a Waymo that passed a few feet away as I got in my car. It proceeded without incident but I couldn't help feeling nervous to trust that its lidar saw me and it interpreted me as a human.

then they shouldn't have tried to cover it up

It cost nearly $350 million to install a 2-mile-long rapid bus lane on Van Ness Maybe future expansions will be cheaper based on lessons learned, but it's clear that any infrastructure in SF is tremendously complicated and expensive. Doesn't mean it's not worth pursuing!

Android these days is mixed. The app ecosystem is mature and I still have more freedom than Apple in terms of home screen, app store, browser, a real filesystem, etc. The phones are all quite capable and powerful. I can sync texts reliably across devices, use my phone's location to trigger smart home automations, and my watch syncs effortlessly with my phone. All of these were issues for years that are now pretty much solved! Haven't felt a need to upgrade my Note 20 Ultra yet, but might go to a foldable in the next year if the right deal pops up.

I'm disappointed about how Google has locked down some features in the name of security, like the ability for apps to access text messages. The Play Store is so enshittified. It's been a long time since I was able to discover new apps there: these days I don't feel secure installing apps from there and prefer to stick to F-Droid when I can.

I also am disappointed by how the Android market has consolidated so much. There was such a diversity of OEMs in the 2010s and I miss the HTC, LG, Nextbit, Essential and others which weren't afraid to rock the boat and try new form factors. Foldables are one of the only exciting product categories. Everything else feels pretty predictable, iterative and on rails.

I've given up hope. The burden of maintaining the engine has left them with no bandwidth to pursue any major UI-related improvements. Check the comments on the "Idea" I posted to Mozilla Connect

Honestly, I feel more conservatives would be against religion in schools if it was pointed out more often that implies their tax dollars supporting religion in general. Why should some teacher lead prayers on our dime?

Works well! I use an Android app called Symfonium to access my FLACs (hosted on a Pi)

Being able to make a living through art in any way is tremendous success that most don't achieve, but it seems based on his reaction, it still isn't enough. One lukewarm review (not even a full-on pan) was enough to send him into a spiral of negativity. Definitely an instructive case study about the actual value of social media fame. Can't make you confident in yourself.

I just went and looked, but couldn't find a credible alternative on Android. Found an open source option that claimed to do spherical stitching, but crashed my phone when I tried to use it. I also stumbled upon the 360 videos I made with my Essential Phone, which I'd forgotten about but was kind of cool going into my past from that perspective. Honestly, the best replacement seems to be a 360 camera, which obviously doesn't fall within the budget of many people

Maybe the Pixel team didn't talk to the Maps team. Maybe they did and the maps team said they didn't care. Maybe everyone involved in all of these features has since left the company. With Google, who knows?

It works! At least, I have a server on my domain name that people can follow, which is pretty cool. Fortunately, I have a new blog post planned to test it out in the next few days :)

I find it doubly hilarious because of the journalist's years-long quest to obtain the footage

It's not a lot of work, but enough to be annoying and feel irritating. They treat us like they're doing us a favor, when really they need us to use Windows 11 to enable their services to be profitable. It's annoying when companies make us jump through hoops to take our money

Wonder what kind of severance he's getting

Somewhat, but it also undermines his "Mr. Security" image...a lot. He will assuredly blame it on the left, but when he's running against former military brass, rings hollow. Also really pulls the rug out from under his various peace accords

I love DDG and use it as my default, but there's no doubt that its index is shallower and its semantic matching can't compare to Google's. I'm a biogeochemist and spend a lot of time coding in R. Google is just better at surfacing rare science articles/blogs and stackoverflow pages where my query doesn't match exactly, but it is a relevant result. I use DDG for my personal searching and Google for professional searching