Any good resources/ recommendations for researching up to date options for kids tablets?
Or locking down a a regular tablet for kid use?
All aspects: hardware, parental control software, kid-proofing accessories, screen-time/parenting suggestions, blocking adult sites and socials, etc.
My (probably outdated) gut feeling is that I'd want something similar to a Knox based parental control app, or similarly setup mdm-like solution, but I don't even know if such a thing exists. (I was a happy adhell3 user at one point.)
*What does the HN crowd do?*
Anyone using mdm or similar business solutions for their parental control? MitM certs?
Does a rooted android (or jailbreak ipad) open up additional useful options?
VPN to funnel all traffic through our home firewall?
Google-free considerations? Amazon-free? Samsung-free?
And finally (and distant last consideration): any Black Friday deals?
[1] https://taylor.town/child-tranqs
My gut-feeling is to first envision what you want an average day to look like for your family, and then work backward from there. I think I’m going to prohibit YouTube and other extremely addictive sites with my daughter, but be pretty lax about the internet in general. Not certain yet though!
Regardless of tech, it’s probably a good idea to observe your child and frequently ask them how technology is making them feel, and how it’s interacting with their goals
We're primarily an android house, but have a couple of apple devices, use segregated wifis, run a pi-hole and iptables home firewall, and have some local (non-cloud, non-voice) home automation and security installed.
While I have past experience hacking together some in-house app solutions, it's been years since I've touched the stuff, and no longer even have my laptop set up with devtools (I'm an engineer, not a dev/programmer/etc).
I also used to keep up with android rooting and custom OS, but again, it's been years.