I'm taking a mail-order sleep study and tonight I unpacked all the gear and read the instructions. Hardware-wise everything seems fine; a few instructions could use clarification but overall it seems like a decent piece of diagnostic medical telemetry kit.

And there's an app.

I so want every MBA and app developer who voluntarily adds Facebook pixels and Google Analytics trash to every fucking product to be dragged up the side of an active volcano behind a Land Rover and unceremoniously chucked into the crater. Could I just get medical diagnostics without you sharing everything with your 867 closest personal affiliates? Is there one single thing you won't enshittify?

Why do we suffer you to live?

I imagine a team of biomedical engineers, physicians, and researchers developing amazing medical hardware that can do a lot of good, hardware that is immediately siezed and handed to their baboon and remora masters. Another press to squeeze out the last drop of blood from this turnip.

@arclight the whole CPAP chain gives me the creeps. In the US, health insurance companies will bill you for the machine if you don’t show minimal use. Your use is reported only through the embedded cell modem for the first 10 months. Almost all of the replicable pieces are chipped for identity and authentication. And I get emails from the manufacturer: “Are you sure you’re maintaining your equipment “ every time they detect a fault, but there’s no actionable information.
@MarkAtMicrochip @arclight It's ridiculous that a prescription is necessary, but it's not hard to get one. Then tell the predatory company to stuff it and buy a CPAP online. Get one that cannot connect to anything, and figure out for yourself how best to use it. I've been very pleased with my little ResMed, but initially my PCP hooked me up with a company that wanted to lease me a machine, monitor my usage, and have direct access to my bank account to sell me shit like filters. Oy vey.
@sennoma @arclight I got the same sales pitch, but had an insurance plan that covered it 100%. I still don’t know why they get access to my data.