This is the smartwatch I own. True netrunners know that the tech we wear on (or under) our skin is a prime entry vector for ever hungry megacorps to bleed the pulsing data from our digital veins, so having a wearable I have full control over is of paramount importance. I can flash it with new firmware whenever I want, the multiple open source options available are all an open book to any hacker worth their cyberlinguistic salt, and I can know for a fact that it won’t phone home with my location or other data to any corporation behind the scenes. If we are all going to be cyborgs integrating technology onto and eventually into our bodies, better to control that tech ourselves!

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    I’d be down for something that was more designed around all the fun bio data smart watches can collect. I’d even be down for a slightly invasive implant that would collect data about my health so I can better keep track of it all. Apple seems the most interested in the health stuff from what I’ve seen and I have no interest in the apple ecosystem. Open source health stuff seems like an opportunity to latch on to before the corpos make the stuff and sell the data.

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      I agree. I’m less interested in “smartwatch” and more interested in “fitness tracker”. PineTime is missing several sensors that competitors like Apple Watch and Fitbit devices have, such as electrical sensors, GPS, and temperature sensors which can be used for more advanced fitness tracking.

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      Yeah the Apple Watch was kinda the final straw that got me to switch over from Android. The amount of effort required to root a phone hard enough to where apps couldn’t stalk me wasn’t helping.

      Apple’s made privacy a fairly large part of their value offering recently. The main issue remains integrating with other local services.

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        Apple’s made privacy a fairly large part of their value offering recently.

        The problem is that that’s mostly marketing smoke and mirrors. They define privacy as not giving your data to third parties (who aren’t subcontracted with them), not actually refusing to collect in-depth data or link it to your personal identity. There have been a number of pieces of evidence released recently that show that they actually collect as much if not more data about you then Google does, and tend to ignore your privacy settings.

        The amount of effort required to root a phone hard enough to where apps couldn’t stalk me wasn’t helping.

        Depending on your phone, you could use GrapheneOS (which is super easy to set up compared to rooting and basically the best security and privacy you can get in any smartphone) or CalyxOS. Both easier (and more effective) than rooting, and certainly better than Apple.

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          Re: Apple + privacy

          I believe most of their intentions about restricting 3rd parties from seeing your data is keeping it for themselves. IIRC Apple plans to (if they haven’t already, I’m on the Android platform) release their own ad service using their own proprietary data.

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          When your device is locked with a passcode, Touch ID, or Face ID, all of your health and fitness data in the Health app — other than your Medical ID — is encrypted and inaccessible by default. Additionally, if you are using iOS 12 or later and turn on two-factor authentication, Apple will not be able to read your health and activity data synced to iCloud.

          Most of iPhones’ data at this point is e2e encrypted. (Medical ID is the info for first responders thing, which has to be accessed while the phone is locked.)

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            Graphene user here. I rooted my devices and flashed cousin ROMs for years, but stopped because I got tired of the compromises. A couple of months ago I took the plunge while upgrading and got a pixel 7a (so it’s got the longest support) to put Graphene on. I have found it to be, basically, Android. Googless at first, but you can add Goog to taste. Play Services runs sandboxed, if you want to run it.

            Most apps work just fine, but in my setup Google Wallet does not. I can’t remember exactly why but I think it’s related to Play Services. Banking and “pay me” apps like Venmo seen to work fine though!

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          I think you’re (intentionally or otherwise) mistaken about Apple and privacy. E2E encryption and key data being stored only on device, it’s the best privacy story around. They don’t make money by selling you or your data - they make money selling hardware to you.

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            You should watch this video about how much invasive user data MacOS collects and sends (in plaintext) to Apple’s servers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMc5zgALLiY

            And this one, about App Store tracking and them ignoring privacy settings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=016QGxOsjQY

            And read this NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/opinion/apple-iphone-privacy.html

            E2E encryption and key data being stored only on device

            That’s for iMessage. And you can get identical functionality from Signal on any Android phone with a secure element (like a Pixel). They don’t encrypt iCloud backups, and regularly turn that info in to the government. And, ironically, those iCloud backups include messages, which aren’t stored on their servers encrypted! According to the NYT: “Apple also has access to text messages that it says are otherwise encrypted when they are backed up in iCloud, a workaround that’s apparently necessary to aid law enforcement.”

            it’s the best privacy story around

            Not remotely. That would be GrapheneOS on a Pixel or CalyxOS on another Android phone. Apple is good in comparison to other stock vendors, sure. But it isn’t the best option. Also, maybe read their privacy policy sometime: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww. It’s enlightening stuff. They collect a lot, and use it for whatever they want as long as it doesn’t leave Apple (or the businesses its partnered with).

            They don’t make money by selling you or your data - they make money selling hardware to you.

            Maybe not: “Apple is also building out its own online advertising business, portions of which a French privacy watchdog said may run afoul of European laws. The agency said that Apple doesn’t appear to require users’ consent for tracking, as it now does from other app makers, meaning it could benefit from the targeted advertising that its do-not-track feature is meant to hinder.” (From the NYT article)

            After all, why would a megacorporation turn down the opportunity to milk more profit out of their very captive (have you ever tried to get an Apple person to leave their walled garden?) income source? Remember, this is /c/cyberpunk lol

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            Basically, Apple says all sorts of nice things about privacy, but its all entirely bullshit.

            They don’t make money by selling you or your data

            Correct. They make money holding it hostage.

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      The good news is that Pine is also creating the #PineNote with an eink display, so maybe the creation of an eink #PineTime at some point in the distant future is not completely unrealistic either. Assuming the display is the main thing you miss about it, of course. :)

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      I started rocking a Pebble Time about a year ago with my Android phone and I absolutely love it! If you can find one with decent battery life and get Rebble set up on it, it’ll still serve you well (in my experience, at least).

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        Oh, I still have a working Time, Time Steel, and P2. I just needed more/better health tracking and nfc payments. The unreleased Pebble Time 2 would’ve been perfection. I’ve been a Rebbler since day 1 :)

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    I love my PineTime. I don’t care about health stats (I’m well aware of how much time I spend sitting at my computer), but I wanted a watch that did the following things:

    1. tell me the time
    2. show text message notifications
    3. control my music

    This watch does all that and… basically nothing else. It has a step-counter but I don’t trust it. It has a heart rate monitor but it can never detect my heart rate (I probably wear my watch too loosely). So for my needs, it does everything I want and nothing I don’t want. It definitely isn’t the right watch for someone who cares about tracking health info, but for reducing the number of times I pull out my phone for stupid reasons, this is perfect. It can even reject phone calls so I don’t have to pull my phone out of my pocket when I get yet another spam call.

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        About 6-7 days. I haven’t noticed myself consistently charging my watch on the same day (like, if I was charging every Sunday or something), but I just checked GadgetBridge (the companion app for Android) and it has a chart showing my battery go from 96% down to 12% over a 6-day period, when I then plugged in my watch to charge it again. The battery icon changes color when it hits 15% so I usually plug it in at that point rather than letting it drain completely.

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      I gotta say, the step counter is accurate. I’ve tallied steps on longer walks and it was only off by 0.5-1%

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    I love the concept. I’m all for open tech. Eventually I’d love to have an open-source AI smart home system. But I am absolutely not installing an Alexa or Google home in my house for the obvious reasons

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      Home Assistant is great. Fairly friendly to set up (not a easy as Google and such) an HD will integrate with tonnes of brands

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        They don’t, nobody cares anymore. It’s privacy enthusiasts and people who don’t care at all. Nothing in between.

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      There’s Mycroft ( @mycroft_ai ), which carries most of the potential in open source home assistants, but seems to struggle to take of.

      Personally I’m an open source enthusiast and the last thing I’d want is this type of technology installed in my house, open source or not. I suspect people like me are the reason this project struggles to gain more traction…

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        Yeah, it’s gonna be a long time before I let any smart devices with cameras or microphones in my house (besides my phone, lol). And why I have two different networks - one for my IOT devices, and for my personal network of devices. Although in this era, it’s safe to simply assume someone is always watching if there’s a camera or microphone nearby.

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    This makes me sad because it’s not available in my country “for logistical reasons”, and it seems to be just what I wanted

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        That’s the US store, there’s a pine64eu site where the watch is listed as €62. But the cheaper way to order is definitely through the US store, that’s what I did

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            Yeah it’s quite hidden for some reason. Oh well, now you know there’s an EU store and that’s where the high price of €62.65 comes from

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      For some reason Pine’s EU store is ridiculously overpriced. The pinecil is around £55 if you buy it from the EU store or £47/£55 amazon. I got the pinecil for £33 buying from the US store and just having it shipped over to the UK.

      You could think about doing that for this smartwatch!

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    I’ve also got a pinetime watch, never been a fan of the data collection smartwatch companies do, its great to have something that I know exactly how it works with its open source firmware. It’s not exactly perfect but there’s been tons of updates from contributions by the community, I’ve even been able to make some modifications of my own too.

    If anyone here in the comments has any questions about it I’d be happy to answer them

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      How’s the battery life? My favourite thing about the Pebble was that it lasted a full week between charges, which I always attributed to the e-paper screen.

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        I run a patched version of the Infinitime firmware that has some tweaks to optimise battery life, these will likely be in the main release soon enough. I did a test after installing the firmware and got 10 days battery life from 100% to dead of daily normal watch use. This is with a somewhat new (~2 months old) watch so don’t know how it may degrade but getting over a week is easily achievable on the pinetime.

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      Does it have a microphone? I’d love to use it to record small sound clips. Given that question, does it have a recording app?

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        No microphone unfortunately, it’s a feature I would’ve liked but at least that guarantees it’s not recording you

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    It would be cool if it had sensors like oximeter and GPS. But for $27, it’s not bad. How’s the battery and step counting on it?

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      The battery truly does last for an impressive amount of time, even actively connected to gadgetbridge on my phone. I get a bit more than a week out of it typically. I can’t really say how good the sub counting is I think it’s just based on an accelerometer but it doesn’t seem any worse than what I had in my Fitbit

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      Step counting is accurate enough and I go about four days between charges. Sealed version.

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    and I can know for a fact that it won’t phone home with my location or other data to any corporation behind the scenes.

    if you’ve already got a wearable, check if Gadgetbridge supports it. it can replace your gadget’s companion app so that it doesn’t connect to the cloud. that’s what I use with the Mi Band 7 that I got as a gift.

    https://gadgetbridge.org/

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      *Laughs in European. Cheapest I found was 65 euros ‘with free shipping’. I regret going for a Chinese band instead for the same total cost due to the ‘overpaying’ fallacy.

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    Are you using any fitness or sleep tracking apps with it? I like the design and open nature but there are hardly any quality apps I’ve found that integrate well with it.