this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
7 points (88.9% liked)
Nix / NixOS
2356 readers
19 users here now
Main links
Videos
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
No gps modem but geolocation works on my other computer running fedora which also doesn't have gps.
Hm, interesting. The other user said that geoclue tries using beacondb (I didn't know that :D).
Can you try running this:
$(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A geoclue2)/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/where-am-i
? It should print out your location according to geoclue, and the source which it has used.For me, it looks like this:
Just noticed that your accuarcy is at 25000 meters as well, are you getting anywhere near your actual location in map applications?
Well, it gets the city right at least, and that's enough for me