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Not a recommendation per se, but if you like to ugly cry watch “Dear Evan Hanson”

Drain wasn’t terrible for me, and live location is miles better than maps. But yeah, ditched because of thier bad rep.

Yup, just switched to this. It’s not quite as live as I was used to with life360, but it works for what we need.

My wife and I share our locations with each other and I also have my elderly inlaws configured as well. Never hurts to be safe!

Doesn’t that require other IPhones for it to ping off of and report? What if she’s in the middle of nowhere. I’m not sure why this is getting upvotes but it seems like a terrible idea and unreliable.

Chocolatey here.

Sadly doesn’t appear to be usable for SMS by Google Fi users who have web sync enabled. Guess I’ll be holding off.

100% gave me some matrix vibes

Dark City

You can self host for a better experience

I just heard the unlocking sound in my head.

Whew boy, yup this one fits. Great fun, but your just a small cog. Get to training!

I have. That’s the cool thing you can do both!

Hard agree. For me Sync was Reddit. Once it stopped working I had no reason to put up with a substandard experience. I do miss the content and would probably even go back if they reversed their stance.

Rise up against your Syncpressors! :P

I was mostly taking a piss at the hot topic, but I really do think it’s a worthwhile purchase. I have tried nearly every other app and just wasn’t able to do what I wanted with them.

I did take a look at Infinity at your suggestion and it does look darn good and come close to the features I want. Will be interested to see how it turns out. I would like customizations to make their compact view even more compact, I treat my reader like old school RSS. I like density!

Sync for Lemmy (ad free, not sub)

Came from using Sync for probably close to a decade on Reddit, so I’m definitely a creature of habit switching back for it on Lemmy. That being said, I tried ALL the apps looking for a solid experience and nothing delivers like Sync (opinion). All of them were missing something that completed my experience, was that experience coloured by my time with Sync on Reddit, sure. For all the options Sync gives me I’m willing to pay the dev half the cost of a steak dinner. I’ve already spent 100x longer on Sync for Lemmy than it would take me to eat said steak.

As for FOSS, let’s just say it’s not the be all / end all. Look at all the options that Sync brought to the table in a month that Lemmy hasn’t added in the whole of its development.

Personally I feel like most of the folks complaining about Ads in Sync are just complaining to complain. The FOSS crowd is also the most likely to use ad blocking, filtered dns providers, pi-hole, adguard etc and if that’s the case they won’t even see a single Ad.

Latter

Had a college buddy Christopher, we just called him Stopher.