Started trying to figure out if I could get a watch that is also a compass.

[thilo@fromm.social]

@mcc I wanna say "yes"; it comes with proper calibration and makes use of the sixaxis sensor to compensate for tilt.

Cursory testing suggests horizontal positioning (when I bend my head down to check the watch) is more reliable than vertical (lifting the wrist to eye level). But then I don't have a "real" compass available to validate.

It's worth mentioning that the pebble devices are extremely hackable, so there's always the option to improve things.

[bonkers@nerdculture.de]

@mcc @msbellows it still helps figuring out the rough orientation.

I usually rely on the compass in my mobile, and it orients the map accordingly.

[bonkers@nerdculture.de]

@mcc something like this, maybe?

https://a.aliexpress.com/_EIH3UYs

[th@social.v.st]

@mcc @msbellows how will you know where you are if you don't stare at the sun?

[gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mcc @thilo once, a new phone asked me to calibrate the compass by doing 8 shaped movement with the phone. Since then, when my arrow on map app seems to not match my phone in the street, I do that a coupke time and usually compass reading get better.

[gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mcc not watch related but I found that carabiner clip (not for climbing) + compass once. Theses days, it's on the shoulder strap of the bag I use to carry my laptop, holding a pokemon plushie.

[utterlymundane@hachyderm.io]

I am a few years out of the game, as it were, but this was my go-to for sports device comparison: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/product-comparison-calculator . You do need some way to prefilter or a very wide monitor. I was a Garmin partisan when I ran; and still have a multiple generations old Fenix that runs just fine; second hand from a reputable seller or something like REI’s returns resale would probably be fine. My wife liked her garmin V.. Venu? when she had it.
@mcc

[utterlymundane@hachyderm.io]

@mcc the other thing is those reviews are satisfyingly thorough, so you will probably have a very solid idea if the features actually work; he will run through various settings with multiple devices, and compare the GPS traces, for instance. (I haven’t checked, but if you told me he had picked up a pressure chamber to test barometers I would simply nod and say “that sounds about right”.)

[ingalovinde@embracing.space]

@bonkers @mcc @msbellows and also instead of looking at the sun one can instead look at the direction of shadows (might be easier to do in many cities)

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@msbellows @mcc given that the sun rises eastish and sets westish, i've always thought that bringing a watch into the process added less than this lifehack advertised

[canine3625@mastodon.social]

@mcc a few years ago i had a much longer beard, so i looked into some beard oil

they were all marketed as RUGGED, MANLY, WEAR PLAID AND CHOP TREES bullshit

this is oil to make my beard look fancy, can we drop the masculine pretense and just enjoy things, you insecure dorks?

[simon@tutut.delire.party]

@mcc my phone knows which way is north! it’s always been wrong by 90° across many phone models, but i never remember 90° which way

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@cxiao I think the basic casios are great! A lot of them look unobtrusive and they're so cheap you can get a couple $30 ones and swap them out.