«Works for me» is seldom a good advice.

That wasn’t the advice; the advice was “try offline tiles and see if that helps.” In their case, it didn’t, but it’s just covering arguably the most likely potential cause. The fact it wasn’t their problem doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth asking.

“Takes seconds” seems like a strange experience. I remember OsmAnd years ago performed like that for me – clearly, painfully loading in the individual tiles. But nowdays, it smoothly transitions between LoD and has no problem smoothly scrubbing over e.g. a major city.

I’m using offline vector maps, for context.

Edit: Trying online tiles again, I’m assuming your problem can be resolved by switching to offline. You can have the offline data update automatically such that you don’t have to worry about it. CoMaps and Organic only use offline maps, which is why they’re similarly snappy to offline OsmAnd.

This is under Configure Map > Map Source, and you only need to download for the region (usually e.g. a province) that you’re using.

Something I’d suggest if OsmAnd feels too cluttered for you is to change the settings; OsmAnd lets you change a lot, but one of the ones I do is to change “Map Style” to Osm-Carto.

Carto, for context, is the vector map that you’d find by going to the OSM website. Much cleaner color scheme, imo.

Yeah, OsmAnd is really good; it’s what I use as my daily driver. CoMaps/Organic to me feel too limited, but some people may like that.

(I use Vespucci for editing on Android.)

Would switch Organic Maps to its fork CoMaps. (See: this open letter)

And I would never recommend Brave as the first choice; it’s run by a shady corporation and reinforces Chromium’s hegemony.

I think it’d also be reasonable to add ProtonMail to email and Mullvad to VPN since you can have multiple.

Formally on reddit?

Yes. I even write semi-formally on Mastodon for PCSX2 (or wrote; on hiatus) within its constraints; a PR team attempting to apologize for something will normally resort to formality regardless of the forum.

You’re giving off major “A 10-page essay before AI-assisted writing? As if!” vibes. I’m sorry basic PR etiquette is inconceivable to you personally. The Wendy’s Twitter account is that way if you want to soothe your preconceptions about PR on social media.

I write formally all the time; smells like a PR team writing formally.

Ah, yes, reaffirming that someone raising an issue is correct to have done so is the telltale sign of an LLM. Couldn’t just be basic professional writing etiquette that LLMs were trained forwards and backwards on; it has to have been written by an LLM.

You don’t actually write formally very much, do you?

Sky Map appears to be vibe-coded to hell and back.

Yes. An LLM is just a model trained on a large corpus of text, which DeepL absolutely is. It uses a transformer architecture – which literally could not work without it.

Nah, I’m with them. The average Lemmy user is stupid as fuck and willing to believe anything that even vaguely conforms to their biases, and I 100% believe the majority of upvotes are from people who thought this screenshot is real.

Several weeks ago, there was this post in a news community to a BBC News article. It was a real article; no tricks, correct headline. But the link was a 404. When I found it, it was upvoted about 20–0. I downvoted it as obviously nonfunctional but also commented remarking that it’s a 404 and giving the OP the correct link. When I came back to that post a couple hours later hoping to upvote a fixed link, the link was unchanged, it was upvoted 50–1 (my downvote), and it had one comment (mine) upvoted 1–0. (Edit: I checked, to preemptively clarify, that this wasn’t a “me” problem.)

The lack of scrutiny Lemmy applies as a collective is fucking appalling, and the level of introspection they have about it is somehow even worse.

“There’s more than a 50% chance that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were sexually molested by multiple (you decided to pluralize it; not me) Epstein affiliates in Hollywood” is a massive stretch that you present zero evidence for and confidently assert. It’s becoming increasingly clear with your responses that you genuinely have a problem.

Did I make you uncomfortable with consuming the lives of the Olsen twins like a cheap and disposable drug?

Dude holy shit, seek help. I have never once in my life given an iota of a shit about the Olsen twins or anything they’ve been involved with. I might’ve seen one episode of Full House by coincidence, and I played an nth-hand copy of Mary-Kate and Ashley: Sweet 16 – Licensed to Drive for the PS2 two decades after its release (when the twins were nearly 40 and the publisher and developer had been defunct for years) for about 30 minutes as a gag. This is the first time I can remember seeing a picture of the Olsen twins in years, and I only responded to your comment because it’s so insane (I genuinely knew so little that I assumed I’d completely missed out on a scandal and tried in good faith to find out what happened).

Your willingness to assume anything without evidence as long as it feels correct to you is staggering.

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my SPECULATIVE STATEMENT.

Pfffffffffffffft. What a chode. “I hedged with ‘most likely’ bro so you can’t poke holes in the ridiculous bullshit I’m asserting with zero evidence.” You’d be really good at JAQing off. “Were the Olsen twins sold into sex slavery on Epstein’s Island? We can’t say for sure, but it’s impossible to rule out.”

Yeah, no, I totally agree that sexualization by the public when they were underage (even as adults) probably took a psychological toll, as it probably does on a lot of teen stars (and IIRC it was quite bad with Mary-Kate & Ashley).

That is a completely different statement from “they were most likely molested by some of Epstein’s Hollywood buddies”.

That’s a seriously bold claim that you don’t bother to support at all and just take as common knowledge. After doing a few minutes of searching: what the absolute fuck are you even talking about?

Genuinely the most I can find are a small handful of trashy outlets like The Sun (at the least trashy) talking about a baseless Twitter accusation against Bob Saget after his death and then – even as trashy as they are – unanimously arriving at the conclusion that Saget unequivocally did nothing to them. (To that end, I can’t even find anything about Saget having ever interacted with Epstein, so there’s a baseless, nonsense Twitter accusation – only discussed by the trashiest outlets who have every incentive to imply that it’s true for clicks but instead deny it completely – about a man with no connection to Epstein.)

No names, no sources (probably because there’s jack shit), no anything, so what exactly the fuck are you basing “most likely” on?

Probably. Often it’s a corner store around sprawling middle-class suburban areas on the outskirts of cities with few shops (zoning in the US is fucked), somewhat denser but low-income urban areas, and often it’ll be the only place besides a gas station in rural towns where you can get groceries without driving miles to a larger town. Unsurprisingly, they’re parasites.

Here’s an interior shot from their own website, so if you can imagine that but more soulless in reality, you have a Dollar General. I actually don’t consider myself that biased against DG in particular; the situation in America is kind of just that bad.

I was going to ask why Dollar General is selling Internet Explorer and Outlook Express out of an ice merchandiser.

• Argumentative essay full of genericisms (edit: they don’t even say what the restrictions are despite calling them “these restrictions”, which is ludicrous for an essay of this length). Please read this blog post if you haven’t; the arguments are excruciatingly generic, and the wording is robotic and soulless.
• Brand-new account posting for a brand-new blog website (claiming authorship for it, so I believe it’s them because nobody’s ever heard of this site).
• No credited author.
• AI-generated thumbnails (I loved my Lakebird Buf computer in the 90s).
• Frequent blog posts from one person on an ostensibly unmonetized site with similar article formats:
  • The Long Road to CachyOS: Why I Finally Quit the Microsoft Ecosystem (29 March)
  • From Betamax to Bare Metal: The Origin of The Unknown Universe (30 March)
  • From WordPress Overwhelm to Publii Simplicity: Setting Up My Son’s First Blog (31 March)
  • This represents 3/5 of the articles so far.
• Uses em-dashes constantly through articles (fine, I use en-dashes a ton) but then, despite flawless grammar everywhere, suddenly switches from “blah — blah” in the articles to “blah—blah” here. Both are grammatically correct, but for someone to suddenly switch after sticking to one would be weird; it’s hard to explain to someone who doesn’t use them, but using the first near-exclusively shows a clear preference to the point the second would likely look and feel weird to write. If you write with perfect or effectively perfect grammar (even here, so it’s not just blog proofreading), you would notice.

Not related to the LLM thing: “I don’t use social media, as it conflicts with my FOSS and privacy principles.” but then linking a Mastodon account on the website, having a “Share this post” bar with Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, and Bluesky, and posting this here is chef’s kiss.