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What's not to understand? Op uses a Fitbit to keep track of how much time they spend sitting to help avoid injury. Not sure how devices or privacy have anythin

by Scooty 7y ago

What's not to understand? Op uses a Fitbit to keep track of how much time they spend sitting to help avoid injury. Not sure how devices or privacy have anything to do with the problem.

yeahitslikethat 7y ago
That's what I don't understand. Devices are the problem. You're solving one problem and creating several more. When you could just set an alarm on your computer to get up and walk around in and hour or two.
- Scooty 7y ago
  Sitting for too long is the problem not devices. I agree a timer would probably work just as well, but the number of devices has nothing to do with fixing the problem of sitting too much (especially a device intended to help increase physical activity).
- brlewis 7y ago
  I'm a #FitbitEmployee but don't speak for Fitbit. The advantage of the device is that it doesn't interrupt you if you've already taken 250 steps that hour. I take it you own a smartphone based on this previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19688327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19688327 Even if you don't own a smartphone, the loss of privacy to Fitbit is minimal, in my personal opinion. If you do own a smartphone, adding a Fitbit to the picture means an infinitesimal loss of privacy, too small to even be worth talking about. Fitbit has a financial incentive to keep your data private. Can you say that about every app on your phone?
  - yeahitslikethat 7y ago
    When this phone dies I probably won't get another one. Someone gave me their old cracked phone. It would otherwise be garbage and I won't buy a new phone because the whole system is killing the planet and human beings in places we can't name. It's so gross, I don't want to be part of it anymore. So I think you're not going to change my mind about this. Until we start saying no this can't happen anymore. It will keep on. We are all culpable.

by Scooty 7y ago

What's not to understand? Op uses a Fitbit to keep track of how much time they spend sitting to help avoid injury. Not sure how devices or privacy have anything to do with the problem.

yeahitslikethat 7y ago

That's what I don't understand. Devices are the problem. You're solving one problem and creating several more. When you could just set an alarm on your computer to get up and walk around in and hour or two.

Scooty 7y ago
Sitting for too long is the problem not devices. I agree a timer would probably work just as well, but the number of devices has nothing to do with fixing the problem of sitting too much (especially a device intended to help increase physical activity).
brlewis 7y ago
I'm a #FitbitEmployee but don't speak for Fitbit. The advantage of the device is that it doesn't interrupt you if you've already taken 250 steps that hour. I take it you own a smartphone based on this previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19688327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19688327 Even if you don't own a smartphone, the loss of privacy to Fitbit is minimal, in my personal opinion. If you do own a smartphone, adding a Fitbit to the picture means an infinitesimal loss of privacy, too small to even be worth talking about. Fitbit has a financial incentive to keep your data private. Can you say that about every app on your phone?
- yeahitslikethat 7y ago
  When this phone dies I probably won't get another one. Someone gave me their old cracked phone. It would otherwise be garbage and I won't buy a new phone because the whole system is killing the planet and human beings in places we can't name. It's so gross, I don't want to be part of it anymore. So I think you're not going to change my mind about this. Until we start saying no this can't happen anymore. It will keep on. We are all culpable.