not a massive amount

Nah, I think that’s pretty major. I’m so thankful to people like you who round out the map; to me, StreetComplete users are just as needed as JOSM power users.

No, OpenStreetMap has no aerial imagery of their own.

Editors like iD and JOSM and end-user apps like OsmAnd rely on third-party imagery for over/underlays, and the most prominent among these is Bing.

OpenStreetMap under the hood is simply a database of key–value pairs assigned to nodes, lines, polygons, and “relations” between those three.

Edit: And yes, OpenMapTiles is a separate thing, and any of its aerial imagery would also not be its own. It’s prohibitively difficult for but a few select organizations to maintain aerial imagery like that. You can read more here.

Ah, true. In states with shit(tier) labor laws, this meme makes a lot more sense.

No, really, this even happened to me personally one time. I was young, newly employed, didn’t really know how things worked, and through some inept accident missed my lunch break one day.

When I came into work again, I was pulled aside by a perplexed supervisor who told me that I cannot under any circumstances miss lunch breaks. I don’t care if it was ethically important to them personally; what I know for sure is that they were not fucking around with legally required lunch breaks.

Uhhhh… In every workplace I’ve ever been in, skipping lunch breaks is going to get them chewed out by management who are legally responsible for making sure workers take breaks.

not counting the places they fell for bait like the southern flag and statue distractions

Fell for the bait? Jesus actual christ, we had and still have statues in our parks and town squares erected by the KKK that exist solely to intimidate PoC and venerate men whose only notable “accomplishment” was being on the losing side in a war to own and brutally exploit human beings – black people who they saw as subhumans – and getting those out is “taking the bait”?? Absolutely lost your goddamn mind, like sensible people who want those removed are falling into a trap set by the elite to distract them from class consciousness. Racist dipshits were baited into responding vehemently against that. In much the same way that sensible people didn’t “fall for the bait” when they started supporting trans rights and MAGA made that a wedge issue (although I know some tankies actually fall for that transphobic garbage).

Damn bruh they really sunk Central America huh

The final boss of PE.

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Absolutely! And what I ran down is just the extent of the features I personally interact with; there are a fair few more, including one that aims to combat clickbait by changing clickbaity titles.

FYI, SponsorBlock isn’t just for skipping sponsored segments. SB gives you granular control over the sorts of sections you can skip, and it only auto-skips sponsors by default. However:

• There are several categories of section, including intro animation/intermission (“an interval without actual content”), preview (i.e. where the information already exists later in the video), sponsor (a segment made in return for payment from a third party), unpaid/self-promotion (e.g. “buy my merch”), interaction reminder (e.g. “remember to like and subscribe”), and endcards/credits. (There’s also “filler tangent/jokes”, but I haven’t tried this one.)
• For each of these categories, you can choose to disable altogether, show in the seek bar, prompt to manually skip, or auto skip.

So even if you would never want to skip a sponsored segment in your life, the extension still saves a ton of time if you have no/limited interest in watching even just one of the above-listed categories.

Oh, no, given an actual choice (even if it were exactly the same computer at exactly the same price), Linux would likely win out eventually if MS didn’t massively step up their game. Windows has way too much stupid bullshit that its userbase is noseblind to: driver fuckery, installing applications by finding files on an Internet scavenger hunt, no built-in, centralized updating of applications, having to restart your PC for your OS to update, being consistently slower and more resource-hungry, needing a dedicated antivirus, bare minimum customization, not being able to uninstall completely useless shitware (e.g. Internet Explorer in goddamn 2024) and having the bloatware you can uninstall come back after updates (e.g. Candy Crush), the amount of dark patterns during installation, licensure bullshit, this new scheme of pressuring users into OneDrive by making it the default, ads in your “premium” OS, and I could just keep going.

MS could definitely still gatekeep their Office suite and their Copilot AI (for the few people who actually use the latter), but every other software vendor would start supporting Linux if the userbase moved there, and LibreOffice etc. (already fine for the basic office stuff most people do) would get the funding and contributors to implement more advanced functionalities.

rm \~?

NTFS in general has a bunch of ridiculous, archaic restrictions that a more modern-ish one like ext4 doesn’t. Does NTFS still not allow you to use a question mark in your filename?

“Greatest?” No. “Most popular for desktop users?” Yes.

Ah. I guess I don’t notice that since I’m on Linux and just update Firefox whenever I want.

If you go to Hamburger menu > Settings > General > Check for updates but let you choose to install them, you won’t auto update anymore. I agree that would be annoying.

Nah, Firefox is way better.