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No traffic analysis is fine, but I’ve been caught out by road work a few times and that does rather suck.

There are some alternatives which also provide traffic data, though they each feel varying levels of clunky to use. There’s Magic Earth (requires a cheap subscription for some functionality), also HERE WeGo (“free”, also seems to offer its services to car manufacturers and some other things).
The one I’ve used the most is one by my country’s touring/driver’s association, which in turn seems to rely on Mapbox. It’s also kind of mid, but at least it’s local.

I am using all of these through Android Auto, which they each support, even if they don’t support it very well.

Given that Anthropic is limiting the reverse engineering of games, I’m not sure that would matter!

Copyright doesn’t matter when its us peons being taken from, but don’t you dare touch the lords on their thrones of gold.

Sure has, for a select few.

I have been inclined to give Proton the benefit of doubt with some of their stuff, but this is pretty rough.

It’s pretty neat

You are actively contributing to the “game” being as bad as it is.

“And therefore I can partake in the exact same behaviour”?

If someone buys the game om xbox, microsoft gets a direct 30% cut. If someone buys it “on windows”, not so much. That is a very distinct difference.

Yeah it’s microsoft’s operating system, and they do sell licences for it, but I very much doubt anyone is buying a windows licence just to play the game.

Could they have done more than skip the smallest console by install base? Sure. Is it performative? Maybe. But it sends out a clear message regardless, a message I am in favour of.

If it’s hard it’s a company decision.

Certainly. But unfortunately that does mean I’m somewhat beholden to my carrier when it comes switching phones, which I’d rather not be.

Travel eSIMs appear to be the best use for them.

The few eSIM experiences I’ve had made it seem like nothing but a hassle. A regular SIM is just plug and play.