It's Lemmy. People see Google or AI and hate on everything related by default. IMO, this is, at least conceptually, a good feature. With the increase in bike riders, bother casual and fitness related, this has the ability to increase safety. I'm surprised Garmin beat Google to the punch on this one. Hopefully it becomes ubiquitous with fitness wearables, so in areas where there aren't clear bike lanes, riders don't have to be concerned about drivers.

(if the cyclists opt in to being shown on Waze)

Please people, read the fucking article

Yeah I mean the solution to that is that these kinds of people probably shouldn't be allowed to drive a multi-ton killing machine. But I know how realistic that solution is.

I've been in a car with people where I've had to point out to them pedestrians, cyclists, motorcycles, and other vehicles.

I've been merged into like I wasn't even there on multiple occasions (extremely terrifying on a bicycle).

People are bad at measuring distance while moving at speed. And their situational awareness very often leaves much to be desired. But this (while a novel approach) is a terrible idea.

Because it is apparently way to hard to just look at the road you are driving on.

The idea is to highlight them on the road so they are harder to miss (I assume).

Edit:

Gadgets and Wearables notes that the early code suggests that Waze will be able to leverage Garmin’s LiveTrack location data to show nearby drivers where cyclists are, presumably to help drivers look out for cyclists along their route.

Cool from a safety standpoint. Terrifying from a safety standpoint and a privacy standpoint.

Taking a step back from "the cloud" has really opened my eyes to the wild shit these money-hungry corpos pull on the daily.

Also, a reminder that Waze is owned by Google.

is waze even used by cyclists?

This seems totally fine

i might buy this argument the fisrt generation this happened but this has been goong on for since at least 2008? ish when i worked in phone tech support

google doesnt get to pretend they dont know what the down stream is doing with their product

I want thicker more durable phones with longer battery life back.

Idk about everyone else but slapping a case on each and every new phone is stupid.

Might be the price difference Samsung, Apple and whatever get from selling your data?

It's 1500$

I'm still holding on to my iphone mini 13, cuz' I really like one-handed phones. This has NFC and an SD Card slot which is my biggest needs... and the support life seems awesome. My biggest worry - the processor.

unfortunately I've not been able to get a single gig worker app to work with lineage, even with all the play services verification work arounds.

I was under the impression with Google's new policy you'd still be able to turn off the unverified installations check (albeit with a 24 hour waiting period), in the dev options. Crazy that Google is trying to take away the one thing that keeps me using it over Apple.

Same boat here. I've been wondering if it's worth getting some sort of insurance on it just so I can be sure I get the full life out of it.

I had one but only used it for 3 months due to its poor software. Its way to small, my eyes were hurting using that thing.

When did google refuse to fix the vulnerability? It was fixed in october security update. If you didn't get it. It's on your phone manufacturer, not google for not fixing the issue.

Actually $1599.00 USD: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/11/motorolas-new-signature-27-has-it-all-if-you-can-stomach-the-1600-price-tag/ or https://www.androidheadlines.com/motorola-signature-27-price-release-date-pre-order

THANK YOU! If it’s not 2k like the Motorola then we may get this lol

It's like with laptops. Apple is obsessed with thin laptops but really I don't want to thin laptop I want to laptop I can use to beat people to death with so that it's repairable and actually contains standard issue components rather than miniaturized custom things I won't be able to source when it inevitably breaks.

If you're going to have a camera bump you might as well just flatten out the back and give yourself more battery space.

I have one as a secondary device, for the most part it's an mp3 player that can call and text, I'd use it more if Signal let me install on two phones, but its nice to carry around and has a headphone jack.