Look, I'm an idiot. I know that, you know that, and the man on the moon knows that. Let's not get into why I'm an idiot; let's just accept that I have my peculiarities and you have yours. My idiocy is a quest to make sure all my portable electronics can recharge using USB-C. Modern smartwatches are tiny and they do a lot. As a consequence, their battery life is generally poor. The industry's…
  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    All I want is a smartwatch which will let me own all my personal health data, I don’t want to get locked in to some monthly subscription just to access my own health metrics

    • ace_garp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      The FOSS app GadgetBridge, has a number of supported smartwatches.

      Supported watches can sync your health, activity, GPS, heart, O2, sleep data to GadgetBridge locally on your phone, instead of sending it online to who knows where.

      May need to use the watches app to set it up, but then all happens locally.

      • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Their website has a question at the bottom “Are you still interested in Pebble?” And if you click yes, it’ll show you their new models, but there’s also a button for No, which takes you to Google’s latest smart watch. The “we’re not a big tech msgacorp” vibes are strong with this one.