Tag: Apple
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A Fitness Discussion with MyAI about Silos, Running, Cycling, and Strava
Reading Time: 4 minutesYears ago we had bulky GPS watches that we wore only when we were hiking or doing sports. They only tracked our speed, location, and elevation. With time they were made less hideous and more socially acceptable. We could go from wearing them when doing sports, to when doing nothing. With time…
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Playing With Our Sports Data With Eleventy and Strava
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis month Apple wants me to walk ten point three kilometres with the Apple Watch 10 times. Garmin and Strava want me to cycle 8000m uphill, 800km horizontally, and more. Apple, Garmin and one or two other companies want me to walk 300,000 steps per month. Now, I have two ways of…
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The Zero Second Not a Number Strava Mystery
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I noticed that I had an unusual workout that was getting likes. It had zero minutes of exercise, zero distance travelled, and NaN speed in km/h. In other words I had a track that should not have been counted by Strava as a workout. Everyone is familiar. If you go for…
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The End of ‘Clouded’ Judgement
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf I was up to mischief I would say that some people, especially Apple users, suffer from clouded judgement. Of course I mean this as a pun. If you use Android devices, or Windows machines, or Linux, you can purchase a microSD card and within seconds have one or even two terabytes…
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Having a Cold with Garmin and Apple
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I woke up feeling tired and both Garmin and Apple said that I neded to rest. What I thought were allergies turned out to be a one day cold, I hope. According to the Apple Watch my HRV crashed down and in the evening I definitely had a cold/flu dream.…
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Migrating to kDrive from Flickr, Apple and Google Photo Clouds
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I write this my consolidated photo album is being uploaded to kDrive, to serve as an offsite backup but the journey to this point took about two weeks, due in part to experimentation and learning to use various tools. Tools I used rsync Google Takeout Flickr Export jdupe Gemini Euria Le…
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How I Switched from iCloud Photos to Ksuite+ and Immich
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I turned off iCloud Photo synching, and then I wiped my photos from iCloud Photos but before that I took several precautions. Triple Backup to Apple Devices with Enough Storage The first precaution I took was to ensure that the Photos app on a mac was downloading all the original photos…
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Of Apple, Casio, Garmin and Suunto Wearing
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere was a time, for decades, if not centuries, when a watch provided us with the time. We would wear it in a pocket, attached to a chain, we would stare up at a clock tower and we would see the time. We might even hear church bells to indicate every quarter,…
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Strava – How to Upload Manually
Reading Time: 2 minutesSince Strava has decided to sue Garmin, and since Suunto has decided to sue Garmin as well, for different reasons, I feel now is a good opportunity to remind ourselves of how to upload to Garmin and Strava manually. Exporting to Strava Garmin If you record an activity with a Garmin device,…
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Sports Tracker is Waking Up
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the 2000s I was using a Nokia N95 8gb with Sports tracker to track my walks every day. Eventually, when I started scuba diving I switched to Suunto to track dives, and eventually wore one for hikes, and then I upgraded to the Suunto Ambit 2, 3, Spartan Wrist HR Baro…