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Cake day: June 28th, 2021











  • Personally I think its great to have online discussions/questions available on a forum (like lemmy) that are federated and accessible anonymously as it allows answers or discussions to be created and available for others to search and find in the future. There’s a lot of content that I find where answers or discussions were posted on reddit, but I can’t access it if I’m trying to reach it anonymously (bad for privacy).

    I would encourage these kind of posts as:

    1. They generate content for lemmy/the fediverse.
    2. The new content brings in more people, perspectives, and collaborations.
    3. People seeing active discussions on this site will inspire others to post more and help bring in other perspectives.
    4. Understanding the “Ten thousand” XKCD (xkcd.com) perspective lets you realize that people are learning all the time and that trying to get feedback in a forum is not a bad thing regardless of how many other options there are.




  • Alternatively, download Organic Maps and contribute to OpenStreeMaps and help make the best alternative even better.

    From their page:

    • Detailed offline maps with places that don’t exist on other maps, thanks to OpenStreetMap
    • Cycling routes, hiking trails, and walking paths
    • Contour lines, elevation profiles, peaks, and slopes
    • Turn-by-turn walking, cycling, and car navigation with voice guidance and Android Auto
    • Fast offline search on the map
    • Export/import bookmarks in KML/KMZ, import GPX
    • Dark Mode to protect your eyes
    • Countries and regions don’t take a lot of space
    • Free and open-source





  • I had just uninstalled Element X like two weeks ago because I found it to under perform compared to the normal Element client on Android, in addition to lacking some features. I guess I’ll give it another shot.

    Update: WOW this thing feels lightning fast compared to just a few weeks ago. This is great. Not sure about feature completeness, but based on speed I think I’ll migrate Element > Element X again. Great job to the team!