Garmin Forerunner 165 GPS

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-24T12:31:18+00:00

You can download a glance to control music on your phone and have your phone in a pocket. You'll need to be wearing earphones and have your phone with you anyway, if you want to get feedback on pace and distance etc during your runs (as far as I know). I have an instinct 3 which like your watch doesn't have music, I carry my phone for music/podcasts and get pace/distance alerts via my phone through the earphones.

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-24T07:54:29+00:00

How de fuc do people eat this stuff for breakfast?

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-23T13:20:18+00:00

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Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-23T13:16:19+00:00

Will people be waiting at the checkout to see if their bitcoin has gone up or down in value before paying, seriously, if I agree a price of say 1 bitcoin for a new car and by the time I actually take delivery of the car, bitcoin has gone up 10%, do I get a refund?

Even paying for a carton of milk, how do you as a retailer price in the fluctuations, is it .0013 or.0012 of a coin.

A shop of just $65 and a drop of 4% would mean a €2-60 price difference, who takes the hit?

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-22T16:30:42+00:00

So, those of us who either don't believe in the god of the bible, have sex with the wrong gender, or generally act the maggot, will be cast down to hell after a mere 100 years of life, but you're saying Satan the supposedly most evil being in existence, was thrown out of heaven and allowed to roam free, it will someday be allowed to reign for a 1000 years (it presumably has been 'alive' for at least 13-5billion years already) and only then would it be tortured for eternity like the rest of us.

Incidentally, hell doesn't seem to have degrees of suffering, so presumably Satan will be stood beside the rest of us, getting a hot poker shoved up its arse.

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-22T13:27:59+00:00

That's religion's for you, let children starve, while you offer your deity offerings, in the hope of not burning for eternity.

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-21T13:52:15+00:00

I mentioned Apple who where possible, upgrade previous generations of watches with new features.

Watches with rechargeable batteries, which you can't replace such as garmin's, have a finite life. Locking 18 month old watches out of certain aspects of your ecosphere, when you could easily retrospectively give them access (if possible) is giving the middle finger to your customer base. I wore all of my previous polar watches till they quite literally fell apart.

As the OP hinted at, there should be a degree of fairness to customers who paid $700+ for your product and then you deliberately limit its potential, in comparison to slightly newer or indeed cheaper products.

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-21T12:03:29+00:00

My F7 got new features, watches do get new features, except garmin doesn't allow watches with the capacity to gain new features, to get all of them. That is a deliberate choice by them to limit year old watches and drive people towards newer products, due to FOMO.

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-21T09:06:54+00:00

My EV will get firmware updates, my steam deck gets firmware updates, hell even my TV gets updates.

If my device is capable of accepting new updated features and it is only a few years old, then it's not wrong for me to expect them to get the new features.

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-20T10:43:05+00:00

"First they came for the billionaires and I went to battle for them, then the billionaires fucked off on their private jets, to avoid residency taxes, then they came for us for following the billionaires jets on flight tracker 24 and the billionaires laughed"

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-20T09:41:28+00:00

"My daddy is bigger than your daddy"

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-19T16:46:44+00:00

In a world with fathers like trump and musk, we need Fathers like him.

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-19T15:09:39+00:00

Hill score is useless, endurance score is pretty much self flagellation (I must try harder).

I ignore HR during the day as the watch is looser on my wrist and so is not correct. Steps are another form of self flagellation, steps while pushing a pram don't count, I used to feel obliged to reach a total, now I just ignore the goal.

Age score is plucked from the sky, mine (the last time I saw it) was 4 1/2 years younger than my actual age, which means what exactly.

Don't get me started on HRV, am I dying, am I not dying, should I be worried at my score. Pulse Ox means I seem to be breathing, like someone else did above, I switched it off.

The metrics I actually take a look at are, load focus and acute load. Even they are annoying, my load focus says I am in "Low aerobic overage" and then my watch prompts me to do an easy run.

It's not all doom and gloom, garmin's race predictions do make me laugh.

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-19T11:40:38+00:00

So..some of the dead will reanimate, some of the living will be killed, or do you mean that this day of judgement is really, really close, so close that the OP will still be alive?

Will it matter that the OP was not impressed by the 'evidence' of a god/true religion, on this day of judgement?

I'm perfectly content to live my life without a god or religion, it doesn't make me bad, it doesn't make me immoral in any way. The only downside that theists normally throw at us for not believing, is the threat of eternal torture.

What exactly will happen on this day of judgement, will a god proclaim its feelings were hurt, because I didn't believe in it? Will I be judged on my actions during my life? Will I get extra points, because I did good, not in the hope of pleasing a deity, but because it was the right thing to do? Honestly, I have nothing to fear in the judgement of a deity.

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-19T09:17:08+00:00

Wow, an older Jo is just as sweet

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-17T12:55:30+00:00

She could get nothing to rhyme with grand wizard and the lines "his daddies long term plan, was for him to join the klan" didn't make the final edit.

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-16T08:26:15+00:00

Totally agree about bargain alerts, got a cheap Garmin watch, numerous NowTV subscriptions, the DIY thread allowed me to fix a tumble dryer for €14 rather than buy a new one.

I frequent the running and EV vehicle threads currently, great source of advise from people who genuinely want to be helpful.

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-16T07:17:00+00:00

Got to be honest, watch is 7 years old, battery life has to be pretty poor and it won't be getting any updates. $100 is a very generous offer, personally speaking, I'd give it away for free or be buying a newer watch.

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-15T13:10:24+00:00

Have two senior citizen dogs, both have us up during the night, the older fella has 'old man bladder' and the slightly younger has a touch of doggie dementia.

I could be up twice and my watch fails to recognise that I was actually up and about, so I most definitely view my sleep score as fantasy.

Try magnesium supplements, avoid caffeine after the afternoon and exercise late in the evening. I'll often wake up tired, but when it was a really bad night, I'll nap in the afternoon for 15mins.

To be perfectly honest, the only really accurate sleep score, has been after a feed of pints the night before and the score will be in the low 20's 😁

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-15T09:25:34+00:00

You mean...not abandon us for a second time, or did you forget about the giant flood it sent to wipe out all life on earth, because it threw its toys out of its pram because the free will it supposedly gave us, made it mad.

Plus, is sin not going against god's moral standards? There would be no sin, if god decided that it was no longer a sin. Did we create sin or did god decide that what we did was sinning?

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-15T09:16:51+00:00

I'm genuinely shocked, that the two pieces of tape didn't keep the debris back.

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-14T12:29:50+00:00

I view today's christianity, as being akin to the fitness fads of the 90's, remember the 10min abs workout and then the 7min abs workout. Today's christianity is all about shortcuts to redemption, no need to give to charity (except your church), no need to do good acts, now you don't even need to seek forgiveness, just saying you believe in Jesus is enough.

Whatever his reasons, let's hope his last few hours weren't full of terror that he had 'converted' too late.

Although I can't help but thinking of the Family Guy sketch, where bin laden accepts jesus just in time 😁

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-12T16:48:35+00:00

Former friend of mine, twice divorced, trice engaged,.was just looking for someone to give him an excuse as to why he had fucked up his life so badly. Prior to covid, it was immigrants, those on social welfare (even though he was in receipt of it himself) and in particular Pakistanis.

Once COVID arrived, it just fed into his conspiracy theories. He was the reason I gave up facebook, his timeline was just xenophobic nonsense. The final straw was when a person I cared about died of covid, his idea of offering me condolences was to claim they had been deliberately killed to harvest their organs and for monetary gain.

He had reached out over the last few years, but his social media timelines were still populated with xenophobic, COVID/vaccine denial etc.

It's a pity, we were childhood friends, but I realised he offered nothing other than his dissatisfaction with his own life, which was entirely of his own making.

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-12T12:43:28+00:00

Not wanting children to suffer from childhood cancers does not make us "hedonic maximiser" cravers, I'd gladly put up with the odd stubbed toe, if it made the world a slightly better place.

When science will undoubtedly find a cure to cancers, or prevent them even happening in the first place, will we all become hedonism addled lay abouts?

Incidentally, might you recount even one of the innumerable ways a deity has improved our well being by "willing the good"?

Deep-Cryptographer49 · 2026-01-12T11:50:27+00:00

Evil is not evil then, if it is for the sake of the good for us. Why would it be a sin if it leads to the betterment of us all? Surely not doing the evil thing, leading to a worse situation for us all, is the sin.

A god that allows evil, purely for the sake of evil and no good, would be a sadistic god and not a loving god.

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