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Our twist on the family email is to have $VARIABLE@domain.com point to a Google Group that for the moment, only goes to the adults in the room. Makes sorting/labeling things significantly easier. $KID1@domain.com, $PET2@domain.com, $HOUSE1@domain.com, etc.
Google photos, I have all devices syncing photos to one place and now I don’t need to worry about did in-law A remember to backup their phone when they inevitably lose it at the grocery store. Arguably the only remotely important thing we have on our phones is photos and maybe chat history but it’s not earth shattering to lose that. Despite having more photos of ourselves than any other generation ever, It’s still so…
I don't trust Google Photos to be there for us in the long run. That said I have been paying for it and using it for years without a major gripe.
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Honestly wondering why you'd send the query through Kagi if it is only going to ping ddg/google anyway? Does Kagi do some filtering on the responses?
Maybe I phrased that badly. You would have set kagi as your default search engine, but sometimes you want to search something on a specific site only. With bangs, kagi will redirect you to another search engine instead of running the query itself. If you append !w to your query, you will search on Wikipedia instead. If you append !g, your query is redirected to Google. There is no advantage over searching on Google d…
My own family dashboard. I did not purchase it but wrote myself and it was a life changer. It is an always-on screen (during the day) where everything family oriented happens: all our calendars merged for today and tomorrow (and important events within 6 days), weather, when kids are back from school, info when I am on my way back from work, various alerts on stuff breaking at home, etc. When I finally installed it,…
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Was that sarcasm? I’m vastly more concerned that my kids lead fulfilling, happy lives than that they get into a top tier university. Or university at all, for that matter. But also my 12 year old daughter is working on publishing her first iOS app on her own initiative. I’m sure they’ll do fine.
> on her own initiative My daughter is 3yo so a bit early ^^, but 2 years ago I bought my nephew (then 8, loves to tinker) a Pi 400 plus a couple of kid-oriented introductory programming books (about Scratch and Python, very nicely done I must say, I reviewed them beforehand). Of course he started with playing Minecraft Pi but an hour after he was moving a cat around in Scratch. Now I heard he's tinkering with Python…
That's all she needed, really. She graduated from that to Swift Playgrounds on my iPad, then once she had some understanding of Swift and programming in general she was solving problems on replit. Not sure yet how she'll jump the gap to making actual apps, but that's her goal and she's trying. She doesn't have to do it alone though; I'll help out as needed.
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So you are using FM not as an emergency tool, but generally? Does that mean in your family everyone (potentially) always knows where everyone else is? Is there a rule for when/if it's appropriate to turn FM off? Please don't read this as me judging; if that works for you, great, I'd (as far as i understand it) not want that, but it's not my life.
We have FM enabled for our family too, I move around for work a lot so people can check where I am before calling me. My kid visits their friends and we can check where they are to see how long it'll take them to come back for dinner when we ping for example. I've got location shared with my siblings and parents too, both ways. And my SO has a similar thing with their siblings and parents. It's all about trust, peopl…
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The way you phrase it sounds like you’re either not American or a first generation immigrant. If so, what’s your home culture? Just curious. My family goes back to the 1830’s on one side, and the 1600’s on the other, so I’m pretty integrated. I don’t think any of that is really in the radar for people in my family. We are relatively well off middle class, and most of my aunts, uncles, and cousins went to university.…
I'm Chinese-Canadian, but went to university in Caliornia. I really appreciate your anecdote, I felt like a lot of the students I went to school with had worked pretty hard (i.e. college prep, extracurriculars, way more than most Canadians at my high school, although I went to a public high school). But it makes sense if I had a biased sample!
Time for another, longer anecdote. One of our friends from college, another Chinese heritage guy of Singapore & Taiwan descent, had a rather stressful upbringing with a lot of parent pressure. He's was an electrical engineer at Xilinx at the time, but he didn't have any say in it. His dad was an EE, and damn it every one of his kids was going to be an EE too. They all went through engineering school. The "Tiger Mom" book had just come out, and out friend was ranting about it with his cube mate at work, talking about how messed up it was that they (both Chinese) had to deal with this pressure, but most of the rest of the kids out there don't. How it's apparently so uncommon in America that this lady is getting speaking tours to explain what everyone in East Asian communities take for granted. How American kids won't put up with this shit.
What happened next I wouldn't believe, except I saw the later emails and pictures. My friend's cube mate, who was in his late 20's and he'd known for a couple of years, just gets up and walks out. They never see him in person again. He just ghosted the company, bought the cheapest plane ticket to anywhere, and started backpacking around the world. About six months later they got email replies from him in South East Asia, where he'd been living in a temple for a month to learn Yoga or something. Apparently he never wanted to be an engineer, hated engineering, had no idea what he really wanted to do, and outside of his job at Xilinx he just stayed at home, alone, depressed, and hating his life, but feeling obligated to keep it all up to make his parents proud.
When I heard this story (and saw his pictures from Thailand), I just felt sorry for the kid. And he was a kid, even if he was in his late 20's at the time. Because he never had a chance to figure out who he was, what he wanted, or to choose for himself. He did work it out in the end, but only after accumulating tons of student debt, setting up all sorts of expectations from his family, and wasting away most of his youth. Everything was setup for him, and he utterly lacked agency, like a child. Most of us spend our teens and early twenties trying new things and figuring out who we are. He didn't even get to start that until he was almost 30.
I do not want that for my kids. Money helps, but it not sufficient to make one happy. Far more important is how you treat and value yourself, your confidence and self-assurance, and the company you keep. I spend far more time worrying about whether my kids are fitting in at their new school, whether they're making friends or being bullied, or whether they got an invitation to that upcoming party their friends are talking about, than I do worrying over their math scores or standardized tests. And most of our peer group feel similarly.
My own family dashboard. I did not purchase it but wrote myself and it was a life changer. It is an always-on screen (during the day) where everything family oriented happens: all our calendars merged for today and tomorrow (and important events within 6 days), weather, when kids are back from school, info when I am on my way back from work, various alerts on stuff breaking at home, etc. When I finally installed it,…