I have had it switched on on my watch for over 5 years at this point. I record activities pretty much everyday which over the years has been a combination of both running and cycling. In that time I have probably has around 5 false positives, 3 of which I have notices and cancelled before it has sent messages to my family.

I have had a couple of actual crashes in that time and it picked both of them up fine and sent messages as it should do, they were both on the bike. It has never detected any falls I have had whilst running however.

My false positives have never been in the same place, so I keep it on as the couple of times I have had crashes it has worked as intended and although I was fine and able to walk away from them if I hadn’t I believe it could be beneficial still.

Thank you! Time for some research I think!

Any names for these so I can look into them? Cheers!

Hardware wise I’m not going to be replacing this garmin watch until it is run into the ground though as that would just be wasteful and it works just fine :D

The article does say that everything that is currently free will remain as such and you are only paying for the “new AI” bullshit.

Whilst this may be true initially I dont believe for a minute they won’t slowly start eroding those “free features” going forward.

I like their hardware and the software is alright but I won’t pay a subscription for anything like this.

Oh fuck off with all this AI bullshit.

I guess this is the first step to them enshittifying their eco system and slowly pushing towards making everyone pay a subscription like Strava did.

I guess after over 15 years I’ll be moving away from Garmin for my next watch, there is a dire need for a good FOSS activity tracker in the space.

His final sentiment is the same as mine, meh who really cares. Presta works fine for me and i’ve never really had any issues with them.

I agree and like you wasn’t really sure why but I have seen a lot of people recently recommend komoot as an alternative to Strava, particularly on the buyeuropean communities. I haven’t used Komoot for quite a few years now though so didn’t know if maybe they had expanded into activity tracking as well as routes etc.

Right when everyone is recommending them as an alternative to Strava, is this acquisition the reason you now need a subscription to transfer maps to devices?

I used connect for nearly 2 years, I like the way it looks and operated and was fairly happy, however after an update this week that introduced a shit load more bugs and didn’t really fix any of the outstanding ones I finally got sick of it.

So this week I have been using Voyager all week, think I’m gonna jump around a few different ones and try and find a new place to stay.

Oh yeh, my bad, I read your message wrong. Sorry.

It is right there in the image “traffic casualty hospitalisation”