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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • How many internet connected devices do you think there are in a typical 2 adult 2 kid household, excluding phones? Here are TVs, tablets, Chromebooks, laptops, game consoles etc etc. Kids don’t jus have phones - mine don’t and there’s still a raw internet connection to almost all these devices.

    And out of all of that only one has good controls for parents and believe me when I say this, setting it up was torture.

    If you want to block YouTube to specific devices and not others its a really difficult thing to do. Especially when Big Tech is working against you - block the YouTube URLs on a Pihole and you’ll find that the play store also doesn’t work. There are plenty of dark patterns in all these things. Because these companies do not want to help by blocking access to the marketing bucks of kids.

    There is no simple solution to all of it unless you either live in the past or you parent so 1984ly that it’ll exhaust you and alienate your kids from you.

















  • Kilo and mega prefixes have been used for far far longer than computers have been around and they mean 1000 and 1000000. It’s only in computing where these prefixes were corrupted because they were deemed “closed enough” and caused confusion because people expect the terminology they use everywhere else to also apply to their computer.