Any question answered...

I thought people just broke into your house and demanded you give them the keys etc at knife point?

The advantage of modern technology is that lead pipe cryptanalysis, while still a valid approach, is not the only viable method.

Ah, so it's a couple of different things that are being mixed together. The RF signals and then the NFC element too

Got a crack in my Zefal frame pump. Are the Silca ones any good as they look neat. Or stick with another zefal? They don't make the Alu ones anymore right?

Topeak road blaster has served me well. Silca are nice, but spendy.

Anyone use a Wahoo Tickr? The HR monitor, not a typo.

I've just had them send me a replacement for one bought in April, whose battery was only lasting a month of a few hours a week on zwift. Credit due for getting it sorted v quickly and with very few questions once I explained the situation.

I kept noticing the blue LED would be flashing away hours after - or even the morning following - me last using it and suspected this was the cause of the crap battery life.

Support told me it was normal and their website says the flashing indicates it's 'awake but not paired'. Am currently waiting for a reply to me asking what causes it to be awake so frequently, seems weird to me.

Wondered if anyone else had experienced similar? Hopefully the replacement will fare better, otherwise they'll have made something shitter than Garmin's HRMs, which I would never have thought possible.

Do you clip the straps back on after you take it off? Coz don't

Nope. Had always left just one end attached but more recently have been totally disconnecting it. Didn't make any difference.

Also made sure that anything it was paired with was shut down. Little fucker still wouldn't stay asleep.

Ah shit. I've had one about 2 years and never changed the battery with 1 or 2 uses a week

Well that reassures me it may just be a bad unit, thanks.

just in case anyone else wants an answer to “i’m looking for a functional tracksuit to keep me warm between races; i want it in lfgss colours and actually functional, ie. can don without doffing spd-sl shoes, and is warm; any ideas? not too concerned with budget”

i found and ordered:
italian army waterproof tracksuit, and
swedish army tracksuit.
got home from work just now to find them arrived just in time for league tomorrow.
the italian one has better matching colour, funky stripes, and full length leg zips, but it’s pretty clamy.
the swedish one is less of colour match, but it’s a much more comfortable fabric, has a nicer cut, and also clears spd-sl shoes with its ankle zips.
both very affordable.

2 Attachments

Yep. Tickrs are shite, loads of stories about similar problems around the www.
I went through two (both died inside 6 months) and the replaced with a polar h10, which has been flawless.

Hearing aids are basically little microphones that pick up the sound around you, and a little speaker in a earbud, right?

Couldn't AirPod Pro's (or other earbuds with modern noise cancellation) double as really great hearing aids?

In that vein, android phones have a function to amplify sounds.

1 Attachment

Hearing aids are basically little microphones that pick up the sound around you, and a little speaker in a earbud, right?

There's a fair amount of digital signal processing in the good ones, but the cheap OTP ones are as you describe

There's a fair amount of digital signal processing in the AirPod Pro's as well 🙂

Time will tell I guess. Thanks for the tip on the Polar if needed.

Well, if you can get your audiologist to hack the Airpods and configure them to the exact needs of the patient, then go for it.

Why would they want to look like a cunt over just using hearing aids?

Well, if you can get your audiologist to hack the Airpods and configure them to the exact needs of the patient, then go for it.

My point is rather why doesn't Apple sell this feature if the technology is obviously working really well already.

why doesn't Apple sell this feature

If they said the product could be configured as a hearing aid, it would be a medical device. There are then significant regulatory hurdles in both Europe and the USA which Apple probably doesn't want to get involved in.

Probably need your hearing aids for hearing for a whole day or more, rather than music or podcasts with a bit of hearing for 5 hours at a time, although I'd imagine having it as a bit of a worse version for times when you want to hear music if that works for you and need a bit of help hearing occasionally would be a nice feature, wouldn't make much difference if you need implants and whatnot.

If they said the product could be configured as a hearing aid, it would be a medical device. There are then significant regulatory hurdles in both Europe and the USA which Apple probably doesn't want to get involved in.

Probably, yes.
Though it seems to not be an issue to just call it a "sound amplifier" or something, as with the android phones @aggi mentioned above..

https://www.jabra.com/hearing/enhance-plus

Basically what these are

Probably Apple will do the same thing eventually and pretend it was their idea

[Some] Fancy new hearing aids use phone apps for their sound processing, you can switch to country park mode, restaurant mode, Four Tet at Alexandra Palace mode etc. They have little batteries that you throw away every week.

They cost £thousands but I do wonder whether they have anything more sophisticated than headphones do.