• jonne@infosec.pub
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    22 hours ago

    If you set up parental controls on your parent’s devices I can guarantee they won’t find a way around it.

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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      12 hours ago

      my grandpa with dementia installed OVER 40 solitaire apps because he would go to the app store and install one every time instead of opening the ones he “couldn’t find”

      now he has parental controls blocking app downloading

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          14 hours ago

          He only watched Tagesschau, but no matter what we did with his phone to make it secure, he’d manage to fuck it up and get to places he shouldn’t get to and change settings he shouldn’t have been able to get at. His PC was also a barrel of fun.

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      13 hours ago

      Thats all good for kids since they dont know any better to begin with. Parents will bitch and complain they can no longer watch Fox news to enough people, and ‘the problem’ will get fixed.