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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • Often thought of the same thing. So leaving this comment here in case someone got a good solution that don’t involve big tech.

    When I get the time my plan is to read up on big techs solutions, fx Google and Apple, who as I understand can give your family access under certain conditions if your’ve passed.

    EDIT: And replicate their solution using FOSS / self hosting.










  • I have used Linux for a while and transitioned the wife and kids to Linux Mint a couple years ago.

    They know it is different than Windows but never miss anything as the alternatives are as good or better. The kids are used to mobile and tablets so know of app store and so on. The only downside is getting some games their friends play working, like Roblox. But for the most part alternatives like Minetest are fine (better).

    The upside is IMHO massive in terms of privacy, security, user friendless and sysadm stuff.

    It just works and we’re happy with it!


  • Same here! Rolling old Thinkpads because of the Linux compatibility, price and reparability is hard to beat. Would like to support the good companies more, but like the tinkering.

    Our talk made me think about the ethics of tech companies in general. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a ‘Tech Companies Ethics Index’ kinda like Phoronix/Toms Hardware Guide is for hardware, but which documents and compare tech on fx the following consumer relevant parameters:

    • Privacy
    • Security
    • Openness / FOSS / EEE
    • User friendliness
    • Reparability
    • Other?

    Sources could be: privacyguides, EFF, FSF, iFixit usere own experience and so on.

    It could be run by users who also contribute to a git something and site something.