4 ms·

You'd think, but the setup and configuration on these things can take forever. And nevermind the things that can and occasionally do go wrong and need fixing.

• robotresearcher 9y ago
  And my Withings scale needs its 4xAA batteries replaced a couple of times a year. Wifi power, I guess.
• abritinthebay 9y ago
  It took literally 5 minutes to set up my scale to connect to Wifi and I've had to change the battery once in 3 years. You're vastly overestimating the friction here.
  • chrisseaton 9y ago
    Yes I don't think connected devices are always the best, but the person I was replying to was doing the classic informercial black-and-white video impression of someone pretending something is more difficult than it actually is.
    • Spooky23 9y ago
      No, that's not what I did at all. The GP of my comment was looking for an alternative recommendation. Spending >$100 for a fancy pants scale as a convenient alternative is incredibly wasteful and encourages activity (daily or mulime times daily) that is counter productive.
      • abritinthebay 9y ago
        A high quality regular scale (of similar build quality, design, and construction) to a Withings scale is $40-60 The Withings is $100. So it’s up to the consumer of the simplicity, ease of use, lack of friction in monitoring, and saving of time is worth $40-60 extra. If I save 30-45 mins of my time over the life of the scale: yes it is. Just from time alone (not taking other benefits into account yet) That’s not wasteful - that’s economical long term. You’re promoting such short term thinking.
        • Spooky23 9y ago
          Not at all. I live a digital life where I automate a ridiculous amount of activity. This is just an exercise in false progress. The average scale has an error range of 10-20 oz for a 200lb load. Automating something of little value (i.e. Daily or more frequent body measurements) doesn't make it more valuable.
          • abritinthebay 9y ago
            Only if you don’t value your time. Clearly you do not.