It turns out you can get a location just by scanning nearby wifi and cell tower signals!

  • prenatal_confusion@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    I am aware of that but somehow expected that it still took more energy to receive until there are enough SATs available than to do a BLE scan. Just a gut feeling though and only receiving should have a bigger impact than I thought. Makes sense!

    • 5gruel@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Don’t worry your gut feeling is right. Wifi / Bluetooth scans are orders of magnitude cheaper. People in here don’t unterstand how localization works.