It's something of a "14 competing standards" situation, but uv seems to be the nerd favourite these days.
Florida isn't one of those states though, but on the other hand Trump's felonies are from NY and are under appeal. So OP's question is interesting.
I don't mean OM gives me a choice of routes. Rather, say there are two reasonable ways to reach the destination. OM chooses route A, says turn right, ok fine, I turn right. Then after a few seconds, OM changes its mind and wants route B instead. So it says take a U turn and go this other way, oops! But if you do that, it changes its mind AGAIN, and you end up going in circles.
Re downloading a subset of the maps: yes I can do that, but then I have to predict which ones I'll need, just another thing to remember. I have all the California maps installed so that if I suddenly decide to drive to Barstow or something, I don't have to figure out which counties I'll traverse, since they are all already downloaded. What I really want is to download ALL the maps, the whole world, might be 50GB or whatever, but that's ok, we can buy 2TB microSD cards now. If that download was a one-time event with occasional small updates I could deal with it, but I don't want to do the whole thing every cycle.
Anyway, as a development snapshot I guess OM is pretty nice, but I can't call it a finished product,
NZ reversed that ban 1 year after announcing it and decades before it would have gone into effect.
I thought one of the "laws" of consumer electronics was that retail price of a product has to be at least 5x the BOM cost. So for the Pixel 9 Pro to be profitable, there must be a heck of a lot of post-sale revenue coming in from advertising. Ugh.
What does a Pixel 9 Pro do that a $200 retail Moto G doesn't?
At some point you might just have to just accept it warts and all.
I've never felt that interested in flagship phones. Why does anyone buy them if they have warts? Budget phones have similar warts but at least they are affordable. I don't understand what the Pixel 9 has going for it other than some niche features here and there. I'm not trying to diss Pixel 9 buyers but if I wanted a Pixel at all, I'd probably get an older model. Maybe I'm missing something.
I get terrible (not "suboptimal" but genuinely ridiculous) routes enough of the time to call the program not fully working. There is also a thing where if there are two routes of roughly equal quality, instead of choosing one and sticking to it, OM will keep trying to switch between them, asking for a lot of crazy U-turns. The POI search is also lame: if you enter "McDonalds" and there are 10 of them in the area, it shows them in some weird random order instead of nearest first.
I do use OM in preference to Google Maps because privacy and offline etc., but it is only usable maybe 75% of the time. If I'm in a hurry or otherwise unwilling to make some wrong turns, or if OM messes up, I end up using Google. Google simply works a lot better. Ugh.
It would also be nice if OM's voice directions included street names, and that map updates didn't download entire new maps, but those are features to be engineered. Still, the California map data is over 1GB all by itself, that has to be re-downloaded once a month or so. De Lorme Street Map in the Windows 95 era fit all the US streets on a CD-ROM (700MB) so while OSM data might be richer, there's still a bunch of bloat going on. And streets don't change that often, so the monthly update should be tiny compared to the initial download.
Well, a good scandal might have come along to take out a few of the candidates, though that didn't happen afaik. Other than that, I mean, what is the hurry? I don't follow politics all that closely anyway, but there are a few local organizations that I like, so I figure on mostly going by their endorsements. It usually takes me about an hour to fill in the ballot.
I'll try to fill mine in today. It wouldn't have been any easier to do it earlier, and it's preferable to do it on election day or close to it, so you have all the information available. The main contested elections in my district are local ones, and stuff is always happening.
I'm an antifan of Apple but the M4 Max is supposed to be faster than any x86 desktop CPU, and use a lot less power. That's per geekbench 6. I'd be interested in seeing other measurements.
Those sorts of jobs are filled from low-wage countries.