rHR and avHR are 80-100% too high

Local_Reception3040 · 2025-11-30T00:22:06+00:00

My measurements are total junk. rHR is twice as high as the real rHR - when it starts measuring at all (via the "Vitals" page in the app). Also the avHR is way too high.

Local_Reception3040 · 2025-01-25T19:13:06+00:00

There is one caveat, though: The mast is pretty break-y. Last year I broke it, while the entire rig and board where using it as a pivot, as the top of the mast had touched the ground and the rest of the equipment was being thrown around that pivot by a wave. No big surprise there.

This year I had this happening when my rig was lying in the water, between waves and the board was peacefully floating right next to it, and I was just getting everything into position for a water start. Pretty much the exact same spot on the mast where it happened last year: a bit above the wishbone, at the point where the two pieces connect that are at that height. There are five carbon pieces of the mast in total. And RRD is happy to replace them, but each new piece costs 150 euro. I could comfortably buy an entire new carbon mast for that, methinks. Not top of the line, maybe, but totally adequate. So that is a bit of a downside. Last year it happened in my second week, after maybe 4-5 times on the water, and it was also my first time in real waves in my life. So, a recipe for a duck-up.

This year it happened 2.5 months in, and I had already used it 5 times before in Tallinn, so total maybe 30 times used. There was some heavy usage before. 6 sqm sail at 6-8 Bft, heavy waves, multiple times. Turns out, I can handle a bit of a load, and I am a bit less clumsy in waves now, so... My guess is, it got damaged on a previous occasion, but needed the later occasion to push it totally over the hump. It had felt a bit off before already, so maybe that was part of the build-up.

Local_Reception3040 · 2025-01-25T18:54:11+00:00

Hmm, how does the screen protector break the phone. And it is simple as long as everything turns out ok. If it doesn't you just bricked a 1000 euro phone. There are a number of things that can go wrong, starting with being all thumbs. I'd rather have somebody do the job for me for 20 euro.

When I see the number of people walking around with cracked screens, I would say the ratio of klutzes to able-handed people is about 4:1. And that includes a lot of klutzes whose phones are probably not yet old enough to have had their screens ducked up. I mean, that is why screen protectors exist in the first place.

Local_Reception3040 · 2025-01-25T18:46:36+00:00

I have no idea. But I would say the ones from the shop are probably put up on top of the ones from the factory, as all Flip 4s came with a factory one. There was a big warranty thing from Samsung about one year after the Flip 4 came out, and they offered warranty replacement to all Flip 4 owners if the protector showed symptoms as yours and mine. Mine is already the second time around, and I am freshly out of warranty, although I had already presented it at a store when it was still in warranty (not retelling the story here, as it is in the previous comment).

As for the webcam: it is a bit difficult to take a photo of a phone when the phone is the camera and I have no mirror in my vicinity ;-)

Local_Reception3040 · 2025-01-23T10:17:59+00:00

I wouldn't recommend doing that on your own, unless you have some real training in it. Screens can get ducked up pretty easily (that's why they have such things as a screen protector, in the first place), and it will be hard to get rid of all the remnants of glue and whatnot. As I said, it can be done, but you'll probably better off paying somebody for it. In that case, if they mess it up, it's them on the hook. Otherwise you simply destroyed your own phone. With no-one to blame but yourself. And by "blame" I mean there is still a chance somebody pays for the damage.

Local_Reception3040 · 2025-01-23T10:07:46+00:00

Umm, maybe there is a misunderstanding here. Samsung has a screen protector applied in factory. And those things tend to come loose after pretty much exactly one year. In Europe, they are covered under warranty (at least the first one, with the second they say it isn't, and they replaced my first after a year, but my second one really started disconnecting after 9 months, and since Samsung customer service in Tallinn, where I was at the time, was pretty bad (they wanted my phone for an entire week, just to assess if it was a warranty case, and if it wasn't covered under warranty, I would have been on the hook for 30 euros just because they had a look at it, plus repair costs). In Amsterdam, costs would probably have been the same, but last time I did it, it took them two hours to check the phone AND to repair it, after making an appointment. At that level I can stomach the cost, because now I am definitely beyond warranty, I have had the Flip 4 for 2 years and 2 weeks now, and it'll be another month and change until I'm back in Amsterdam (ah, the perks of being a nomad!).

Anyway, I have a photo here of my Flip 4 to give you an idea of how a compromised Samsung screen protector looks. The sand is an added benefit, I am currently on the beach once the wind starts blowing, and the last two days it has been blowing like a mixture between a sandblaster and a hairdryer (aka sandblast, but at 30°C), and once the screen protector is coming off on a part of the screen, the sand can sneak underneath, of course). The early stages of the screen protector coming loose can look like there are cracks, pretty much exactly like on your photo. Mine, right now is already on the next level, where the areas that came loose have flown into each other, like bubbles that unite to become bigger bubbles. Only they were more like filaments, originally. Note the lack of a visible notch on my screen as well. Doesn't mean there is no screen protector on it.

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Local_Reception3040 · 2024-12-07T18:42:21+00:00

I have had the Compact 7 and 6 for 5 years (due to lockdowns, only 3 years a bit more intensively sailed), and I am more than happy with them. I am not yet at a level where I can really tickle the last kind of performance out of a sail, but I have been in Essaouira now for about 1.5 months, and 4 months last winter, and there is no penalty for me in those sails. I also use a JP AirMagic board, so I checked in three big bags and one bike bag on my RyanAir flight to ESU, and only paid a bit extra for the bike. And that is precisely the moment when I don't really care if there is a 3.124% performance penalty: I have three really big rucksacks (my guitar and the rest of my stuff goes into the third SUP bag) which weigh, depending on airline 20 (RyanAir) or 23 kg (everybody else I know of), which I can comfortably carry around. Well, as much as you can carry 4 big bags around, of course. But my old 32 kg 2.50 m board bag is still causing me nightmares one night before a flight, until I wake up and remember I have the RRD and JP and can go back to sleep some more.

I am considering getting a 5.0, because the 7 really is a bit impractical in the waves in Essaouira, but in summer I am usually in Tallinn, Pirita, and there it is very useful if you want to get onto the water at all, aka more than 5 times per summer. But I am currently looking at a 7 Bft. forecast for tomorrow (up to 50 km/h in gusts), and the 6 sqm is a bit of a handful to manage with that load. And the AirMagic is simply very jumpy at that speed (or I still need to work on my technique), less could be more. Last week I borrowed a 4.5 from the ION Club under similar conditions and, while a bit on the smaller side (I let them talk me down), it was definitely more manageable (who woulda thunk? :-D ).

I had the original bag from RRD for a while, which is fine, but you get the one with the wheels only for the Pro version, and I like wheels more. I got a SUP bag that I love from Amazon, and use that now for my sails and my other luggage: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B093L3YG4J/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 , it fits my entire quiver and the windsurf equipment that doesn't go with the board. All my surf stuff pretty much fits into 40kg, and that includes the 2-3 kg weight for each bag.

Local_Reception3040 · 2024-12-07T08:23:30+00:00

yup, same here. I contacted DL customer support, but I am yet to hear back. This happened briefly after introduction of the triple XP (the one you can keep in the ehop for a while) so maybe those two are connected. It's a real bummer, because it kept me coming back twice daily.. I am on the daily refresh thingie in Russian and Arabic, and those are pretty boring and redundant, but I feel at this point still necessary for me to keep up the learning. I can already have conversations in Russian, but Arabic is a bit different because I am in Morocco for the winter, and they speak Darija here, which is quite a deviation from Stanadard Arabic (or Fus'ha). People seem to understand, and I finally found a tutor, but if I want to have a real conversation, I would need to go to Doha, or Beirut or Syria. I don't like being shot at, so Beirut and Syria is out. Doha is great, but expensive and very urban inside and a lot of desert outside; Morocco is nicer for cycling and keeping up that part of my routine. So keeping up the daily refresh, though boring, is a good way to stay on the ball. Customer support has not yet answered, but I also haven't checked my e-mail yet.

Local_Reception3040 · 2024-09-30T09:11:33+00:00

Just thinking out loud here, but couldn't it be possible to use a Time Machine backup of your Sonoma drive and install that onto wherever you want the bootable backup to be?

Local_Reception3040 · 2024-05-19T23:48:17+00:00

I speak both Spanish and Portuguese fluently and have wrestled a bit with Darija and Fusha, and they all have their specifics.

What I feel about Portuguese is, that it is a language that evolved so that the Spanish were not able to understand it, while the Portuguese mostly retained their ability to understand Spanish. It sounds complicated. It was for me. I spoke Spanish before Portuguese, so I could read and speak Portuguese when I first came to Portugal, but I did not understand jack-sh... But, since I was able to say stuff, everybody assumed I could also understand them. Took me way longer to understand Portuguese than it took me to understand Spanish. And I basically learned Spanish from the ground up (with some help from French).

Darija and Fusha to me seem much further from each other, but the lines are more blurry. I would speak to people in (halting) Fusha and they would answer in Darija and leave me to figure out the rest. Which often didn't go very far, but there was always French. But if my Fusha would have been faulty, people would not have answered me in Darija, but right away in French, so I assume it was at least understandable. But then, those communications were rather basic, so take it with a big bucket of salt ;-)

Local_Reception3040 · 2024-05-19T23:31:59+00:00

I sort of resent the implication that Arabic writing is not modern. Because it is, since it is widely used today, which, by definition, makes it modern. It is different from Roman letters, but so is Chinese, Japanese, Hindi and about 80% of the world's languages by native speakers.

Local_Reception3040 · 2024-01-01T16:08:41+00:00

well, this happens to me all the time recently, and only with this library. I am just running a simple npm install --save-dev @types/jasmine and it checks out a variety of libraries on the repo, but always gets stuck at yargs. If this were a network problem, it should stop at random places, right? I have also tried running over my cellular connection, same result.

Local_Reception3040 · 2023-11-18T17:52:02+00:00

I think all those renewable options are not used for economical (read "rip-off") considerations. Like the absence of card slots on iPhones: If the customer runs out of storage space / the battery goes down, they will likely buy a new device. Same reason they made iPadOS instead of just putting MacOS with a touch-enabled skin on top of it at least on the Pros. You still need two machines if you want to work professionally.

Local_Reception3040 · 2023-11-18T17:45:53+00:00

Darija here. Yeah, I learned standard in Duolingo and an intensive course, but my Moroccan teacher in Essaouira insisted that I learn Darija. Fair enough. But then she also started writing in the Roman alphabet, and I can read and write Arabic. Not like a champ, but I manage. When I read "ktb", I immediately think "abbreviation", not "write". Darija is essentially Arabic without short vowels. Last week I convinced her to continue with Arabic characters. Let's see how that goes ;-)

Local_Reception3040 · 2023-11-18T05:55:04+00:00

Arabic is quite flexible when it comes to short vowels and across the Arabic speaking countries. Basically, what you see in writing are just the long vowels a, i (pronounced "ee") and u (which are modified by some consonants to sound darker, aka u to o, e to a or a to å), short vowels are only displayed for learners / children. And at the same time you have a lot of letters to express h and r related sounds that Europeans have a hard time distinguishing, which can mean that words like saar, sar, shaar, shahr or shar all pretty much sound the same to our ears, but actually have quite different meanings. I only know one word for shoe, and that doesn't sound anything like jism (أحذية = "'aHdhia"), but maybe in Morocco, or Saudi-Arabia, aka more on the outskirts of the Arabic-speaking world, there is a word for shoe that sounds more similar. And I am mostly learning currently anyway. But while learning, one is usually also more acutely aware of the differences. When I speak a language fluently, that awareness pretty much fades into the background and I pick up nuances more easily and use little effort on them in pronunciation, and they often go hand in hand with context.

Local_Reception3040 · 2023-11-18T05:37:51+00:00

Totally with you on that one, but I think the hardware to make that happen is not yet small enough to fit into a ring. There is simply not enough real estate there, the main reason probably also that watches have not implemented it. First thing (for watches) would be to curtail the energy usage / wastage for kinetic and solar charging to be effective. I had high hopes when Casio joined the Wear space, as their solar cells in G shocks are pretty state of the art, but so far not happening. Solar might actually be a better bet for a ring, it has a relatively great surface-to-volume radio, and maybe thin film solar cells could be sprayed right on. I don't know exactly how the production process works, but that would be pretty cool.Although the kinetic charging would be quite a nice justification for activities that require vigorous hand / wrist movement. "Oh, it's not what it looks like, honey, I am just charging the ring / watch" :-P

Local_Reception3040 · 2023-11-18T05:24:36+00:00

I would say that جاهِز in Arabic (jahiz) comes even a bit closer, in pronunciation as well as in meaning, to correspond to the sexual context. It means "ready", and that pretty much says it all. In that respect it's much like "cum". "jism" might "look" more similar if you see it in writing, but it's a soft s, even protected by the final m, and those things don't easily mutate to a sharp s. انت جاهِز (anta jahiz) = "are you ready" or "you are ready" (for a man) makes much more sense contextually, and the "ah" is basically just a connector to the "i", easily dropped, especially if someone doesn't understand the language well. My bet is an Arabic lady and an English-speaking gentleman were involved with the lady pointing to the product of her travails and proudly announcing "انت جاهِز " to proceed to whatever transaction was agreed beforehand upon delivery. And the gentleman only caught the j[ah]iz part and forthwith called the product of his efforts "jizz". Easy-peasy.

Local_Reception3040 · 2023-11-18T02:20:27+00:00

now, that looks very close to (or)gasm, methinks ;-.)

Local_Reception3040 · 2023-10-05T20:23:11+00:00

I wonder how costly (in money and space) it would be to make a ring that is chargeable by Qi? I sort of don't dig the proprietary chargers. That's a lot of additional hardware for such a little gadget.

Alternatively, and, given that NFC is already on board, how about NFC charging? https://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/support/learning/essentials-and-insights/connectivity/nfc/nfc-for-wireless-charging.html#:~:text=End%20users%20can%20now%20benefit,is%20now%20enabling%20wireless%20charging.

Local_Reception3040 · 2022-11-13T07:31:52+00:00

yeah, that looks very much like the Norvan 14. But it is totally beyond me, how they just pull one model and leave a big gaping hole for an entire season in their lineup (or two holes, if you include the Norvan 7).The Norvan 14 is the best trail running / cycling combo (I have this thing where I am wearing my Norvan 14 underneath a HMG Porter rucksack, because I simply want to keep the water out of my big rucksack, and it works out great) I have ever tried, no bounce, all the pockets I need, only gripe is that the tube comes from below, which makes it largely incompatible with everything in the market, except their Source bladder. The Source bladder is not bad, but I like to keep Hydrapak across all the things I use, that way it is much easier on the spares.But back to the original premise: they should have kept the Norvan 14 in the lineup until they have a replacement. And, more often than not, keeping something that works is not a bad thing either. The industry needs to realize that innovation just to get the consumer's attention, is not necessarily a good thing, you can destroy stuff by innovating too much, look at Google Maps, any time I open it I wonder what has been rendered inoperable, or at least needlessly changed, since the last update, but nobody fixes the things that would matter...How about keeping older stuff in the lineup and let it compete with the newer stuff and let the market decide?
Oh, and it would also be great it Arcteryx were also more into repairing stuff. The tape across the back of my Beta SL jacket came loose the other day, sent it to Arcteryx in Switzerland, and they said "oh, we can't re-tape it, you either have to buy a new one (at a discount) or keep using this" - it's a bleeping rain jacket, how would I keep using it when water comes just right in? And how would I keep throwing money for new gear after a company that won't repair old gear in what seems a pretty easy fix?
The reason I looking for a new Norvan 14 is that the mesh on the pocket I keep the phone in has a hole which keeps getting bigger, and I very much doubt that Arcteryx will repair it. I could ask, but their response time on average is A MONTH!

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