[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Organic Maps (available on F-Droid and the Play store) is the closest FOSS alternative to Google maps i have been able to find. Routes are not perfect (they work but could be better) and time estimations are best-guess as it is completely offline minus map downloads, but its a great alternative and also has killer hiking trail data that beats Google's by a country mile. The offline bit also means that it works without a data connection, and for the privacy-conscious it's a major boon.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

JSON has types.

Many API developers may choose not to use them, but they are absolutely there.

You specify the type by including or excluding quotation marks, and then for the types without quotation marks, you either include or exclude a decimal point to specify float or integer, and for boolean you use characters (specifically true or false). Arrays are wrapped in [] and objects are wrapped in {}.

JSON data as a whole is passed as one giant string because the REST protocol demands it. But once it's been pulled in and properly interpreted, there are absolutely types in the data.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

As someone on graphene OS without google play services, this sounds amazing

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago

Regardless of if their gpus are weaker, they are absolutely causing the focus on gaming laptops to wane, and wane hard. Why build a high end $2000 laptop that sells 10,000 units when you could make a $600-1000 handheld that sells 250,000 to 3,000,000 units?

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago

Whats sad is that people keep wanting more client-side anticheat to fix this, when the real answer is server-side anticheat and changing the engine to stop being so leaky with that much information.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

/g/ calls them Cniles

[-] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

Domestic violence, by count of occurrences, has been shown to be around 50/50, with a slight lean towards women instigating slightly more often.

This is not taking into account how hard the partner hits or how much damage they cause, but women do aggress on men about the same as the other way around.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago

This simplification horribly misunderstands what time-dilation is, and I love it.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

Cool, so since you left linux why are you posting this here?

We all know windows is more compatible by design of the capitalism machine, we left it by choice for a reason.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think that's because the software comes from a similar place. You have to fight for your freedom and it takes effort, and the people that put that effort in like to feel good about it by sharing (or showing off). It's like gym-goers who like to show their hard-earned progress.

And then there's the fundamental differences in core philosophy, where a lot of friction between open and closed source projects comes in. It's warranted, but I get why it's annoying.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago

Them becoming raging zealots is kind of the only realistic way to defend the GPL though. If they don't, it's just going to get treated like toilet paper. I'd much rather have the angry hate mob than to be disrespected by big companies who can otherwise just get away with whatever they want.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

see it playing nicer with nvidia

This may seem like a small nitpick, but the way you phrased this is backwards. Keep in mind that the problems with wayland on Nvidia cards is squarely to blame on Nvidia. Nvidia is finally playing nice with wayland, not the other way around.

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