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I meant to reply after looking into Withings but I forgot about it. Thank you for sharing about Withings!

Withings looks good. Privacy policy (iirc) lists all of the third party services it uses that may hold customer data, and not many of them are from the US either (and when they do, it’s meant for US customers). Didn’t sound like they share much with these services either.

It’s a bit of a shame that you need a subscription for the health and fitness improvement stuff (via Withings+), but it does look like you get all the regular metrics with just having the watch.

I do wonder if those data can be exported without having to go through Apple Health or Health Connect, but I guess I’m not gonna holding my breath there.

I initially thought I’d give them the benefit of the doubt cause I’ve seen them around, and they sometimes say things that look like they can think and hold some kind of conversation. But from the reply they’ve given me, it looks like it was not needed. I was basically Ben-Shapiro-ed there.

Using Germany as an example to argue against PR is disingenuous on many levels. It shows a lack of understanding of how things work, what things are meant for, and also a blatant disregard of Germany’s history.

1. You’re essentially asking for an electoral system to keep extremists at bay, when no such system exists because it is simply impossible for any system to do that. Trying to use an electoral system for such a purpose is operating at the wrong level if you want to keep extreme views in check.
2. Germany has a unique history with far-left ideologies, how it got dismantled, and how the East and West reunified. If you look at the current state of old East Germany, you’ll see that the prosperity of the West did not flow into the East; their living conditions are bad, amenities lacklustre, there’s not enough jobs around and they don’t pay well, and the Western population can easily buy up their lands and properties just due to how much disparity there is in terms of wealth. And if you look at the electoral map and results of the last election, you’ll see that both far-left and far-right parties have a strong hold on old East Germany. This is the failure of the German government at truly unifying both sides of the old Germany. And if anything, I’d even argue that it’s a successful example of PR at work, as far as being a system goes.
3. Keeping or adopting any kind of Winner-Takes-All system will simply further divide us and keep voters feeling disenfranchised, believing that voting brings no effective change, all for no good reason.

An electoral system is not political. It’s the framework of which you exercise democracy.

Trying to make frameworks, which are meant to surface all voices, suppress certain ones is, frankly, barking up the wrong tree.

I can’t say I’ve found much about Polar’s status as a company, but there seems to be a few Reddit posts talking about some kind of financial woe at the company. Hadn’t seen info about its ownership tho, or if there’s been changes.

And yeah, someone else mentioned Suunto, and I did find out that it’s now Chinese-owned, by what seems to be originally a XiaoMi subsidiary.

All good! And ohh! I didn’t click to the other pages and I didn’t even notice! Thanks for letting me know about this. Pretty cool project!

Someone else mentioned a Suunto so I did some legwork.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/15885602

TLDR, it’s Chinese-owned

Ooh, I’d give that a try… if I actually have a Garmin.

I’m gonna bookmark this tho, just in case I can somehow get a Garmin off someone else.

Thanks for sharing!

Oof, the privacy on the Suuntos isn’t great apparently, or at least their privacy policy isn’t. Your health data gets sent all the way to China it seems. If I assume Suunto Oy is still Finnish (it does have a Finnish address), all their affiliates listed in their privacy policy are Chinese.

Digging further, they’ve apparently been sold to Liesheng in 2022. Liesheng used to be known as “Blue Mi”, ie a subsidiary of XiaoMi, which was created to focus on vital tracking.

That’s my guess too :’) But since idk if someone out there is somehow aware of options, I figured it doesn’t hurt to ask

Thanks for sharing! 2 months of battery life sounds amazing!

It’s a bit unfortunate that 28% of their products are manufactured in China, and, I haven’t checked, idk how transparent are they wrt this info on their product. But I will keep an eye out!

You’re gonna need more conditions than that cause you could just slap any a = b = c ∈ ℝ, drop a 0, and call it a day.