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  • Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc

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  • I have comaps installed but overall I don't think it matters a great deal which open street maps app you use, they're all really similar. I try to contribute business info when I remember to do so but there doesn't seem to be any yelp/google business equivalent. Need something that hosts user reviews and pictures and some way to moderate that in a decentralized enough community way. Can't beat Google maps without the business pages and crowd sourced data

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    Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, new polls finds

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  • Problem is the choices are often choices made before you're even an adult. Even more difficult for those from unstable households and those that were refugees. Children that have to take care of their parents or siblings.

    The there's how the right choice one decade cane be the bad choice the next. So you commit to work on like bioengineering or medical research, spend a very long time in school to get there, and it goes to shit once you hit the workforce. When you were a kid accountants were in high demand so so many went into it and then the finance department went from 200 people to 10 because of software improvements. Computer related and law degrees today. Trades as well where you can find work, but there's so many that you don't necessarily make a great wage hourly especially adjusted for benefits

    So if everyone made the right decision individually based on the data current to them or what the data says to go for in 5 years when they could complete school/training, whatever it is will have so many people that the field is saturated and something else is the short staffed high paying career. So the correct decision is a moving target. Communal correct decision would be a strong social safety net

    Individual bad decision is almost always deciding work has to be a passion. The 8+ hours at work has to be a part of your joy. Most people don't get that. Those that accept that making good money may mean doing a job they don't like have a better shot at financial stability. Not guaranteed, just a better shot

  • Signal introduces Remote backups

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  • This is easier to set and forget. I'm cool with subscribing and occasionally doing a one time donation when I'm feeling spirited

  • Signal introduces Remote backups

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  • The free is enough for me but I'm willing to pay that sub to support them

  • Kevin Barry, the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher has stopped working on Nova Launcher and the open sourcing efforts.

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  • Fossify launcher is buggy but at least it's always been open source to my knowledge. Actively developed. All the fossify application. I use them

  • Trump Denies U.S. Is Seeking Regime Change in Venezuela

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  • The US has wanted regime change since Hugo Chavez won in 1998

  • Far-right AfD surges to 39% in German state, one year before election

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  • After Trump 1 won in 2016, it was like centrist all the way to the far left across the western world neglected to focus on their own domestic fascist movements. This has been a long time coming and it's sweeping across Europe. Seemingly a rapid acceleration post-COVID. A lot coming together. People feeling poor with little hope for upward mobility, a major rise in xenophobia and anti-immigration, fear of Russian invasion, anger over more visible reality of being US vassal states, debt/economic crises leading to austerity

  • Democratic research finds voters prefer populism over ‘Abundance’

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  • In speech populist phrasing gets people going. Saying, "need to cut down the bureaucracy and red tape" sounds like run of the mill two faced politician talk. Abundance is pretty much trying to use the same language democrats speak with to just a smaller subset that has widespread appeal but it's still real mediocre. Not exciting stuff. Anyone just watch that Richie Torres interview about Israel and Palestine. Pretty much try to not make a single position change, just try to find ways to be the same and snake tongue your way to higher approval. The whole abundance thing is just more of the, "they go low, we go high" of the past decades

  • Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal

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  • It'd be good for comic ebooks, PDFs, documents. Pretty much stuff you'd use with a tablet. I see the appeal of a one device covers it all. Phone, tablet, if it had a solid desktop mode, office productivity. Don't have faith in these mobile first OSs to do it all well though

  • New Valve trademark for 'Steam Frame', looks like we're getting new hardware

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  • I'm hoping for an ARM based standalone Linux VR headset. Both VR and Linux ARM gaming would get a major boost from a major company putting out hardware with software support. A PlayStation sized gaming PC eventually someday too. Just an ARM VR headset is a bigger leap for Linux gaming from where ARM/VR Linux is today than an x86 gaming PC

  • McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase

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  • Someone actually figured out that a service company competing with a shit ton of other service companies in a service economy needs people that work service jobs to be able to afford their services. They won't raise wages themselves alone because it's not like McDonald's workers will spend the raised wages solely at McDonald's. They have other essentials and non-Mcdonalds services to pay for. They need every place to have their minimum wage increased and then McDonald's try to capture a larger portion of everyone's higher income that exceeds their higher labor cost. Stagnant incomes means non-essential services like McDonald's get squeezed out

  • Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Signal

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  • One of the reasons I prefer Matrix even though anyone I know in real life uses Signal so I use Signal practically everyday but Matrix sparingly. Federated matrix servers. I worry how resilient Signal can be if enough countries ban it, not really confident in the US or EU countries or any countries long term for encrypted chat for the Signal Foundation, and also signing up with phone numbers. Phone number providers being another point of regulation

  • Over 50% of the job cuts in video games are in California

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  • It's not specific to that degree, it's a kind of long article. Here's one of the quotes from the interview

    “Over 70%, and in some years 75%, of the layoffs have been in North America,” Satvat shared. “North America used to have 30%, 35%, 40% of the open roles, and that number is now down to 25%. Overall employment in the industry has actually increased since pre-COVID. But if you're in North America in a AAA studio, you're like, ‘what are you talking about? The workforce is cut by 15% to 20%’. Versus if you're in a studio in Asia you’re like, ‘What are you talking about? We’ve seen an increase in jobs’.”

    “And here’s another stat, over 50% of the cuts globally have been in California. California AAA is like the epicenter of the difficulty.”

  • Over 50% of the job cuts in video games are in California

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  • Ya. I think it's a provocative headline for US and Canadian users but the more full thing is that it's a AAA problem primarily in the US and US AAA development is in California. AAA employment is bad in the western aligned world but fine in Asia so some recommendations for workers in the industry that want to do AAA is that they may need to be willing to relocate around the world as AAA game studios boom and bust around the world

  • Are private email providers worth it?

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  • I think Proton mail is worth it just to diversify off Google but I don't lend much faith in how effective privacy will be with email. The free service is enough for that. If I wanted more faith in encrypted communications, encrypted chat applications. I sub to proton for drive and VPN. ProtonPass has all the email aliases for throwaway websites

  • Trump Advisers Have Discussed a Job for Adams if He Quits Mayor’s Race

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  • Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jefferies, Richie Torres, Eric Adams, the Cuomo's. New York. Come on Democratic party, at least try to be exciting and in the case of Richie Torres, try not to sound like the most evil politician on camera in a softball interview in decades. Over in Maine, geriatric democrats trying to get the 77 year old governor to run against the exciting 40 year old newcomer. If Pelosi runs for reelection in 2026, holy hell has this past 25 years been the worse quarter century of democratic party leadership

  • U.S. military strikes drug-carrying boat from Venezuela, Rubio says

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  • Whatever opposition there was against Maduro, the US is ruining it for them. Instead Venezuela gets a clear view of the regional existential threat, further motivation to modernize its military and build non-US aligned trade. They're shaping up to be, and getting help from the US in drumming up motivation, the Americas Iran but they can't be boogyman'ed as Muslims

  • U.S. military strikes drug-carrying boat from Venezuela, Rubio says

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  • This isn't the 80s, I don't think people are buying into the war on drugs facade masking imperialism as much as they used to. Drugs flow along the pacific. Venezuela is small fries for drug trafficking. This is absolutely reasserting imperial interest in Latin America and Venezuela being the most prominent non-US aligned country at the moment in Latin America. If the US acts stupid and tries to false flag themselves into a regime change invasion, it'll be more of a clusterfuck than Afghanistan. No doubt in my mind nonsense in Venezuela would spark something in Colombia and I doubt Brazil would want the US to win either

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • It's time the community open source movement starting gaining a lot more traction on mobile. We need better hardware support and standards for a streamlined non-Google/Apple/MS platform. Something not beholden to any single company or country