I do want to stop using google maps in its entirety, but there are problems with all the other map and navigation apps that haven’t been solved that google has working just fine.

Say I want directions to a store or restaurant 20-30 minutes away. I know what its called, not its exact location, so I type its name in and google can give me a list of all places with that name no issue.

I try that in magic earth, organic maps, co maps, its a toss up if it knows the place I am trying to find. So I try typing in the exact address if I have time and can find it online. 90% of the time that just doesn’t find the place, and givss me an entire street to look down.

Lastly, often I want to call these places ahead of time, or look at a menu, get a vague idea how much it costs. Google maps just… has that information right there. Hours, images of food, menus, everything. No one else has that, and complications arise, especially when Duck Duck Go give me the wrong number and I place a pick up order from a place on the wrong side of town.

I want to replace google, but damn it if right now its just the best option and doesn’t screw anything up. There are times when I cannot afford being late or lost and I can’t risk using the other ones.

I went googling for the Epos GSP headsets after this comment, only to learn they are discontinued. What a bummer, they seem nice.

They got a ton of copyright breaches? Oh tell me more!

Terribly. I was laid off last year on Halloween, and I’ve been trying everything I can to get a job, everything my family and friends can think of. Fuck any sort of standards or pride or anything I may have had previously, I can’t even get hired to work the deli counter at Walmart, even they are denying me for minimum wage! I’ve got a degree, no criminal record, I’ve got previous professional work experience, I’m dropping over a dozen applications a day both online and in person and nothing is working.

I’ve got a about a month left of savings. When it’s out… I guess I just blow my own brains out. My country has made it clear it doesn’t want me, it doesn’t need me, it would rather I perish. I’ll yield, I’m so tired of fighting and scrounging for the right to live and being told I’m not good enough and not worth anything.

I’ll just take their word for it.