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If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.
old guy takes long hit on the bong
“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”
The one Google product that I still use is Google maps. Openstreetmaps just isn’t as good in my area and only Google maps, Waze, and Apple maps have accurate traffic data here.
I can’t stop using that and Google photos. Instant backup of all photos, and more importantly, great search. It even recognizes my two dogs.
If you are in to hosting things yourself on an old computer. Immich is pretty much a drop in google photos
Organic Maps is a huge step in the right direction using Openstreetmaps. It is about at the level if a dedicated GPS in my opinion, just doesn’t have traffic data to route around like the big 3.
While live traffic might be a hurdle (even though Magic Earth, despite not being FOSS, has good enough data, at least for me), why not contribute to OSM yourself?
