It's not deliberate. What is their motivation for doing that?
NeatNit
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Kayak example: https://omaps.app/w4CNuytXo0/Hôtel_des_Marronniers a random hotel in Paris. The big K icon labeled "photos, reviews, booking" or something like that.
As for TetheredNet, it's for a different reason. It's not that it's tethered to OSM, it's that it's tethered to Organic Maps's servers serving pre-processed maps. (Organic Maps can't fetch data from OSM directly)
That gif is very satisfying. It's far beyond my level of mapping.
Organic Maps thinks that F-Droid has it in for them. (Untrue).
F-Droid labels anti-features, properties of an app which are contrary to the philosophy of FOSS in some way. Organic Maps is labeled for two things:
- Promoting a proprietary hotels website called Kayak, by inserting links to it when looking at any hotel in the app. This is considered promotion of a non-free network. OM did not like being labeled with this anti-feature.
- Relying on Organic Maps's servers for downloading maps, without giving the user the option to change the server URL. This is called Tethered Network Service.
Tethered Network Service is a newly introduced anti-feature. This is besides the point, but before it was added, instances of this were labeled just "Non-Free Network Service", which was ambiguous and caused a lot of confusion. The important thing is that it's a new way to label apps.
The F-Droid app has a filter that hides apps based on their anti-features. The filter lists various anti-features to select, and an "Other" category for everything not listed. The new TetheredNet is part of Other.
Here's the problem: the default filter used to hide apps with "Other" AFs. This default was changed some months ago, but only for new installations. Old installations, even if updated, will stick to whatever was the default when they were installed, therefore they will hide Organic Maps. Organic Maps made a big deal out of this, basically trying to shame F-Droid.
According to the latest F-Droid news, this should be resolved already or soon. I don't know what the solution is, but I have a couple of guesses.
You wouldn't turn up the volume when you know the scene is meant to be quiet. Or at least, you wouldn't turn it up so high you can hear the background noise at the level you want to hear dialogue.
Laptop keyboard layouts. There is no reason they should be so different.
Specifically, those laptops that have full-sized left and right arrows, but half-sized up and down arrows - those earn 1 week of jail time for the CEO per unit sold.
While we're at it, the power button must be in the same place on all laptops.
This is not as straightforward as you might think. If there's an actual quiet part it would amplify the background noise.
I can get behind this one.
But how am I supposed to wash my good kitchen knives?
I will always use the GUI for this when given the option. Change my mind (you can't).
Yes, it is concerning. I don't remember where I read this, but someone was saying that their account was falsely flagged for suspicious activity and they lost access to everything, including Pass. Very similar to what can happen on Google. I don't want to say much more details as I might be misremembering and don't want to spread misinformation.
There is no option for a tiny warning icon, all AFs get the same treatment - this might be a bad design, but there's no bad intentions behind it.
This isn't about what they like devs doing. It's about informing users about how the app works and what it does.
If they didn't want Organic Maps on F-Droid, they'd just kick them off. There have been plenty of opportunities for them to do it and seem justified, i.e. "we are removing Organic Maps from F-Droid forever because its devs are constantly complaining, causing us extra work and drama in long fruitless discussions". The opportunity to do that was explicit in the discussions and they didn't take it.