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[–] 61 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

Who wants a recap of their day?

"You woke up at 7:22am!"
"You played stardew valley in bed for 14 hours!"
"You took minor chickie mcnuggie breaks twice today!"

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Are you watching me through a camera rn???

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    [–] 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    ... in case you weren't there and missed it? I don't get it. "Today this happened." "Duh"

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It’s like that black mirror episode where the couple can replay their arguments

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Exact same thought when I saw their presentation. Fucking unreal how many episodes are getting more and more real over last few years. Can't wait for this stupid AI boom to die, it still won't go anywhere but at least they would stop accelerating the planet's death. Hopefully, maybe.

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  • [–] 81 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I don't consent to any iWatch recording me

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Why would anyone want that?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    No one does. That’s where we’re at in tech now. It’s never anything any consumer wants, but it’s always what the surveillance industry wants. A recap of my day is fucking useless. I was there, for fuck sake!

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I have the perfect timepiece. It tells the time and that's it. It syncs to atomic time so it's always accurate and charges by solar so it's never dead. It has no transmitter or audio capabilities.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Hey! Mine not only tells the time, but also the day of the week and month, and has an integrated alarm clock and stopwatch. Battery lasts for seven years, keeps time to within a few minutes per year, is cheap enough so that I don't mind wearing it when I'm cycling as I can just replace it if I break it, and it has a celebrity endorsement. Of sorts, anyway.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yeah no kidding. My calculator watch still works to this day. I did have one of those moments where a math teacher said the classic "you won't have a calculator in your pocket" and I though that's right, I have one on my wrist.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    From Casio even in 1984, with TOUCHSCREEN where you could write the numbers to calculate, Casio AT-552 Janus or the TC600 from 1980 with touchscreen keyboard. Way ahead of their time.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/FDadKTNjJvw

    https://youtube.com/shorts/AGUNtBmh9yw

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago

    Coming soon! The iWatch U

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  • [–] 71 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Apple seems really focused on preventing the audio from making it off the device.

    Which fine, I believe they'll make that very difficult. Apple has engineering chops.

    But it's not the fucking point. I ALSO don't want every watchhole around me making transcriptions of anything I say within earshot of whoever wears one. Which will be way less noticeable than even smart glasses. Say goodbye to having an unrecorded conv in most public places.

    The whitewashing of the privacy probs with this is galling.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I was reading up on that and how they plan on processing it in the Secure Enclave part of the watch. My only concern though is as you move more stuff into the enclave, the bigger the attack surface for the entire enclave becomes. And then at what point is more working being done in the enclave than the rest of the watch basically becoming a useless demarcation of security.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Apple seems really focused on preventing the audio from making it off the device.

    Huh? That tiny fucker uses AI to process the conversations itself?! How?

    Isn't that going to drain the battery and heat up the thibg to high hells? I'm assuming it's either that or the output will be crap.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    "I have nothing to hide, not even the private conversation happening next to me"

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Who is dumb enough to think they want or need this? We’re all aware that this is just more data collection, right?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Is this even legal in the eu?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I don't need recaps; I was literally there.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    is this for people with Alzheimers? do people not remember what they did through the day or need more granuality? took a shit vs took a shit fron 9:05:47 to 9:35:48 vs did i shit today ?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago
    09:05:47: You lifted the lid of the toilet   
    09:05:49: You dropped your shorts and underpants   
    09:06:04: Your butt cheeks made contact with the toilet seat   
    09:06:07: You activated your iPhone   
    09:06:09: You opened ShitTok on your iPhone   
    09:06:15: You realised that nothing was forthcoming and that there must be a clog in your colon   
    09:06:23: You began straining   
    09:06:24: You exclaimed: "Arrrrgh, shift you nobbly bastard!"   
    09:06:40: Your pulse and blood pressure reached dangerously elevated levels   
    09:06:44: The crap clog finally passed your sphincter   
    09:06:45: The 'bomb bay doors opened' and a satisfying torrent of last night's now-digested burrito gushed out   
    09:06:51: The flow of yesterday's bean, cheese, and pork 'al pastor' eases     
    09:06:55: You sighed with relief and reached for the TP     
    

    Who wouldn't want that in their life?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Oh great, now we're all going to have to buy voice modulators that interject some kind of patterned noise that scrambles audio recording. Just like those masks that interfere with video.

    The privacy arms race has begun.

    In a decade we'll all be wearing privacy helmets.

    Wait, that sounds kind of cool actually.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I just use a Garmin and gadget bridge. I don't bother connecting it to the internet or using it to look at text messages.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    The stupidest tech purchase I made, ever, was an Apple Watch. Useless piece of shit.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I’ve never seen anyone come up with anything even slightly useful for any smart watch.

    $500 bucks to learn that your heart rate goes up when you exercise and to start each day being told your sleep wasn’t perfect. Wow what awesome actionable information thanks

    Oh you paid a thousand bucks for the one with the built in altimeter that gives you the exact same information printed on the trail map? So cool, wow so we really did go up the mountain and then back down, who could have known. Oh my god it even remembers where we parked the car?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Sleep and exercise tracking are the number one reason why I bought one. Just because you don’t get excited by it doesn’t mean others don’t.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You and I both get excited about many things in our lives that are totally useless, or even activey detrimental to our goals. The watch probably makes your sleep worse in and of itself, for starters. And I’ve never seen anything helpful on the exercise tracking side, what do you use it for?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    How in the world is the watch going to make my sleep worse? Yeah maybe the first week when I had to get used to something being strapped to my wrist. But that’s no different from when I slept with my old Cassio. The watch has bed time reminders that prompt me to go to bed, which has only helped me be more consistent with my sleep. It also alerted me that I was having sleep apnea and prompted me to get a proper test which has only helped me get better sleep. the watch doesn’t magically make my sleep better though, it just tracks my sleep and lets me know when there’s problems. In ways that I can’t do when I’m ya know… asleep.

    You’ve never seen tracking heart rate or exertion be useful while exercising? Really?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    There are tons of stories from people who report the sleep tracking causes them unneeded stress and worsens their sleep. That’s if they realize it’s happening. Plenty more never make the connection.

    The watch has bed time reminders

    Your $1 casio also has the ability to set an alarm

    sleep apnea

    lets me know when there’s problems

    Anxiety based marketing. Yes, if you were previously not mindful of your health and the watch was the catylist that got you to seek treatment, that’s genuinely great.

    Everyone should however be familiarizing themselves with the symptoms of common preventible illnesses, including the vast majority of which the watch doesn’t track and has no way of alerting you to. Typically you want to pursue medical assistance when you encounter some type of problem, and not just spend oodles on consumer tech because a mega corporation realized they can rake in cash by larping as a preventative diagnostic.

    You’ve never seen tracking heart rate or exertion be useful while exercising?

    Correct. “Heart rate zone” is a fundamentally worthless metric. It was contrived as an excuse to sell trackers. Even if it were 100% accurate there is literally no benefit to knowing or considering that information during or after your workout. I mention accuracy because there are plenty of examples of people wearing two different brands during the exact same workout and getting wildly different results, just so you know.

    If you want to monitor your exertion you just use your breathing. Forced to slow down due to breathing = max, breathing challenged but sustanable (barely possible, but possible, to have a conversation) = mid, sustainable breathing and could easily have a conversation = min. Totally free and you can even do interval training with that same casio if you so desired

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The main thing I use mine for is being able to check notifications without having to grab my phone. I already enjoy wearing a watch, so the time, date, temperature and any other bonus info I want can be there too.

    That’s about where it stops though. It should be a mostly passive device. I don’t think the design of fiddling with buttons and talking to it are reasonable. It should tell you information, not take it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Hey if you simply enjoy it that’s awesome. My main problem is really just the marketing angle where people end up believing the watch has unlocked the ability for them to go for a walk around their neighborhood

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Of my day? Nah, not gonna happen.

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    [–] 17 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    I don't buy Apple products, so no, they won't, heh

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  • [–] 39 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    …unless, of course, you’re close to a person who wears one of these. then you still get spied on yaaaaayyyyy

    and unlike the meta glasses, these look the same as any apple watch, which have already been normalized in society. so shunning people for wearing these won’t work cuz you won’t be able to tell. i love the future this is so COOL

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I know... i was being tongue-in-cheek.

    I need to find a way to build a handheld rf jammer

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Its not doing anything with my day. Don't have one, don't want one.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Since we're headed headfirst for a dystopian world of social credid and whatnot, I'm gonna invest in sarcasm.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    My pebble watch only listens to me if I ask it to:)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    They're so fucking desperate to find any use of this technology...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Its gonna keep a scoreboard of how much you crank your hog

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I wonder what goes through these designers' minds

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Given that Apple gladly replaced my Series 5 watch for free when the screen came off, I think I can get another 6 years out of it.

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