• Sirence
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    69 hours ago

    I have some strict rules about buying things where I cannot verify the used materials:

    Nothing that goes into my body
    Nothing that goes on my body
    Nothing that touches my food
    Nothing my pets touch
    Nothing that needs to be plugged in or charged

    A smart watch violates multiple of those rules. I wouldn’t want to risk it.

    • Fonzie!
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      37 hours ago

      Nothing that needs to be plugged in or charged

      How are you using this site?

        • Fonzie!
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          33 hours ago

          I’m very much doubting you can verify everything in your computer/phone as even computer part manufacturers have difficulty tracing their supply chain, so good luck with that.

    • @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 hours ago

      While I completely appreciate your perspective, I do have to ask: what with how interconnected, not to mention fucked up, the world is today, wouldn’t pretty much everything violate at least two or three of those rules?

      • @Delphia@lemmy.world
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        66 hours ago

        I took that one to mean You know your Samsung S21 was made by Samsung. That suspiciously cheap “hoverboard” with the lithium ion battery was made… in china… somewhere.