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What is something you dislike but still begrudgingly use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This question was inspired by my hatred of Temporal Anti-Aliasing which, in many games nowadays, is poorly used as a performance bandaid. On lower resolutions it will smudge and blur the image and certain bad cases of TAA will cause visible ghosting.

Yet in spite of all this, certain games won't let you turn it off or have hair/fur/foliage look like dogshit without it so sometimes I still use it.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Several things from Google.

Google Maps - none of the OSM-bases options are there yet. I need traffic conditions and good Android Auto support. At the same time I hate that Google Maps is so full of ads. When I search for "breakfast" and the top result is a sponsored result for Dunkin and the closest is 50 miles away...
YouTube - the content is there so it's hard to go to an alternative.
Google Photos - my issue with this is really more tied to Gmail. If I stop paying for more Drive storage for my photos, I will stop receiving email because my account is full. But I did switch away from Gmail at least.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check out piped.video. It's content of youtube without youtube. That means no recommendatios based on their algorythm, which might be nice sometimes but it's a good alternative. LibreTube for an Android app is what I use.

Ente seems good Google Photos alternative, but you do have to pay for it (they have like 1GB free space)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah I use SmartTube on my TV and piped on my phone but I still count that as "using YouTube."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also sucks they offered unlimited free photo hosting then reneged.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No they didn't. They offered unlimited free photo hosting for the Pixel 1. Which I still make use of. Later pixel generations got free unlimited uploads for 2 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't Waze better, functionalitywise, than google maps? I dont think they are any better on ethical fronts, but still better to use the less powerful evil...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I mean it's still Google.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It is but Waze is owned by Google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I deleted my Google account recently and I agree that Google maps is in a league of their own. I now use Magic Earth in my car, but searching for something is not as good as Google maps. But so far the realtime traffic info is good