• Deebster@infosec.pubEnglish
    16 days

    The one thing he didn’t plan for was that auto-uploading the files this way required a paid account.

    “There was really only one reasonable solution: my hamster now has Strava Premium,” de Buck said.

    Love the commitment to the bit. I was unsurprised to learn that the owner is a physicist and an injured runner meaning he has both the time and motivation to geek out on data and live vicariously.

  • TomMasz@piefed.socialEnglish
    15 days

    Hamster: I am not addicted, I can quit anytime I want. (hops back on wheel)

    • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15 days

      It’s a social network based around exercise. You can share your runs and whatnot.

      • UltraBlack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15 days

        Isn’t it the one that recently revealed a French military ship’s location lol

      • Dultas@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15 days

        I think the cycling community is much heavier adopters than the running one.

      • atx_aquarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15 days

        I tried it a few years ago. It was expensive compared to popular alternatives, and it didn’t directly integrate with my mainstream chest strap anymore. You still had to run multiple apps to collect your data, then go upload it to Strava separately. And that was it’s new policy at the time; previously, it did support heart rate monitors directly, and I guess they decided “nah, that’s not what we’re here for.” No idea what it does now because switching to a much cheaper app gave me more functionality. I think its shtick was the training feedback. So that tells you what it was trying to be, at least back then–a personal coaching app, not a comprehensive workout tracker.

  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15 days

    I’d feel embarrassed about a hamster doing more distance than me, but the hamster doesn’t have a job to go to, or chores to do.

    • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
      14 days

      I mean, running around and foraging is their job. They don’t have to forage anymore, but they have to keep themselves occupied, so they pick up the stuff they foraged from their food bowl, carry it all the way home in the wheel, then bury them fuck-knows-where until you clean the cage and replace the bedding and find the all the caches they hid and forgot.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
    English
    14 days

    okay, now put some sort of screen in front of the wheel that shows different things, and see if you can alter it’s running behaviour to run more or less.

    Bonus points if you have it running through a landscape and it’s movement translates into the proper speed/movement in the landscape.

    • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15 days

      It doesn’t have a long tail, that’s the wheel. If you look the same line shows up at the front of the hamster as well.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15 days

        Good catch. First article of the day so my brain was still booting up. Thanks!