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 100% of the people I know that used a mail order sleep study kit got a follow-up call recommending the use of a CPAP...including myself. I've begun making snarky comments about Big CPAP.
@stacey_campbell I just need someone to prescribe me a new CPAP that doesn't eject bits of polyurethane foam into my lungs. I know I need one but it's not like you can buy one outright thus this test which is going to tell me what I already know. I just need one that will work without an app or the internet. I don't need a third-party remote computer for a CPAP to perform its function. Calibrate, attach mask, push button, breathe. No network or phone app needed for this to work.
@arclight @stacey_campbell I ended up buying my CPAP online (ResMed made in Australia) with a prescription my PCP provided. My "insurance" company wanted me to rent a wifi enabled box so they could monitor its use - but then pretty much refused to pay for anything but a pittance. It cost about $800 for one with an SD card slot in case I need to share data with a neurologist. But well worth it - I sleep much better now.