I will be honest. some of OPs’ claims are hard to believe and weird.
but the first 3 accounts I have seen in the comments writing bullshit, also being against OP, have already got more downvotes by me than upvotes according to my client, even though I use downvotes very sparingly. that’s telling something.
yes, it’s likely someone is pouring time or money into making people hate each other in this place.
valve (actually the devs) does not put DRM restrictions into most games. most of them don’t work without steam because the developer coded it with the expectation that steam will always be there, and that can be fixed with the goldberg steam emulator.
most games you can just download from ypur library, prepare it for goldberg, and it will work without steam
yeah, osm does not have schedule data, but it wouldn’t be feasible to keep that info in osm, because it changes constantly.
instead bus schedules are supposed to be in GTFS datasets, normally published by the transport company. there are already services like transitous and motis, that aggregate and sanitize these sources for consumption by apps. comaps has plens for adding support, but it’s going slowly.
https://github.com/motis-project/motis
Europe has relatively good coverage with these services, but as I see it the end user apps are still not ready. also, transport providers often don’t publish realtime data, even if they are collecting it for themselves.
you can share your phones internet connection (including wifi) with a computer over USB. you need to enable it on the phone. its cool I think. this way you could also be seeding.
on linux, with some distros you need to load a kernel module by hand. for some reason it does not load automatically on some of them. if you are interested I can look up my notes about it
map apps solve the first by using outside satellite imagery services. but it has bus/tram line data, so if the app supports it then it should work. not comaps but osmand supports it
I’m pretty sure there are appropriate tags to mark that in osm. comaps should be using them if the roads are properly tagged
how do you figure out the protocols with these tools?
I’m all physical media, but if I need to download something, I do it on my phone (sorry, seeders) and transfer it over to my PC to watch on my TV.
that sounds like a lot of hassle. why are you downloading on the phone?
don’t worry, academic integrity has been destroyed by now
they started out as openstreetcam. they turned out to be not open, in source code and licensing of uploaded content. their app couldn’t even be open source, as it used closed source components (including facebook data mining components), that they did not want to remove. they have got renamed to kartaview and belong to a crappy company. they also don’t value user privacy, shown partly by using facebook (among other) tracking code both on the website and in the app.
at first, they turned out they don’t value privacy of its users, but with an openstreetmap adjacent project that is essential. most OSM editors and users are here partly for the privacy properties of the services and accompanying apps, and like that we can’t honestly recommend something to others that we ourselves wouldn’t use.
openstreetcam privacy policy said they share user data with third parties for analysis of the users. that alone shows how they treat their users, but their website contained facebook tracking technology among others, which is significantly worse for reasons I will not detail here.
in the openstreetmap ecosystem another thing that is important is openness and free software. because that’s how you can know how is your data handled, or how you can continue development if the original devs abandoned the project. all significant android osm apps are available on the F-droid store. F-droid vets all apps it accepts, including all updates to them, and closed source components are not allowed in any of them, because what they do can not be audited.
openstreetcam (at some point renamed to kartaview) was not willing to remove the unauditable components for f-droid inclusion. it was more important for them to collect enormous amounts of user data for facebook and other data brokers.
then the open source app completely stopped being open source. they did not officially stopped development, they just started to forget uploading the source code changes. they even tried to argue other points with “but our app is open source!” when it could not be built from source for several years already. that shows they only used open as a marketing term.
later it turned out the app was owned by a crappy company, and that they take all rights, irrevocable, for all images uploaded.
probably other things also happened I don’t remember now.
I’m not sure if tracking can be fully disabled with DNS blocking. they could easily implement DoH usage or direct IP connections as fallback
kartaview is not better either. they are hypocrite liars: https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/4942
panoramax thought, that is promising.
does 11 even has that feature by default?
“hot” does not mean “boiling”. nobody even assumes it to mean that.
what kind of place has those trash bins?
LTO-8 is 12TB native per cartridge. A used LTO can be as little as $300 USD with a 12TB cart $65ish. Ancient LTO-3 can be had for like…$5…and stores upto 800GB per tape.
how do you find so cheap LTO drives?
how do I carry RF remote signal from each room back to main unit…oh, I don’t need to, could I make a web ui that controls the shuffler via a Pi to RS-232, that you access on your phone?..Shit…i could do this.
you could also do an RF IR remote bridge with two minimal Pis
if you are also annoyed qbout the tracking and ads shit smart TVs pull off, you could by a mini-PC to fix all of these at once. making an IR remote work will be challenging, but if you go for plasma bigscreen, you can control it fine with kde connect on your phone.
it not only stores your search history, it sends all your start menu searches to bing, to give you useless web results for the installed programs and local files you actually need. there’s no setting for it. o&o shutup10 can disable it with registry… on most installs, because on some it ignores that registry value.
part of the weird is the shared AC system should be pumping fresh air. I mean it sounds like cold air is coming in a tube to all rooms from a central place.
against cold air the solution is to put up some shirts. why aren’t you doing that?
why do you believe the AC system is spreading covid? is covid an active threat right now in your area?
I don’t have solution to the cats, maybe cat doors. but what will you do when winter comes and it will be cold outside?