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Cake day: April 13th, 2024

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  • I wish people (especially journalists) would get it through their skulls already:

    • Vehicles don’t communicate with satellites.
    • GNSS (like GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, or BeiDou) do not use two way communication.
    • The satellite can therefore not know the position of a GNSS receiver.
    • Instead the satellites send timestamps and their positions, the receiver uses that information to calculate its own position. If the system with the receiver needs to report its position to someone they typically use some form of terrestrial communication, like mobile phone networks.

    With that knowledge the comment by /u/imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com makes a lot more sense than whatever the article is trying to imply about satellite failures.


  • I had random issues with a laptop bluetooth adaptor around 6-7 years ago. I was able to hack together a script that wrote “0” to the /power endpoint of the PCI device in the sysfs, and then triggered a rescan of the PCI bus as a workaround.

    Maybe something similar could work for your case, depending on how the bluetooth device is connected. Just an idea, not sure if it will work for you, but may be worth looking at.