Same, although most of the time, at least cops, accept a photo of the actual ID card/driver license where I live (Romania), at least it worked the last time I got pulled over.
I was actually quite surprised when I saw that I could connect my car to HA and that the integration was fully featured, with a lot of stats and entities exposed.
I didn’t have time to make much use of it, but I’m still quite sad to see it go. It was nice to be able to glance at the current range, tire pressure, and overall status right from home.
The same stats will be available in the application but, with this gone, we are again, an internet that is even more closed and fenced.
I've been trying really hard to get off Google Maps and almost managed to do it, but one thing that Google Maps offers and the others are not even close (at least for me) is discoverability.
For example if I am out riding some trails and then I want to pop out of the wilderness to grab a bite only Google has been able to provide good information of whats nearby (reviews help a lot as well).
Other than that I've been switching between OsmAnd and Gaia GPS (and Garmin built in device maps).
I guess that's country-specific. Over here, Google Maps has woefully outdated business info, apart from big names like McDonald or Starbucks. And I'm not even talking about building shapes, sidewalks, paths, or even roads.
Meanwhile in OSM, everything is much more detailed and kept up to date. I know, because I'm a mapper myself, and help keep it that way.
Google Maps seem like just another ad platform, for companies to pay if they want to be shown in higher zoom levels.
Just so I know for future travels: where is this and what do you use instead?
So far I have seen Google Maps be pretty useless in parts of Asia with their own software infrastructure (e.g. Korea or Japan) but it's been very useful in most Western countries.
An app to use that is closest to Google Maps experience is probably Mapy.com. It has decent navigation capability for cars, bikes and pedestrians, both in and out of cities, and slick UI.
Also worth trying is CoMaps, OsmAnd or Locus Maps.
> Google Maps seem like just another ad platform, for companies to pay if they want to be shown in higher zoom levels.
I know, mostly that's my pet peeve as well and I guess I got trained to see through the noise. It is the last Google product that I am struggling to get rid off.
> I guess that's country-specific. Over here,
Where is that?
I am slowly trying to get move to OSM backed apps and hoping to put in the effort as a mapper/contributor as well.
I'm in one of Europe's slightly less developed countries.
And I can only recommend getting into mapping as a hobby. It got me to discover parts of my own city and region I've completely overlooked despite living there for decades, and gave me reasons to get out more.
I just wish it was easier to edit the map on mobile, but alas, nothing beats big desktop screen with a good editor and a precise input method. Mobile screens are small, and my fingers are fat. :)
I use exactly this feature (and for the exact same reason!) and Organic Maps has been more than helpful for me. Search, Categories, Food, and then View on Map.
Yep. And, unfortunately this is a bit hidden, but if you search "Vegetarian" it finds places where you can eat vegetarian and "Vegan" for places where you can eat vegan. I wonder how many hidden magic search strings like this there are, I'll report an issue for CoMaps to make them discoverable.
> I wonder how many hidden magic search strings like this there are
This drives me insane. I often use OSM for things like "show me all sources of drinking water along this route". But you need the magic key word.
In this case, it's certainly not "drinking water (food) and not "drinking water (tourism)". It's also not "water tab (service)". "Fountain" works mostly OK (since fountain water must be labeled as non potable by law here if it is), but sometimes the fountain will be a tiny bird bath in someone's back yard.
It's so stupid, OSM has data on publicly accessible drinking water, I know because I add them. There's even meta data on whether there's an explicit sign "potable" or not. I just haven't found that magic key word to display them.
For water specifically, it works well on CoMaps / Organic Maps (search > categories > water).
It's too bad we don't have a convenient UI for desktop. OSM has to be the only thing that's more convenient to use on mobile for no good technical reasons. Just nobody has done it yet.
For my home town, that displays historic wells (deep, dry, no bucket, barred and locked) but not the little tab in the sandbox of the playground and not the public restroom in the center.
So on first sight it's less useful than "fountain". But I'll play around with it on my next tour.
It'd be worth checking if these nodes are actually correctly mapped. For instance, historical wells that are dry, locked, etc should probably not be labeled with amenity=drinking_water. And the missing one should probably be updated to have it.
In case you don't already know this and for others, you can use the editor at https://osm.org or the Every Door app on your mobile phone during your next tour for this (you'll need an OSM account to edit the map).
I'm not 100% sure the CoMaps "Water" category uses amenity:drinking_water, but I have relied on it for this many times during bike tours or hikes without much surprise :-)
> I'm not 100% sure the CoMaps "Water" category uses amenity:drinking_water, but I have relied on it for this many times during bike tours or hikes without much surprise
Is there a way to search for the "amenity:drinking_water" tag directly in OSMand or CoMaps (or any other app)? Because this would probably fix everything.
In the end, the apps suffer from the complexity of the underlying data. It probably wasn't a good idea to have drinking water (tourism), drinking water (store) and drinking water (man made), fountain, water tab, well, ... and probably a dozen different categories for map makers to chose from.
Well, the reality is complex and OSM wants to be precise :-)
Apps shall then make it easy to look for stuff and OSM labels are quite low level, they usually have their specific/internal representation of things. All this to say:
- I doubt CoMaps allows searching for "amenity:drinking_water", at least I haven't found a way to do this.
- That's what the higher level and more user-friendly Water category is supposed to be for. This will limit possibilities, but optimize for the common cases. If the Water category surfaces wrong things or doesn't surface things it should, it's a bug that needs to be fixed.
- You might have better luck with apps for editing OSM for working with OSM labels directly but appart from basic use of Street Complete and Every Door, I haven't explored complex OSM app editors like Vespucci on mobile.
I've been using Dokploy and it is lovely. Solid and stable for the last 12 months running production apps. First time in ages I got the Heroku vibe again.
Breaks when you use anything but bash as root user shell. Breaks if you have images in private registries with swarm. Breaks if you wanna restrict the API key access to just one project (the key can access all projects lol).
It's a great piece of software, I use it myself. But calling it polished in any way is a bit of a stretch.
There isn't another project that integrates a reverse proxy with their docker management UI. You either need to go the docker compose way of adding labels for a reverse proxy to pick up from or use another proxy management UI.
I tried coolify couldn't get it running properly on the same VPS I got Dokploy to just work on the first try.
Exactly, I do not have any other experience but with Heroku but I was taken aback how easy was to setup and since then just deploy and almost everything work as expected.
I also love their template gallery of pre-existing projects, managed to setup auxiliary stuff like Plausible and Ghost which I wouldn't have done if it wasn't for the one-click install.
Coming from a country where piracy was the norm, I was very happy when Spotify and Netflix finally arrived. I even went through the trouble of accessing them via VPN just so I could pay for them.
Unfortunately, that excitement didn't last long. Shows started disappearing from Netflix, so we signed up for another service, then another, and so on. Prices kept going up, and I eventually realized I was paying a lot of money for very little in return.
At the start of the year, I cancelled everything. With the help of a few scripts, I've essentially replaced Netflix and the rest, without any downsides and at virtually no cost. I now have 4K streaming, instant playback, no device limits, offline viewing, and access to what's essentially the world’s entire media library.
The moment a company offers all that at a fair price (I’d even pay $50+ per month), I’ll gladly switch back.
I was always wondering about how this approach could provide "instant playback".
This is the one feature that keeps me ensnared to the big streaming services TBH.
It's hard to get into the matter if one does not have much time to scoop information from the web.
Torrents yes, if you have access to ... certain websites, usually invite only (or some premium torrent caching services) and obviously, have a decent internet connection combined with the ability to choose where to stream the torrent from (beginning), the movie/tv plays as the information comes in sequentially.
Now I have everything automated, I use Plex as the player, then I have a simple script that listens to when I add a movie to the watch list, in the background it searches for that title and puts it in the download queue, then usually in 1-5 seconds I can hit play.
Biggest problem I encounter is with subtitles, they can be hit or miss, no problem for english shows but can be annoying for non-english ones.
And again, no difference between this and something like Netflix (other than the subs ofc), I can stream 4K, all my family members have access to it, I can stream on my phone, I can download things for offline use, yet I would still pay for this if there was a viable alternative out there.
If your internet isn't delivered in literal buckets then the movie will download before you're done peeing. At 100MB/s you can download 30GB in five minutes, which is almost full Blu-Ray rip.
When I first delved into programming, I was under the impression that OSX was necessary because most programming video tutorials were recorded on a Mac. This led to a minor obsession with acquiring one. Unfortunately, financial constraints were a significant barrier, leading me to explore Hackintosh as my sole option. Countless days and nights were invested in making it work properly. Despite the challenges, the learning experience and the satisfaction of eventually getting everything to function smoothly made the entire process immensely rewarding.
10/10 would do again, if I were 14. Now I am way older, 3 macbooks around and wish my job would let me use Linux.
1. My motorcycle (BMW R1250GS) - Hoping on and going in any random directions you want, far away or close, on whatever road you choose, paved or not, it's the ultimate sense of freedom.
2. My Camera(s) (Fuji XT2/X-E4) - With my favorite prime lenses. I usually always carry one with me wherever I go, capturing moments with them beats any phone camera, and not just in terms of quality, but in terms of intent, it feels that there's a stronger connection with the photo.
3. My keyboard (HHKB Professional Hybrid (type-s)) - It is just so nice to type on (I've tried and have a bunch of other mechanical keyboards but I've always came back to it, 10+ years now)
4. Neovim/vim (+ tmux)- So fast and smooth and customizable (Although I think I finally stopped changing my config), I've been using it for more than 15 years now, still cannot let it go.
5. Airpods Pro - It took me a long time to press the buy button, initially I felt that they looked stupid and it was just another overpriced Apple product, but I bit the bullet and I've _always_ had them in my pocket. Just being able to pop them in when doing random chores, on quick walks, it has become a must have.
6. Sennheiser HD650 - for when I am in front of my computer, had them for so many years I don't even remember what I used before.
When sitting at the desk the Sennheiser are a lot more comfortable and have way better audio, also there's no need to charge them. But if I am on the go (laptop) I only take the AirPods with me.
I have been hovering the buy button for a while now, the only thing that's keeping me to buy yet is that I really like Extralight/Thin fonts. I hope they add such a version.
