I keep reading this but I never found the source. Is this actually true?

If you’re talking about the OP image, it’s actually inefficient as fuck. The houses depicted there house the same number of people as one or maybe two apartment blocks. And those apartment blocks can then have a bunch of greenery between them.

I guess because CoMaps/Organic Maps are “offline-first” maps, and transitous requires you to be online.

There’s actually a ticket on CoMaps about this: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/2483

They are considering making a proof of concept that works online, and then putting in some more work to make it work offline too.

It uses Transitous, the same routing engine as Bimba. So yes, it should work fine if you’re on Linux.

As for the actual question at hand: don’t rely too much on OSRM. It’s just the “default” router, and there are many others out there. E.g. both Valhalla and Graphhopper suggest the shorter route in pedestrian mode.

Also, will OSM - OrganicMaps\CoMaps will introduce any time soon ability for public transport routes?

I don’t think there are any current plans for it. It’s actually really difficult to get right.

OsmAnd kinda cheats and doesn’t have any scheduling information, basically it assumes that the transit comes often enough that it doesn’t matter, which is fine in bigger cities. However, if your bus comes only twice a day it will be an issue.

There’s an open-source app for public transit called Bimba. It is a bit janky, and it requires you to be online for proper routing, but it does work for many cities. It still needs a lot of polishing before I’d consider it done, and actually I’d love for it to just become an OsmAnd plugin at some point.

I’ve managed to locate the exact place from the screenshot (there was enough identifying info for an overpass query so you might want to consider improving opsec if it’s a privacy concern).

I think the reason why walking prefers to go the long way around is because the path parallel to the secondary road is marked as highway=footway, and walking algorithms generally prefer those over other types of paths. It is assumed that highway=footway is tended to and therefore more pleasant/fast to walk on compared to a general highway=path, which is just something that is maintained naturally because of people walking there. I guess surface=mud on the shorter path might also play into it - routers will generally penalize worse surfaces and instead suggest you to walk on firmer ones.

If that shorter path is actually “official” in some way and is pleasant to walk on, consider changing it to highway=footway, otherwise the router is probably behaving correctly by not sending you down a muddy shortcut.

Being a lazy piece of shit who steals labor from workers is not mutually exclusive with being miserable. In fact I suspect they are interlinked, a lot of rich assholes also seem to be in constant mental anguish even though they don’t do anything useful. This is not to provoke pity for them, rather to clarify that I think a certain amount of labor is required for a person to live a complete and happy life.

They do, definitionally. They perform a service in exchange for a wage. This service is of net-negative use value for the society, but it’s a service nonetheless. Otherwise we could be arguing that people in advertisement or gambling industries don’t perform any labor.

I think the depiction of the landlord is not exactly correct.

Landlords are usually miserable, constantly worried about missing payments and mortgages and property values and blaming apartment dilapidation on the tenant. I’m yet to interact with a happy and fully mentally stable landlord.

Windows 11 is less of a poop smelling ice cream truck and more of a Kaiser’s Coffee Shop van. And you ain’t in the driver’s seat.

Better still, in the Nix world there’s https://github.com/nix-community/plasma-manager which allows you to set up all the settings exactly once, and then auto-apply them on all the machines!

Honestly for desktop usage it doesn’t really matter. All inits have their idiosyncrasies (“A stop job is running for Session”/logging hell on openrc/etc). But for managing a fleet of bare-metal servers I find systemd to be the best, most polished one out of the lot.

Windows disappearing is a hiccup while things adapt

I would argue it’s not. There’s still a lot of professional and industrial software that doesn’t run on Linux at all, even through Wine. I’ve had a glimpse into the world of industrial automation, there’s a bunch of devices that simply don’t have the drivers to run on anything but a specific (old) version of Windows. Supply chain issues would persist for decades.

That’s just not true. Most ATMs still run on Windows. There is a lot of industrial machinery running Windows 98 or XP to this day. A lot of POS devices too. Almost all accounting is done on Windows. The amount of chaos if it disappeared would be immense, it would probably be on the same order of magnitude as the last pandemic in terms of immediate economic impact as businesses have to manically switch to alternatives, and hundreds or thousands of people would die from financial chaos alone.

Linux is probably still worse because it would mean that more than half of smartphones are suddenly bricked, literally all of the internet just stops working, and a shitton of industrial automation stuff is gone.

No (well, in theory it could work but I didn’t manage to set up 81voltd). Regular calls via 3G networks do work.

Well, you have to get one used :) It’s like 7 years old now

To be honest ATM I just copped out and I’m running Plasma Mobile (with some tweaks). I really wanna get used to sxmo but it just doesn’t click with me.

As for a tutorial, I think this is somewhat similar to what I’ve done: https://github.com/mwlaboratories/phoneputer

Except I also flashed an older version of OxygenOS with edl (https://codeberg.org/magdesign/sxmop6/wiki/EDL) to get GPS to work.

No, but regular calls (via 3G networks) work-ish; the only problem is that you can’t switch the audio output, i.e. hands-free calls are not a thing.

You mean NixOS? Well, it’s definitely not as polished as pmOS, but most things do work. My gf is using it as an LTE-enabled music player, and I’m using it to ssh into my servers when I’m out and about.

It required some hackery to get GPS and the modem to work, but then it’s mostly similar to pmOS. I need to find some time to sit down, clean up my config and publish it somewhere, but life’s main quest line is preventing any side projects rn.

If you can get it for not too much money, I’d definitely spring for it. Even if you find it doesn’t suit your daily needs (it probably doesn’t just yet), it will at least be a fun toy for playing with mobile linux.