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gosh, they should fix their UI first. 8GB of RAM while trying to create new API key is not cool.


Last christmas, I want to watch Home Alone series (1-3). I don't know where they are available. Google search result shows it available in Netflix. I checked Netflix, it didn't available there but in Disney+ (Hotstar) in my country. Shit like this why I decide pirate it instead.


Similarly for me with an old movie called Miracle Mile. I wanted to watch it and searched through the 6 paid services I have ... none of them had it in my country, not even for "rental" . I've got the income, and I'd gladly pay $5 usd to rent a movie to watch. Like I did in the 90s . But noooooooo. So yeah, I found it in some torrent site and watched it happily.


what search engine you use as default now?


DDG for the time being but honestly I am tempted by Kagi as well. Ad tech is cancer on the internet. I decided to quit Google after the trusted devices bullshit, but if I could remove junk listicles from my results that would be a big improvement.


Check out Kagi. It's paid but has subjectively higher quality search results and lacks BS that Google is full of these days.


I too was confused, all Google search result was PHP templating library. So I re-read the comment and added "smarty geocoding" to display correct result.


Yeah, they used to be called SmartyStreets and then dropped the Streets. Not the greatest branding call.


and when I decided to give my phone number, they couldn't send any SMS confirmation because it seems their sms provider didn't support my country.


$8500+ a month for Google Map API, we opted for developing our own local places database now


We have a similar problem.

Care to explain how you replaced Google?


Yeah I'd be curious what both your and parent's use cases are that could possibly be covered by other smaller, existing maps services, or if there is some market that remains underserved.


Basically we want to show a bunch of pois around a real estate (like the nearest super market, airport and so on).

We build a service calculating those but have trouble getting the data.

It is more of a nice gimmick for us. Since the pricing changes using Google maps apis is just prohibitively expensive.

There are other companies providing the data but those too are somewhat costly.

Maybe we should use open street map as a data source.


Yeah osm definitely has some of that data. Email is in my bio if you want to chat more.


fuck that's insane


I'm not sure whether Xubuntu includes KDE's stuff or people here confused between Xubuntu and Kubuntu?


This thread is baffling. Most of the comment replies are about KDE, for which Kubuntu (with a "K") is a completely separate spin.

The XFCE-based Xubuntu spin includes nothing of KDE by default, and neither KDE or Kubuntu are mentioned in the linked article at all. Call me cynical, I just don't think most people clicked the link or even took a close enough look at the title here.


Alternative: People know exactly what they're talking about. Kubuntu is just an interesting, related topic and a valid comparison.


Yeah, this is weird, I guess some people mistake X for K.


There are no KDE apps or libraries in Xubuntu. I'm pretty sure that I would have noticed in the 10 years of using Xubuntu and updating it with Synaptic.


Technically, that's not correct: Xubuntu is just an ubuntu package (https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/xubuntu-desktop). You can install any other Ubuntu (Debian) packages.


Is there are similar thing but for GCP? Or at least comparison of GCP and AWS with simple descriptions.


Yes there is!

https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/map-aws-google-cloud-plat...

Disclaimer: I work at GCP (but didn't write that).


hello there fellow Indonesian...


no Indonesian here?


halo, from Jakarta


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