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Exactly. I don’t personally have kids so I also feel especially out of line telling someone else how to raise theirs. Parenting isn’t easy, and there’s tough questions like “How do I get my child to learn good habits around screen time so they don’t end up addicted to devices built for addiction?” Honestly, I personally don’t know a better way other than loosely (not strictly) limiting screen time enough so that they naturally learn good habits over time, and that unfortunately means you need to monitor screen time. As an adult I noticed a lot of my good habits were things my parents instilled in me in my youth that I hadn’t really thought about, like drinking a lot of water, for one. They didn’t prevent me from drinking soda at all, but they limited my intake at home and made sure when I was home I was drinking lots of water and not just juice or soda, they didn’t try to control me outside of the house when I was making my own decisions… and now I drink water a lot because it just feels normal. It’s a habit they got me into, and because it became a habit I’m left with a good habit in my adulthood. I don’t see how it would be any different in getting a kid to respect screen time as an adult.

God… I wish my parents had done more to monitor my screen time because I’m bad at this removed.

I appreciate it, but genuinely, the best thing about Lemmy is being in control of how you view your own feed, and so (especially considering I’m removeding red-green colorblind lol) it really is my responsibility to make it readable for myself. Thanks for being a good fellow, regardless.

I need to change my default colors then, because it was way too easy to miss that first link. That’s on me.

The goal of ActivityWatch is simple: Enable the collection of as much valuable lifedata as possible without compromising user privacy.

We’ve worked towards this goal by creating an application for safe storage of the data on the user’s local machine and as well as a set of watchers which record data such as:

Currently active application and the title of its window Currently active browser tab and its title and URL Keyboard and mouse activity, to detect if you are AFK (“away from keyboard”) or not

It is up to you as user to collect as much as you want, or as little as you want (and we hope some of you will help write watchers so we can collect more).

Well, they linked to the releases page instead of the main page for the project, for one.

Personal opinion, I don’t understand why more parents haven’t moved to use Pi-Holes for content blocking. Since you can tailor your own blocklists, it’s not impossible to do, and I’m pretty sure some enterprising folks have already made a Pi-Hole block list for porn and various adult websites.

Further, if your child figures out how to bypass the block, they’re learning valuable skills, if nothing else.

To be fair, it seems like you’re more concerned with overall screen time, and I don’t have a better solution for that than you already have.

Do you do much uploading or want to host anything for friends to stream from you?

A DOCSIS 3.0 modem tops out at 100Mbps upload, while a DOCSIS 3.1 tops out at 2Gbps upload. I know Comcast/Xfinity sucks, but they’ve definitely rolled out 2Ghz download and 2Ghz upload symmetrical connection in some areas.

I agree that 1Ghz seems plenty, but I regularly feel more limited by upload speeds, personally. If upload doesn’t matter so much to you, then that’s the only thing that stood out to me as a difference.

With WiFi the bigger question is if where you live is so big that you need extenders of some type. Even with more modern “mesh” systems, you still often need hardwired Access Points.

If the only WiFi you use is your router, because you’re in a small house/apartment, then you don’t really need anything fancy and an AC wireless router will do you fine. If you need a large area covered and don’t want dead zones, you’ll need proper mapping and setting up of Access Points whether you are using a more modern mesh network or not.

This is good advice. Large SSDs are cheap, and often make a big performance difference on older laptops.

pcpartpicker.com is a good place to start and can help you know if specific parts are compatible but it’s just a place to start and is often still missing important info.

So you still need to do due diligence and do things like check measurements to make sure, for example, your video card will actually fit inside your case, etc.

Also, since its your first time, you want to avoid any motherboards that require you to do a BIOS update to handle a newer processor, because that’s just complicated stuff that you’re going to want to skip as a beginner.

It’s more expensive but go for a newer motherboard that is compatible with your processor out-of-the-box. BIOS updates are a pain and scary even for advanced users.

Soon the predatory loan industry will just be the loan industry because poor people won’t be able to afford food without one.

route everything through a VPN

I can see it now:

“SOS I need help, I’m stuck in an underwater cave just outside Tulum, Mexico and I’m running out of air!”

“Finding your geolocation, we have determined your cave is in New Zealand. Dispatching rescue team to the Mines of Moria.”

EDIT: Don’t ask me how someone got satellite phone signal in an underwater cave lol.

Does the satellite stuff work in the UK and could it be bad for privacy?

I’m not sure if it works in the UK, (see below) but it’s really only meant for emergencies. Like if you’re lost in the wilderness with no cell phone signal and you’ve broken your leg. It really can only be activated when you dial 911 and don’t have signal, so I don’t expect that that’s something you’d want a lot of privacy for if you wanted you be, you know, rescued and alive. I think I’d be willing to sacrifice info like my name, location, and the nature of my emergency to stay alive but that’s just me. 😆

• This feature is currently available in the US only (except Hawaii and Alaska).

To contact emergency services when you don’t have a network coverage on your Pixel phone:

1. Dial 911 immediately.

• If you don’t have a mobile or Wi-Fi network, you’ll find an option to use Satellite SOS in the dialer.

2. Tap Satellite SOS android satellite and then Use Satellite SOS and then Start.
3. To describe your emergency, fill out the emergency questionnaire.
4. To share your emergency with your emergency contacts, answer the on-screen questions.

• To notify your emergency contacts, tap Notify.
• If you don’t want your emergency contacts to receive your location and emergency information, tap Don’t notify.

5. To connect to the satellite, follow the on-screen prompts to correctly position your phone.

• Connection and response times vary based on location, site conditions, and other factors.

6. Once you’re connected, the emergency service provider should reply via text within a few minutes.

• To receive replies, stay outside with a clear view of the sky.
• When you would like to end the satellite text conversation, press the End button and follow the prompts.

Anyway I doubt it would be sending data to satellites without you knowing simply because that’s costly and you have to align your phone properly to get signal for it to begin with.

For instant messengers, I would also add Wire and Matrix/Element (Matrix is the protocol, Element is the messenger that uses the protocol).

https://wire.com/en

https://matrix.org/ - https://element.io/

Both good open source secure messengers. Matrix is made by a type of non-profit foundation made to guide the development of the core protocol, and Wire is a Swiss company staking their future on how secure their messenger is for Enterprise applications. They both have different philosophies on how their operations are ran, but they’re both open source and secure.

They’re not as privacy respecting as Briar or SimpleX, but they’re also more aimed at organizations and groups that plan on self-hosting and potentially not federating with the rest of the network to help silo their organizational data. Wire obviously aims towards Enterprise customers, but Matrix does as well, despite a different approach. Matrix has had growth with both German and French governments for various secure communications systems within their government bodies based on the matrix protocol. So good messengers, just aimed at a different group of people as Briar/SimpleX.

So maybe they could have their own “Enterprise Chat” section? I dunno, just my thoughts.

Kind of like the BBC has their own Mastodon server instead of being on someone elses.

Who the removed wants celebrities here?

This is a good thing.

Blahaj is not unmaintained but it only upgraded from 0.19.3 a few weeks ago. They are always a tad behind, and so I think calling them “unmaintained” is a bit much.

Hats off, Admiral, thank you for doing your due diligence and sharing with the community.

Right, the point they’re making is that the Linux devices are more costly, despite having a free OS, compared to cheap Android tablets, for instance. It’s a markup that Linux-first devices can’t avoid because they just can’t sell as many devices (because Linux is less popular), so they have to go with a higher per-unit price up front to recoup costs and make a profit.

I would think it’s hard to stay in business promoting Linux-first products as it is, and the higher price is because they know they will sell fewer units, and so they need to recoup a higher per-unit cost to functionally stay in business.

I agree that the price seems a bit absurdly high, but finding a quality Linux tablet of any type seems pretty dicey as it is.

EDIT: https://pine64.com/product/pinetab2-10-1-4gb-64gb-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard/

For example, this Linux tablet from Pine64 is more affordable, but with a Rockchip RK3566 it’s just way underpowered compared to the N100, and that’s over $200. Further, the Pine64 seems restricted to 64gb eMMC while the Juno Tab 3 can be upgraded to 2tb storage with its M.2 slot. I see no mention of an M.2 slot for the Pine64 Tablet. This genuinely seems like a more fully featured tablet compared to other available Linux-first tablets.

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Hey, that’s one of my favourite bands!

Do a Site Survey and make a Wi-Fi heat map of your current setup so you can figure out if you need any APs in specific areas.

To me, this is the most important and most overlooked thing you can do to prepare a wireless network.

I’ve personally had good luck with NetSpot but pretty sure you have to pay for the enterprise version to do a heatmap/site survey.