Salix

joined 1 year ago
[–] Salix 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Google maps is tough lol

You could try to see if you'd like Magic Earth. It's proprietary, but has a good privacy policy, uses Open Street Maps, and has traffic data.

Though if you're dependent on Google Maps for reviews and photos of places, then it's much harder to replace. Though I guess you could just use the website to look that up.

[–] Salix 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For home, I usually buy picanha steak and cook it in my carbon steel pan. I like to render the fat to cook the steak in it's own fat.

[–] Salix 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Defrosting my windows so that I can actually see to drive

Also, connecting my phone via bluetooth to play music or podcasts

[–] Salix 2 points 1 year ago

For me, it is Nova Drift. It has been the game I go to when I just want to relax and chill.

[–] Salix 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And it looks like Mastodon only even got full-text search very recently, like, last couple months.

Also, this only works if the user opts in to being able to be searched/indexed. It makes it much harder to find content. If you're looking for more content from a hashtag, you'll only see people who knew to opt in

On Twitter, anyone's content can be searched as long as they are not private. If you search a hashtag, you'll see every public post that uses that hashtag.

Another annoying thing with Mastodon is that you have to go to the person's instance to fully check their profile. Annoying when you're using a Mastodon app, then it makes you open a web browser to go to that person's instance

[–] Salix 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I also recommend URLCheck on Android. You make it your default web browser and you can manually or automatically have the query string removed. It can do other stuff such as resolving redirects before sending it to a web browser.

Or you can use it to clean the URL before sharing it.

[–] Salix 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You set URLCheck as your default browser, then you can select an actual default web browser in the app.

[–] Salix 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vivaldi is based off of Chromium though

[–] Salix 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This version detects if you have Google Play Services when you first launch it. If you do, it'll use it, if not, it moves to websockets.

If you installed GPS after launching Signal, you'll need to go to in and erase Signal's app data for it to reset again.

[–] Salix 41 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You can download a self updating apk from Signal's official website

[–] Salix 22 points 1 year ago

Guess that depends on where you live

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