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  • CobraChicken3000 ( CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca ) 
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    29 days ago

    Reality is increasingly being warped in US. For the rest of the world it’s still Lake Ontario.

    • henfredemars ( henfredemars@infosec.pub ) 
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      It’s deeply concerning and tends to be a bad omen of atrocities to come.

      • johncandy1812 ( johncandy1812@lemmy.ca ) 
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        americans would be more moved if you told them it meant more homework for them.

  • EntheoNaut ( EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml ) 
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    I Adblock YouTube and have been Google free for years, mostly.

    Just checked Apple Maps and it’s Lake Ontario still.

    Fuck Google. Fuck all the oligarchs. And fuck the Greedy. Old. Pedophiles.

  • el_twitto ( el_twitto@lemmy.zip ) 
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    Google used to not be evil. Then they became evil. Now they are just a little bitch with Trump’s dick in their mouth.

  • generator ( generator@lemmy.zip ) 
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    Only shows “Lake America” if you’re on USA

    • BCsven ( BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 
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      Nope. Shows me Lake America and I’m in Canada.

      • corsicanguppy ( corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) 
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        Report the bug.

        Daily.

  • bookmeat ( bookmeat@fedinsfw.app ) 
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    Just tried out Here We Go and it’s looking really nice. Try it out! Not available for Android in the car, though, which is a bummer.

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      I haven’t tried it yet in the car but they do have an Android Auto setting. No possibility to put it in the Auto launcher though, weird.

      BUT, Wikipedia says you should use the beta version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_WeGo#CarPlay_and_Android_Auto

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        Tried it yesterday and noticed a couple of issues.

        1. The console and dash display got locked to 100% brightness until it went into dark mode (tunnel/evening light).
        2. The map didn’t get displayed on the car’s second display on the driver’s hud/dash; only the directions showed there.

        The map was also more sparse compared to Google’s. For example, it didn’t show the lanes for highway turn-offs and a few other things like voice guidance (which I don’t use anyway), but that was the only one that I genuinely missed.

        Still, it was very usable and I liked it overall.

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          Thanks for the review. With Here Wego and MapQuest, I’m ready to uninstall Google Maps which was the last Google application on my phone.

  • kent_eh ( kent_eh@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Open street map shows it properly, and its a non-profit, open source project.

    There are several navigation apps that use OSM data.

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