cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33995436
I am looking for a good fitness tracker to start doing cardio in a more measured way.
I was interested in Polar and Oura as EU alternatives (both Finnish companies), but both send data (health data, which is sensitive according to Article 9 of the GDPR) to AWS.
Are you aware of any EU solutions, or at least non-US, Chinese, Russian, or Israeli solutions, that do not send my data to companies in those countries?
I would like to be able to organize something self-hosted, but I don’t think I’m capable of doing that yet.
Have you ever heard of a pen and paper? You can print out tracking forms. I know…pretty crazy right?
People need to take their heads out of their ass and realize that you don’t need an app for fucking everything.
What a fantastic idea! After every cycling trip or run I’ll pull out a ruler and paper map and measure how far I went!
Get a Garmin and never connect it to the Internet.
I’m not sure how popular they are now, but there are speedometers/odometers you can get for bikes that are just physical devices. You wouldn’t get a gps view of the route you took, but you could still easily track how far you went.
Not sure on running though. I guess some math with a pedometer would get you part of the way there?
Well people found a way to do this before smart phones existed so yea…use your fucking brain and figure it out. Other commentors have already listed alternative ways to measure it.
If you spent less time creating smartass replies on Lemmy and more actually thinking, you may learn some things.
Reread your own first comment out loud and tell me you have any room to talk about “smartass replies.” Lack of self awareness is always so pathetic
If you measure it in minutes, it would be pretty easy. And measuring in miles also is pretty straightforward. Break out the measuring tool on your map of choice and write down how long your standard route is, any deviations you can guestimate quickly.