It is way way lighter weight and is overall a better experience. I use osmand for routing because the voice is much better tuned (OM just says barely-useful things like "turn left" instead of "turn left at Broadway". I think both have their uses. If the voice was better I would use OM exclusively.

Oof, and the others are barely motivational at best.

Yeah, normalize either being okay. Just like long or short hair. Diversity is the spice of life.

It's such a tragedy that we humans are surrounded by so many people yet have to endure such isolation. Just a few years ago I was practically completely isolated. I feel very fortunate to have sprouted and made a community. To have continued down that path of loneliness would have been incredibly hard.

I've been happy with Kagi. It's for-pay but it's quality to me.

The woman on the right has a definite "looking up from a phone" stance.

https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx has some apks you can download. The quality of the voice I've used is fantastic: I prefer it to Google's to be honest. The program itself has been buggy for me, though... Needing to launch the TTS launcher before I can use any application that would use it

Addiction, I suppose.

Well said. Contempt for the average user makes it easy to forget one's humanity.

Tangent, but I hate how the word "homely" in English means both:

1. having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable

And

2. lacking in physical beauty or proportion

And then we have "homey". It's all so confusing.

User will be able to block instances without the need for their home instance to defederate

Ooohhhhh so good. I have been wanting that.

Nice one! I have heard it called a fuzzy JPG of the internet.