I am using Garmin venu 2 with gadgetbridge and I can confidently say the sync got so much better lately, it even integrates now with endurain and auto upload my workouts. The only thing that I think is less then ideal is agps (assisted gps), basically I had to setup cron job that downloads the agps file every day and stores it where gadgetbridge sees it (smb share) and can provide it to the watch on request. Without this it took 15+ minutes to lock gps…

I don’t forget stuff (yet). On the contrary, I remember when I was using my phone, leaving my wallet home, because “i didn’t need it” and then it for some reason didn’t work and it was quite embarrassing. Happened to me more than once, so I ended up carrying my wallet with me anyway… Technology have a weird tendency to stop working at the exactly wrong time! And I say that as a long time developer. 😅

I might be getting old, but I find tapping with just the physical card simple enough that I don’t want to bother with these digital solutions… If some truly private and open solution comes I’d happily use it, but I think hell freezes sooner… 😀

I just deployed tinyauth and it actually supports ldap and it can read also ldap groups. Gonna tinker with it more tomorrow, but so far I like the simplicity a lot.