Taskbar still showing but is not clickable while my game is running in fullscreen
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That's interesting, I never see the USA being asked to defend it's military drills in and around the South China Sea. They normally invoke the un treaty on international waters, which the usa has not signed or ratified
OpenSplitDeck - An open source steam controller
GitHub - tommybee456/OpenSplitDeck: A steam deck-like controller made from a mix of off the shelf parts and 3d printed parts with custom hardware and firmware
A steam deck-like controller made from a mix of off the shelf parts and 3d printed parts with custom hardware and firmware - tommybee456/OpenSplitDeckGitHub
This is really cool, this would be great to do to a steam deck with a broken motherboard
edit: got to the price part, oof
It's using a whole bunch of Steam Deck spare parts bought from iFixit, and a few after market upgrades like hall effect sticks and an extremerate shell replacement. Buying a single trigger (just the plastic R2/L2 trigger, mind you) for $20 to fix a broken $500 Deck isn't too bad, but trying to build an entire controller from spares is really not economically sensible.
But if you did indeed have those parts already for some reason, the rest is all rather cheap, common components. Cannibalize a Deck, and the extra cost would probably be well under $50.
...plus the $500 to buy a replacement Deck, so don't actually do it.
Israel pays for UK adverts attacking Doctors Without Borders
Israel pays for UK adverts attacking Doctors Without Borders
Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to drive medical charity out of Gaza backed by an aggressive Israeli propaganda campaign in Britain.JOHN McEVOY (Declassified Media ltd)
Hate It Or Rate It | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
I just found Hiori. I was wishing for such an app for a long time. Finally, I can take a photo of a product and rate it such that I won't buy it in the future again.
It happens very often that I buy something again because I forget it. E.g. tofu in a carton where you can't see what's inside.
Hate It Or Rate It | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Track and decide: Love it or leave it with every purchase.f-droid.org
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Trump Plotting Regime Change in Cuba by Year’s End: WSJ
Trump Plotting Regime Change in Cuba by Year’s End: WSJ - News From Antiwar.com
The Donald Trump administration hopes to execute a regime change in Cuba by the end of 2026, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal.News From Antiwar.com
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announces closure of research operations, jobs cuts
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announces closure of research operations, jobs cuts
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says it has identified savings opportunities and is closing seven research operations.The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
Bookmark vault/archive links tool that is outside the browser
Looking for a link archiving tool to save links that i have no intention of viewing anytime soon. it needs to be able to sort bookmarks by folders and sub-folders, tags are just not my thing. It doesn't have to be anything crazy but it needs to be offline first and have the ability to export bookmarks in a readable format
Part of it is that i have limited storage in terms of what i can archive, so the next best thing is save the links to YT and websites. If they are gone in the future, it is what it is. I also want my browser bookmark manager to be clutter free without the pressure of removing bookmarks all the time.
Also, i don't want to use any note talking apps, there are too many links and it just defeat the point of the app.
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Offline first for online content? Whoa buddy, where's this Moon you're asking for?
Seriously though, you need to be realistic when you're asserting your wants for a service or tool. Everyone builds tools to sync bookmarks and save lists now, because that's a feature that users want. It's going to be difficult to find something that is "offline".
Try using a memo app maybe? Lots of password managers have the ability to save links, and would technically be "outside" the browser if you want them to be.
I'm saying I don't think there is in this case. I'm not sure what the use case would be simply because you could use any other tools for this specific job.
It's like asking for an "offline browser" in a sense.
Just use NocoDB or a spreadsheet or something.
There's actually dedicated tools for this specific need like bmm and buku. Browser-agnostic bookmark managers are very nice for different purposes like multi browsers use. The idea is not to use browsers offline but to manage bookmarks outside of the browser as mentioned by OP.
Comparing to other tools they have the advantage to be dedicated to bookmark management, meaning they offer all features inherent to such task.
I'm just not sure it can handle folders, but you could use tags as folder names to replicate this behavior ;)
GitHub - dhth/bmm: get to your bookmarks in a flash
get to your bookmarks in a flash. Contribute to dhth/bmm development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Hi, if you like very lite solution you can export your bookmark in an html file.
This way you can see it as a web page and edit it with any text editor.
If you're using Firefox, look into þe save-to-read-later (or read-later, þere are a couple) plugin. It does no organization - it's just a queue.
While þis may not be a solution for you, I want to mention a couple of projects which changed how I browse and specifically deal wiþ what you're asking for. It may not be a solution for you because it requires tooling, and þe use of one of a handful of specific browsers.
It started wiþ þe browser vimb, which - when I was using it - stored bookmarks in a flat text file in þe format
<URL>\t<title>\t<tag>,<tag>,...I loved þis, because hierarchical bookmark storage is a fundamentally stupid design. I understand you don't like tags; I can't help þat. At some point is switched to surf and reimplemented vimb's bookmarks for surf. Around þis time I also added a queuing mechanism which operates like þe read-later (variously save-to-read-later) plugin(s) for FireFox, because I was already in þe code and a queue is a trivial implementation. Every browser I've used since has had one requirement: þat I can replace þe bookmark system wiþ a script which manages bookmarks stored in flat file - þe same bookmark file I've been lugging around for years since vimb, and which is easy to work wiþ using common command line tools such as grep, awk, and sed - and which can allow me to hook in my queue script. Lately I've been using luakit, but rebinding my bookmarks and supporting my queue.
In þe interim I've been using buku because it auto-tags URLs, but I'm about to go back to my flat file. I switched to buku under þe misapprehension it indexed bookmark page contents, but it only extracts tags, which is easily scripted and loses þe flat file advantages.
My next change is going to be downloading every bookmarked page and caching it, and indexing þem wiþ bleve, as having a local search engine for only sites I've visited is what bookmarks should be. A bookmark is a question: "I saw someþing once I want to revisit." Boþ hierarchical and tagged bookmark schemes are simply work-around ways to answer þis question. Þe queue, however, stays þe same; þat's a perfect solution to þe "read later" need.
Vimb - The Vim like Browser
vimb - the vim like browser is a fast, keyboard driven and lightweight webkit web-browserfanglingsu.github.io
I use a mix of readeck and browsertrix.
Readeck is more of a link archiver and manager, does not archive comprehensively but is good enough for most pages:
readeck.org/en/
Browsertrix is much more comprehensive but not really a read for later or link manager software. It’s primarily intended for site archiving ad hoc or on a cadence. I believe requires k8s for deployment, which was ok for me:
webrecorder.net/browsertrix/
Both are better for different use cases so therefore I use both.
Readeck: Home
Save interesting articles, long read, pictures, videos. Read or revisit them later.Readeck
If you ain't scared of the terminal and a little coding, you can use the format FireFox exports to. It's a single html file with everything stored in one big
with folders stored as headers and a sublist. All the urls and metadata are stored in the tags.
It should be relatively easy to make shell script that takes some arguments—e.g. action (add or remove), type (folder or link), url, and title—and modifies the file appropriately, programmatically taking metadata like creation/modify time (firefox stores them in unix time) from the system and favico from the website. That way it will work with any firefox anywhere.
If you want something more full featured, buku looks promising, although I haven't tried it. For a gui keditbookmarks—which is a standalone, despite being part of KDE—looks like a simple interface that can import/export in firefox, opera, netscape, or Internet Explorer formats, as well as export to a "printable html file" (which I assume meets your definition of "readable") and should open links in the system's default browser.
in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention
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I didn't make a value judgement on it, just saying how it usually goes, and of course I can't account for people's idiocy and the very Western, redpill, confused and closeted homosexual take of "we're competitors instead of complementary, women bad because women are feminine". I mean, my mom's basically a brain with a mouth, she's a lawyer who's also a historian now because she went back to uni in her 60s, lol, and she has never, not even once, cooked us a meal. It's just not her strong suit, it takes her 30 mins to make a cup of tea which is why my brother ended up becoming the family's chef, and that's fine cause she's always brought home the bacon and paid for everything in my very comfortable childhood, maids included. 🤷
But maybe, on average, men are better with/more suited to do/less hesitant to do gross things (that are not like bodily stuff), among other things like physically demanding things, and potentially dangerous and stressful things (I know women give birth and this fits all three categories and to the highest degrees, lol, but that's because we're all very yin yang, the exception that proves the rule if you wish), and women are better at other stuff on average and then over time and across societies we see it and that's just a reality of things. Maybe the nice boyfriend is baking, sure, and that's great, but across cultures women seem more motivated to do so. Again, just a description, any value judgement is kinda pointless and misplaced here, because "pink" and "blue" jobs need to get done and are important (but of course misogynistic folks and those without much reading comprehension and a victim complex will see what they wanna see).
I had this one Singaporean guy visit me and say basically the same thing, and then he said there was this dish i had to try. And it just tasted like Umami The Dish™ to me.
Turns out, people typically enjoy the cuisine they grew up with and that's not wrong. To imply that it is makes you annoying.
According to Wikipedia, with various sources, allied forces in Italy would often ask for bacon, eggs, and cheese on noodles, called "spaghetti breakfast," so Italian chefs would modify the existing recipe for "pasta cacio e uova," which was originally without meat, to feature cured pork, thus creating the original carbonara.
I didn't see anything to specifically say whether they originally used bacon as the allied forces asked, or used other more traditional forms of cured pork from the start, but now guanciale, a cured pork jowl, is considered the traditional ingredient, though bacon is a common substitute outside of Italy.
I'm Italian, and trust me: carbonara is not more than 70 years old...
Same thing for tiramisù.
Syria after Assad: How the YPG's separatist dream finally died
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/42204864
Ali Bakir
24 January 2026 12:00 GMT
But the YPG’s inevitable clash with the state came this month, as the Syrian army, supported by allied Arab tribes, advanced quickly. The YPG’s rapid collapse was expected by those familiar with its history: the group, operating under a Kurdish banner, was never a genuine grassroots force. It lacked popular support even among most Kurds and was completely dependent on foreign political and military backing.Throughout the Syrian conflict, the group shifted its loyalty from the Assad regime to Iran, then Russia, then the United States and the European Union, and finally Israel. At no point since 2011 could it have held its ground against its opponents without massive funding, weapons and air support from the US and others.
Syria after Assad: How the YPG's separatist dream finally died
Ali Bakir
24 January 2026 12:00 GMTBut the YPG’s inevitable clash with the state came this month, as the Syrian army, supported by allied Arab tribes, advanced quickly. The YPG’s rapid collapse was expected by those familiar with its history: the group, operating under a Kurdish banner, was never a genuine grassroots force. It lacked popular support even among most Kurds and was completely dependent on foreign political and military backing.Throughout the Syrian conflict, the group shifted its loyalty from the Assad regime to Iran, then Russia, then the United States and the European Union, and finally Israel. At no point since 2011 could it have held its ground against its opponents without massive funding, weapons and air support from the US and others.
Syria after Assad: How the YPG's separatist dream finally died
The group's rapid downfall was driven by overconfidence in foreign support and an underestimation of the Syrian state's resolveMiddle East Eye
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Party backed by generals set for landslide in 'sham' Myanmar election
Polls in Myanmar have closed after a third and final stage of voting in what are widely viewed as sham elections.
Many popular parties are banned from standing and voting has not been possible in large areas of the country because of a five-year-long civil war.
The dominant party backed by the ruling military junta is expected to win a landslide victory.
The military has been fighting against both armed resistance groups which oppose the coup and ethnic armies that have their own militias.
It lost control of large parts of the country in a series of major setbacks, but clawed back territory this year enabled by support from China and Russia.
The civil war has killed thousands of people, displaced millions more, destroyed the economy and left a humanitarian vacuum.
Party backed by generals set for landslide in 'sham' Myanmar election
Many parties were banned and there was no voting in about half the country which is gripped by fear and civil war.Jonathan Head (BBC News)
Syrian Government Gains Ground in Northeast Syria After Arab Tribes Defect Against Kurdish SDF
C.P. Ward
Jan 22, 2026
The months-long standoff between the SDF and the Damascus government turned in the government’s favor on Sunday when Arab tribes in the provinces of Raqqa and Deir Ez-Zour—who had for years been close allies of the SDF in its fight against ISIS—defected to the government and turned their guns on their former comrades. In response, the SDF rapidly withdrew from these largely Arab provinces and established their line of defense further north in the Kurdish heartlands of Qamishli, Kobani, and Hasake.By Monday, it appeared that a deal had been reached between the two sides to end the killing and integrate the SDF fighters into the military on an “individual” basis. If put into effect, that deal would be a capitulation for the SDF, which had long demanded that its fighters integrate under the new Syrian Ministry of Defense as whole divisions, which would allow them some degree of autonomy from the government. In a stunning coup, Syria’s president, Ahmad Al-Sharaa, seemingly managed to unify Syria with a relatively small price in blood, and on his own terms.
Syrian Government Gains Ground in Northeast Syria After Arab Tribes Defect Against Kurdish SDF
As the Syrian president signed a fragile ceasefire in Damascus, on the ground in Deir Ez-Zour and Raqqa, sporadic fighting continues between the SDF and government forces backed by tribal groups.C.P. Ward (Drop Site News)
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Quick question about installing games with Wine
Do they have to be installed in the default .wine folder and c:\? I'd prefer to install big games using wine on another drive if possible as space is linited on my home drive.
Edit: Solved. All good to install anywhere, thanks!
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No, not at all. By default Wine should offer your whole Linux drive on Z:, so you can choose whatever location you want.
Heroic puts the games in ~/Games/Heroic/gamename but the .wine folder in ~/Games/Heroic/prefixes/gamename. Steam does something similar.
You should also consider using a helper like Lutris, Heroic or Bottles. They create a separate .wine folder for every game. That way it is easier to manage multiple conflicting libraries and Wine versions. If your home is on BTRFS or other deduplicating filesystem the additional space needed for multiple .wine folders is almost zero.
If you don't want to use a helper program you can still utilise multiple non-standard .wine locations with the WINEPREFIX environment variable.
Thanks for the write up, I was actually planning to launch using Heroic, just wasn’t sure if games through Wine needed the C:\ drive prefix.
It creates a virtual C:\ drive for the programs in the bottle. Externally it doesn't matter where it is as long as your launch script/application knows where it is.
TLDR: use a prefix manager instead of plain Wine
You can install them anywhere, but if you're using plain Wine, I'd suggest you instead go with something that will manage these locations for you.
Each Wine setup has what is called a "prefix", which in the simplest sense is just a folder that is setup like a Windows C:\ drive, and includes all the shared libraries and bits needed to run the game. When a program run is launched, it is locked into this prefix, so when it goes looking for files as it would on Windows, it's going to find a familiar folder structure, including installed dependencies like MS VC libraries and DirectX stuff.
Now...when you as a user are just using Wine directly, you'd generally be using the SAME prefix to install multiple games, which is hard to manage, and just clunky.
Prefix managers like Proton, Lutris, Bottles and even Heroic will make a new prefix for EACH program, making things like troubleshooting, switching runtimes, or invoking custom configs per program a LOT easier.
Yup. Same with any other as well. If you don't want to use Steam, I think a lot of people find Lutris and Heroic simple.and functional for all levels of user, and they also include the ability to run Steam Runtimes and Proton versions pretty simply too.
All of these launchers run Wine under the hood, and are a good abstraction on top of that entire stack. Just makes it super simple to manage.
Doug Ford thinks it's "fantastic" that we're equipping ICE
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.youtube.com
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Arming and equipping fascists is bad, even if the minority out-group of the day isn't us.
"First they came for the Americans, but I was not an American so I sold them the weapons they would later use against me."
Why? They clearly aren't fighting back.
Americans have an "oppress me daddy" mindset.
"why do the ones who are suffering simply decide not to suffer"
I recognize they are doing peaceful protests, and getting scattered by ICE with some tear gas, but I don't see many willing to actually fight.
Maybe it isn't a lack of empathy but watching their actions?
My claim that Americans desire a fascist state are somewhat justified. Watch any random video of 1st amendment auditors in the US. The common theme regardless of political leaning is the desire to punish the other. US citizens will call men with guns to deal with a guy just standing on the sidewalk with a phone camera. The US citizen has the desire to have the camera person punished for their perfectly legal, yet disliked, actions.
Lawsuits in the US also demonstrate the results of years of brainwashing the American public with "American exceptionalism" rhetoric. Someone slips on the sidewalk due to no negligence of another, but someone must be punished.
The police in the US as generally pretty terrible. They have a long history of planting evidence, harassing innocents, fishing for crimes for no reason, harming and killing innocent Americans. The cops are protected by the government with qualified immunity. If a cop happens to get punished and fired in one district, it's been shown time and time again they can move to the town next door and continue being a cop. If Americans cared, this action would stop. But a large number of them don't care because it doesn't happen to them OR they approve of the killing and beatings because that person was "the other".
This has been going on for decades and decades. All it takes is the majority of Americans to desire it to stop - yet it hasn't.
1/3 of the country voted for Trump because they knew who he was. 1/3 of the country couldn't give a shit to vote.
American exceptionalism and apathy are killing Americans and 2/3 of them either are for it or don't give a shit.
If you've got kids, you can't afford to take risks that could endanger them.
If you have rent or a mortgage, you can't take time off work to organize.
If you have a full-time job, you don't have the time or energy to protest.
If you have a cell phone, they'll be waiting at your home for you and put a bag over your head.
If you have a face, they'll identify you and make you disappear.
If you have skin, they'll target you. If you have a sexuality or a disability, they'll target you. If you have complaints, they'll target you.
This is a system built from the ground up to make revolution seem impossible. This is a system that undermined education and then took advantage of learning gaps with lies crafted to keep the people fighting each other instead of up.
Make enough people believe that voting won't change anything (because they did vote last time and look what happened). Make enough people mad and scared of out-groups and then offer them salvation. Keep doing that forever.
You're calling for violence against people who have been abused and who have given up because they've been made to feel like nothing they do matters, and that whatever life they've managed to scratch together will be destroyed in front of them.
You're calling for violence against people for not magically transforming into Rambo, when they've been consistently denied the resources and the training.
I believe that the majority of Americans do want it to stop. But they're trapped in a system that takes their agency away. It's a system that is not going to be stopped. Not by them. And that's by design.
Thank you for pointing out another reason why Americans won't fight back.
They've already given up.
Freedom isn't worth the risk to them.
Short term pleasure, long term own goal against ourselves too.
We don't want the US to go full Gilead. They're halfway there and look how much damage to us they're causing already.
What we want is to nudge that sick nation to better days, if nothing else for our own sake.
Reminder/invitation to contribute to OpenStreetMap
Some time ago I started replacing all services and apps that I use with FOSS altnernatives. Most of them were easy to replace but some corpo/big-tech apps had ecosystems too advanced to be conveniently replaced. For example, substituting Google Maps on Android (or I guess Apple Maps on iOS) was a bit of a struggle as the most popular FOSS alternative app was OsmAnd. First of all mad respect and huge kudos to OsmAnd team of contributors but for me the UX was overwhelming and too customizable which is probably a huge bonus to power users but IMO that makes it very unlikely to become a large scale alternative to Google maps. Probably other people realized that too and some 6-7 months ago CoMaps was released, a FOSS app that is also based on OpenStreetMap layer but this time with a simplistic and smooth UX/GUI.
In case somebody is not familiar with OpenStreetMap (OSM) - basically it is a non-profit org, but its heavily maintained by community members and anybody around the world is allowed to contribute and enrich map content. Even if org can theoretically get corrupt I think anybody can make a fork and continue with community contribution. Creating an account is easy, you could start contributing in like 3 minutes. A huge number of services and apps are basing their map layers on OpenStreetMap, such as CoMaps above.
The quality of OpenStreetMap/CoMaps/OsmAnd is as good as the contributions to it are - so the more people use it - the better and more content it will contain. I would like to invite everybody to give it a chance and use openstreetmap.org/ on desktop and CoMaps on mobile devices. You should have enough motivation to abandon Google or Apple products, but final piece of motivation is that eventually Google Maps will start censoring content (like Reddit or Instagram) or just share your location history to ICE or perform some other serious violation like that (like Microsoft did recently).
CoMaps has a really nice and simple interface where you can add missing places (business, community services, recreation areas etc) while OpenStreetMap on web browser allows to update anything you imagine (e.g. see a missing street? Add it. A new building was developed - just add it!). If everybody enriched only their local neighborhood with features on the map we could really build something beautiful. Existing layer probably already contains 90% of the stuff you'd ever search for as contributors really did a outstanding job throughout all these years. But that additional 10% makes a real difference for it turning into a much bigger scale tool, and this feels like the right time to kick that off.
It is important not to get demotivated that not many people maintain and contribute as your neighborhood might remain a lonely detailed places for years. OSM existed for a long time now and is very likely to keep existing for decades to come, everything that you update or create remains a legacy that stays forever saved in the map (unless somebody further updates it). Perhaps, in 20 years time people will be grateful. And to tidy up and make max out of your neighborhood you really need one weekend or so.
For example, in my local area I've started adding location marks of recycling bins, dumpsters, parking lots, playgrounds, pathways, building tunnels and monuments, but also I've added missing shops and updated working hours and websites for shops that existed.
Also #1, be responsible when making changes, don't overwrite other people's work unless it is an improvement. Double check everything that you add, and also if you don't have any experience with map editors or GIS software take a watch of some OSM editing tutorial.
Also #2, I most likely omitted some other useful FOSS tools, and it doesn't matter which one you decide to use as long as it is based on OpenStreetMap or any other community driven layer.
Also #3, tell all your friends and family to do the same.
Yeah, this might not be the most important thing to cure the world at this moment but developing community-driven mindset where everybody takes a small or big part in it is the way to go. Cheers!
EDIT: Amazing input in the comments, I'll try to summarize additional suggestions provided by other people. Thank you for pointing out URL errors in my post too.
Very useful suggestion by illusionist:
We need more wikipedia images and content, there is still a lot to improve on maps just by contributing to wikipedia. Osmand added custom buttons and now you can enable wikipedia connections with one click which is great
Related lemmy communities:
- !osm@feddit.uk
- !CoMaps@sopuli.xyz
- !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
- !osmand@lemmy.ml
List of alternative and open-source maps:
- On Android: alternativeto.net/software/osm…
- OpenStreetMap curated list of iOS apps that use it (wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Co…) + one additional map missing on the list: Mapply
- Send official OpenStreetMap as a shortcut to desktop and use web-view instead of an app (works on any OS)
- CartesApp (Only in French for now)
- Cardinal Maps (GitHub)
List of tools for contribution & content management:
- StreetComplete
- Vespucci
- CoMaps for simplistic POI edits
- Official OpenStreetMap website
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
There is no open source car navigation app which is bad. Magic earth is great but not open source. Tomtom is good but not open source.
Osmand is awesome for power users. Comaps is good for causal users.
We need more wikipedia images and content, there is still a lot to improve on maps just by contributing to wikipedia. Osmand added custom buttons and now you can enable wikipedia connections with one click which is great.
There are no menus for restaurants, no pictures, no other stuff. The situation is not really improving for years. Osm is great for a base map but it lacks so much information that it could replace google maps.
Here maps is trash and apple maps is apple, i.e. not better than google
I tried relying solely on osm and I failed simply because you can't just have a look where cool restaurants or bars are. I use osmand for everything except exploring such random stuff in random cities. Osmand is better for toilets, benches and nieche info.
Magic earth is great
~~is~~ was
1 Star rating in the play store since december update
And even before that, it had wrong POI all the time and didn't update osm data to stay up to date.
I tried every open source app I could find, but none of the open source ones have live traffic, which makes them completely useless for where I live. I honestly don't understand why we can't opt-in crowdsource that.
It still is, it is even better than ever for me. Sorry to hear that it's not working for you. I feel the pain.
I use it for car navigation, nothing else. It works like a charm in Germany.
It has no real-time-traffic-info though
I think this is a planned feature, actually
There are ongoing discussions regarding this on their github.
Some parts of the world have traffic data freely available, in other parts you may need to pay for it. For example, see the list compiled by GraphHopper here:
github.com/graphhopper/open-tr…
On the CoMaps github there are privacy concerns being brought up with live traffic data collection. Some want extra privacy where no telemetry is ever collected. Some want to be able to provide an API key for traffic data. Some want an opt-in feature with a focus on privacy protections.
For example, geofencing to protect home locations, stripping out data near the starting location and end destination of any trip, stripping out IP information, only counting average speeds on certain tiles of the map, etc.
In the end I'm hoping for CoMaps to pull through with a live traffic option that also has strong privacy protections in place.
GitHub - graphhopper/open-traffic-collection: Collection of open data resources for traffic information
Collection of open data resources for traffic information - graphhopper/open-traffic-collectionGitHub
StreetComplete | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
OpenStreetMap surveyor appf-droid.org
+1.
Very easy to use app. I've been contributing to OSM more because of it.
I agree!
I've not been able to map much with the weather lately, but last April I was pretty proud to see this ranking on my 7 day activity:
edit: the picture did not turn out how i expected. it's hard to see, but I managed to be #2 in the US. It's not a competition, I know, but I have not achieved much in life so this felt pretty cool.
Streetcomplete is deliberately a tool for quick and easy editing. You can add notes there, and desktop users can fix them for you in an editor with more features. You can add images to notes to describe the problem. You can subscribe to new notes in an area with an rss reader, so I check new notes every few days in my city, solve them if they contain enough information.
If you want more powerful editing options on mobile you can use Vespucci.
As developer of mapcomplete.org/ - I cannot allow contributors to edit geometries. If I did, I'd have to show all geometries in the vinicinity, which would make it way more confusing for a non-technical user.
Even then, geometry cannot always be exactly determined (e.g. shops in a mall). And some communities even agree to never use geometries for some types of POI!
MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap
MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.mapcomplete.org
I think there's something to your point of view, however, these apps do get more people contributing precisely because they remove some of the friction to add and correct information.
In my case, I just add or correct things on streetcomplete, and then add or correct polygons on my computer at osm when I can.
I still prefer mobile users adding features, even if they are of an unusual object type; effectively being another type of fixme to desktop users. But instead of another desktop user integrating these elements, I rather have mobile users on the desktop as well; as to integrate their mobile changes when at home. If you’re sightseeing, these applications are very helpful, for creating/editing POIs and effectively sketching out non-POI features; but the latter does require some work to integrate them.
Quoting another comment of mine. Your use of the tool is something I'm advocating for, really; I recognize it's usefulness, but am not treating it as a substitute for desktop editors.
Related lemmy communities:
- !osm@feddit.uk
- !CoMaps@sopuli.xyz
- !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
- !osmand@lemmy.ml
Yes you can, but OsmAnd is not a beginner friendly app. It's a poweruser's app.
For those new to the OpenStreetMap ecosystem, I recommend CoMaps for navigation and StreetComplete for contributions. CoMaps can also contribute, for example by adding or updating POIs.
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I personally quite like OsmAnd's granular control, but understand how others might experience this as being overwhelming; which big-tech's restrictive... I mean "modern" user-experience (UX) might be to blame for. There are however quite some alternatives to pick from, if you wanted a more minimalist approach to UX; which OsmAnd could also provide by default (while allowing advanced users to toggle additional "expert" settings).
What makes Google "Maps" superior to OSM-based maps, is not its inferior "map", but rather the navigational aspect: businesses and other 'points of interests' (POIs) registering their location to Google, public transit data being supplied to it (allowing for planning), traffic statistics (through creepy location tracking, even in the background unless opted out), etc.; and bundles all into a single, undeniably convenient application.
I would argue OSM data is primarily mass imports, from other permissive or open (government) databases; which are strongly dependent on region. For The Netherlands: BAG (basic registration of addresses and buildings) and BGT (basic registration of large-scale topography), make up a large portion of the data presented (which are either directly imported or used as a reference). Although, relative to real-world changes they might temporarily lack behind, and users add details based on satellite imagery.
Regarding satellite imagery: editors don't always have up-to-date imagery, leading to some users undoing changes others have made. In The Netherlands, the government provides relatively recent satellite imagery: which can be imported into the alternative JOSM editor as an WMTS layer. And you may also want to check the comments of the last change: in OSM's own iD editor you can click the "last modified ..." link, all the way at the bottom of the "Edit object" tab, for the selected object.
Another thing I would really recommend, is checking how other mappers have added certain features. Which is sometimes easier to understand than OSM's documentation; which doesn't always correspond to practice (possibly dependent on region). A very useful tool for this is Overpass Turbo, which you can use to search for certain elements, to see how others have implemented these.
I know this might all feel a little overwhelming, but I wish I had known these things earlier in my mapping journey. I started doing it because I noticed things missing, that I knew existed as a mailman. Just starting with smaller changes to get my feet wet, and gradually working my way to larger changes. As long as you don't start taring up large roads (including their often many relationships), you'll be just fine; and might even become hooked (as it can be quite satisfying, having created another beautiful part).
BGTviewer - de Basisregistratie Grootschalige Topografie op de kaart
BGTviewer.nl is hét startpunt voor de Basisregistratie Grootschalige Topografie, de gestandaardiseerde manier om de topografie van Nederland vast te leggen en openbaar te maken.bgtviewer.nl
traffic statistics (through creepy location tracking, even in the background unless opted out)
yes it's definitely creepy when Google does it, but it provides invaluable data to other users - advance warnings of tailbacks whilst driving, and accurate ETA for public transport when using bus or train. Would be great if a privacy-respecting way to do this could be found for OSM & its ilk.
You have to add layers here to make them show up in iD: github.com/osmlab/editor-layer…
For JOSM you have to add it to this page: josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Map…
OSM is a community project, someone have to the the PR, It won't show up automagically without human intervention.
Are you sure its license is compatible? E.g. The website says I can't view it because I'm not in the Netherlands. There are a lot of frequent editors from there, it's strange they haven't added it yet.
GitHub - osmlab/editor-layer-index: A unified layer index for OSM editors.
A unified layer index for OSM editors. Contribute to osmlab/editor-layer-index development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
OSM is a community project, someone have to the the PR, It won’t show up automagically without human intervention.
Is this referring to the "mass imports" part, you would argue are done in batches by many contributors? If so, then yes, mass import might give the wrong idea, I agree. But even if imported by many over time, the result is still a mass import from these open databases (minus a few addresses maybe, drawn in by hand; or roads not yet aligned with BGT, in case of The Netherlands).
Are you sure its license is compatible? E.g. The website says I can’t view it because I’m not in the Netherlands. There are a lot of frequent editors from there, it’s strange they haven’t added it yet.
I can't find the forum post regarding this, but I'm quite sure the conclusion was it being compatible; despite viewing being restricted to Dutch citizens (because it's a service provided by The Netherlands). It's a quite common source here, especially for recent changes (which other imagery just doesn't provide). And they are providing WMTS directly, so if they wanted to restrict usage for georeferencing, I don't understand why they'd do that.
I was replying about the imagery only, a PR to the layer index.
Adding the imagery to the index and making it the default is the solution to the problem of users undoing changes. Most new users just hit edit on osm.org and start to work with what they have. If you present them the correct imagery they will use that.
On the layer index you can mark an imagery as 'best', and it will show up as the default layer for its country
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I'm proud to say that the OSM map for my neighborhood has been more up to date than Google since I've moved here.
I've been trying to do the same for Panoramax, but that's so much more work than just updating some details about a new/closed shop. Especially since I'm self-hosting it and I don't feel confident enough in my server admin abilities to pull other people into this.
In either case: you can reach out to the panoramax-devs here: app.element.io/#/room/#panoram…
It's always interesting to hear back from users, even if those are small usecases
panoramax.cx40.ca/
I haven't uploaded everything I have there yet. I'm still in the middle of figuring out how to automate the process so I can just connect my camera to the computer and have a udev rule automatically pull and upload relevant photos.
Is there any reason I should reach out to the devs? I don't see what either party has to gain from this interaction.
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Panoramax is a digital resource for sharing and using field photos. Anyone can take photographs of places visible from public roads and contribute them to the Panoramax database.panoramax.cx40.ca
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OpenStreetMap
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Mobile OpenStreetMap editor for POI & micromappingf-droid.org
MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap
MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.mapcomplete.org
Ive used OsmAnd+ for years & I still find it confusing to find specific settings! Thankfully OsmAnd settings can be backed up & exported/imported.
That said, several times in new cities in both in my home country & abroad late in the day, it's found us places to eat, toilets, late night supermarkets etc etc. I was grateful to the mappers & I vowed to do the same in my home city suburb to help any fellow visitors who find themselves here. I kept my word & mapped it extensively though I'll not reveal where.
Several months ago we visited a European capital for a city break, the public transit navigation in OsmAnd was fantastic. The offline wiki articles are amazing when visiting new places.
Top tip: utilise the "Quick Action" shortcut button. Add fuel, parking, parking location, wiki & "show nearest POI". You can toggle them on/off in an instant when needed
I zoomed in to my local area and typed pizza in the search box. A place with Pizza in the name was at the center of my screen. The search took me to a city in another continent called Pizza.
Contributions from users are wasted if the final UX is so poorly designed.
The quality of the search depends on which app you use and how it prioritizes search results, right? I know this is a bit of a tired argument, bit since CoMaps is open-source, you could submit a patch, or at least a bug report.
I've encountered the same behaviour on Google Maps on occasion, too.
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
Osmand uses a different search engine. It also searches only in the downloaded data, unless you select "Online search".
More info in the docs: osmand.net/docs/user/search/
OSM is a database, it can't search. Osm.org just displays an independent search engine called Nominatim, but it could be anything else
Honestly the search quality is the largest adoption hurdle, not the content quality. There are other issues too, but that one is the most universal.
I say this as a long time user of OsmAnd. Maybe other apps do a better job.
Am I the only one who noticed the 6-7 reference? 👀
Clever
Also - is there an OpenStreetView?
There's magic earth. I used it until they locked Android auto behind a subscription. A shame since it was quite good and I was happy to provide data.
Not open source though.
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in reply to just_another_person • • •I really think it must be fullscreen, because the game din't even start when I set a windowed mode preset.
Lutris doesn't let me install other Wine versions. IDK why. I'm restricted to these two versions. Proton doesn't even show up in in my configuration even tho I installed it from my package manager.
ALT+Tab really did something. After focusing the game again the taskbar is gone! Thanks for that tip!
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