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  • 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!





  • Notesnook.

    I was previously using Obsidian, which is great! but didn’t like that it was closed source. I then went on to try various options [0] but none of them felt “right”. I eventually found notesnook and it hit everything I was looking for [1]. It’s only gotten better in the last year I started using it and just recently they introduced the ability to host your own sync server, which is one of the requirements it didn’t initially make, but was on their roadmap.

    [0] Obsidian, Standard Notes, OneDrive, VSCode with addons, Joplin, Google Keep, Simple Notes, Crypt.ee, CryptPad (more of a collabroation suite, which I actually really like, but it did not fit the bill of a notes app), vim with addons, Logseq, Zettlr, etc.

    [1] Requirements in no particular order:

    • Open source client and server.
    • Cross-platform availability as I use Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android.
    • Cross-platform feature parity.
    • Doesn’t fight me over how notes should be taken - looking at Logseq’s lack of organization.
    • Easy notes syncing.
    • End-to-end encryption (E2EE). It’s about to be 2025, if the tools you’re picking up aren’t E2EE, you’re letting unknown strangers access your data and resell it. It doesn’t matter what their privacy policy says as that can always change and/or they can get compromised/compelled to expose your data.
    • Ability to publish notes.
    • Decent UX.







  • “Responsible” and “Bitcoin” is an oxymoron due to the inherent multi-level marketing pyramid/Ponzi scheme aspect of crypto“currencies”.

    First, you’re removing the next two words “financial diversification” from the statement. Your own personal opinions and emotions aside, financial diversification is not a bad idea. It’s all about percentages and risk calculations. I would agree with you if they went “all in” on crypto, but they didn’t say that.

    Second, you’re lumping in bad people with good tech that has solved a very specific problem - the ability to transfer funds without relying on a central bank or authority. Is email bad because the majority is spam? No. Is the internet bad because the dark web exists and thousands if not millions of crimes are being carried out on it? No. Are encrypted messengers bad because they allow criminals to send message? No. Same concept here. There can exist a good technology that gets abused by bad people.

    “Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely.

    You can stop at “money corrupts”. bitcoin is money and money corrupts.

    Disregarding all of bitcoin’s shortcomings, a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won’t change the world for the better.”

    Disregarding all of the U.S. Dollar’s shortcomings[1], a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won’t change the world for the better.”

    Fixed it for you.

    [1] The US spent 877 BILLION dollars on its defense budget (as much as the next 10 countries combined!) to ensure the USD keeps its power.



  • Do you disagree with their reason?

    Responsible financial diversification requires holding some assets outside of the traditional government controlled banking system.

    They didn’t say they were going all in. They aren’t continuously promoting - at least not that I’m aware. They were just being open and honest about how they’re handling their finances.