NeatNit

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's not deliberate. What is their motivation for doing that?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Kayak example: https://omaps.app/w4CNuytXo0/Hôtel_des_Marronniers a random hotel in Paris. The big K icon labeled "photos, reviews, booking" or something like that.

As for TetheredNet, it's for a different reason. It's not that it's tethered to OSM, it's that it's tethered to Organic Maps's servers serving pre-processed maps. (Organic Maps can't fetch data from OSM directly)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That gif is very satisfying. It's far beyond my level of mapping.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Organic Maps thinks that F-Droid has it in for them. (Untrue).

F-Droid labels anti-features, properties of an app which are contrary to the philosophy of FOSS in some way. Organic Maps is labeled for two things:

  1. Promoting a proprietary hotels website called Kayak, by inserting links to it when looking at any hotel in the app. This is considered promotion of a non-free network. OM did not like being labeled with this anti-feature.
  2. Relying on Organic Maps's servers for downloading maps, without giving the user the option to change the server URL. This is called Tethered Network Service.

Tethered Network Service is a newly introduced anti-feature. This is besides the point, but before it was added, instances of this were labeled just "Non-Free Network Service", which was ambiguous and caused a lot of confusion. The important thing is that it's a new way to label apps.

The F-Droid app has a filter that hides apps based on their anti-features. The filter lists various anti-features to select, and an "Other" category for everything not listed. The new TetheredNet is part of Other.

Here's the problem: the default filter used to hide apps with "Other" AFs. This default was changed some months ago, but only for new installations. Old installations, even if updated, will stick to whatever was the default when they were installed, therefore they will hide Organic Maps. Organic Maps made a big deal out of this, basically trying to shame F-Droid.

According to the latest F-Droid news, this should be resolved already or soon. I don't know what the solution is, but I have a couple of guesses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You wouldn't turn up the volume when you know the scene is meant to be quiet. Or at least, you wouldn't turn it up so high you can hear the background noise at the level you want to hear dialogue.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Laptop keyboard layouts. There is no reason they should be so different.

Specifically, those laptops that have full-sized left and right arrows, but half-sized up and down arrows - those earn 1 week of jail time for the CEO per unit sold.

While we're at it, the power button must be in the same place on all laptops.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is not as straightforward as you might think. If there's an actual quiet part it would amplify the background noise.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

I can get behind this one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But how am I supposed to wash my good kitchen knives?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

This screenshot is a little bit hard to see, but from what I can tell:

°RA is pointing at °R and °C
°C is pointing at K and °F
K is pointing at °R and at °F
°R is pointing at °F (and the other gun isn't aimed at anyone in particular)
°F is pointing at K and at °C

Emphasis disproves your claims, sadly. Perhaps there was another way to label them to make it fit, but that's not what was done here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So, what's the business model here exactly? We've got the cost of rent, the upfront cost of excavating a gigantic bottomless pit the likes of which has never been seen before, the legal team to deal with lawsuits, the PR team to offset the negative press resulting from the pit, the maintenance costs of the building, replenishing the shopping carts, and of course advertising.

Actually yeah, seems doable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I will always use the GUI for this when given the option. Change my mind (you can't).

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