Yeah, that's one of the reasons I can't bring myself to get one of these despite how useful it'd be and, honestly, -good for me-.

And I don't really have the spoons of late to go through all the rigamarole that finding one of the open-source ones and putting together yet another bit of infra that I have to maintain would entail :-/

Really wish I could get something that would fit my enormous wrists and not -narc- on me

I wonder how long it'll be before health insurance plans start requiring them, like those car insurance plans that require an OBD dongle in the car to monitor the customer's driving habits.

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Yeah. It's a definite concern. :-(

Remember in the ultra-weird novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, there was that sidebar explaining that the weirdass "belt buckle with no belt" thing on the uniform was a medical monitoring device? Like that, except instead of Dr. Chapel* getting on your case about not hitting your 5,000 steps a day, it'll be United Healthcare disallowing CPAP coverage because just get off your ass, fatso.

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So I will note: you know those automatic-winding-watch-winders? The doodads that essentially just rotate back and forth? There are variant ones available in certain places where this is a concern so you can have your fitness narc 'walk' while you do something else.

For every stupid oppressive bureaucrat there's at least five or six folks who see weaknesses in systems and have the motivation to fix 'em

>* because you know McCoy couldn't be bothered to chase
>people about that shit

Yeah, he never struck me as the paperwork type

I saw a tweet the other day saying, essentially, "I put my fitbit on my dog's tail and did 40,000 steps today! Woo!"

(also, there are automatic automatic watch winders? I bet those are sold at the same sort of places that sell motorized necktie racks.)

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>(also, there are automatic automatic watch winders? I bet those are
>sold at the same sort of places that sell motorized necktie racks.)
>

Yeah, like, Brookstone and the like. I used to wander through those stores back in the before-times when I was waiting for my spouse or whatever and amuse myself wondering why certain products existed.

As I understand it, the primary market is for people who own multiple "self-winding" watches, so they stay wound (and showing the correct time) even when they are not actually worn enough by actual humans.

I guess I can see it (I have a Seiko 5, and the calendar feature is a pain in the ass to set when it runs down—I keep ending up with it showing the weekday in Arabic), but it still seems like an incredibly "SkyMall in the '90s" kind of gadget. :)

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I don't know about requiring them, but the reason I got my tracker is the bonus healthcare money for recording step counts and sleep. A thousand steps a day is ten points, twenty days x 7,000 steps in a month is a hundred, using a device to record sleep is twenty, eight hours a night is fifty...something like that, anyhow.

If I didn't have it, it would take at least half again as long to reach the cap of 40,000 points.

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I wear mine on my ankle, partly because I don't want it on my wrist, and partly because I'm a tiny bit evil.

i've seen (on twitter, so take with an entire shaker of salt) people say that their health insurance expects a certain amount from gofundme in their calculations of how much they cover... really, the amount of expectation around either workarounds or popular gizmos is crazy.

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>I wear mine on my ankle, partly because I don't want it on my wrist,
>and partly because I'm a tiny bit evil.

my company did a step challenge, but it didn't count cycling as distance... so i put my garmin on my foot during my bike commutes to rack up the steps! it was in the spirit of "move yo ass" damnit!

-Z

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