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Comment by mattlutze | Hacker News Reader

This device has a backlight enabled by a physical button, and navi refresh rate doesn't matter because you're riding and not staring at it. 1Hz is fine for a reference.

Not sure why needing less battery or having better at-a-glance visibility would be such a bad thing.

One need not love a device, that's ok. But digging to invent a reason to hate it also doesn't seem necessary.

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  > But digging to invent a reason to hate it also doesn't seem necessary.

I don't see where I expressed any kind of hate towards the device.

Refresh rate does kind of matter. 1Hz imposes an average 0.5s latency on any update, which would be obnoxious in some situations.

Quite normal on most bike computers already with a slow refresh, even if they're able to refresh faster. You can't really read a number if it keeps changing all the time.

> 0.5s latency on any update, which would be obnoxious in some situations.

What situation?

i can push it as high as 20Hz.

For me, it matters only when I'm futzing with the map: dragging around or zooming. For the rest of the info on the display, anything more than 500ms interval seems like a waste of power.

You’re responding really inappropriately to someone participating productively in a discussion.

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