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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago (15 children)

fellow tech dad here. how did you strike the balance between "look up shit online" and "hiding the terrors and lies of the internet from my kids"?

Mine's still little, but knowing sooner is better.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 23 points 6 months ago (14 children)

I have the Microsoft safety shit on, and I made every site they can go to a web app. My router blocks nsfw/nonkid traffic. My phone gets notifications when they do anything at all.

And I have extensions blocking all nsfw sites just in case. And I've nuked the entry for any web browser on their start menu and task bars. Can't even scroll to find it. If you open it, it requires my admin PW, which is 14char #$@-123-ABC so good luck turds.

Steam is locked down in kid mode - also they just play Roblox or cool math games anyways lol. Steam has browser disabled.

Only things they have access to is Bing.com with their signed in kid account. And coolmathgames.com.

It took about a week on and off to setup and I just did the two laptops in tandem. Windows 11.

The family thing can be a pain, Microsoft has a lot of half baked ideas https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/how-to-set-up-parental-controls-on-a-windows-11-pc

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

My parents and school administrators' attempts at blocking unsanctioned activities is what taught me computer literacy

There was nothing quite as satisfying as getting caught opening addictinggames on a web browser through a proxy when the teacher was convinced they had blocked it completely.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

I remember when proxies were easy to find and you could get to the most ridiculous stuff. We had college intern system admins for IT at our HS so it was easier to get by alot of things most of the time.

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