You might know of Organic Maps, the open source app that’s an alternative to Google Maps. Recently, concerns have been raised about its governance, with many contributors questioning the project’s transparency and direction.

Despite being advertised as a community-driven project, key decisions, including financial management, partnerships (with Kayak, for instance), and the inclusion of proprietary components in the code were made by a small group of shareholders, often without input from the broader contributor community.

These shareholders have reportedly used the project’s donation funds for personal expenses, like holiday trips, raising serious concerns about financial transparency.

As a result, many contributors teamed up and forked the project, establishing CoMaps, a new alternative focused on openness and being not-for-profit.

I used to like kexp song of the day but they changed the format.

Now I like https://kutkutx.studio/category/song-of-the-day/feed

Also many good shows on WFMU, some music, some talk. https://wfmu.org/podcast

My favorites are:

• Downtown Soulville with Mr. Fine Wine
• Honky Tonk Radio Girl with Becky
• Techtonic with Mark Hurst
• Bucci (warning this one is weird but in a good way

Other good ad free ones:

• Birdnote. https://feeds.simplecast.com/OB7SrYSf
• Derrière le son (French language) https://feeds.podcastics.com/podcastics/podcasts/rss/5423_17676b1841af819ae181d6abb1a2e320.rss
• Molly White’s Citation Needed (interesting but lower production value) https://www.spreaker.com/show/6019906/episodes/feed

Let me know if any of these have ads I’m pretty sure they all don’t.

I remember touch

Screen is great! My favorite though is byobu, a pretty screen

IIRC they warn people not to use recovery emails if they’re concerned about leaking information, idk why though

According to my parents I liked colors before I could talk

Phone and keys.

I really need to buy one of those id holders for the back of my phone so I can take my id too.

EDIT: oh, and I guess my wristwatch counts too. It’s a casio.

I’m a fan of Freedroid Classic, a FOSS remake of a commodore 64 game called “Paradroid”. You’re a robot on a deserted space ship full of other malfunctioning robots, and you have to hack / shoot all of them. You start out as the worst robot, but if you encounter a better one, you can hack it to take over its body – if it doesn’t kill you first.

Takes a few runs to get the hang of it, but it’s a lot of fun.

Wesnoth?

I haven’t gone to reddit.com and browsed around since I left.

But one thing that HASN’T changed is I’ll search ddg for an answer to a random problem and the most helpful link is a reddit post, either from long ago or recently.

I also have this problem with tea but not coffee

Coffee. Tea gives me a stomachache. I love the flavor of tea but I never have the willpower to stop steeping it after however many minutes you’re supposed to steep it

Capitalists are always minmaxing …

This seems like not a problem if you turn it off and drain it during the summer. But imo the real LPT is leave the hot water heater on its normal setting and just try not to use the hot water, especially during the day

My basement has mold :(

Water is amazing

But, if the virus is already present in your system, cool and wet conditions can lower the effectiveness of your immune system. Tmyk

It would cool you a little as the cold water absorbs heat, but you’d have to wring and repeat as soon as it heats up, which might end up being often

Live in a dry climate. The evaporating water will cool the house. Doesn’t work if the air is already wet

Never take a hot shower. In fact turn off your water heater if you can. The goal is to avoid having hot water in your pipes heating the house