Garmin is neat because it waits till you calm down to tell you you were stressed. Then you’re like „huh, yeah, I guess I was. Thanks for noticing!”
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I should switch to Garmin.
My current smartwatch is getting old and kinda sucks....
Aah well.
I know this is a joke but it made me think how messed up it is that we've outsourced recognizing our own emotions lol
Also, now a bunch of companies have tons of data on when and where we feel things
There’s a reason the only smartwatch I’d allow health tracking on is the Pebble. I really don’t like the idea of a corp having realtime heartbeat info on me.
But imagine the relevant ads you could be served...
I'm excited for my new Pebble to arrive, but it'll be a few more months at least.
You say outsourced, but it's not like (men largely, but probably everyone) were super in touch with our emotions previously.
The “take a minute to breathe” thing is on a timer; it doesn’t react to detected emotions.
No, but the “Your heart rate is above 120 and you don’t appear to be moving” notification does.
now a bunch of companies have tons of data on when and where we feel things
Only if you choose devices that require all data go through their servers, like a garmin.
Mine just assumes that I'm working out.
A couple years ago when I was in awful shape and arguing with family on a hot day, my pulse and perspiration was such that my watch thought I had gone for a swim 😄
You weren't able to understand until that moment?
As frustrating as it is I think we benefit more from welcoming latecomers than shaming them and thinning the number of people of people willing to admit they were wrong in the future
And Sam was in Birmingham at the time! That's not even CLOSE to the Mediterranean, or indeed any sea!
That's how pissed off he was.
This comment section has revealed that a disturbing amount of Lemmy is insufficiently paranoid
Because they use fitness trackers or for clicking that dodgy-ass link?
It's not that dodgy. Backblaze is a cloud storage company and the this is their endpoint for serving S3 object storage. Piefied links straight to that instead of proxying it themselves.
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Telling people "calm down" is a very unconstructive de-escalation tactic because it has no substance. People respond much better if you address specific conduct, explain a potential consequence, ask for something else, and then give space.
For example, when someone needs to calm down, I tell them "You'd better fix that attitude problem of yours before it gets you into trouble", and then as soon as they begin to respond I interrupt with "Close your mouth" and I walk away. This makes people realize they're overreacting and they calm down right away.
Sounds like a great way to get a chair upside the back of your head.
None of that sounds productive to me. It seems accusatory and self-satisfied to the point of being abusive. Sounds like the kind of things infuriatingly rude people say and do to try and deflect from their own toxicity.
I thought that was the joke; this is such terrible advice that it's obviously a troll/sarcasm levels of joke.
You better fix that attitude problem before it lands you in some trouble.
Calm down.
The number of people addressing this post as serious advice is troubling.
Laughing when I got to "Close your mouth"!
It is, but keep in mind that if you don't intentionally misinterpret things you know to be jokes, you won't get to act smug about how awful they are. It's good to see we have some people bringing the core aspect of reddit culture here.
"You" statements are often read as accusatory, consider the "I" statement: "I need you to calm down because I'm becoming stressed by your attitude"
"I feel stressed with your attitude" is the I statement. It needs to start with your feelings on a particularly situation.
Even better is one that doesn't include an accusation. "I feel stressed when you get upset over stupid shit" works better if you keep it to "I feel stressed when you get upset." -- keeps the discussion on feelings instead of openning it up for an argument on stupid shit.
I'll try this at work with manager. Thanks for the advice!
My Fitbit like to congratulate me on getting so many In The Zone minutes. I'm not working out, but thanks I guess?
My Fitbit does this because my resting HR is so high, lol
I had the same reaction when my my Google Assistant told me that while it was not a real person that my words are real
Did you tell it to fuck off? I ask because that's the same response I got when I did that.
In order to test this I have determined that there are various different profane terms that it will respond to with this particular message. At this point I'm not sure what I said to it originally.
I just did it again and it says "I'm a virtual assistant but your words are still very real, please be respectful"
That and "smile". These make me wanna maim the guys who tells me this.
Watch was right. No point getting upset over work.
I kinda like it when my watch tells me that im stressed out and to do a breathing exercise. it helps me realize that I'm probably upset over absolutely nothing in the heat of a moment.
After I learning I'm physically stressed almost all the time and didn't realize it, I decided to save battery life by turning that feature off.