I live in a city and it didn’t map out every address here, like my friend’s address for example. But I feel its fine because that way everyone’s privacy is maintained and if I want to share my location to anyone I can use those unique links associated to my place. Besides that it mapped almost all of the public places and even has navigation built into it(which I thought wouldn’t be available).

These are my initial impressions. Let’s see how it fares up as I keep using it.

Why can’t they be a website than an app for Dekstop?

Also understood that they’re not open-source but are they privacy-respecting?

Edit: Went through their privacy policy and seems they’re privacy-focused. I will be trying their app now.

Downloaded it. It’s crazy how its not really that far behind gmaps.

Nah man it’s fine. The joke’s popular and I am sure they didn’t mean it. Thanks though.

Nope I am not that open irl

I actually wanted make a joke on that in the post itself lol.

Oh no…

Be sure to know how you best can get your social battery full again

Yep that’s a thing I am trying to figure out too. As of now, I think my social energy levels are coinciding with my body energy levels, that is, right after I eat my breakfast or lunch.

But in the context of a workplace – make sure it’s aligned.

Oh if it’s work related, I’d be more than happy to talk.

In my post I am talking about the interactions we are forced to have during the breaks. And people don’t like you talking about work during break too. At times, wish I could disappear during breaks. This is why wfh is so much better.

It is explained in their github.

“Glide typing (only with closed source library ☹️) library not included in the app, as there is no compatible open source library available can be extracted from GApps packages (“swypelibs”), or downloaded here (click on the file and then “raw” or the tiny download button)” https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard#:~:text=Glide typing (,tiny download button)

In the app, you go Advanced > Load gesture typing library > Select your downloaded library.

Recently I too have made a huge change in move towards degoogling and replaced Gboard with Heliboard. I never thought I’d be able to replace Gboard because I use gesture typing a lot. Heliboard doesn’t come inbuilt with gesture typing but you have to import from closed source(?) data which is just a one time import (would like to know more on this one from someone more knowledgeable). So far, it has been great!

Is Automattic a good company tho? Heard some not so good stories about them recently.

I would never pay to a service that is privacy intrusive.

Damn here I thought everyone gets to have only 24hrs a day.

CODM and PUBGM do exist

Xiaomi has the biggest custom ROM scene out there btw despite them trying their hardest to stop bootloader unlocking. You really don’t need to have a company supporting unlocking to make ROMs for them. If they outright block it then that’s an issue.

Use Searxng. I always wanted to branch out of DDG and now this is push I needed.

I’m seeing way more ads at the top(at the top 5 of the search) related to the keyword I’m typing. For eg, if I am searching for a movie pirate website I would get ad results at the top which are paid like Netflix, Amazon Prime etc and no results related to the pirate site I’m searching. This is not how it used to be. I used to find those sites at the top 3 resuls. It was convenient.

Yes duck assist is great and I like Duck ai as well.

Use searx next time instead of Google.

Agree. I used to root samsung vs apple but they are not competing at this point, they are copying them.