Re:Parental Controls Aren't for Parents
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r on Saturday January 03, 2026 @12:13AM
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The guy is asking for parental control functionary for his kid. Let’s not make this into a nerd culture war thing about, what? Free software? Open hardware? It would be about just as absurd for the parent to have the ability to, say, implement this themselves, but still need to do so instead of it being turnkey functionality provided by the vendor. A solution that’s just for nerd parents does society approximately zero good. There are myriad places for you to make the point you’re trying to make. This discussion is not one of them.
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A solution that works for nerd parents can be sold by those nerd parents to non-nerd parents if the platform wasn't specifically designed to prevent it.
Open hardware and free software is not about nerds.
Re:Parental Controls Aren't for Parents
by like_any_other on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:29AM
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> Let’s not make this into a nerd culture war thing about, what?
I'm not making it into anything, I'm just identifying the root cause.