Right, that’s why I’m asking about bike computers (or a smartphone with an ANT+ dongle and appropriate software). I wanted data from several types of ANT+ sensors (speed, cadence, heart rate, maybe even a power meter eventually) and that’s part of why I was questioning your suggestion of a smart watch instead.
A Pebble has a heart rate monitor built in, I think, but can those other sensors pair with it?
It’s the only open source heart rate monitor that Im aware of.
Are the ANT+ heart rate monitor chest straps not just sorta generic? I realize that’s not the same as being open source, but if they’re too single-function to be running nontrivial software at all then I don’t care that much.
I mean not for navigation. But what do you need other than that? My friend send me safe routes to ride and I need some way to navigate them so that’s why I have one.
Well, I was thinking it’d be nice to see info like speed, cadence, and other sensor data while I ride. And I admit, the fancier features on some bike computers, like “hill climb planning,” seemed kinda neat.
Are there major differences in bike computer brands re: compatibility with third-party services and devices, or does everything just support standards? I get the impression that Wahoo and Garmin are the most prominent brands, but does that translate into “ecosystem” advantages?
Hmm, looking at Gadgetbridge, iGPSSPORT bike computers are "mostly supported, " so that’s helpful. The page lists a bunch of them individually but not the cheap BSC100S I was thinking about, so I wonder if that one doesn’t work or if it just isn’t tested.
Aside from it being open source, is there a reason you mentioned Pebble? Would a smart watch instead of a bike computer give a good experience for biking?
Do you even begin to understand how fucking presumptuous it is to assume I need to be told that? I have been riding bikes for decades and have never used a bike computer. I wanted advice for the thing I don’t already know plenty about, not the thing that I do!
You two need to get a clue that this discussion is supposed to be about bicycling and your high horses aren’t welcome.
You just want to pontificate and aren’t paying attention to anything I’m actually saying. I don’t want the proprietary shit normies think is good. A random LBS employee will not be able to help me – case in point, you sure as hell aren’t!
What I need is advice from people at the intersection of bicycling and being Free Software weirdos. Hence asking on Lemmy.
This.
No, not “this.” That guy is an asshole trying to tell me that what I want is wrong. For the record, I actually do want what I asked for and do not have an X/Y problem.
Thank you for the advice about using old pre-enshittification versions of apps, though.
What an absolutely disrespectful, trash comment.
First of all, who the fuck do you think you are, to be calling me “neurotic?”
Second, I don’t want to “be tracked;” I want to track myself for my own use. Get it right.
Third, if I didn’t want that I wouldn’t have posted to begin with. So WTF do you think you’re accomplishing trying to condescendingly tell me my wants are wrong?
If you don’t have anything useful to say, delete your bullshit and don’t say anything at all.
why include an instance that doesn’t?
Because it lets you see how common or uncommon defederations are relative to the total set of all instances (or at least, all minus the long tail of very-low-user-count ones). And although it would make the graph larger, it would also make it sparse and IMO that would also be easier to read.
It could also give a misleading impression that all instances defederate or are defederated by somebody, making people think it’s more common than it actually is. (Or maybe not doing that, if you include allish instances and it still ends up being not very sparse.)
They can decide if they want to pay for it, but they can’t decide whether other people think it has value or not.
IMHO saying that “car culture -> less people walking -> more crime -> more fear -> less kids on the streets” is a bit of a stretch.
That’s not the claim. The claim is “car culture -> less people walking -> more crime -> more fear -> less kids on the streets.” The perception matters; the reality doesn’t.
In some communities piefed.social only keeps posts for very short periods, like 28 days, because it’s the kind of content people look at once and has no lasting value beyond that.
IMO that’s not for admins or mods to decide. That’s for users and (eventually) historians et al. to decide, and it’s only knowable in retrospect, if ever.
Hell, most of archaeology is digging through literal trash.
Your renaissance festival has camping? The one in my area is more like a theme park than a LARP.
everytime I tried to login on Windows, it would crash underlying LDAP server, logging everyone in the classroom out and forcing ICT to restart the server.
Now that’s the way to do it! Make it everybody’s problem, not just yours.
Of the various proprietary bike computers, are they all equally sketchy/enshittified? Or are some brands less bad than others?