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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • This is 100% what the GOP wants. It worked for them in the judiciary and I am inclined to think it will work for them here. At first to make sure any non-conservative policy is removed and then to influence the military brass to setup for the next coup. I used to be a moderate voter and would vote for conservatives where their policies matched what I thought was reasonable and that I though I could count on to “do the right thing”. The GOP drove any notion of that out of me forever with Trumpism.

    The GOP is party over country and it’s terrifying for our democracy. I LOATH Hillary Clinton and you’d have had to hold a gun to my head to get me to vote for her, but now I would vote for her in a heartbeat after what I’ve seen since ~2015.







  • There’s a wide range of options to go against NVIDIA when using Linux:

    • Not Open Source
    • Calls home to momma (often) with more info than it strictly needs- though some would put this in the column of win for faster reponse to fixes
    • Constant game of whack a mole with drivers, versions, updates breaking things
    • Ease of use
    • WAY overpriced (let’s call AMD at least overpriced though)

    I decided to go AMD 6+ years ago, and gaming is consistently good, I have spent a total of zero time fucking with drivers, and appreciate that AMD invests in the community vs. just profiting from it and the bang for the buck is a nice addition.

    I tell everyone I know considering a gaming rig build to just go AMD - near same performance, better pricing, better drivers and company support / policies



  • Some perspective from a user who’s been on Magic Earth for well over a year:

    • It works very well. With a few quirks, it’s like 90-95% as useful as Google Maps for a majority of personas
    • It’s a mature app, finds most addresses (with possible exception of recent changes like a business moving)
    • Does surprisingly well with being current on traffic conditions
    • While not FOSS, they seem to be open about what they sell of your information and it’s in aggregate, so I’m much less worried about location data being tied to other online dossiers I’ve left in my digital paper trail.

    I found that Organic Maps and OsmAnd+ just couldn’t cut it at all for finding addresses, routing wasn’t super great (or intuitive), and otherwise rated very low on family acceptance as a replacement for Google Maps. I used Acastus Photon for addresses and frankly it’s not that much better and the workflow was janky and pretty useless when you want to plot route waypoints. Magic Earth was the bridge between fully de-googling and having a livable acceptance factor. So far I haven’t seen them doing anything they don’t claim (not getting in trouble privacy-wise), so I’m good.

    I would say “privacy friendly” is accurate in the title - but this is not FOSS. Even so for those looking to de-google without losing utility, I recommend it and am glad it exists.

    Edit: I wish some apps (looking at you Starbucks!) would use a default mapping engine like Magic Earth instead of expecing Google Maps on Android phones (Graphene, Lineage, Calyx)