Okay, fine. Activity trackers for health and fitness I get. But has anyone done activity trackers for people with chronic illness that helps you *keep within your spoons*?

For some people it can be easy to overdo it. Also eg if you've had COVID or have long COVID, would it be helpful to have an activity tracker that explicitly helps you take it slow and not over-exert yourself?

I mean, you're supposed to *rest* when getting over COVID never mind long COVID, but my cursory review doesn't show activity trackers with an explicit convalescence mode, you know, 2+ years into a pandemic that will never end.
@danhon there was an article a few years ago where the writer got pregnant and her smart scale started shaming her for gaining weight and then she looked into it and discovered that basically none of these devices have a pregnancy mode? I wonder if that's changed 🙃
@sofiav pretty sure that was me writing about my wife.
@danhon lmao for some reason my memory of the article is in the first person but it totally could have been, sorry! 😅
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

“An entertaining romp that tells us where and why the tech industry, once America’s darling, went wrong, and what it might do to recover its good graces.” —Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us realize just how many oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares are baked inside the tech products we use every day. It’s time we change that. In Technically Wrong, Sara Wachter-Boettcher demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we use—and to demand more from the companies behind them. A Wired Top Tech Book of the Year A Fast Company Best Business and Leadership Book of the Year

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@danhon Google isn't showing me those pages but I remember reading it as an article on some website, not in a book? But not which website, unfortunately.