Wow this is crazy. What's crazier is the drop in battery level from 7 days to 1.5 days in 9 months!

Does Samsung provide any documentation on where to cut the ring in order not to puncture the battery?

> He's had it since January this year and claims the battery life degraded from the advertised ~7 days to around 1.5 days before the swelling incident. This rapid drop in capacity made him stop charging it regularly, and it actually had no battery juice left when the swelling happened.

Personally if I knew the battery was bad and wasn't going to bother charging it, I sure wouldn’t keep wearing a ticking time bomb

I had an Oura Ring 4 for a few weeks, and it's one of the only tech gadgets I have ever returned. Thankfully it didn't swell and trap my finger, but it hit some kind of internal deadlock that didn't go away until the battery fully depleted over several days. The repeated-knock gesture to hard reset didn't work either. Best part is, my wife hit the exact same bug just a week later. I don't see myself buying a smart ring ever again.

Software bloat kills, my precious, and they saw it, monitored his distress and did nothing, precious. The lord of the rings, rules by fear of liability precious, a burning eye, lidless, cutting costs, gollum. One ring, to rule them all.