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The alternatives to Intel/AMD/Nvidia, Visa/Mastercard/American Express/Discover and IOS/Android need to be more developed.

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[–] Tekktical@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 hours ago

Does anyone know an app that has the same features of Google maps about the info of local stores/restaurants/bars etc?

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 6 days ago (6 children)

For fuckin years the foss community has told us to stop using these products. It only took them all turning into literally fascist for people to finally stop giving them power

[–] Sev5000@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It only took them turning facist? We‘re not even remotely close to not giving them power in the corporate world. :/

[–] DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

Very few people are giving up this corporate tech as it is.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago

FOSS is so much better!

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[–] kwarg@mander.xyz 8 points 6 days ago (5 children)

GrapheneOS is a good alternative to iOS/Android, although still Android-based

[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Are there lots of reports with security applications not liking Graphene OS?

I'd like to migrate, but i need to make sure my banks and job authenticator can work on it.

I'd love to get a secondary phone for these, but then it still yas to be on an up-to-date phone so I can't simply use my old one.

[–] kwarg@mander.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

All apps I need for banking, 2 factor authenticator, etc work in my GrapheneOS phone, with the exception of one particular app used for ID authentication in the country I reside. The reason is bc this app uses Google's Play Integrity API to check the phone's OS, and since it does not match with Google's Android OS, it stops working since it does not pass integrity checks. As far as I know, there are few apps that do this, and as time passes more apps are moving towards hardware-attestation tests, as GrapheneOS facilitates, instead of relying Google's Play Integrity. For me this is not an issue, because the government provides other means for ID authentication, but some other countries only relies on apps, and that might be a show stopper.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

My bank app works. Westjet app for flights is very intrusive and needed the special per app compatibility mode turned on to allow app to work. It reduces GrapheneOS exploit prevention for that app, but for some reason Westjet needed more device identity confirmation than my bank app.

Check if your banks work ok in a web browser, that's kinda my method for most things that really don't need an app

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[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (4 children)

To the point of replacing Visa/Mastercard: it would be great if the EU could continue in line of SEPA and create an EU payment processor. Now, I want to be very clear, it should be owned by the member states' governments, and profit (if any) should go into the EU budget. No neoliberal bullshit of "oh we're going to put out a contract/give out loans for anyone to set up a payment processor and the market will decide". It should be a state owned payment processor, to finally stop the likes of Mastercard, Visa, etc. from leeching off every single consumer transaction in the economy.

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[–] Serpent@feddit.uk 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

How does one realistically move away from Google maps?

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (8 children)
[–] airglow@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Also, make an account on OpenStreetMap (OSM), which is what Organic Maps uses for data. OSM is the Wikipedia of maps. You can use Organic Maps or any other OSM editor to add anything that's missing and correct anything that's wrong or out of date, then see your changes in the next map update.

[–] Adiemus@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

That's the way. Everybody takes care of the place they live in and it's the best mapping project ever.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 days ago

And if you use StreetComplete, you can fill out missing info about places that you visit

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

How does one realistically move away from Google maps?

It's still possible to buy an all-in-one navigation device to keep in a vehicle. They're often much nicer than phone apps, now.

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[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (4 children)

What are you replacing google maps with? I've been getting more and more annoyed with it for a while.

It keeps wanting me to do U turns on ultra busy roads when I could just make a left turn at a light.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago

The recommendations are:

Organic Maps: walking/hiking/cycling.

Magic Earth: driving.

Osmand: advanced search.

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[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 5 points 6 days ago

we need an AOSP fork like Forgejo is to Github. Accept good changes, maybe share patches, but keep a fork that ROM devs can build upon.

[–] qbus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

And it's still owned by Google for over a decade. Large companies have offices all over the place

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