Try to login to any instance and submit with blank username/password.
Alternatively, (bit more complicated but provides a nice interface to browse) you can select an instance in the signup flow, and press the (…) icon in the header to “connect as guest”
So, you are supposed to calibrate the pace length, it can guess that but it’s not as accurate.
It uses accelerometers for “fine” movements like bouncing in your pocket or being flipped over (or for augmented reality, etc,) but gps for very coarse positioning. (GPS knows you’re in a building, or maybe one of a few small buildings. WiFi location knows what room you’re in.)
They use everything together to create a picture of your movements.
GPS is good enough now to know what room you’re in, I’ve tested it at my house. It can tell the difference between the 30 feet or so between my bedroom and front door. Someone else in this thread says it’s accurate to about 5 meters.
A radius of 5 meters- 15 feet or so. Which of you consider the scale of what’s going on (satellites in orbit, pinging your location to a relative pin prick, accounting for relativity,) it’s fucking impressive.
But you might be anywhere along a thirty foot line.
And that’s at its most optimal conditions. Inside a building (particularly commercial or industrial, and particularly larger buildings,) that becomes much, much more problematic.
Which is why they use combinations of things like WiFi location (“improved location services”) to increase accuracy as well as dead reckoning using your accelerometer.
But ultimately, that’s all just a guess, and they’ll frequently cheat. For example, if you pull under an overpass and stop, pretty quickly they’ll start wigging out bouncing you between the road above you or the one you’re actually on. Or when you decide to ignore navigation instructions on the highway- which is why until it updates the map it’ll still show you on the offered route. (Which might be 200 ft down the road, and 50ft away.)
All of that to say that they’re using a lot of tricks to convince you that it’s a lot more precise than it really is.
People say cars give you freedom and while in a lot of places that you can’t get anywhere without one by design that may be true, being able to get around under your own power has always felt like freedom to me.
That’s a wiring issue. Bulbs burning out shockingly fast means something else is wrong. Had the same issue in a ceiling light until we replaced the wiring.
Yeah, I definitely get that. Even so, sometimes I think it’d be nice to talk to people for more clarity. Maybe voice chats would require a moderator to start them and stay there to facilitate the conversation?
The only LED bulbs I’ve ever seen die have all been from one light fixture. Eaten at least 1 every 8-12 months. I’m not buying new ones to replace them. Just going through the stock I have then going with something that cares less about voltage. I’m pretty sure it’s a power delivery problem and I’m uninterested in trying to solve it because this is the only effect I’ve experienced.
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