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This is terrifying (I have 2 young kids, but they'll get there). How do I avoid that? When is a Google account considered linked? If I log into 2 google accou

This is terrifying (I have 2 young kids, but they'll get there). How do I avoid that? When is a Google account considered linked? If I log into 2 google accounts and swap between them, are the accounts considered linked? Also, I have plenty of photos of my kids naked when they were little (my son refused to wear anything for 1 year), do I have to be concerned?

colechristensen 7mo ago
>Also, I have plenty of photos of my kids naked when they were little (my son refused to wear anything for 1 year), do I have to be concerned? This is America, of course you have to be concerned. Google has family groups where you invite people to your family. I'm assuming they had that set up. I guess if you want to manage your children's accounts you have to do it from a burner Google account.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 7mo ago
  Which is insane. I already purchase my Pixel through a burner account due to this whole insanity... I do have backup of my photos and drive, but I appreciate Google Sheets and would like to keep using that.
  - colechristensen 7mo ago
    I keep coming across things and the conclusion is that Claude and I can come up with something better... GMail is one of them. (and Google Reader and GitHub and ...) I have my own git repo manager hosting several of my projects and reader up and running, mail is 80% to self hosting but I've been working on other things. Turns out in the new world we can just build all of the software we want to use. Right now it takes a bit of expertise and a lot of evenings, but in not so long...
x0x0 7mo ago
There was an instance of a parent taking pictures of an underage child's penis to show a rash to his pediatrician during covid who got his account hard banned. That said, I bet there's millions of parents with at least one pic of a naked kid. My bet is it's quasi-random, but if you get "lucky", nothing short of a extremely senior exec can reverse that decision. So probably we need to behave as if these accounts can just get yanked on a moment's notice at random. Fastmail is great, btw.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 7mo ago
  I wanted fastmail, but android integration is not great. I wish it integrated with contacts and it simply does not. I recently had to choose between google workspace for my email and fastmail, I was really going all in on fastmail and then I hit something that really blocked me. I can't remember what it is though
  - zvr 7mo ago
    It's pretty straightforward to sync the contacts on the phone with the contacts on Fastmail via CardDAV, using DAVx5 for example.
    - x0x0 7mo ago
      I've been using fastmail for over a decade. davx is fragile. Many phone brands (all the OnePlus for example) interact poorly with it. I regularly have to trigger syncs by hand. Still better than google, but the story here is not great.

colechristensen 7mo ago

>Also, I have plenty of photos of my kids naked when they were little (my son refused to wear anything for 1 year), do I have to be concerned? This is America, of course you have to be concerned. Google has family groups where you invite people to your family. I'm assuming they had that set up. I guess if you want to manage your children's accounts you have to do it from a burner Google account.

Fire-Dragon-DoL 7mo ago
Which is insane. I already purchase my Pixel through a burner account due to this whole insanity... I do have backup of my photos and drive, but I appreciate Google Sheets and would like to keep using that.
- colechristensen 7mo ago
  I keep coming across things and the conclusion is that Claude and I can come up with something better... GMail is one of them. (and Google Reader and GitHub and ...) I have my own git repo manager hosting several of my projects and reader up and running, mail is 80% to self hosting but I've been working on other things. Turns out in the new world we can just build all of the software we want to use. Right now it takes a bit of expertise and a lot of evenings, but in not so long...

x0x0 7mo ago

There was an instance of a parent taking pictures of an underage child's penis to show a rash to his pediatrician during covid who got his account hard banned. That said, I bet there's millions of parents with at least one pic of a naked kid. My bet is it's quasi-random, but if you get "lucky", nothing short of a extremely senior exec can reverse that decision. So probably we need to behave as if these accounts can just get yanked on a moment's notice at random. Fastmail is great, btw.

Fire-Dragon-DoL 7mo ago
I wanted fastmail, but android integration is not great. I wish it integrated with contacts and it simply does not. I recently had to choose between google workspace for my email and fastmail, I was really going all in on fastmail and then I hit something that really blocked me. I can't remember what it is though
- zvr 7mo ago
  It's pretty straightforward to sync the contacts on the phone with the contacts on Fastmail via CardDAV, using DAVx5 for example.
  - x0x0 7mo ago
    I've been using fastmail for over a decade. davx is fragile. Many phone brands (all the OnePlus for example) interact poorly with it. I regularly have to trigger syncs by hand. Still better than google, but the story here is not great.