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Uncensored version. (Piped.)

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Peter has a bunch of animated videos, so I was surprised not to turn up his name here upon searching. I'd post some of them as well, but don't want to annoy people by flooding the channel with a single artist. Just peruse the related videos I'm sure you'll get recommended.

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Low budget video that seems to have nothing to do with the subject of the song, but I've always loved this song so whatevs.

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One of my (if not the) top go-to tracks to get me moving - nonsensical lyrics sung with Idol's iconic badass attitude, backed by Stevens' usual killer guitar work.

There seem to be numerous other edits, which piss me off because I love this original version that was on my LP & it's both jarring and annoying when something gets cut that I'm expecting to be there, totally ruining the mood I was going for in playing it to begin with.

The voice recently changed from the classic Google Assistant voice to one I presume is associated with the Gemini crap I've been doing my utmost to avoid. If I'm right, and this voice is associated with Gemini, then Google is doing themselves no favors with this switch because the voice sounds like a snotty bitch & I can't stand it. I've switched to another English-speaking voice (I alternate between UK & Australian), but - here in America, at least - the American voice is the only one that gives detailed instructions like what lane to be in.

Is there any way to change this crappy voice back? Preferably without changing the voice for every fracking device in my household, which is the only instruction I can find on Google?

TIA.

EDIT: just so happened that someone asked for a "Revanced" version of Maps over on lemmy.ml (unfortunately, since I try to avoid tankies raising my BP). I know what Revanced is, but not sure what they were looking for.

Anyway, one commenter mentioned the project Vela Maps, which grabs the useful stuff from Google while minimizing your data exposure (unless you choose to use the live traffic updates, which can't avoid telling Google where you are - but that's it. I figure Google knows that anyway, and since most of my traveling is for work it just serves to polute their data on me anyway). It's got some minor issues, but a lot of good features as well - including extensive voice options. Yay!

Piped. I'm a sucker for extended mixes, so sorry if it's not your cup of tea.

Via Piped, if you prefer.

Just stumbled across this forgotten fave, & thought I'd share.

Yes, it's real. No, I'm not trying to advertise him, but thought the first thing that came to my mind upon seeing it was too funny not to share. I'm apparently not the only one as this image was found on FB, according to DDG. The number apparently refers to his telephone area code, with the word supposed to translate to the rest of the digits via the dial (explainer for the non-Americans in the room).

I've tried looking for launchers that have this feature, but have yet to see it mentioned anywhere.

I despise how the focus of development for at least the past decade has been form over function. I like information-dense displays, and Google has gotten everybody to waste so much screen real estate on looks (never mind other crappy UI decisions). My home screen widget layout is the one big thing keeping me on Nova.