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Post by Ylpertnodi »

yobid20 wrote: post #634

Having gone through 5 different fitbit watches and them all breaking within a year or two, as well as two different fitbit scales and them breaking too, i have moved on and will NEVER look back. Fitbit is CRAP. let me reiterate. crap. C-R-A-P. crap. Lets use that in a sentence. Mark grumbled, "My Fitbit is such crap—it breaks down faster than I can count my steps!" And for those wondering, I moved onto Garmin watches…

I got rid of dealing with them when my first one broke. As did my wife's shortly after.

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Post by altacc »

ngrilly wrote: post #588
altacc wrote: post #521

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I agree with you that tracking as a teenager is not ideal, although teenagers track each other's locations incessantly at least they should be free from their parents tracking. However this watch is aimed at younger children than teenagers. My kids started walking to school and friends houses at 7 and are still preteen. After school they can be anywhere as they'll go to a friend's house or just hang out somewhere for…

Where are you living? Asking because I think letting kids walk alone to/from school and friend's houses depends a lot on the culture of the city/country.

Suburban Scandinavia, so we live in a relatively safe bubble. It sounds like in some other countries we'd be reported to some kind of protective services for child abandonment or neglect.

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steve_adams_86 wrote: post #761
bilsbie wrote: post #742

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Thanks very interesting. My main concern would be filling all that newfound time.

I’m not kidding when I say I’ve filled it with great things. I’ve always wanted to dive deeper into robotics but “never had the time”. Well, a couple hours a day is a lot. I’ve made huge strides in learning and I’m actually building practical things with that recovered time. If someone told me this two years ago I’d think I knew better and they didn’t understand my situation or something. I didn’t realize this was ha…

Thanks for the details! That’s amazing.

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Post by ngrilly »

altacc wrote: post #772
ngrilly wrote: post #588

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Where are you living? Asking because I think letting kids walk alone to/from school and friend's houses depends a lot on the culture of the city/country.

Suburban Scandinavia, so we live in a relatively safe bubble. It sounds like in some other countries we'd be reported to some kind of protective services for child abandonment or neglect.

We live in Stockholm city, and it's usually considered very safe for kids, and yet most people tend to worry about young kids wandering without adult supervision, which was ok in the small city where I grew up in France (I'm 48).

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Post by vundercind »

SoftTalker wrote: post #387
vundercind wrote: post #259

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All those recommendations about whatever crazy-high amount of water you’re supposed to have in a day. If you want to even get close, it’s either a few chug-sessions per day, or else carrying water to sip constantly. … also, it probably helps replace cigarettes as an oral fixation, which is what everyone used to use.

You don't actually need that much water if you are sitting in an air-conditioned office.

I know that, but it’s by far the most common reason I hear for folks who carry water bottles everywhere, including office workers: they’re trying to get close to some very-high daily water intake recommendation.

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Post by stickfigure »

godelski wrote: post #757
stickfigure wrote: post #753

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> Or hell, maybe they won't feel stifled, even by the time they're 15, because pervasive surveillance will be so normalized to them that it would feel strange not to be tracked. IMO that's the worst possible outcome. To play devil's advocate here - my wife and I, and several of friends that we frequently travel with, all cross-share each other's locations on google maps permanently. Doesn't really feel stifling, and…

You don't have significant control over your wife and friends. At least hopefully. They're also adults who are self sufficient and you trust to be. That not the same for kids. Even if your kids trust you

If my kid, when he reaches a certain age of maturity (let's all agree this number is greater than 6), wants to separate from the group location share - then that's a reasonable conversation to have then?

The grandparent poster literally said that it's the worst possible outcome if the 15-year-old _wants_ to be part of a location sharing group. If they still want it, what's the issue?

I feel like people are bringing a lot of personal baggage from their upbringing into this conversation.

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Post by LorenzoGood »

tonightstoast wrote: post #151
sharadov wrote: post #97

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I got an Apple watch for my 11-year-old for precisely this reason - he can text, call, and play some games on it. Subscription to cellular is $10/month. And it let me set parental controls on it. No way was I getting him a phone, it's already way too distracting with the other devices he has access to at home.

Doesn’t it need to be paired with a phone thought?

The iPhone ecosystem has "family watches" now.

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Post by teddyh »

CyberDildonics wrote: post #699
teddyh wrote: post #677

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Oh, absolutely. Basically all parents treat their children as just that, children, regardless of their age.

To be perfectly clear here, you think that a parent that buys this smart watch and tracks their kid's location will "oh absolutely" track their child's location into their 30s when they are old enough to have their own career and family? Can you explain why this completely abnormal behavior is an accurate prediction?

> Can you explain why this completely abnormal behavior is an accurate prediction?

“Abnormal” is ambigous. It can either mean “unhealthy” or “uncommon”. I mean that this behavior, while unhealthy, is not uncommon. Most parents absolutely do not trust their kids to be adults, since in the eyes of the parents, the kids still are just that; kids. It takes an uncommonly strong sense of self-discipline and insight on the side of the parents to force themselves to break out of that thinking.

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Post by CyberDildonics »

teddyh wrote: post #779
CyberDildonics wrote: post #699

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To be perfectly clear here, you think that a parent that buys this smart watch and tracks their kid's location will "oh absolutely" track their child's location into their 30s when they are old enough to have their own career and family? Can you explain why this completely abnormal behavior is an accurate prediction?

> Can you explain why this completely abnormal behavior is an accurate prediction? “Abnormal” is ambigous. It can either mean “unhealthy” or “uncommon”. I mean that this behavior, while unhealthy, is not uncommon. Most parents absolutely do not trust their kids to be adults, since in the eyes of the parents, the kids still are just that; kids . It takes an uncommonly strong sense of self-discipline and insight on the…

Most parents absolutely do not trust their kids to be adults,

Now you're either saying that 'most' parents track the live location of their children into their 30s or you're saying something vague and irrelevant.

What are you saying exactly? This was about location tracking.

It seems like you're either talking about your own irrelevant frustrations or you're saying things that you have no evidence of.

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