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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by pj_mukh on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:31PM (#50445106)
Did you have landlines? I want my kid to just walk over to his friend's place whenever he wants, but while most parents are coming around to having kids without cellphones they all live in extremely un-walkable neighborhoods.
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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by pixelready on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:10PM (#50445640)
I’m seeing more retro-style tech spring up for kids. We just got one of these for the kiddo: https://tincan.kids/ and have found out several other parents have them so there’s a small but growing network of kid landlines forming.
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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by bitwize on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:19PM (#50446438)
Even without purpose-built things like TinCan, most "landlines" these days... aren't. My parents' house is wired for telephony, but the backhaul is 5G. A box in the house serves as the uplink between the 5G network and the "landline" phones throughout the house.
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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by 28304283409234 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:05PM (#50446319)
No but we did have a 'house phone': a mobile phone that would always be in the house and anyone could use. Shared whatsapp for playdates.
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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by komodo99 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:16PM (#50447671)
For some reason I read "landmines", and wondered what lengths we're reaching to defend our domestic spaces... Glitter bomb landmines anyone?
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