As I said “WITHOUT” any custom/special map. I can enter my home address as is and the search / navigation works as expected - same as it would for gmaps, apple maps, …
Works fine in Germany without any Special Maps
Might be for time synchronization in order to not have to rely on a public NTP server.
Interesting points, I’ve definitely run into memory constraints which resulted in completely unresponsive hosts a few times over the years. But as the author said, I don’t see this changing within any another of time due to the large scale archetectural changes required… The author also mentioned “I’m tempted to abandon using Windows, macOS and Linux as the main platforms with which I interact.”. Does anyone know which “daily driver” compatible operating system the author could be referring to?