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now if one could do some reverse engineering on Garmin watches and enable an opensource alternative to Garmin Connect, that would be marvellous.
What‘s wrong with Connect from your perspective? My only concern with it is that it’s slow
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What‘s wrong with Connect from your perspective? My only concern with it is that it’s slow
One problem with it is it requires a constant network connection for everything, which is baffling for software designed for devices where major intended uses involve being in situations with poor or no network connection.
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We need to use Unicode steganography to hide the message "this smartwatch sucks" into an innocent-looking review.
Apparently something similar is used by Chinese customers reviewing restaurants. They would make a food sign from food pieces that spells "crap food" in slang, but otherwise leave a stellar review for the restaurant.
I wish there was a concept of paid expert reviews on Amazon/everywhere. A general review system works well (ignoring review gaming) when your concern is "Does this shirt fit?" or "What's the build quality?", but fails when one expert review of "This device is fundamentally unsound," gets drowned out by reviews on the more easily testable aspects ("The band is really comfortable!"). A great example would be when Benso…
Project Farm!
That said I’m a little curious if any kind of Gell-Mann effect is going on since he never reviews products that I already have extensive experience with. I’m wondering if anyone has watched any of his reviews and came away feeling like he did a really poor job.
We are talking about a device with no internet connection that can only be accessed by someone in the same proximity to yourself.
Perhaps don't buy this watch if you live in a crowded location and take public transport a lot. For everyone else, seems really unlikely that the people you interact with will have setup a malicious attack for your watch brand. I don't think wardriving smart watches is a thing.
I'd only suggest that if the watch supports putting a credit card on it that you rethink doing that.
I wish there was a concept of paid expert reviews on Amazon/everywhere. A general review system works well (ignoring review gaming) when your concern is "Does this shirt fit?" or "What's the build quality?", but fails when one expert review of "This device is fundamentally unsound," gets drowned out by reviews on the more easily testable aspects ("The band is really comfortable!"). A great example would be when Benso…
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One problem with it is it requires a constant network connection for everything, which is baffling for software designed for devices where major intended uses involve being in situations with poor or no network connection.
Do you need Connect to use the device though? I was under the impression Connect is used for sync.
It's weird how much they still maintain a difference between a "fitness" watch and an "outdoors" watch and the supporting software.
It's the silly bifurcation between Garmin Connect and Garmin Explore software and online service worlds. It seems like an arbitrary accident of corporate history and leaky abstractions.
I wish there was a concept of paid expert reviews on Amazon/everywhere. A general review system works well (ignoring review gaming) when your concern is "Does this shirt fit?" or "What's the build quality?", but fails when one expert review of "This device is fundamentally unsound," gets drowned out by reviews on the more easily testable aspects ("The band is really comfortable!"). A great example would be when Benso…
I considered doing this once, a few years ago, but I couldn't figure out a way to make it work. It's pretty frustrating that when you're shopping for a laptop, nobody can tell you it'll suspend properly under Linux. Or when you're shopping for a bike light nobody can tell you whether over the summer it'll self-discharge to the point it bricks itself due to cell imbalance. Or when you're shopping for a microsd card, n…
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I wish there was a concept of paid expert reviews on Amazon/everywhere. A general review system works well (ignoring review gaming) when your concern is "Does this shirt fit?" or "What's the build quality?", but fails when one expert review of "This device is fundamentally unsound," gets drowned out by reviews on the more easily testable aspects ("The band is really comfortable!"). A great example would be when Benso…
In my experience too when posting a negative review it can get removed (this was about replacement batteries for lenovo laptops).
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How does this help anyone?
The suggestion is that negative reviews are suppressed. Communicating a negative review through a facially positive review would help avoid that.