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@lyse I only saw this now. 19, 20, and 21 are stunning shots. 👌 And the little bird is great, too. 😊
@lyse I only saw this now. 19, 20, and 21 are stunning shots. 👌 And the little bird is great, too. 😊
@lyse I only saw this now. 19, 20, and 21 are stunning shots. 👌 And the little bird is great, too. 😊
The amount of shady Android apps in Google’s “Play Store” is so large, it makes me want to write my own software instead. 😖
The amount of shady Android apps in Google’s “Play Store” is so large, it makes me want to write my own software instead. 😖
The amount of shady Android apps in Google’s “Play Store” is so large, it makes me want to write my own software instead. 😖
@stigatle Did you check the local news, just to be sure? Maybe you’re a witness after all. 😅
@stigatle Did you check the local news, just to be sure? Maybe you’re a witness after all. 😅
@stigatle Did you check the local news, just to be sure? Maybe you’re a witness after all. 😅
@lyse @stigatle Oh, yeah, it’s great. 😅 The best thing is exploring new places/routes. It’s a simple pleasure, but I love it. 😅
@lyse @stigatle Oh, yeah, it’s great. 😅 The best thing is exploring new places/routes. It’s a simple pleasure, but I love it. 😅
@lyse @stigatle Oh, yeah, it’s great. 😅 The best thing is exploring new places/routes. It’s a simple pleasure, but I love it. 😅
Stats since I started doing GPS tracking of my walks in November 2022:
Per year:
2022 46.96 km in 18 tracks
2023 136.60 km in 37 tracks
Per month:
2022-11 21.51 km in 10 tracks
2022-12 25.45 km in 8 tracks
2023-01 3.79 km in 1 tracks
2023-02 8.93 km in 3 tracks
2023-03 7.88 km in 3 tracks
2023-05 9.50 km in 2 tracks
2023-07 9.03 km in 3 tracks
2023-08 6.93 km in 2 tracks
2023-09 10.03 km in 3 tracks
2023-10 80.51 km in 20 tracks
Total: 183.56 km in 55 tracks
Well, October 2023 was the best month so far. 🤣 I hope I can stay at that level. I was pretty lazy the rest of the year.
Stats since I started doing GPS tracking of my walks in November 2022:
Per year:
2022 46.96 km in 18 tracks
2023 136.60 km in 37 tracks
Per month:
2022-11 21.51 km in 10 tracks
2022-12 25.45 km in 8 tracks
2023-01 3.79 km in 1 tracks
2023-02 8.93 km in 3 tracks
2023-03 7.88 km in 3 tracks
2023-05 9.50 km in 2 tracks
2023-07 9.03 km in 3 tracks
2023-08 6.93 km in 2 tracks
2023-09 10.03 km in 3 tracks
2023-10 80.51 km in 20 tracks
Total: 183.56 km in 55 tracks
Well, October 2023 was the best month so far. 🤣 I hope I can stay at that level. I was pretty lazy the rest of the year.
Stats since I started doing GPS tracking of my walks in November 2022:
Per year:
2022 46.96 km in 18 tracks
2023 136.60 km in 37 tracks
Per month:
2022-11 21.51 km in 10 tracks
2022-12 25.45 km in 8 tracks
2023-01 3.79 km in 1 tracks
2023-02 8.93 km in 3 tracks
2023-03 7.88 km in 3 tracks
2023-05 9.50 km in 2 tracks
2023-07 9.03 km in 3 tracks
2023-08 6.93 km in 2 tracks
2023-09 10.03 km in 3 tracks
2023-10 80.51 km in 20 tracks
Total: 183.56 km in 55 tracks
Well, October 2023 was the best month so far. 🤣 I hope I can stay at that level. I was pretty lazy the rest of the year.
@lyse Thinking about it, I have no idea how the GPS in my car can get a fix so quickly. 🤔 It doesn’t have an internet connection, at least not that I know of. It *should* take several minutes for it to get a fix. The only thing I can think of is that it regularly downloads the satellite positions from the satellites – in the background, even when the car is just parked here and is “turned off”. 🤔
@lyse Thinking about it, I have no idea how the GPS in my car can get a fix so quickly. 🤔 It doesn’t have an internet connection, at least not that I know of. It *should* take several minutes for it to get a fix. The only thing I can think of is that it regularly downloads the satellite positions from the satellites – in the background, even when the car is just parked here and is “turned off”. 🤔
@lyse Thinking about it, I have no idea how the GPS in my car can get a fix so quickly. 🤔 It doesn’t have an internet connection, at least not that I know of. It *should* take several minutes for it to get a fix. The only thing I can think of is that it regularly downloads the satellite positions from the satellites – in the background, even when the car is just parked here and is “turned off”. 🤔
@lyse Yup, the only alternative is currently “Assisted GPS” and that requires an internet connection. (That gives you almost instant access to satellite data; instead of having to download it from the satellites directly at their super slow 50 bits per second.)
@lyse Yup, the only alternative is currently “Assisted GPS” and that requires an internet connection. (That gives you almost instant access to satellite data; instead of having to download it from the satellites directly at their super slow 50 bits per second.)
@lyse Yup, the only alternative is currently “Assisted GPS” and that requires an internet connection. (That gives you almost instant access to satellite data; instead of having to download it from the satellites directly at their super slow 50 bits per second.)
@lyse Ah, as I “learned” (more or less, I haven’t grasped it all yet) from the course I linked a few days ago, this appears to be a normal thing to do for GPS receivers. If they don’t assume some position, then they can’t solve a non-linear set of equations. (Something along these lines. I should probably get The Book on GPS. 🤔)
I would assume that more sophisticated receivers just do a better job at hiding this from the users these days. 🤔
@lyse Ah, as I “learned” (more or less, I haven’t grasped it all yet) from the course I linked a few days ago, this appears to be a normal thing to do for GPS receivers. If they don’t assume some position, then they can’t solve a non-linear set of equations. (Something along these lines. I should probably get The Book on GPS. 🤔)
I would assume that more sophisticated receivers just do a better job at hiding this from the users these days. 🤔
@lyse Ah, as I “learned” (more or less, I haven’t grasped it all yet) from the course I linked a few days ago, this appears to be a normal thing to do for GPS receivers. If they don’t assume some position, then they can’t solve a non-linear set of equations. (Something along these lines. I should probably get The Book on GPS. 🤔)
I would assume that more sophisticated receivers just do a better job at hiding this from the users these days. 🤔
Could be an interesting project to build a custom GPS receiver based on an Arduino. No privacy concerns there.
Could be an interesting project to build a custom GPS receiver based on an Arduino. No privacy concerns there.
Could be an interesting project to build a custom GPS receiver based on an Arduino. No privacy concerns there.
@prologic I guess german people hate collecting data, especially “personal” data, and “surveillance” in general. My immediate response was: “Hell no, I don’t want someone to know my geo location from my address!” Then I realized that anyone can type my address into Google Maps or their car’s navigation system. 🤣
It’s probably similar to Google Streetview. There was a massive outcry when Google announced Streetview back in the day. Nobody wanted to have photos taken of their homes and there were all kinds of concerns (“burglaries everywhere!”). Even today, there are large gaps in Germany compared to the rest of Europe:
https://movq.de/v/0bbd33c09a/2023-10-29--coverage-of-google-streetview-in-germany.jpg
@prologic I guess german people hate collecting data, especially “personal” data, and “surveillance” in general. My immediate response was: “Hell no, I don’t want someone to know my geo location from my address!” Then I realized that anyone can type my address into Google Maps or their car’s navigation system. 🤣
It’s probably similar to Google Streetview. There was a massive outcry when Google announced Streetview back in the day. Nobody wanted to have photos taken of their homes and there were all kinds of concerns (“burglaries everywhere!”). Even today, there are large gaps in Germany compared to the rest of Europe:
https://movq.de/v/0bbd33c09a/2023-10-29--coverage-of-google-streetview-in-germany.jpg
@prologic I guess german people hate collecting data, especially “personal” data, and “surveillance” in general. My immediate response was: “Hell no, I don’t want someone to know my geo location from my address!” Then I realized that anyone can type my address into Google Maps or their car’s navigation system. 🤣
It’s probably similar to Google Streetview. There was a massive outcry when Google announced Streetview back in the day. Nobody wanted to have photos taken of their homes and there were all kinds of concerns (“burglaries everywhere!”). Even today, there are large gaps in Germany compared to the rest of Europe:
https://movq.de/v/0bbd33c09a/2023-10-29--coverage-of-google-streetview-in-germany.jpg
@stigatle Was the pizza a success? I have to admit, I’ve never had any good home-made pizza. 😂 (Assuming you did everything from scratch, not just frozen pizza.)
@stigatle Was the pizza a success? I have to admit, I’ve never had any good home-made pizza. 😂 (Assuming you did everything from scratch, not just frozen pizza.)
@stigatle Was the pizza a success? I have to admit, I’ve never had any good home-made pizza. 😂 (Assuming you did everything from scratch, not just frozen pizza.)
@prologic Wow, I didn’t know that existed. 😳 Unsurprisingly, there’s hardly any data available for Germany. 😅
@prologic Wow, I didn’t know that existed. 😳 Unsurprisingly, there’s hardly any data available for Germany. 😅
@prologic Wow, I didn’t know that existed. 😳 Unsurprisingly, there’s hardly any data available for Germany. 😅
@stigatle Pretty good. 👌 I had an unresistable urge to test that new GPS receiver, so I walked a little over 10 km. 🤣 (Slowly getting up to @lyse’s levels, eh? 😅) Now I’m gonna see what Netflix has to offer. 🎬
@stigatle Pretty good. 👌 I had an unresistable urge to test that new GPS receiver, so I walked a little over 10 km. 🤣 (Slowly getting up to @lyse’s levels, eh? 😅) Now I’m gonna see what Netflix has to offer. 🎬
@stigatle Pretty good. 👌 I had an unresistable urge to test that new GPS receiver, so I walked a little over 10 km. 🤣 (Slowly getting up to @lyse’s levels, eh? 😅) Now I’m gonna see what Netflix has to offer. 🎬
@prologic Mapping postal addresses to GPS coordinates? 🤔 Where would you get the data for that? Isn’t that a major undertaking? 🤔
@prologic Mapping postal addresses to GPS coordinates? 🤔 Where would you get the data for that? Isn’t that a major undertaking? 🤔
@prologic Mapping postal addresses to GPS coordinates? 🤔 Where would you get the data for that? Isn’t that a major undertaking? 🤔
@lyse Depends, sometimes it’s within specs (you can expect something like 3 to 15m accuracy 68% of the time, IIUC), sometimes it’s 200m off (like in my test this morning) and doesn’t get better even if you wait and don’t move. But I admit that was an extreme case that I’ve only seen a couple of times.
Obviously I won’t share my real GPS tracks here. 😅 So I made a couple sketches. On a good day, it would look something like this:
https://movq.de/v/f95a556bed/sketch0.png
Green being a GPS track made with a good tracker. It’s already wobbly, even if you’re walking in straight lines, but it mostly matches your actual path. Red is the bad phone. Maybe I could have lived with this if it had been a cheap phone (which it wasn’t). In fact, my previous phone was *way* cheaper but had much better results, comparable to the green line, so this was quite a bit unexpected and disappointing.
On a bad day, it would look more like this:
https://movq.de/v/f95a556bed/sketch1.png
Basically useless.
And most of the time, it would take several minutes to get a “fix” in the first place. Meaning I was standing in front of my house for 5-10 minutes, waiting. The better phones get a fix within 5-30 seconds.
(I suspect that somehow A-GNSS was broken or partially broken on the bad phone, but no idea, really. The GPS hardware is a blackbox.)
@lyse Depends, sometimes it’s within specs (you can expect something like 3 to 15m accuracy 68% of the time, IIUC), sometimes it’s 200m off (like in my test this morning) and doesn’t get better even if you wait and don’t move. But I admit that was an extreme case that I’ve only seen a couple of times.
Obviously I won’t share my real GPS tracks here. 😅 So I made a couple sketches. On a good day, it would look something like this:
https://movq.de/v/f95a556bed/sketch0.png
Green being a GPS track made with a good tracker. It’s already wobbly, even if you’re walking in straight lines, but it mostly matches your actual path. Red is the bad phone. Maybe I could have lived with this if it had been a cheap phone (which it wasn’t). In fact, my previous phone was *way* cheaper but had much better results, comparable to the green line, so this was quite a bit unexpected and disappointing.
On a bad day, it would look more like this:
https://movq.de/v/f95a556bed/sketch1.png
Basically useless.
And most of the time, it would take several minutes to get a “fix” in the first place. Meaning I was standing in front of my house for 5-10 minutes, waiting. The better phones get a fix within 5-30 seconds.
(I suspect that somehow A-GNSS was broken or partially broken on the bad phone, but no idea, really. The GPS hardware is a blackbox.)
@lyse Depends, sometimes it’s within specs (you can expect something like 3 to 15m accuracy 68% of the time, IIUC), sometimes it’s 200m off (like in my test this morning) and doesn’t get better even if you wait and don’t move. But I admit that was an extreme case that I’ve only seen a couple of times.
Obviously I won’t share my real GPS tracks here. 😅 So I made a couple sketches. On a good day, it would look something like this:
https://movq.de/v/f95a556bed/sketch0.png
Green being a GPS track made with a good tracker. It’s already wobbly, even if you’re walking in straight lines, but it mostly matches your actual path. Red is the bad phone. Maybe I could have lived with this if it had been a cheap phone (which it wasn’t). In fact, my previous phone was *way* cheaper but had much better results, comparable to the green line, so this was quite a bit unexpected and disappointing.
On a bad day, it would look more like this:
https://movq.de/v/f95a556bed/sketch1.png
Basically useless.
And most of the time, it would take several minutes to get a “fix” in the first place. Meaning I was standing in front of my house for 5-10 minutes, waiting. The better phones get a fix within 5-30 seconds.
(I suspect that somehow A-GNSS was broken or partially broken on the bad phone, but no idea, really. The GPS hardware is a blackbox.)
@lyse Curious. 😅 I only know him as hiltjo.
@lyse Curious. 😅 I only know him as hiltjo.
@lyse Curious. 😅 I only know him as hiltjo.
I either trashed my Super_L key by using it all the time, or there’s a grain of salt stuck under it. Damn those rubber dome keyboards.
I either trashed my Super_L key by using it all the time, or there’s a grain of salt stuck under it. Damn those rubber dome keyboards.
I either trashed my Super_L key by using it all the time, or there’s a grain of salt stuck under it. Damn those rubber dome keyboards.
@lyse „evil_bob“? Where did you get that nickname? 🤔
@lyse „evil_bob“? Where did you get that nickname? 🤔
@lyse „evil_bob“? Where did you get that nickname? 🤔
@lyse That’s really silly. 😆 *But* I find it fascinating to see how those sparks bounce off the melon. 😳 They change direction almost instantly. It’s like “pure” theoretical physics, no friction or deformation. One rarely gets to see that. 😅
@lyse That’s really silly. 😆 *But* I find it fascinating to see how those sparks bounce off the melon. 😳 They change direction almost instantly. It’s like “pure” theoretical physics, no friction or deformation. One rarely gets to see that. 😅
@lyse That’s really silly. 😆 *But* I find it fascinating to see how those sparks bounce off the melon. 😳 They change direction almost instantly. It’s like “pure” theoretical physics, no friction or deformation. One rarely gets to see that. 😅
After cleaning up my font setup (deleting “DejaVu Sans” which includes uncolored emoji while “Noto Emoji” contains colored emoji, all of which appears to confuse Fontconfig a bit) and after incorporating this patch, st’s handling of fancy Unicode emoji stuff is now almost on par with that of xiate/VTE. 🥳
After cleaning up my font setup (deleting “DejaVu Sans” which includes uncolored emoji while “Noto Emoji” contains colored emoji, all of which appears to confuse Fontconfig a bit) and after incorporating this patch, st’s handling of fancy Unicode emoji stuff is now almost on par with that of xiate/VTE. 🥳
After cleaning up my font setup (deleting “DejaVu Sans” which includes uncolored emoji while “Noto Emoji” contains colored emoji, all of which appears to confuse Fontconfig a bit) and after incorporating this patch, st’s handling of fancy Unicode emoji stuff is now almost on par with that of xiate/VTE. 🥳
@lyse Nice! Double rainbow! What does it mean?! 😃 🥴
@lyse Nice! Double rainbow! What does it mean?! 😃 🥴
@lyse Nice! Double rainbow! What does it mean?! 😃 🥴
We have learned nothing from Covid, have we?
The cashier was coughing like crazy just now. “Nah, it’s nothing. Just started this morning.”
Even if it’s not Covid, why are you fine with spreading a nasty flu to other people? Stay at home and call in sick, dickhead. 😡
We have learned nothing from Covid, have we?
The cashier was coughing like crazy just now. “Nah, it’s nothing. Just started this morning.”
Even if it’s not Covid, why are you fine with spreading a nasty flu to other people? Stay at home and call in sick, dickhead. 😡
We have learned nothing from Covid, have we?
The cashier was coughing like crazy just now. “Nah, it’s nothing. Just started this morning.”
Even if it’s not Covid, why are you fine with spreading a nasty flu to other people? Stay at home and call in sick, dickhead. 😡
@lyse That foggy landscape is really something. 👌 Poor newt, though. (Hello, M.I.B. 💡)
@lyse That foggy landscape is really something. 👌 Poor newt, though. (Hello, M.I.B. 💡)
@lyse That foggy landscape is really something. 👌 Poor newt, though. (Hello, M.I.B. 💡)
@stigatle Fingers crossed. (Oh, how I hate storms. 😂)
@stigatle Fingers crossed. (Oh, how I hate storms. 😂)