So far, the developers have voted on the project’s name, chosen a new color scheme for branding, removed the Kayak affiliate links carried over from Organic Maps, and started moving away from several Google services.

Oof I had no idea Organic Maps was going to shit. I never really got on with Organic Maps anyways and ended up preferring OSMAnd~ after getting it figured out.

May check out coMaps once they've had a few updates to get their feet situated and see what they would do differently.

How could their market be that large there when no one believes in vaccines in the states lol

"Sustainable" and "Mining" are contradictory terms. No such thing.

Its a term used to greenwash damaging industries.

Edit: Good question, here's my take.

I dislike publicly traded companies regardless of which stock market they list on; but I can see how IF one was listed on a non-US country's stock market, you could still consider it under the umbrella of that country depending on the investor breakdown. But you would need to find an investor breakdown by country because whoever the big player investors are, are the ones controlling that company now. Are any of them US based? That sucks, US company in my mind. Are there venture capitalist firms involved? Do they own a majority? It gets messy fast and always ends the same. I haven't considered it much since I dislike public companies anyways.

At this point so many decent companies have been ruined by fiduciary responsibility to investors that I just abandon hope, count them as a lost cause going to shit really fast as soon as a company goes public because they are legally beholden to their investors now, not anyone else.

Even if its listed on say the euro market or canadian market instead of US, they'll still be subject to enshittification, could have their controlling interests switch to a hostile nation (US) at any moment (edit: case in point, AstraZeneca ditching UK stock market for US), and eventually will be sold out to venture capitalists when the husk is no longer profitable.

Fuck late stage capitalism.

I sincerely hope so too, but that never seems to be enough without people being forced to take a stand via gov't policy. And our gov't caves to Trump at every opportunity (also looking at you Big Tech Tax that Carney, and EU folded on Canada Day, happy Canada Day everyone /s).

My good friend who is very well off and supposedly "boycotting the States" bought US cherries over BC cherries (one of BC's BEST products) the other day, and was surprised when I declined any, because I am actually boycotting the States. All it took was "Because they were on sale, the BC ones weren't." This is someone who makes over $100k/year by themselves, are DINK, and the price difference of $1.00/lb was enough to make them forget the boycott and go right back to buying US goods over prime, in-season BC goods, as long as they are on the shelf available.

And this is Alberta we're talking about with the booze. 30% of the population wants to secede (actual figure as of yesterday) and form little AmeriKKKa on the prairie and the other 70% (hyperbole) wants to stay in Canada but still hates LGBTQ people and the environment thanks to years of rightwing brainwashing and undermining the education system in AB. I literally CANNOT talk to family members in AB anymore it has gotten so bad, they are so brainwashed. Like that side of the family does not exist anymore.

Danielle Smith is pushing another secession referendum right now! One of the ONLY Canadian politicians who went to Mar-A-Lago to swear fealty to Trump before he was sworn in lol. She should be charged with fucking treason and hung.

If anything, I'd bet >50% of Albertans would rather choose US over Canadian wines a lot of the time, since Canadian wines primarily come from BC, Ontario, and Québec, all of whom they hate because sadly, they are too stupid (by design with the rampant education undermining) to understand how the Equalization system works, (or the pension system, or literally *insert any other gov't program here *).

No I count who owns and profits from the company, not where it originally started before being sold.

It sucks that buying successful businesses and ruining them is par for the course for capitalism but here we are.

Edit: to be fair I have no issue with Chinese EVs or Volvo, but I wouldnt count it as a European car maker anymore.

You can make your own for much cheaper; fuck capitalism.

IIRC all it is is a bit of dish soap watered down and a dash of Isopropyl alcohol. I picked up a gallon jug of Isopropyl online specifically for refilling our powerwash bottle.

yup here's wikihow

• 4 tbsp dishsoap (concentrated since dawn brand is)
• 2 tbsp rubbing alcohol
• top the bottle with water and shake.

Edit: bonus is drastically cutting the plastic waste that comes with powerwash refills

Hard to get to zero while Danielle Smith and the Albertan Assholes sell us out any chance they get to lick trumps boots and make a quick buck. (She returned US booze to shelves in AB after what, 12 days lol. shocking /s)

Satisified filen customer here!

That's cool that kDrive uses onlyoffice as their backend; that's my preferred desktop FOSS office suite after testing formatting compatibility to MS word back when I gave a shit about that. I don't really need an online office suite these days but still cool. Too bad their storage is not e2ee 🤦‍♂️

Ya wtf guys I thought we had a plan

not something most normal people will ever do

≠ not able to.

Therefore, no monopoly.

Any idiot with stock android can already sideload apps and/or download an alternative app store to manage their apps like fdroid, et al. No custom rom needed, lets not make this seem more complex than it is. Just cause most people don't make use of that ability does not mean google has an app store monopoly that needs to be legislated away.

Ofc playstore will come preinstalled on android phones; they aren't trying to make Apple remove the app store entirely as the default either? That's a false equivalency. The problem is there is no alternative option to release and monetize apps available on Apple AT ALL.

I agree google's playstore policies are strangling app developers for no reason and it sucks but thats not the same situation as with Apple. Android devs can already release via alternate means if they take issue, many just choose to whine and continue only releasing via play store anyways.

Nothing says you have to publish your app on playstore if you don't want to deal with their policies. You already can monetize your app by any means you want outside of playstore infrastructure on android, again nothing to legislate away like with Apple. Whether that is by purchased licenses (optional ones too like grayjay comes to mind) or donations or whatever. Plenty of successful apps are not available on play store at all due to policies (fdroid for example) and if google keeps making it more difficult for devs to publish on the play store in general maybe more devs will get fed up and join that group.

... how does play store have a monopoly exactly?

You can already use whatever third party app store you want on android. I don't even have play store installed on my android phone 🤷‍♂️