Again, that’s the issue… look how hard it is to get a dumb TV today…

I could choose today to skip the TV that requires network to work but soon they will all join the trend and it would be impossible to avoid

not a permanent solution… some are experimenting with making a network connection mandatory to work at all

yes

nope

Is AI the reason jobs are being lost? yes

Is AI actually replacing what was produced by those jobs? no

Absolutely ridiculous this is not an article from a few years back…

The incentive simply isn’t their for anyone when there is already a perfectly working solution—as much as I hate to say—from Google

So you enjoy corporate oversight and ads? or at least they don’t bother you enough to seek alternatives?. It’s not political, I am spelling out what you seem to be trying to avoid saying.

I wish OSM and the maps & navigation apps using it were more popular and better but they aren’t simply because they don’t have dedicated teams.

But you don’t wish it enough to contribute in any way…

Google Maps also get contributions from the community (which is much larger than OSM). So google benefits from volunteer contributions as well as their own teams mapping stuff around the world which OSM can never match. It isn’t something like Search, Drive or Photos that can be replaced by a community driven FOSS alternative. It requires huge funding.

I think you are just doubling down on this to convince yourself that it is not that you are being selfish here, you are just being smart by not choosing a losing battle you made up in your head.

Ooops, thanks for pointing it out. I have corrected the post

I have observed no issues. Every once in a while, when choosing large targets like an airport, it’s hard to chose the right “destination” from the many available as the labels don’t always have all details.

Other than that, no issues whatsoever.

PS: to put it in context, I am a casual user who basically never remembers street names or directions so I use it often but it’s not like I am an Uber driver

I throw a lot of shit at Google but Google Maps is the best piece of software they have ever created

Agreed but that is not really saying much considering Google’s resources and how often the fuck everything up

because there ain’t no way I am going out to volunteer for free to map out my neighbourhood accurately.

because you enjoy corporate oversight and ads? or because you don’t see the benefit to you personally?

and a shitty one at that… DDG was good, now it’s just Bing + Apple maps which is bad on both fronts

www.openstreetmap.org

Stop using Apple

I think you guy are forgetting Occam Razor… the most likely scenario (least assumptions) here is that some inept appointee from the orange pedo thought this would be a good idea and pushed it with the research, planning and preparation we all put at farting after eating Taco Bell

What should the rest of the world make of US consumer routers?

I’ll let you know when they actually make one

this would be funnier, were it not so sad

Oh wait, it’s sad for Microslop so it’s even funnier!!!

nope

I hear you but it’s not like western tech does not outright lie about their specs and/or make up awards to seem better than it is

then what’s the point? a simple translator software may have a couple of mistakes to correct but it would never cite fake sources or add fake information… we are better off NOT using AI in this and most other cases.

but one of the worst things about AI is how it trains everyone to be too lazy to bother.

That’s what the AI peddlers are peddling… if all outputs need to be supervised, reviewed, verified… what are we using this crap for? just to burn through electricity harder?

One more category AI sucks at

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