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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Man, if you're going to start gatekeeping about pointless tech than a fitness band is also pointless.

Go out and run til you're tired and eat right and you'll get fit.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

I honestly don't see the fitness tech in itself as useless, it holds clear benefits for us. I'm just not one to encourage creating increasingly wasteful and predatory iterations of said tech.