Ozzelot 
ozzelot@mstdn.social
Well, I did remember that I have a PalmOne Bluetooth GPS receiver, and while that obviously won't get a fix indoors, it does work, as it's just a Bluetooth serial port. Now my laptop can know where it is. (What to do with this power is currently unknown.)
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Guys it's worth TEN DOLLARS https://www.ebay.com/p/1311910373
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I can now be the dingus who tries to find his way with like an old netbook or something
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GPS is fascinating... what do you mean there's things flying in the sky and you can stare at them to find out where and when you are
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I mean I guess we (humanity, not really us filthy landlubbers) did that with stars before, and that's even more fascinating
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F4GRX Sébastien
f4grx@chaos.social@ozzelot yup...and you can get a pretty accurate clock, too.
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I did get fixes indoors sometimes when I lived at the dorms. Might have had something to do with my window aiming at a park and not at a bunch of buildings.
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Phone signal sucked sometimes, but eh, acceptable tradeoff.
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I have gone outside and got a fix, which gpsd reflected. I won't provide a photo (you'd know where I've been), but it's fun to see a 12 year old laptop get its location with a 21 year old GPS.
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@morc
Going outside to touch satellites
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Richard Gráčik - Morc
morc@mstdn.social@ozzelot ~~touch me and see the satellites transmit some data to you~~
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Ozzelot
ozzelot@mstdn.social
@pavel
AGPS may very well help, but a 20 year old receiver of just GPS, designed for use with a period correct PDA, will not support that :D
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Pavel Machek
pavel
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