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Now I have this blood pressure monitor device that doesn't work without a logged in app and is a paperweight. I'm lucky I never invested into their ecosystem of health products. Lesson is no matter how popular a brand is, there is no guarantee they will be around. I've lost all my health data and there is no way to get it back.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The part that is growing is how many tools rely on apps and other connected features.

I have a blood pressure monitor, and it just outputs the result to a built-in screen. I can then log the values however I want, and it's probably easier and quicker to manually enter the three numbers each consisting of 2-3 digits into an app than to wait for the bluetooth connection to be established.

This battery monitor will never be remotely shutdown, because there is no remote function. And if the blood pressure tracking app shuts down, I can just use any other.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have a CO² station that logs to a .csv on a fat32 formatted sdcard. Beat that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I made a physiotherapy game console for kids that logs physiotherapy executions to a .csv on a fat32 formatted sdcard ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Ok, let's call it a tie.