I'm very much into opensource and privacy respecting tech like grapheneos on phones and I'm wondering about similar stuff for smartwatches, I like the idea of convenience of notifications and signal communication between a phone and smartwatch type device but everything is either super centralised or (no offense) absolute dog poop. I dunno. Let me know your thoughts. This is my first topic post here so sorry if its off topic not sure if I'm posting this right. I hate reddit and dont want to make an account there and ask.
466 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 3 Mar 2023
The best heart rate monitor you can get is the Polar H10.
It's the most accurate heart rate monitor for consumers.
And it's absolutely open to anything, they even have an open source SDK to build your own apps: https://github.com/polarofficial/polar-ble-sdk
Very rare in a sea of close sourced crap.
And if you want an app to use it with, I can recommend Runnerup: https://github.com/jonasoreland/runnerup
An amazing open source app for logging your runs, with GPS, audio, and heart rate.
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81 sats \ 3 replies \ @ama 3 Mar 2023
I stopped wearing a watch the day after I got my first phone in 1994. Every now and then I carry one of my pocket watches for fun, but I don't think I'll wear a wrist watch ever again, no mater how intelligent they might get. If I ever do, it'd be opensource, of course, preferably BSD or some other Unix-like or Linux based and Java (Android) free.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Darkbulb 3 Mar 2023
I agree. Really no reason unless your tracking miles/heart rate while running.
Theres some interesting tech coming down the line, blood glucose montitor, ECG, but i still probably wont buy a watch
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama 3 Mar 2023
I use one of my phones to track my walks (not with sMiles, or any freaking Gøøgł€ PoS, of course), and measure my heart rate placing my index finger on my wrist and counting. LOL
For other monitoring I'm sure there will be less annoying sensors, like small patches or probably finger rings.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @njelsalvador 3 Mar 2023
When I went Bitcoin I realised I didn't need stuff like watches and jewellery and flash stuff. It was nice to have on occasion. But the importance went down. And just enjoyed the moments more with less.
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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 3 Mar 2023
When open source lunchables?
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22 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 3 Mar 2023
Here you go:
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sebastix 3 Mar 2023
Check out the Pine64 website and their projects https://www.pine64.org/
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