Not said to me but someone I know, “you’re a lanky string of piss”.

I remember seeing an article a little while back about this guy who had a similar issue. He ended up using a Raspberry Pi to avoid the ads.

Imperfect Linux-powered DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue

Something like this?

“Sponsor Block” is a game changer as well

I’ve got a feeling it’s a static site but I’ll confirm to make sure.

I’m referring to the fact that they don’t use or have major rate limits on the APIs that they use for either Reddit or YouTube, respectively.

Interesting, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info!

You’ve given me a great jumping off point, thank you!

It’s not very slow to scrape a website. Works quite well.

That’s good to know, I’ll look into that some more. I was thinking that it might be slow if I’m having to scrape each page, every time a user changes categories (or something similar).

The trouble with that is that it breaks easily when they change something on their site.

I completely forgot about that :(

True to some extent. I know there’s been a big effort to get buildings mapped in the US, but it’s not always possible to get house/street numbers from aerial imagery.

Once buildings are mapped you can either add the remainder of the details with on the ground mapping (e.g using an app like StreetComplete) or if the data (e.g from the government) becomes open and available to use.

I tested it with car play the other day. Worked fine, except for a strange issue with orientation after using the UI.

OsmAnd is free with enough contributions to OpenStreetMap.

Personally, I was using MagicEarth for public transport when needed but it’s stopped working for some reasons. Once Organic Maps gets support for public transport (currently it only provides train times for me), I’ll fully move there. It’s great for everything else though!

Or Asia

When I moved to Lemmy from Reddit (about a year ago) and wanted to look for the equivalent of r/Ireland here, I was met with about 5 or 6 different communities (spread across various instances). You couldn’t really call any of them active, occasionally someone would post a link to a news article but there was no engagement.

Things have improved since then but I definitely agree with your point.

r/ireland was great (as well as the regional subreddits from Ireland). There is an Irish community (!ireland@lemmy.world)on Lemmy that I try to post to but there’s just not that much engagement at the moment, having said that, it has improved.

EDIT: added the community.

Hands down the best response!

We used to play UNO. It started with 2-3 people and ended up with being 5-6 people playing and more watching. It was loads of fun

At my last company, we would walk around with our laptops. People would just assume we were looking for a meeting room or had something important to do.

I can’t quite remember what we did at our desks specifically. However, I do remember a guy I worked with used to browse Wikipedia and Tinder.

That’s how I started as well, I’m at 418 aliases now. 99.9% of my online account use an alias with my custom domain.

Our little one will be learning Irish as a third language at school.