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Fitbit Air Notifications Debate: Feature vs. Philosophy
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Andrew makes a direct plea: the Fitbit Air already has a vibration motor, so refusing to add optional notifications is simply withholding a feature for no reason. David and Adam push back — a screenless device exists precisely to let you forget about your phone, and adding vibrations defeats that purpose while killing battery life. Marques draws an analogy to the minimalist phone movement: people buy it intentionally limited, even if logically you could 'just use a regular phone and use it less.' Andrew's final position — default it off, let users opt in — earns a reluctant partial concession, but the philosophical divide stands.
Google is offering website owners a toggle to opt out of AI overviews — but the training data is already baked in. Like a black hole, once your content enters the model it can't be extracted. The opt-out prevents future scraping but does nothing for what's already been absorbed.
