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Re: "No Google? No Maps! No Friends 🏝"
Honesty is the best principle
Respond to a Google Maps link with hey, I don’t use Google Maps. Can you send me coordinates/address/something else?
2023-12-16 · 5 months ago
🐵 cquenelle · Dec 16 at 20:20:
Apologies for being off-topic, but I read the title here and heard: "no sun, no moon, No proper time of day" from Art of Noise - Opus 4. Which is based on the poem November by Thomas Hood.
🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · Feb 18 at 08:03:
It'd be great to have a FOSS app that could take a link, access google/apple maps API, and output the geo/physical (user configurable) address to my maps program. Wouldn't have to be manual, and it could run through a proxy/orbot. I don't know of one that exists, but if someone makes it please lmk.
No Google? No Maps! No Friends 🏝 — TLDR; We rely too heavily on links to convey and discuss locations and it is not universally interoperable. If it wasn't for Google's obvious monopoly we would have solved this already. 📱 I've been using LineageOS for about a year now with very few complaints. I actually installed LineageOS , then GrapheneOS, then LineagOS and then LineageOS again on the same phone as I figured out how to get an OS that meets my needs (and also figure out what I actually *...
💬 Bazmatazable · 6 comments · 6 likes · 2023-12-15 · 5 months ago