Pretty sure it's just fantasy, it's easy to find his book from his comments. He has <5k followers and minimal engagement on any social media platform, his book does not have great reviews nor many of them on goodreads(150 reviews for a book that would have had to sell almost 25k copies in a month to get those numbers).

Any conversation I've found in related subreddits seems negative.

She founded it

Does it have the worst battery life on the market when comparing like to like?

Garmin isn't like to like since it's not really a smart watch it's an exercise tracker. What are android watches like for battery life that would be a better comparison.

Yes it does, and I can give you many examples. However, the following thing you said tells me that having a rational conversation with you is unlikely:

> Garmin isn't like to like since it's not really a smart watch it's an exercise tracker.

And like people who complain that apples laptops are too expensive you'll be bringing out examples with far fewer features, slower processors, worse displays and battery lives that only exist when the user doesn't track or run anything I'm guessing.

If you think Garmin watches are at all comparable to apple watches while still maintaining those long battery lives you've never used a Garmin watch for anything.

So many vacuous claims about supposed missing features, worse displays, worse battery life... and yet the only hard evidence/example in this entire comment chain is the horrible battery life of the apple watch...

You're not even trying to be honest or rational.

Because all of those things impact battery life. You are trading improved performance and features for worse battery life. These are not unrelated.

My Swatch has a battery life that makes any Garmin on the market seem pathetic. Is it fair to compare the two on battery life?

> Because all of those things impact battery life.

Oh 'all' of those zero specific things you mentioned impact battery life? Ok.

Anyway, I don't even care what the battery life is - my initial comment in this chain is replying to a guy who didn't mention any of these elusive (apparently taboo to name) missing features - they literally just tried to argue that lower batter life is an advantage because they can't keep a routine otherwise. Pointing out how absurd this reasoning is seems to trigger a bunch of other apple fanboys, which is just hilarious tbh.

Processing power, screen size and quality, active monitoring quality, AOD. There are a few things that will hugely impact battery life.

Lower battery life literally doesn't matter if you can charge it in the time it takes you to get ready in the morning. It has zero impact on usability.

The maximum battery lives advertised on sites are literally for doing nothing anyhow. My Garmin definitely does not have a multi day charge when I'm using it to track swimming.

You are doing the tech equivalent to her knees are too pointy.

> Processing power

What are you doing with your apple watch that requires additional processing power?

> screen size and quality

Many watches have larger screens, Apple screen quality is among the best - true.

> active monitoring quality

I mean... garmin beats apple hands down, so do other brands.

> AOD

Almost every modern smart watch has this?

> Lower battery life literally doesn't matter if you can charge it in the time it takes you to get ready in the morning.

'Having lower RAM literally doesn't matter if you can just use less.'

> It has zero impact on usability.

Cool story bro.

>What are you doing with your apple watch that requires additional processing power?

Using apps on it. If all you want is the time and a heart rate monitor than yeah apple watch isn't for you.

>I mean... garmin beats apple hands down, so do other brands.

I meant day to day active monitoring not when you're in a workout.

>Almost every modern smart watch has this?

Yes and go check their battery life differences when it's turned on.

>'Having lower RAM literally doesn't matter if you can just use less.'

I can charge it when it's not needed.

> I can charge it when it's not needed.

You can also run one app at a time save on RAM.

Yup, and if you don't need to run multiple apps at the same time that is a valid tradeoff if it buys you other things.

How often do you track exercise with it? That watch looks like it doesn't actually run anything on it except a heart rate monitor and is just a passive bluetooth enabled notification display so that would definitely explain the difference in power usage.

Yes, for sure it does much less. It just has basic health monitoring, steps, heartbeat, sleep. I have the continuous heartbeat monitoring off, and turn it on for workouts 3-4 times a week. It will show messages, email, or other app notifications. For me that's most of what I want from a smartwatch, and I'm willing to trade the more advanced features for the battery life.

Ok but you can understand why comparing the battery life between these two makes no sense right?

I don't know what kind of deal the creators of The Fifth Element have done but I'm pretty sure more than 50% of the time I check into a hotel if I turn on the tv it will be playing on one of the channels and I'll watch it from whatever point it is up to.

This is pretty common and being primarily made up of parents family stuff often comes up last minute but from what I've seen the people that make it to one and break through that mental barrier seem to be more and more excited each month.

While it is a social group if you're not feeling super social one month you can join in remotely or just show up head down and get some group gaming in. There is no pressure.

Not 100% sure what your first line means so apologies if I'm telling you something you already know but just want to point out that Twitch is JustinTV. They just rebranded the gaming section of the original site.

No need to apologize. To clarify. I remember when JustinTV was basically 100% illegal (copyrighted) content.

That's how the service that we now know as Twitch built its resilient infra: battle tested with a bunch of teens broadcasting random stuff. No one batted an eye . So i was using JustinTV (Twitch) as an example of piracy that was overlooked, because because someone big had invested in it.

Yup there was always a sign in my experience.

I grew up in York Region and while I wouldn't say it was common I did see places that accepted Canadian Tire Money often. Also local one person shops, or at the markets though. Never saw it at a restaurant that I can remember.

If this story is right and PE firms just plunder why would banks keep giving them loans?

The author mentions red lobster but that wasn't PE that ran them into the ground it was a fishing company that bought them from PE.

They also seem to think PE only goes after public companies when that seems to be by far the exception.

This is just a poorly researched rage bait rant.

If you want something to complain about in PE look at tax treatments.

> The author mentions red lobster but that wasn't PE that ran them into the ground it was a fishing company that bought them from PE.

No, it wasn't PE that ran them into the ground. But PE didn't buy Red Lobster to even attempt to salvage the business. It was far more akin to "how much can we bleed out of this before it dies".

Isn't that the point? PE doesn't build businesses, they decompose them.

They're the fungi of the financial world and their role is to extract as much value as possible from the existing business.

Sure it's really annoying if you're a customer, but it's a godsend if you're a business owner looking to get out.

Banks that loan to PE firms get paid back. Those that loan to PE-controlled firms may not.

And why would banks keep giving loans to PE-controlled firms if the likelihood is high of no repayment? They're going to know the firm is PE controlled going into the deal.

Ask a bank.

The answer is that your beliefs on how PE works/what they do is wrong.

>Those that loan to PE-controlled firms may not.

Who are these firms? Why would they be extending massive amounts of unsecured credit to those PE bought-out firms?