this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
41 points (100.0% liked)
Open Source
45899 readers
101 users here now
All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!
Useful Links
- Open Source Initiative
- Free Software Foundation
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Software Freedom Conservancy
- It's FOSS
- Android FOSS Apps Megathread
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
- !libre_culture@lemmy.ml
- !libre_software@lemmy.ml
- !libre_hardware@lemmy.ml
- !linux@lemmy.ml
- !technology@lemmy.ml
Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Man, I would love to do some cycle touring...
I don't have any experience with open bike computers but I did set up a very old Fairphone 2 running Fairphone Open and the OsmAnd app for this. In airplane mode and only GPS for location the battery life was incredible, even without making use of spares. And you can of course import & export gpx tracks freely in OsmAnd, which is basically the best app ever.
A totally viable solution.
i second an old phone with one of these: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OsmAnd#Bicycle_and_pedestrian_features
i personally use organic maps: https://f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps/
OsmAnd was what I used so far and while I love the routes it gave me, navigation always felt cumbersome. Often times I turned the screen of to save power, which caused me to then take wrong turns all day. Not a big deal on most days, but on some it really is...
even older phones come with OLED screens these days, maybe there's a display option to make use of that? (where the background is pure black = pixels are off)
I might look into that, thanks!