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The fix is to use the normal rear end messaging app and not some third party shitware yeah
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Wow. The app developer's name is Pervasive Group, Inc. That's.. Quite the uphill battle with branding right from the start
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Nov 11, 2019 19:18
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Textra has been good to me over the years, use that.
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Nov 11, 2019 19:28
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Iron Crowned posted:Textra has been good to me over the years, use that. Seconded
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Nov 11, 2019 22:46
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Admiral Joeslop posted:MMGuardian lol
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Nov 11, 2019 23:06
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I mean it's almost a certainty that someone has been receiving the messages.
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Nov 12, 2019 11:55
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I recommend an iphone.
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Nov 12, 2019 12:21
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Admiral Joeslop posted:The entire purpose of using MMGuardian is the parental controls, we didn't pick it for its bevy of texting features. Stop being a helicopter parent, hth.
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Nov 12, 2019 12:30
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LRADIKAL posted:I recommend an iphone. are you my dad?
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Nov 12, 2019 13:50
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Johnny Truant posted:Stop being a helicopter parent, hth. They were asking about texting apps on Fi, not parenting advice. If she's 20 then yeah it's weird but kids are socially pressured towards phones and tablets from a very young age. I can't even imagine trying to set up tech for a young kid to use. In a contest of bad parents, I don't think trying to make sure some creeps can't send dick picks would get you to the finals. There's a huge contrast between the internet today and the internet when "protecting your kids" was just installing NetNanny to block bangbros. My nieces and nephew can't even look at YouTube without being bombarded by those weird Russian kids videos of Spiderman humping Elsa or whatever so I dunno what makes you think trying to keep internet creeps away makes them a helicopter parent.
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Bloodplay it again posted:They were asking about texting apps on Fi, not parenting advice. If she's 20 then yeah it's weird but kids are socially pressured towards phones and tablets from a very young age. I can't even imagine trying to set up tech for a young kid to use. In a contest of bad parents, I don't think trying to make sure some creeps can't send dick picks would get you to the finals. There's a huge contrast between the internet today and the internet when "protecting your kids" was just installing NetNanny to block bangbros. My nieces and nephew can't even look at YouTube without being bombarded by those weird Russian kids videos of Spiderman humping Elsa or whatever so I dunno what makes you think trying to keep internet creeps away makes them a helicopter parent. Keeping internet creeps away is one thing, but *checks notes* having a report of every text sent by your child at the end of the day, or a location tracker, is loving gross, and helicopter parenting, respectively. Very possible to do all the things you want to prevent, which I'm all for, without resorting to this gross app.
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Nov 12, 2019 21:00
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Johnny Truant posted:Keeping internet creeps away is one thing, but *checks notes* having a report of every text sent by your child at the end of the day, or a location tracker, is loving gross, and helicopter parenting, respectively. You know literally nothing about the situation except the existence of an app and a child. You don't even know the child's age. If you aren't going to suggest things that could replace the app and instead just want to make things up to be smug about, gently caress off.
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Nov 12, 2019 21:08
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Also, just  if the kid is over the age of 11, because by then they should have already figured out how to disable all that poo poo, like we all did at that age.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:You know literally nothing about the situation except the existence of an app and a child. You don't even know the child's age. If you aren't going to suggest things that could replace the app and instead just want to make things up to be smug about, gently caress off. Where did I make anything up? That app has those features, and I think they are loving gross. You asked about the app, why are you surprised people looked at what the app is? Iron Crowned posted:Also, just  I mean I guess it's teaching the kid how to buy a burner phone earlier?
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Admiral Joeslop posted:You know literally nothing about the situation except the existence of an app and a child. You don't even know the child's age. If you aren't going to suggest things that could replace the app and instead just want to make things up to be smug about, gently caress off. The fix to your technical issue is to use the normal android messaging app and not some sketchy third party shitware, because the third party shitware you bought apparently sucks. The fact that creeping on your kid's communications is going to gently caress them up for years is just like, extra.
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Nov 12, 2019 21:27
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Lots of wild parenting advice going on in the Fi thread today lol.
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Nov 12, 2019 21:28
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Iron Crowned posted:Also, just The difference here is that your parents' filter from the 90s probably didn't send a notification to one or more accounts indicating it had been disabled. If my parents' satellite receiver had emailed them every time I punched in their password to watch Real Sex or whatever on HBO, I'd have gotten my rear end beat. Plus, that was probably the worst they had to worry about. There wasn't a camera on our TV either. Fi doesn't provide content filtering services for a monthly fee like the major carriers so it's not unreasonable to ask for advice here. A couple of people offered suggestions of a different app which is probably more in line with what they were looking for. No need to get lovely about it and provide unsolicited goony parenting advice.
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Nov 12, 2019 21:42
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The smugness of a parent who truly believes they can forever outsmart their kids with technology is a joy to behold.
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Nov 13, 2019 00:13
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Nobody loving cares about your opinions on parenting.
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quit being such a prude and let your children of all ages mainline snuff films and furry porn
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Dang and here I was hoping they announced more third-party full feature support for non-Google phones on Fi 
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I just realized that the device protection that I had on my Pixel XL didn't go away when I turned in the phone and didn't update to the Pixel 3 I replaced it with and I've been paying it for several months. Guess I should look at my bills more often. That's some pretty scummy poo poo though.
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nine16thsdago posted:here's another goofy thing. i had homeassistant emailing certain messages to the fi sms gateway for almost a year. that previously always went to messages, no matter what i tried. after completing the above steps, they're now going to hangouts. goofy update: i thought everything was OK after this, but it turned out that the messages via the fi sms gateway were only coming through when on sprint, never on t-mobile. when the thing switched to sprint from tmo, i'd suddenly get an avalanche of the messages i should have gotten since being on tmo. that was the last straw. fi service itself is just too screwy in my area anyway. the delays in an actual incoming phone call ringing my device (on either service, through multiple handsets, physical sim & e-sim) has finally become too much of a problem to deal with. so, trip report: i cancelled both lines on a fi group plan, sat in an at&t corporate store and had both numbers ported over in no time. that process was surprisingly easy & straightforward. on cancellation, one is presented with the option of porting numbers back to google voice or to another carrier. fi service was active all the way up until at&t initiated the port request, which took less than 5 minutes to complete, and i got status updates & email confirmations from google at every step. A++ would cancel again. i had fi for 3 years. i really did like it for international travel, hangouts integration, straightforward billing, etc. i think if one lives in, e.g., a city with outstanding sprint/tmo service then it's probably awesome. no hard feelings, google. it's not you it's me.
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Google has posted their Black Friday deals, gonna be the Pixel 4 starting at $599, and Pixel 3a starting at $299. https://store.google.com/
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Thanatosian posted:Google has posted their Black Friday deals, gonna be the Pixel 4 starting at $599, and Pixel 3a starting at $299. https://store.google.com/ That's not a bad price for the Pixel 3A and 3A XL, might have to pull the trigger. My anxiety about not having a backup phone has been ever so slightly increasing as my current Pixel XL keeps having tiny issues very infrequently..
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Johnny Truant posted:That's not a bad price for the Pixel 3A and 3A XL, might have to pull the trigger. My anxiety about not having a backup phone has been ever so slightly increasing as my current Pixel XL keeps having tiny issues very infrequently.. Do it, I went from the XL to the 3A XL a little while back. My OG XL had really dropped in battery life over the last year, it's nice to spend a day listening to podcasts and not be at 13% battery by the time I get home.
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I'd jump all over that if my Pixel 2 wasn't only like 16 months old and perfect for my use other than the battery.
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Iron Crowned posted:Do it, I went from the XL to the 3A XL a little while back. My OG XL had really dropped in battery life over the last year, it's nice to spend a day listening to podcasts and not be at 13% battery by the time I get home. Welp, that settles it! Thanks 
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Cool that I spent like $900 on a pixel 3 xl lol. The phone owns but the cash lol. The drat cash.
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Never buy a Pixel at full price. There will always be a sale or special.
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Fi is offering 50% back in fi credit when activating a new pixel 4 or pixel 4 XL
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I currently have a pixel 2xl, and it's pretty fine for the most part. Would it be a downgrade to grab the 3a for $249? I'm kind of tired of a big phone and I know the camera on the 3/3a is better than mine.
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BrownieVK posted:I currently have a pixel 2xl, and it's pretty fine for the most part. Would it be a downgrade to grab the 3a for $249? I'm kind of tired of a big phone and I know the camera on the 3/3a is better than mine. I'm feeling the exact same way, so seconding this question.
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I believe the 3a XL is OLED. Would that be a good equivalent?
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Thanatosian posted:Google has posted their Black Friday deals, gonna be the Pixel 4 starting at $599, and Pixel 3a starting at $299. https://store.google.com/ Honestly, I kept going back and forth about upgrading from my Pixel XL to a Pixel 4 XL anyway. My Pixel works perfectly fine, but the lack of wireless charging annoys me (and the adapters for that aren't as good as I want them to be). Still, it's paid off and I have no complaints. I just want a new phone. But between this and the Google Fi 50% credit, I'm going to jump on it. I can get a Pixel 4 XL with the bigger hard drive for 350$ after I trade in my current phone. That's INSANE. And I can do the same thing for my boyfriend and get him an upgrade too.
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BrownieVK posted:Both the 3a and 3aXL have OLEDs. I stand corrected.
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Just keep in mind it is credit and not a rebate so you're looking at like $2,000+tax for phones upfront. It would take me about 1.3 years to burn through $400 of Fi credit at my current usage.
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