I just want a step tracker that looks like a real watch but the only options are smart
TLDR: no more smart watch data harvesting back to basics this year. nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqpr9mhxue69uhhxetwv35hgtnwdaekvmrpwfjjucm0d5klqft7 is right smart watches are just another tracker and data collector harvesting your info to sell.
So for Christmas my present was the new version of a Casio protrek watch. I had tried a Garmin the previous year. While the functionality is great it just isn't my thing.
I've been working on improving my privacy practices and it was just another tracking beacon with an account tied to it. I didn't put all the demographic information into the account correctly or at all. Still it collected data on me for a year.
Needless to say back to an analog/digital dumb watch for me. Main thing I wanted it for was the barometer and compass function. I can just estimate the rest of the information I got from it.
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Same.
I did get a Garmin VivoSmart 4. It supposedly allows you to turn off blue tooth and I can manually sync if I want to. It tracks steps and sleep, but you really have to sync (can do through usb) to get sleep data. Unfortunately, they don't make the VivoSmart4 anymore and the VivoSmart5 doesn't have great reviews. I want to track steps and sleep, but I don't want to be irradiated or tracked. The person who creates a watch that will give you this information without any wireless links and only backups to a file on a personal computer, will definitely get my business.