openmapsguy

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by openmapsguy 3y ago
The Devuan guys are also maintaining a bunch of the non systemd packages in Debian. And Debian says they’re fine having non systemd but any work needed to make openrc etc viable falls on the these guys.
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by openmapsguy 3y ago
Taxes are paid through an extra registration fee. Cost saving comes from lower running costs. https://electrek.co/2020/07/10/california-starts-charging-ev...
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by openmapsguy 3y ago
Here’s direct link to pre launch page: https://www.crowdsupply.com/milkv/milk-v-pioneer Specs are easier to read than article and there’s links to source code
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by openmapsguy 3y ago
Looks like Coreboot support for 5000 series landed recently: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Open-Source-FW-2023
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by openmapsguy 3y ago
Firmware updates for the BIOS, Embedded Controller and SSD are just a click away with the power of the LVFS. Pretty awesome to see this become more common.
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by openmapsguy 3y ago
Interesting… How will I make a return on my investment, and when? Under the terms of our Series B, our (pre-money) valuation is $585M. If we have a successful exit in the future (like an IPO, merger, or acquisition) for more than that amoun
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by openmapsguy 4y ago
You’ll find people frustrated with Prusa too. There was a whole discord dedicated to trying to fix all issues. People act like having the power supply die, bed probe not being reliable, not having x axis tensioner are all normal. Just print
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by openmapsguy 4y ago
Also have maps for au, ca and mx. Maps for this month just got posted.
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by openmapsguy 4y ago
It’s a mismatch between OSM’s address format and the normal address format. Osmand does basic string matching for search so it only finds exact matches. You search for 108 1st st Portland, OSM has 108 1st street Portland, Osmand finds nothi
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by openmapsguy 4y ago
You’re looking for wine https://www.winehq.org/ . Proton is built on top of wine.
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by openmapsguy 4y ago
Some context I found: https://library.oregonstate.edu/osu-psu-and-uo-libraries-ini... >To this end, all three institutions would like to reduce our spend with Elsevier by half of the current amounts paid by each institut
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by openmapsguy 4y ago
Almost everything is manual unless an import for an area is happening. Imports require a bunch of documentation and notifications before the data gets pulled in. The data is typically for building and addresses from the government. Adding t
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by openmapsguy 4y ago
I’m sure what you’re saying happens. There’s 1000s of packages with maintainers of varying skill. That said the track record speaks for itself. I can only remember one time a maintainer introduced a vuln in Debian. The system works even tho
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by openmapsguy 4y ago
Generally, distros supply security updates. For example, Debian picks a version for a release and makes sure it has security updates for the entire release. Sometimes this requires backporting patches because the version is no longer suppor
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by openmapsguy 4y ago
Addresses in OSM are in expanded format eg 100 south 35th street. What you’re entering is likely 100 s 35th st. Osmand looks for exact string matches so it won’t find the address.
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by openmapsguy 4y ago
For maps, You should add Organic maps. People tend to like the UI more than OsmAnd. Personally, I use OsmAnd with custom map files for better address coverage: https://github.com/pnoll1/osmand_map_creation .
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by openmapsguy 4y ago
FYI startpage got bought by an ad tech company.
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by openmapsguy 4y ago
First thing I get is 2 pop ups. An ad for the app at the top and a second covering the page in Czech. All the comments are positive for an ad riddled czech maps site?
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by openmapsguy 4y ago
Use better map files. https://github.com/pnoll1/osmand_map_creation