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Cake day: June 7th, 2025
  • If you have the mobile app installed, it’s running GPS in the background anway. High accuracy mode just ups the frequency of checkin to your liking. Besides, you only need to have it on for a minute or so to determine vector. You probably already have it, but if there is any question, going high accuracy for a moment will answer it.

    I don’t find that high accuracy does much to battery life as long as you’re smart with it. There are may ways to configure it so it won’t eat your battery.

  • I use home assistant and have a dashboard button that triggers an automation.

    Using the notification action, I turn off do-not-disturb, turn off Bluetooth (so it doesn’t pipe sound to earbuds or remote audio), set notification mode to on (not vibrate) and set the notification volume to max. I used to loop the default notification sound, but then switched so that the notification uses a new channel entirely and set each phone with a song so it will play for a while. You can silence it with the volume key.

    Took a little tinkering to get it right, but works really well.

  • I used to use Rhapsody until it turned in to Napster, then bought out by crypto bros who broke it, then just fucking gave up.

    If there’s a better alternative beyond going back to pirating, I’d love to know.

    I’m more than happy to spend my money on a quality service but beyond a few niche players with limited catalogs, there aren’t lot of good alternatives. Qobuz and Tidal are nice, but when they have 20% of the catalog of Spotify, it’s not very useful.