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[+] 72 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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    I was an Apple fan girl for a long time when I was a wee little person I believe it was an Apple 2 I was playing with, I learnt how to use the internet on a Preforma someting something I use a iMac G3, iMac G4, a few Mac Pros, and a Mac Mini. I have had 3 versions of the iphone, countless ipods, and 2 ipad’s. My current Mac Pro died on me a while back and I thought I would be fine with just my ipad and iphone. My iPhone stops getting updates next year and will only receive security updates whenever, so in the next year or two I will be getting a Motorola phone and installing either graphine because that is supposed to be coming to Motorola phones or I will find out about e/OS in my area.

    I have a bunch of raspberry pi’s doing stuff around my home, Home Assistant, 2 pi-holes, and many other services. My Media pi 5 was having some difficulties doing its stuff so I thought hey I can dust off the old Mac mini update it and see what I needed to do to secure it on my network. Whatever updates it needed/could use where no longer offered on the Apple servers so I just installed Debian and it has been just working along as my *arr server and Jellyfin host.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Renaming this isn't going to make us forget you're a pedophile, racist, pant shitting, dementia patient Donnie.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    I switched to mapquest already

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    or another brick of gold. one or the other.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    John Ternus takes over as Apple's CEO today. Real nice of Tim Cook to leave this for the new guy to deal with.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    More likely trump is loyalty testing his new business boy. Bend the knee in public and change pointless names when I say or else you’re not stoking my ego enough to come to the inside scoop meetings where we conspire the entire economy around using all modern technologies to spy on innocent people, domestic and foreign.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I’ve already replaced my Apple Watch with UNA watch that is the first modular end user repairable watch. They’re also based out of Scotland and have a development environment so anyone can design an app. Not American.

    My next thing will be to de-iPhone. I’m thinking graphene OS since it’s originally developed by a Torontonian. Again: Not American.

    After that, it’ll be finding a decent laptop and deploying Linux on it. Not sure which distro. I’ve always loved Debian on the server side. If not they I might just consider finding a Linux I can install into of my M1 MacBook.

    My search engine is now ecosia. Not American but still gives search results with Bing. Need to find something non U.S.

    I’ve degoogled most things and have cancelled all my U.S. streaming services and have other ways to watch. Yaarg!

    It’s a slow process to remove American based tech, but it’s doable. Some are rough around the edges, but I’m willing to give up convenience to make America feel pain. I know myself individually does nothing, but if Canada and the greater world dump US tech and develop our own, and or open source, it’ll hurt. Bad.

    Also. FUCK DONALD TRUMP the rapist.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Would be cool for the rest of the world to start renaming places in the u.s. of a. Like renaming New York to New Amsterdam, as it was originally, names are regional, we can make some up ...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    Any countries change the names of places that are not in their country?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Simple example.

    Brussel (nl) Brussels (en) Bruxelles (fr)

    This is just about language, but place names are regional. Drumphf can decide to rename Brussels to "shithole" if he likes, in Belgium it will still be Brussels.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Sure but that's just spelling for different languages. Not the same as one English speaking country lets say America changing something in another countries name.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I thought I'd look it up if this kind of thing happened more often. And oh my!

    China is renaming a lot of foreign places, but other countries have done as well (e.g. Egypt, Philippins, Indonesia). Nothing compared with the onslaught China is waging at the moment though.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Use CoMaps. It's pretty decent.

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    party of less government folks

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Deleted Google maps because of their bootlicking bullshit. Switched to OsmAnd.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Apple is holding the line.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    They won't, and will eventually update it to whatever the GNIS says it is. Which, if I'm honest, is what mapping companies should do.

    Don't get me wrong, it'd be pretty cool for Google/Apple/Microsoft to give a middle finger to Trump by specifically making exceptions in this case and the Gulf of Mexico. But at the end of the day I'm not too mad at companies for passing through exactly what the GNIS says. We need to attack the problem at the source, not the map itself.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)