I think the 5/5S added an altimeter for sure, so the whole module probably got swapped. That was my time away from iOS (rip motorola lol)
The compass in my apple watch is dead on, which is good because moving it in a figure 8 would look very silly
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it would look like youāre trying to generate a Ki shield
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does often make me pause and go āhuhā when I consider that it means Apple and Google (and certainly others) maintain databases of SSIDs (and probably actually hardware addresses) to approximate (but just barely) coordinates
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Iām always doing that with my Apple Watch
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what if the iPad had a detachable laptop keyboard base and ā get this ā lowercase-w windows
(iād buy a surface with their processors in a heartbeat)
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Even worse than blocking LOS, the signals from the GPS satellites bounce off buildings and other clutter (multipath interference) and the receiver in your phone canāt know what the ārealā signal is. GPS triangulation relies on extremely precise timing to figure out the distance to the sats, so if a signal goes through an extra 100ā because it bounced off a couple of skyscrapers first, and gets mixed in with a non-reflected signal from the same the receiver becomes confused and your little triangle bounces all over the place. This diagram from wikipedia shows the problem well
You can cheat a bit and use heuristics to say the phone probably didnāt phase through a building and end up on the next block over but things like intersections are a challenge. One reason why your nav can have a hard time catching up when you miss your turn.
Nav systems built into cars for all their hilariously bad flaws can be surprisingly better in cities for one reason: they can get a very reliable reading of ground speed from the car itself which can help a LOT when trying to make sense of GPS data that is on the verge of gibberish. Too bad no one in their right kind wants to pay for map updates in this day and age.
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My Steam Deck reservation popped. I am excited to mess with the newest tech maybe by next week.
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Itās good! Not using it firsthand but my partner has been playing Civ on hers constantly
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more like unhinged
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When did you preorder yours? Some random site on the internet suggested I should see my invite late April/early May and so Iām making sure to take that as gospel and be disappointed every day I donāt see it in my spam folder
Nope!
(I use a Pixel 6)
I am pretty sure google has openly admitted to war driving for this purpose
So stoked!
Looks like I put my order in July 26th at 12pm PST. All the estimates I saw were wrong, they were telling me mid May.
Huh, mine was the 16th. What model did you get?
Apparently it was steam itself telling me april/may, now the page is saying april/june 
Oh yeah, thatās important to note. I got the 64gb version. Each of the versions are being shipped at different rates, and thereās like US/UK/Canada sets of queues too.
if youāre trying to get an idea of when your Deck reservation will pop, Iād recommend following the drop megathreads in the Steam Deck reddit, thereās a guy who follows and tracks the progress of the epoch times of the reservations
hereās how this week shook out (each of the SKUs for each of the three regions) - https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/uj1jbo/order_email_megathread_may_05_2022/i7g16io/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=SteamDeck&utm_content=t1_i7g1nx3
short version: congratulations if you reserved the 64gb. everyone else, get comfy (the 512gb queue for NA notably has gotten through 21 minutes of reservations since shipping started a couple of months ago)
Iām excited because unless trends donāt hold, I get to spend 500 dollarydoos next week
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Dang I have another 4 hours to get through
So for funsies I checked what the prices were on 3080s, andā¦ they are almost MSRP. I had been expecting to just wait for the 40XX series to come, but I didnāt think prices would drop so fast when I made that expectation.
Briefly reading up, it sounds like the absolute earliest the 40 series is coming would be late this year, but could even possibly Q1 of 2023ā¦ and I just donāt think Iām ready to keep waiting another year on this 980.
Am I doing a stupid if I just snag a 3080 now? I heard that they are excellent if you undervolt them.
I believe a 3080 will be able to comfortably overshoot current-gen console target until at least 2026. The memory might get a bit cramped in a few years, especially combining raytracing, higher resolutions, and high-quality textures.
Itās not quite at the level of being able to brute-force double current console games, so if you want to run a 30FPS console game at 60 you should hold off.
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Iām not a huge AAA chaser, and I donāt have to run everything at max settings either. Iām typically happy to run at medium settings at a stable 60FPS. This 980 is just at the end of its life.
I guess I feel like I should probably bite the bullet, but this happened so suddenly, Iām just sanity checking myself.
Yeah, you should be able to crush anything at least until Unreal 5 games start becoming really prevalent.
I think anything between the 3070 at $500 and the 3080 at $700 is still really good. A 3080 above that priceā¦I might hold out if you want that tier, if possible.
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