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We all (family of 4) have iPhones and use FindMy to see where everyone is and when they’re going to be home to time dinner. We also have a family chat on iMessage that really comes in handy.
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,…
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,…
I tried doing this with an Android tablet, but the screen is just way too small. Now there are really nicely sized (15.6") USB-C -powered displays for around $100 that could be paired with pretty much any Raspberry Pi to do the same.
Or I could just shove an old 24-27" inch display on the wall with a VESA mount...
Todoist. My wife and I can share lists, assign tasks, track completion, all sorts of stuff. It’s not perfect, but I’m really mostly happy with it. Also, setting up an iCloud family. Most of the sharing stuff we can do can be done without being in a family unit, but it makes it that much easier since it makes assumptions about who I wish to share with. From there, native Notes, Calendar, all that stuff has made our li…
Now we're using OurGroceries for grocery lists and just plain iOS Reminders for other stuff
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 have a server, a small project of mine, and i installed nextcloud. Now my whole family and close friends use it to backup our photos. The official app for it is exceptional for syncing (you can set it to ONLY do the sync when charging or other parameters). There are other benefits of nextcloud (contact backup/Calendar/Messaging etc) and you can set it up on a raspberrypi with an external hard drive, throw it near y…
Especially when the option is just for them to pay $10 or something to a huge company that'll have pretty much 100% uptime and zero chance of lost files.
This is an interesting thread as a lot of the comments mention services as opposed to software straight out. That said i bought the lifetime membership of jetbrains IDE. I think it was worth the money personally. Services based i would have to say Spotify. It's been a game changer for me over the years with an unhealthy habit of hoarding music.
I was an unhealthy hoarder of music too. Went JOOX > Spotify > YouTube Music as far as it goes. YT is great as it includes songs that are only posted on YT (mainly covers), but also you get no ads on the video version of YT. I kind of want to support Spotify as the little guy but they haven't been kind to paying users.
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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…
That all makes sense in a perfect world but sounds like a nightmare if I imagine being a teenager again. But hey, that's amazing if it works for you and your family!
I hope the trust we've built in the past 7 or so years of FM being enabled carries over to the teen years.
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My family leaves it on voluntarily at all times. I check to see if my wife’s left work yet to know if I should start dinner. The other day I happen to notice that my grown kid was at a good restaurant and I texted them to be sure to try a certain dish. Another kid texted me yesterday to ask what I was doing in SF; I was running errands with a friend. For us, it’s a fun way to see what each other is up to. The reason…
> My family leaves it on voluntarily at all times. Same. > I check to see if my wife’s left work yet to know if I should start dinner I (we) don't even do that, on purpose. If we want to know, we ask by message or call. > The reason [...] leave it turned on is that we’ve never, not once, used it as a spy device. I agree, it's all about trust. In my mind it's exactly like being a mail server sysadmin: by design you ha…
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've been running Immich alongside G Photos and it's great all things considered.
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…