Please go to Apple Maps and harass them mecilessly

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    4 hours ago

    alternate name for this article: “How to feel good about yourself while doing something that doesn’t help anything at all”

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    They don’t care.

    I’m not denying that it’s the moral thing to do but fascists don’t give a shit about morals.

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    Don’t waste your time with stuff like this. Install an alternative app - OpenStreetMap is great and does have the correct name.

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    Yeah, the company that donated one million dollar to a mfer that promised nothing but fascism is not fascist…

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    Beg your pardon, but the Gulf of America has officially transitioned and if you continue calling it the Gulf of Mexico, you’re deadnaming it.

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    Truth is, these big companies don’t care about you. Or your opinion. You can threaten them about “switching to Linux”, but these companies will think twice and say:

    • if we take this complaint seriously, we might retain one (1) customer, which makes us $1000 in the future
    • if we follow Trump, we might get some favorable legislation, which makes us $10000000

    how, do you think, will apple react?

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      The correct framework for evaluation is “if we kowtow and associate with nazis we might get our people luigi’d randomly”

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    There is a better chance that user reporting for this will be disabled more so than it is that this would make a difference. You know that right?

    If this latest drama with Apple Maps (and Google Maps) is what pushes someone over the edge to looking for more user respecting options then the people further gone than I would really be comfortable getting used to. Both companies regularly do much more than should do more to turn you off.

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    put your money where your mouth is. install linux before fruit company removes your ability to do so.

    threatening companies through a feedback dialog box isnt resistance. using foss kind of scares them.

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      If you want to go even further, you can grab StreetComplete and have fun wandering your neighborhood while contributing to OpenStreetMap by answering questions for things like business hours, road widths, road materials, etc. Unfortunately, it seems to be android only at the moment and I’m not sure if there’s an iOS alternative.

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        I never understood StreetComplete

        as i understand it, there’s tons and thousands of datasets available about public infrastructure, but for some bizarre reason, StreetComplete asks us to fill in that information by hand? How stupid is that? only to make a ton of errors while manually copying in that information.

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          Meant to reply earlier, sorry. I assume that it waits for several inputs to verify. I have completed some streets in my area and there’s no changes as of yet. I think its more of a hobby thing. I like going around, getting out of the house and getting some fresh air while having a goal. Things like Pokemon Go just didn’t do it for me. I can easily see my tiny town not having much in the way of public infrastructure data, tbh.

          I do understand where you’re coming from. If its just not your cup of tea, it does seem silly.

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            As far as I know the edits are applied immediately in the backend, however the rendering of the changes can take some days.

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      it’s what I use, but it has such a unpleasant UI

      I feel like Signal is the only FOSS App that has a good and modern UI

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      Google and Apple have different versions of maps depending on what your country recognizes.
      For example, it will shows territories claimed by China as part of China for Chinese IP addresses, but may show them as independent territories for other countries that recognize them as such.

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        Yeah - I was just pointing out to the USians that it’s only changing in their country. The rest of the world will keep the original name.

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    You’re shouting into the void. Stop trying to beg the ruling class to not oppress you and get organised. They will not give up power voluntarily.

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      When enough people shout, even the void fills with the echoes of the voices of the oppressed and cannot be completely ignored.

      Doing nothing is accepting your oppressors. Don’t accept defeat.

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        dd if=user-complaints of=/dev/zero
        
        

        is exactly what apple will do with these complaints

        you could just as well burn your money or drive your car into a tree, as a form of protest. it’s a waste, either of time, money, or energy, but nothing is achieved that way.

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          Enjoy sitting there letting the world burn, kids.

          Back in the old days, we fucking complained when shit went wrong. Flood their ass with complaints. GUARANTEE no one is going to ignore that. Fucking guarantee.

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            words only have meaning because there is reality behind them backing them up

            if you have no economic strength, you cannot so easily make demands

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          Will they be deleting the user complaints after copying them to the empty void? Or is user-complaints a stream that dd consumes, rather than a normal directory or file?

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        Now where the hell did I say “do nothing”. Hilarious that liberals’ idea of “doing something” is “put a comment into Apple complaints that they can easily not even look at”.

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          liberals

          You wanna stop being an ass while literal fascists are destroying this nation?

          Talk about doing nothing. Your skewed idea is to blame THA LIBURALS for at least trying to fix things while you probably threw your vote away on some shit candidate or by not voting.

          Isn’t it about time to accept that your idealism is fucked right now and what gets us out of this is working together to actually do something other than parade around your idealism while shit burns to the ground?

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            I didn’t vote in the US presidential election because I’m neither a citizen nor resident, and I’m also banned from entering your borders anyway lol. But sure I’m responsible for your fascism. Sorry for telling you to do effective things instead of checks notes sending pointless messages to underpaid Apple employees assigned to read customer complaints, who will have been told by their bosses to disregard these messages. My bad, don’t do any political activity, just complain to corpos instead.

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              You do both, brainless bot. Everything. Anything. Make noise wherever and whener you can.

              Why are you so mad? Cosplaying as a communist while you have Trump’s dick up your ass and Apple’s CEOs down your throat?

              Someone who is this bitchy about someone actually giving a damn has to be playing for the fascist side.

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                23 hours ago

                “Why are you so mad” I’m having a casual conversation on a social media platform lol.

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    lol good luck with that. Did you ever think maybe the reason he’s making all these ridiculous changes, is to keep the peanuts busy, while he slashes spending? Cause it seems to be working.

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      Nope. These people are going to continue to froth at the mouth with every tiny little comment and joke Trump makes for the next 4 years just like they did for the last 8 years.

      I didn’t believe TDS was a real thing until I saw it happen to my own family. Normal, logical people turn into obsessed psychos whenever Trump is even mentioned in passing.