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Solar charging isn’t an optional gimmick. Everything else is opinionated mixed with some facts.

Garmin and Apple watches are very different for the core purposes. The best apple watch costs as much as one of the best Garmin models.

The Apple watch lasts roughly 18 hours give or take before charging. Where as the best Garmins last 1 to 2 months with Solar charging. But again different uses and feature sets too.

I’d argue Apple is the bigger cancer here due to battery and hardware cycles, models, skus, as a whole companies footprint goes. Eco friendliness to Garmin no question. This could go deeper but I’ll leave it this brief. Apple’s to Oranges.

Garmin is at the top of the game for health tracking and fitness bar none but if your looking to monitor traffic a different type of smart watch would suit you better.

I loathe saying this but a pixel watch with Gmaps might be your best bet. Someone else could offer an open source option though perhaps.

I’ve had several Garmin Venu’s and GPS devices inside the car. But for specifically health trackers I have yet to find a more comprehensive coverage of overall health data. That’s easily accessible to anyone. I seen you mentioned spot data is what you prefer. A Polar H10 might serve the niche better for heart data. Self hosting options for them.

Sure I’d like it fully open source and more on device functionality rather than APIs and algorithms in the cloud. But pound for pound Garmin still runs the fitness and health tracking sector. There are some newer companies popping up with promising options but the tech and IP just isn’t mainstream yet.

In time we will see, hopefully we keep a solid company around and chop this up to the whole land grab for AI thing.

The green mile. A great movie for those wondering.

Garmin feedback is taken seriously. You likely will get a response if you added contact info.

Their customer service are top notch. I’ve gotten new watches, bands and free shipping to and from for different issues.

This change is no different than any other company on the planet. Land grabbing for AI. It’s a paid tier. None of their free or core feature sets have changed at all.

They haven’t paywalled anything that I have seen. This is a paid tier.

No reason not to still, nothing has changed for users. This is a paid tier. This is wildly overblown as of right now. Every company on the planet is cramming AI into some trash.

For all those clammering to sell and throw away, stick on the shelf, I will keep, buy, or what have you all your Garmin watches so long as they aren’t trashed and are relatively newer models.

Yes I am serious. PM me so we can discuss further if your done with Garmin.

Not true and none of their features or use has changed. Simply don’t get the paid feature. Everything works as it should. This is massively overblown. Everyone’s pushing AI this and that because it’s the hot thing right now.

This is taking it to heart for sure. Nothing wrong with your POV but it’s opinion and their tech has no comparison currently. Literally zero has changed. They added a paid tier and done what every company on the planet is doing. Trying to land grab AI because it’s the latest and greatest.

Don’t worry nothing has changed at all, this is a paid tier same as any other land grabbing company on the planet for new tech.

Nothing compares to their battery life and feature set for health data as a whole. Garmin seems to have tbe most comprehensive health data coverage of all smart watches.

They are a stand up company anytime I ever needed support which has been many times for family as well.

Months of battery on their new models and last gen models.

I’ve had and seen several last for years with daily use and never had an issue. Their support has been top notch anytime I had an issue I’ve gotten a new watch or several bands free of charge. They even paid for the return shipping of my old device.

Do you still get the historic health data overtime? Similar to the connect app. So your not losing any usability?

Compiling medical documents into one, any thing of that sort, summarizing, compiling, coding issues, it saves a wild amounts of time compiling lab results that a human could do but it would take multitudes longer.

Definitely needs to be cross referenced and fact checked as the image processing or general response aren’t always perfect. It’ll get you 80 to 90 percent of the way there. For me it falls under the solve 20 percent of the problem gets you 80 percent to your goal. It needs a shitload more refinement. It’s a start, and it hasn’t been a straight progress path as nothing is.

😂 My gosh this hits home. If only I could stop tweaking. It’s always just this one little thing. Then another and on until it’s so fucked I don’t even know where to begin. But it’s magical when she works.

What about Rsync. Does it get love? Any snapshot is good if it works. Backups are the shit.

I just spent 11 days not using my PC. Your sweating after an hour 😂 I was thinking about what laptop I’m gonna buy to replace this broken desktop.