Not sure about Japan specifically, but I use Here We Go. i have also found that Open Street Maps based maps don't have enough info in my area.
Here We Go is sort of a legacy project, currently owned by several European car manufacturers, servers in the Netherlands, a good country for data privacy laws. Basically it costs money to operate a maps app, but it's a rounding error for the type of money they make. Solid privacy policy. Closest in functionality to Google, using TrioAdvisor for discovery/reviews/pictures/business info. Solid at real time traffic. Built in buttons to run in offline mode and delete any data. You can save favorite locations without an account.
It's not perfect though. Closed source. Can't search along route in Android Auto mode, and when you do in normal mode it does not tell you how much time will be added to the trip. Voice assistant doesn't work in Android auto (its no longer installed on my phone though). 2 trackers: Google Crashlytics & Facebook login. You can turn off telemetry in the app though, and not sign into Facebook obviously. You have to download it from Play Store specifically for Android Auto, not even Aurora Store, not even if you enable unknown sources for Android Auto.
Don't fall for the marketing. MapQuest using Open Street Maps data and slaps ads or a laid subscription on top of it. They aren't ALLOWED to change it, because it is not their data,it is a community project. There are plenty of FOSS clients for OSM, most notably CoMaps.
That being said, I've also found OSM to be unusably bad in my area so whatever.
Even with some that are kind of opinionated like Cachy, you can still change it to be the way you want, and they make it easy to do so. Unlike ElementaryOS or whatnot.
I think the Arch derivatives that are more user friendly than Arch kind of took over the Tumbleweed niche. More compatible, more popular, access to AUR, not tied to a corporation, some bundle proprietary software, etc. I still like Tumbleweed but that's why I left personally.
Something old enough to not have a cellular modem in it, and hope that privacy laws improve before you have to buy again and it's inescapable.
That being said, I was forced to buy new last time. I called Mazda and they were able to deactivate it remotely, and confirmed that this deactivates everything and does not send any data to them moving forward. Does this mean they can reactivate it remotely? Yes. But it's something. I have tried a few times to get the telematic control unit physically removed, but got stonewalled by the dealer. I may try a third party mechanic or a different dealer. I found a schematic that seems to suggest it can be removed kn my vehicle with no downsides. Not all vehicles are like this, it may break something such as audio or other sensors.
Sure, but Linux phones are not anywhere close to ready for prime time at the moment. Right now even the best options rely heavily on Waydroid, which is the worst of both worlds since it's still emulating Android, and doesn't even work well in the first place. Someone will have to invest a lot more money & time into Linux phone projects. We can't even get Linux on Arm working well in general in most circumstances yet. Not to mention, Linux distros could learn a few things from Android's security practices. It's already inspired atomic distros, which is a start, but has a few issues in my opinion.
Sumerians built and invented a lot of stuff. You see, nobody had done anything yet, so there was a lot of catching up to do. So really it was more important than writing stuff is for us in a way. Plus selling stuff, history (aka yesterday), instructions, etc.
Even if you have relatively good parents, it is still an important step to realize just how many beliefs, habits, personality traits, worldviews, biases, inherited trauma, et al you've picked up from your childhood, usually primarily your parents. Many of these things are truly bizarre, wrong, or at least "not normal", even a "normal" childhood.
Not that I don't understand this in general, I just find it harder to actually do normal computer stuff I do. No dock, very little info in the top taskbar. That's why I said an enterprise context specifically. You'll usually open an app or two and leave it at that, maybe occasionally switch desktops to go to your second of 2 apps. Anything more than that is actively a pain. And why not ALLOW changes that don't rely on plugins? That's what really gets me. Maybe the devs believe in the maximizing of space, but then just auto hide the dock by default like macOS or even just turn it off by default instead of not even including it? That's the part that gets to me. And it is sure not using that lack of features to optimize responsiveness or lower storage size. It's the most thicc DE out there.
My conspiracy theory is that it is pushed so much by Red Hat because they have optimized it to be as boring and distraction free as possible to increase productivity in an enterprise context. It is useless outside of that.
Robin Hood is one of those legends that people have heard about, but almost never read the source material. Yet because he's such a cultural shorthand, Hollywood feels the need to do a "different" spin on it to keep things "fresh", but really it just muddies the waters on what Robin Hood actually represents. It's been decades since anyone has even attempted shooting it straight.
But they do have dedicated buttons for share/record/streaming and other social gaming activities. You can't reassign them either. Social gaming activities is what Nintendo is doing here, essentially. The article makes it seem like "oh no I can't jump in Mario if I don't pay a monthly fee". They're providing a button shortcut if you want to use their game chat when you're online gaming. It is useless if you're not online gaming anyway. There is no issue here. Blame Nintendo for the actually bad things they do, we don't need to make up problems.
Not sure about Japan specifically, but I use Here We Go. i have also found that Open Street Maps based maps don't have enough info in my area.
Here We Go is sort of a legacy project, currently owned by several European car manufacturers, servers in the Netherlands, a good country for data privacy laws. Basically it costs money to operate a maps app, but it's a rounding error for the type of money they make. Solid privacy policy. Closest in functionality to Google, using TrioAdvisor for discovery/reviews/pictures/business info. Solid at real time traffic. Built in buttons to run in offline mode and delete any data. You can save favorite locations without an account.
It's not perfect though. Closed source. Can't search along route in Android Auto mode, and when you do in normal mode it does not tell you how much time will be added to the trip. Voice assistant doesn't work in Android auto (its no longer installed on my phone though). 2 trackers: Google Crashlytics & Facebook login. You can turn off telemetry in the app though, and not sign into Facebook obviously. You have to download it from Play Store specifically for Android Auto, not even Aurora Store, not even if you enable unknown sources for Android Auto.
Don't fall for the marketing. MapQuest using Open Street Maps data and slaps ads or a laid subscription on top of it. They aren't ALLOWED to change it, because it is not their data,it is a community project. There are plenty of FOSS clients for OSM, most notably CoMaps.
That being said, I've also found OSM to be unusably bad in my area so whatever.
Except it's not official. An executive order means the executive branch has to use that name. Nobody else does.
There are plenty of horrible people that exist
Even with some that are kind of opinionated like Cachy, you can still change it to be the way you want, and they make it easy to do so. Unlike ElementaryOS or whatnot.
I thought this was an anniversary of a funny event that happened one time type of meme. But no. It has happened NINE TIMES, including today.
I think the Arch derivatives that are more user friendly than Arch kind of took over the Tumbleweed niche. More compatible, more popular, access to AUR, not tied to a corporation, some bundle proprietary software, etc. I still like Tumbleweed but that's why I left personally.
Something old enough to not have a cellular modem in it, and hope that privacy laws improve before you have to buy again and it's inescapable.
That being said, I was forced to buy new last time. I called Mazda and they were able to deactivate it remotely, and confirmed that this deactivates everything and does not send any data to them moving forward. Does this mean they can reactivate it remotely? Yes. But it's something. I have tried a few times to get the telematic control unit physically removed, but got stonewalled by the dealer. I may try a third party mechanic or a different dealer. I found a schematic that seems to suggest it can be removed kn my vehicle with no downsides. Not all vehicles are like this, it may break something such as audio or other sensors.
Sure, but Linux phones are not anywhere close to ready for prime time at the moment. Right now even the best options rely heavily on Waydroid, which is the worst of both worlds since it's still emulating Android, and doesn't even work well in the first place. Someone will have to invest a lot more money & time into Linux phone projects. We can't even get Linux on Arm working well in general in most circumstances yet. Not to mention, Linux distros could learn a few things from Android's security practices. It's already inspired atomic distros, which is a start, but has a few issues in my opinion.
Until all that is solved, GrapheneOS all the way.
Nah he's fine, he just has no idea what he's doing
For sure
Sumerians built and invented a lot of stuff. You see, nobody had done anything yet, so there was a lot of catching up to do. So really it was more important than writing stuff is for us in a way. Plus selling stuff, history (aka yesterday), instructions, etc.
Even if you have relatively good parents, it is still an important step to realize just how many beliefs, habits, personality traits, worldviews, biases, inherited trauma, et al you've picked up from your childhood, usually primarily your parents. Many of these things are truly bizarre, wrong, or at least "not normal", even a "normal" childhood.
For real, why can't these people just make up their own words?
gottem
Just going to drop this here, I feel like you may appreciate it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21TGB9Kk2VY
Not that I don't understand this in general, I just find it harder to actually do normal computer stuff I do. No dock, very little info in the top taskbar. That's why I said an enterprise context specifically. You'll usually open an app or two and leave it at that, maybe occasionally switch desktops to go to your second of 2 apps. Anything more than that is actively a pain. And why not ALLOW changes that don't rely on plugins? That's what really gets me. Maybe the devs believe in the maximizing of space, but then just auto hide the dock by default like macOS or even just turn it off by default instead of not even including it? That's the part that gets to me. And it is sure not using that lack of features to optimize responsiveness or lower storage size. It's the most thicc DE out there.
My conspiracy theory is that it is pushed so much by Red Hat because they have optimized it to be as boring and distraction free as possible to increase productivity in an enterprise context. It is useless outside of that.
Robin Hood is one of those legends that people have heard about, but almost never read the source material. Yet because he's such a cultural shorthand, Hollywood feels the need to do a "different" spin on it to keep things "fresh", but really it just muddies the waters on what Robin Hood actually represents. It's been decades since anyone has even attempted shooting it straight.
But they do have dedicated buttons for share/record/streaming and other social gaming activities. You can't reassign them either. Social gaming activities is what Nintendo is doing here, essentially. The article makes it seem like "oh no I can't jump in Mario if I don't pay a monthly fee". They're providing a button shortcut if you want to use their game chat when you're online gaming. It is useless if you're not online gaming anyway. There is no issue here. Blame Nintendo for the actually bad things they do, we don't need to make up problems.