I trust my kids to mostly only use the devices how I say. The security is mainly to keep their mum happy
It sounds like you should simply trust your kids and convince your better half that she should do the same.
I trust my kids to mostly only use the devices how I say. The security is mainly to keep their mum happy
It sounds like you should simply trust your kids and convince your better half that she should do the same.
If there's one thing I learned both as a kid and as a father, it's that restricting kids' access to computers - or anything really - just doesn't work: software solutions that exist for that purpose are almost always defeated by kids, who are reliably more clever than the adults who try to restrict them, and only exist to falsely reassure their parents.
If you're serious about controlling your children's cellphones, I'd suggest buying them Linux phones, or phones that you can install a mobile Linux distro on: nobody makes Linux apps, so good luck getting malware or shitty social media apps on them. And of course, you can keep the root password to yourself and set up your kids as non-privileged users.
Either that or feature phones - if you truly hate your children.
I would cancel and tell the restaurant why.
Businesses need to know why they lose customers, because if enough of them report the same reason, they might do something about it.
Free software (not open-source, it's really free software that's important) that depends on a single for-profit vendor is not free.
MicroG is open-source but it's not free. It fails to address two problems:
I don't think OP cares about getting the source of the apps they run so much as the apps being free-as-in-libre in his original question. Many people mistake open-source for free software and MicroG is not truly free.
MicroG works well if you let it leak some data to Google.
I would like a free-as-in-free-from-Google Google Play Services reimplementation that lets me use any app that depends on it without hitting any Google server.
Google Play Services
I'm a kid of the cold war.
It's behind a firewall. The only thing exposed to the outside is port 22 - and only pubkey login too.
And gee dude... It's been running for 18 years without being pwned ๐
There is something I don't understand with people who rant about Reddit: if you hate it so much, why do you stay there?
I had a Reddit account myself. I wasted it and moved on. I certainly don't torture myself with it anymore: the communities here on Lemmy are smaller but they're a lot nicer to be a part of, so it's a no-brainer.
The most painless way to dual-boot is to install something that's not Windows alongside something else that's not Windows.