CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@maya I ordered the square one, if you want I will report back on whether slack notifs work in a few months when it arrives. My original Pebble got all the notifs for my Android, including Slack. Which was more of a curse than a blessing when my group chat posted something wildly nsfw in the slack we use to chat, when I worked in-person at an office. My original Pebble did not support emoji but that only somewhat limited the nsfw blast radius

@maya (not to be xenophobic, i just hope whoever it is whose job it is to monitor heart rates in china is having a good time analyzing my data? they probably are not but I can hope)

@maya my current smartwatch is, of course, an amazfit band 5 from 2021 which was extremely cheap and which is probably sending my heart rate info directly to China, which I have mitigated by not telling it correct values for my gender or weight and repeatedly denying it location privileges when it asks for them. So like. Maybe I could have a nice thing instead.

@maya when they announced this I thought to myself, "but do i really think repebble is going to work? do i really want to order one?" and then I closed the tab, but like. I need to replace my smartwatch since the battery has degraded some. I want a month of battery life. I miss my weird blocky black and white plastic pebble from 2015. I am tempted.....

@mcc this would be a great thing to do for me personally, as a trans person who wishes to someday again cross an international border with my katana*

*it is blunted and used as sporting equipment, and yet here we are