• the_weez@midwest.social
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      11 days ago

      Question for all non-US natives. When somebody tells you they are from America do you think the continent or the USA?

        • the_weez@midwest.social
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          11 days ago

          And that’s the point of my question, and this change. Trump feels like he won, because he took something away from Mexico.

          • BillTongg@lemmy.world
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            11 days ago

            Yes, agreed. He seems to regard life as a zero-sum game, in which he can’t win unless someone else loses, so he doesn’t understand the concept of win-win. It’s a kind of cognitive bias which is a serious weakness in someone who apparently imagines himself to be a master of ‘the art of the deal’.

      • pdxfed@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        Mexico’s full name is ”The United States of Mexico", I think they should rename their map’s version to Gulf of The United States just to add to the confusion and make the point these things, like all facts, are useless when people suffer no consequences from making them up.

          • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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            11 days ago

            Hmmm, good point. The Caribbean Sea will now be known as the Sea of the Americas, lol. Idk, I was trying to unite everyone.

  • Limonene@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Meanwhile on Openstreetmap:

    name Golfo de México

    name:en Gulf of Mexico

    official_name:en_US Gulf of America

    Showing just enough acknowledgement to confirm they’ve discussed the executive order, but they aren’t going to follow it.

        • hash@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Tip on using StreetComplete: Don’t be afraid to turn off a bunch of things. If you leave everything on you’ll often find yourself standing around one place instead of enjoying more of the area and answering a smaller set of questions.

      • Cris16228@lemmy.today
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        11 days ago

        Ooh I would LOVE to do it and I did that with 2 places but I don’t like:

        1. The fact it doesn’t show you the best match of your search based on distance by your location (or is because)
        2. It doesn’t show the 2 places I sent ~1 month ago or they’re hard to find (available on site, not on organic maps)
        • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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          11 days ago

          The fact it doesn’t show you the best match of your search based on distance by your location (or is because)

          That highly depends on the search engine you’re using, OsmAnd for example sorts the search results by distance to your location.

          It doesn’t show the 2 places I sent ~1 month ago or they’re hard to find (available on site, not on organic maps)

          That’s an Organic Maps problem, they only update the OSM database once a month, and you have to click the update button manually when they do so.

          I kinda recommend against Organic Maps at this point. It’s a dumbed-down app with bad routing, bad search, and slow updates. The only thing it has going for it is that it has the best UI/UX (especially for new users) compared to other FOSS openstreetmap apps. If you’re ok with proprietary nonsense, mapy.cz is a lot more fleshed out, and otherwise you should just learn and configure OsmAnd for yourself.

          • Cris16228@lemmy.today
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            11 days ago

            I use Organic Map and both my locations are on the site and if I open the location through the app, I see it but searching lead to no results. No idea why, maybe I can see them because I’m the author?

            That’s an Organic Maps problem, they only update the OSM database once a month, and you have to click the update button manually when they do so.

            I thought was more. But it’s up to date and I still can’t see the place I uploaded more than 1 month ago, sadly.

            Eh I strongly prefer FOSS apps, OrganicMap was a cool project, can’t find a Google maps alternative FOSS and reliable

            • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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              10 days ago

              Just use OsmAnd. It’s old-school in terms of its UI and can be clunky, but it’s FOSS, has hourly map updates (free for OSM contributors), and a lot of customization and features.

        • the_weez@midwest.social
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          11 days ago

          Google maps was exactly like that before it became the defacto navigation software for most of the planet and we all started answering innocent little questions for our new overlords. I really feel like OSM is on the verge of becoming top tier, we just need a bit more momentum to push it there. And unlike their competitors, it’s highly unlikely you will see anything in any media publication to push users towards them. Google had multiple ad campaigns for maps before it replaced things like Garmin GPS and in car GPS. Garmin and TomTom sold millions of dedicated GPS devices before Google killed their business model.

          • Cris16228@lemmy.today
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            11 days ago

            Its a great app but has some problems I can’t just ignore, the ones mentioned above are what I need and I can’t get it working

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Surely that is following it? Change the name in American. Leave it the same in English.

      • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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        11 days ago

        It’s kind of a malicious compliance thing. The new name will not show up on any map renders, moreover it’s not likely to be shown in most apps even if you select the object (because official_name:* is not supported by most apps).

  • hulfpa@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 days ago

    This move makes zero sense to me. Why, change it? It’s not it’s official name or international recognized name so wtf

    • MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      I think I heard that Trump did it because he thinks it gets him around some Biden era rule that he can’t reverse that bans oil drilling in parts of the “Gulf of Mexico.” It’s really stupid. Exxon and Chevron have both “acknowledged” the name change.

      • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
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        11 days ago

        Oh that makes sense. Like when muskrat tried to get out of Twitter suis because the name changed.

    • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Then you must not be paying much attention, or have an understanding of how capitalism functions (nor of how and why it inevitably decays in to fascism).

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      Distraction from:

      • closing down the Consumer Protection Agency, USAID, and the Education Agency
      • cutting off funding to the universities
      • stealing our student, treasury and health records while taking over the purse
      • not following federal judge’s orders
      • building an unregulated concentration camp in Cuba
      • etc.

      Edit: That’s why trump did it. All tech companies are in his hands now.

      • Mirshe@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        No, there are no smokescreens. Trump is literally this stupid. Don’t attribute to maliciousness what can be attributed to narcissism.

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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          11 days ago

          Thank you for giving me the opportunity to post this somewhere else:

          “The opposition party is the media,” Steve Bannon, who helped run Trump’s 2016 campaign, told PBS Frontline five years ago. “And the media can only — because they’re dumb and they’re lazy — they can only focus on one thing at a time.”

          So the solution, per Bannon? Overwhelm them.

          “All we have to do is flood the zone,” he said. “Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.”

          https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5289315/trump-week-in-review

      • hulfpa@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Thayana good point. I need to remember my place in this world 🤣

    • ooli2@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      11 days ago

      pleasing the power, so they remove any law that protect our privacy against google prying eye

      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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        11 days ago

        To be clear, they’ve changed names in line with official government policy before, not just for Trump’s admin.

          • VeryVito@lemmy.ml
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            10 days ago

            I get what you’re saying, but the renaming itself is entirely an act of emotion and reaction, with no trace of logic, too. It’s pretty much all we should expect to see from anyone for a while.

          • Kalysta@lemm.ee
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            10 days ago

            They are a private organization with the right to say “lol that’s nice”, and leave it as the gulf of mexico. Executive orders direct government policy.

      • hulfpa@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        11 days ago

        If something as ridiculous currys favor and infkuence with Trump the USA is truly coming to an end.

        • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
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          11 days ago

          It’s not coming to an end as in no longer existing, but it absolutely is as a world power. Maybe it will be for the better in the long run.

    • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 days ago

      The USA is now part of a list of “sensitive countries” with authoritarian states with their own version of reality. When users in one of the countries on this list visit Google sites, they see that government’s version of reality. This is nothing new. Google does it all the time with disputed territories. It’s only news because it’s the first time the US has an authoritarian government.

      Here’s how it looks when visiting from a Mexican device with the language set to Australian English while located in Hungary.

      1000019054

      Edit: undoxxed myself lol

      • ...m...@ttrpg.network
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        11 days ago

        …looks pretty much the same on bing maps, except they’re so committed that they named it twice…

      • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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        11 days ago

        In Google maps set to Polish while in the UK, it shows

        Zatoka Meksykańska (Zatoka Amerykańska)

        Which translates to

        Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)

  • Hux@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    Using the website from outside of the US shows it with its proper name, but then the asshat version in parentheses.

      • the_weez@midwest.social
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        11 days ago

        100% These people think they are sticking it to Google by buying a pixel and installing a custom ROM. Instead they just inflated Google’s user count.

        • sorghum@sh.itjust.works
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          11 days ago

          This will be a problem until a non-google open OS is adopted for mobile phones. Right now that list is incredibly short and nothing competes in the flagship department. I don’t see it changing anytime soon because gen x and millenials may be the last generations that have a signifigant portion of itself that has a grasp of how computers work beyond “tap app icon, app does things”.

          Thing I took for granted like how a file system works is lost on my kids (late Z early alpha). Explaining what a file extension is like teaching a new language. I used to think “training wheels” for learning computering via tablets and phones and touch screens were a good thing but there is nothing that compels people today to shed themselves of them. It feels very reminiscent of my childhood and teaching my boomer dad how to right click. I think computer literacy needs to be required education, but I’m afraid that the definition for computer literacy might be meaningless nowadays if it doesn’t go beyond open app store, install app, run app.

          • the_weez@midwest.social
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            11 days ago

            US public education computer literacy is dead, and it’s not going to get better for at least 5+ years, best case scenario. Even if the person that is elected after Trump is a Democrat, it will take years to rebuild to where we were before big tech started bribing school IT departments. You think Apple/Google/Microsoft give a flying fuck about computer literacy being taught in schools? Because that’s who currently decide the computer literacy program that the public school will provide. Whichever vendor they decide to go with. At this point I’m not convinced that Google is a better choice than the others, but it’s also akin to choosing the least shitty sandwich at a shit-sandwich buffet.

            • sorghum@sh.itjust.works
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              11 days ago

              In hindsight, this has been a downward trend since the proliferation of smart phones circa 2012. Google (android) isn’t the best choice, but it is much better being open source over other ecosystems namely Apple. There is also an issue I strongly suspect that wireless carriers wouldn’t allow open hardware/software on their networks because they have baked in restrictions in the major OSes on how you can access the network like tethering. I don’t expect that to change for the better either because even when net neutrality was a thing wireless was exempt from the rules. Kinda reminds me how back in the day ISPs had to be forced to offer naked DSL (internet from the phone company without requiring phone service). This all has deep issues that won’t be resolved anytime soon if ever. I’m putting my money on Linux becoming an actual threat to Microsoft and Apple in the desktop, laptop, handheld space and then that spreading into the mobile and tablet space. Depending on how Apple and Google antitrust situations are handled, we could start to see a shift by the end of the decade at best. This is why the tech sector will cozy up and do the bidding of whoever is in power. They won’t run the risk of drawing the ire of the government to break up their monopolies so long as the party in power believes tech companies are in their party’s pocket. This shift happened when Biden’s election was inevitable toward Democrat favored polices and it’s happening now for Republican favord polices since the last Biden Trump debate made a Trump victory inevitable.

              My points are the tech sector is blatantly doing whatever it can to keep its power and change won’t happen quickly if it happens at all.

              • the_weez@midwest.social
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                11 days ago

                This trend started waaaay before 2012. When I graduated highschool the only computer class that was offered was a basic MS Office and advanced MS office. The people making these type of decisions for public schools are rarely tech literate themselves, they physically cannot make an informed choice. This will not be resolved until big tech is dissolved, or strong regulations are pushed by the voting population. If anyone wants their children to be tech literate I recommend getting your kids in front of a keyboard and mouse instead of a touchscreen as early as you would allow them to use a tablet. The tablet will be easier for both of you, and that’s exactly what they want.

      • hash@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        11 days ago

        It’s a funny irony but a Pixel with GrapheneOS is the gold standard for mobile device security. Buy it secondhand and cut out their profit.

        • the_weez@midwest.social
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          11 days ago

          Sure, sure. As long as you can trust Google’s custom silicon and custom security processor. I sure as fuck don’t, regardless of what Graphene OS claims. They are going to need to go to much greater lengths to assure me of that, and I can pretty much guarantee the Graphene devs won’t be able to do that.

          • mac@lemm.ee
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            10 days ago

            You can literally monitor the outbound DNS on a pixel with graphene and no apps and you’ll see zero DNS requests to any Google servers. Quit spredding FUD

            • the_weez@midwest.social
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              11 days ago

              Honestly? In 2025? In the real world? Apple is the only alternative. And it really actually hurts my soul to type this reply out. I hate Apple. I think they are clowns. I hate closed platforms, and I think Mac’s are trash because of it. I have used every single version of Android. All of them, even pre-stable. The only alternative to Google is 2025, in regards to a mobile OS that works with my services and devices that I already own is iOS. The only way to get that is to buy a phone from Apple. And ‘normies’ care VERY MUCH about being able to use their already purchased shit. I wish Europe or Asia would actually try to compete against US big tech. It’s a very strange marketplace, nearly the entire planet trusts US companies with basically their entire infrastructure. The only major players in computing are US based companies, aside from MAYBE Canonical/Ubuntu. In the mobile market, I don’t see a way out of the duopoly at the current moment. If my phone died today I would replace it with an iPhone. And I wouldn’t be happy about it.

              • CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.eeEnglish
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                11 days ago

                Apple phones make a simmilar enough number of calls to google that I would say that youre probably better off with a pixel running graphene.

              • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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                11 days ago

                Nah. If it’s a choice between GrapheneOS on a pixel or an iPhone I’d take my chances with the pixel.

                It would be pretty easy to detect if there was unexpected traffic with any google services.

                You do you but IMO Graphene is your best chance in 2025.

                • the_weez@midwest.social
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                  11 days ago

                  Nah. If it’s a choice between GrapheneOS on a pixel or an iPhone I’d take my chances with the pixel.

                  Why? Not trying to be a dick about it, I just want to hear your justification. Thanks.

              • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                11 days ago

                My choice is to just not have a smartphone. Something like an old Nokia is what I use, CatB40 specifically but the company licensed to make those no longer exists. I hope Cat find someone else and they still make a line of dumb phones not just smartphones but I don’t really expect it any time soon.

                If mine dies probably just get a regular dumbphone for like £10. Can’t collect much data if all it’s capable of doing is calls and SMS which I rarely even use.

                • the_weez@midwest.social
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                  11 days ago

                  That’s super cool for you. If I didn’t work in IT I might try to achieve something similar. But honestly suggesting that the average person on the street go back in time almost 20 years in regards to their mobile device is just going to get you laughed out of the room. Do you use mobile banking? Do you carry a camera around with you at all times? Do you listen to music? For me music is a big one, I’m not listening to any god damned radio commercials and I don’t have CD player in my car anymore. How would you entertain yourself on a long car ride alone in this scenario? Do you have any IoT or smart home devices? How do you interact with them? I know a few people that are a bit older than me that don’t ‘get’ smartphones but then use a tablet on the couch pretty often. My uncle doesn’t have a smartphone, and is kinda smug about it, but also doesn’t really leave the house without his android tablet. I guess if you don’t actually want to do any computing on the go a dumb phone is fine for short texts and phone calls, but finding one that works with 5G is another challenge these days.

              • Cris16228@lemmy.today
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                11 days ago

                Apple is the only alternative.

                Nah. Fuck Apple! I know it may be too much but they’re dead to me after I bought AN OFFICIAL REFURBISHED Apple device for my dad (old had problems) and received it with a motherboard problem (?), it couldn’t read the sim for more than 1 hour straight. Contacted support multiple times and “Try this useless troubleshooting steps you already tried countless times” or "The sim is ruined so it doesn’t touch the sim pins correctly (or some bs like that) " or “It’s your carrier” or “From our remote tests, the phone works perfectly” or other Apple shit I forgot. After my last call I said “You either take my phone and check it or refund me”, they took it to check if was the phone, got it back ~2 days later FUCKING WORKING as it should. I guess was really the sim, not the phone 🤔🤔

                The worst part is: They didn’t even care to give me something in return for the trouble! No, not money but they could’ve extended my warranty for a month or 2 as an apology but “Nah, we can’t. Fuck you now”

                • the_weez@midwest.social
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                  11 days ago

                  I’m reading this as Apple fixed your refurbished phone like you asked them to. I do not see how you should be entitled to extra warranty because of this, or any other compensation. I can assure you that Google would also not extend your warranty for an issue of this nature. My friend is dealing with pixel warranty support as we speak and it sure as hell doesn’t sound any better. I totally understand ‘writing off’ a company after you feel personally wronged by them, but I wasn’t including warranty issues on refurbished phones in my requirements for my next mobile device. You asked what the alternative is and realistically that’s the only one for 99.99% of the population.

          • hash@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            11 days ago

            Leaked Cellbrite docs indicated they couldn’t get in. I’d consider that pretty reasonable assurance. If you’re implying that Google has a backdoor… I think the argument against large/unstable conspiracies would apply.

            • the_weez@midwest.social
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              11 days ago

              This is so much horseshit I can’t even begin to unpack it. You really think those docs aren’t edited? They are 100% verified truth? That is a hunch at best. And so is my claim, it’s a ‘vibe’. I have zero proof of my claims, but I wouldn’t do anything I consider ‘secure’ on any Android device.

              There is no fucking way in hell I would consider any Android device a secure device, in any way shape or form. It is, at best, a controlled device that most users do not have control over.

              And claiming that anyone that doesn’t buy into the cellblite ‘leaks’ is a conspiracy theorist is also horseshit. (Or any leaks for that matter)

  • the_weez@midwest.social
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    11 days ago

    Google goes full mask off. What a terrible look. This is it, this is what I needed to see to make the final push to move away from Google. My next phone will probably be an iPhone, and I’m not excited about it. I’ve almost completely degoogled my android device, I’m testing immich right now and the only things left that I rely on are maps and YouTube. I also buy a lot of my ebooks and comics from Google, but never again. There’s no way I’m buying a phone that’s supported by Google after this change. There’s no way I’m spending any amount of money on Google play at this point, or any other Google owned platform. Zero. And it really sucks, because android is the closest thing we have to an open phone platform. Maybe someday a GNU/Linux phone will actually be viable, but today it isn’t and that only leaves me running to Apple as a savior. It’s too bad that Google can’t compete on a technology level, instead of gargling Trump’s balls.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Pinephone + dumb phone is a valid option though. The only thing my pinephone struggled with was calls/sms, so the dumb phone handles that.

      • the_weez@midwest.social
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        11 days ago

        I fully believe that combination works well. I also fully believe that if you asked a random person off the street to trade in their smartphone for two devices that only have partial functionality you would get told to go F yourself. I don’t think it’s a ‘valid’ option in 2025, and I would love to know what the average person on the street would say if they actually hear you out on all the benefits. I’m a ‘tech enthusiast’ I guess and a long time FOSS lover. I have been daily driving Linux for over 15 years at this point. I’m not sure if I would put up with two half-phones in my pockets all day everyday, and I know my friends would laugh at the idea. I almost purchased a PinePhone on more than a few orders from the Pine store but I keep holding off for thing to become stable enough to use the phone as a phone.

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      11 days ago

      APPLE?

      THEY DONATED MILLIONS TO TRUMP’S INAUGURAL FUND

      There is no ethical consumption undercapitalism. Google, Apple, whatever, its all the same evil, “pick your poison” situation.

      (This map rename is tame in comparison to the political donations that EVERY corporation does. You’ll have to boycott like almost every company if you want to avoid that)

    • hanke@feddit.nu
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      11 days ago

      For replacing youtube, use https://grayjay.app/

      Also, why do you leave your de-googled device? Just don’t pay for stuff on their store and use alternative stores with anonymous access like Aurora store or just go full f-droid.

      I use iodéOS and am very happy with it. Easy de-googled life.

      • the_weez@midwest.social
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        11 days ago

        Grayjay is nice, not perfect but getting better all the time. I won’t buy a new device because of this, I unfortunately just purchased a new phone on a Black Friday deal. But there is no way in hell I’m going to inflate android’s user base with my next device purchase. That’s where I draw the line, no more Google hardware or software purchases. Zero. I’m sure as fuck not buying a Pixel, or buying anything through Google’s marketplace. I’m not buying another Android device, and I’m not sure if there is anything that could change my mind at this point. Google is dead to me after this.

        It’s important to remember that Google is an adtech business first and foremost. It’s basically the only way they can generate cash. ADtech relies on user counts and active users to negotiate prices and other business deals. I’m not helping Google facilitate those business practices in the future. Buying a used pixel and putting Graphene on it sounds great in principle, but you are 110% adding yourself to the pool of Google pixel users, inflating the value of Google’s advertising business. You don’t get to opt out of that user count, even if you are 101% ‘degoogled’ your are going to be counted as a Google phone owner. Because you would be.

        • Cris16228@lemmy.today
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          11 days ago

          That’s where I draw the line, no more Google hardware or software purchases. Zero. I’m sure as fuck not buying a Pixel, or buying anything through Google’s marketplace

          Refurbished? I get what you mean but at the same time you can still have a Google phone without paying Google. That’s what I did with my Pixel 8 and I’m happy with it, I kinda miss a few features of my Samsung phone but nothing crazy (face unlock and auto unlock if pin is correct)

          Edit: Uh I just read the second half 🤦‍♂️ I don’t really see the problem here

          • the_weez@midwest.social
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            11 days ago

            You cannot purchase a Pixel without positively affecting Google’s profit margins. It’s not possible, you own a pixel you are a Google phone owner. If you are a Google phone owner you count towards their user counts, which directly affects the price they can negotiate for their ad business. The larger their userbase is, the more they can charge. The more ad business they get the more leverage they have. It doesn’t matter that you block everything from Google at that point. It doesn’t matter that you purchased your phone from somebody other than Google, regardless of the new/used condition. You can never interact with Google in any way shape or form, but the fact that you own a Google phone is giving them more leverage and more power. I know I’m getting down votes all over this thread for holding this position, I don’t care and I think it’s important for people to be honest with themselves. Graphene might be a great option, it might even be the best option today from a privacy standpoint, but it doesn’t mean that there aren’t huge issues with buying a phone from Google to get it. It also doesn’t mean that the entire android community should give up on making something that works on non-Google devices, which is unfortunately how I feel at this point. If you don’t want to buy a pixel then the Android community is almost completely worthless in 2025. And at that point I might as well run an iPhone. I’m not trying to say anyone is a bad person for making these choices. ‘There is no ethical consumption under capitalism’. I’m saying that my choice going forward is to not give that company any more money or power if I can help it. And the most effective way I can do that is to not purchase anything they have their hands in.

            I’m also not claiming that the other options are good either, but at this point it’s becoming harder for me to ignore this crap.

            • Cris16228@lemmy.today
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              11 days ago

              I don’t care about ads, I block them since 2020 and everyone should do that, period. Apple is a no go for the reason I said below

              • the_weez@midwest.social
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                11 days ago

                Nobody cares if you care about ads. The largest companies humanity have ever known are ADtech businesses.

                You completely missed my point because of your apple hatred, literally the definition of a fanboy. I have never owned an apple product but I’m not going to deny the reality of the situation to justify my past purchases.

  • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 days ago

    HERE WeGo still has Gulf of Mexico. Use HERE WeGo instead of Google shit.

    • Cris16228@lemmy.today
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      11 days ago

      I prefer OrganicMap. Free and Open source made with the help of the community. Your suggestion is only play store and as a degoogled user I don’t have access to it (Aurora store, I know but still). Not sure which one is better in terms of UI/UX but the fact It’s not open source is a no go for me

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    The rixh are trying to achieve world domination before we collectively strip them of their excess wealth to fix wealth inequality and dethrone them.

    I wish i were kidding…

    Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

  • Matt@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    Fuck Google and Samsung and everyone else who is preinstalled on my phone from the factory. I switched my phone OS to an AOSP GSI without the Google mobile services. Will probably be switching to WordPress from Blogger.

      • Matt@lemmy.ml
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        11 days ago

        Though there’s an option to write Pandoc-based static site blog.

    • the_weez@midwest.social
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      11 days ago

      You should probably do some research on WordPress before migrating. Personally I wouldn’t touch WordPress with somebody else’s 10ft pole right now, the drama is an extreme turnoff. I’ve tried every AI chat bot except Automattics because I’m not interested in their games. Plenty of other great blogging platforms to choose from.

        • the_weez@midwest.social
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          11 days ago

          That’s probably true and totally fair. I’ve heard good things about Ghost lately. Personally I’m looking into SSG’s for a new blog, a bit of setup but after that I really like the workflow. I’m trying out Zola right now. Good luck!