Post #2351214

2026-03-20 06:00 UTC

@jane@smolhaj.social @freya@social.highenergymagic.net agreed, this was basically the point i was trying to get to. parental controls in Linux are absolutely a good feature to have, and the GNOME community have earnt a lot of respect from me for implementing this functionality. The ability to impose restrictions on non-sudo users (particularly children) is NOT a restriction of freedoms, I'd argue it's the opposite. Knowing you can give your kids a device running a FOSS OS while being able to ensure they aren't accessing software they shouldn't is a good thing, give them the freedom to enjoy tech without looking over their shoulder

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@navi@social.vlhl.dev 2026-03-20 06:59

@cas@social.treehouse.systems @jane@smolhaj.social @freya@social.highenergymagic.net I mentioned here here: https://social.vlhl.dev/notice/B4PU0aMRZdCXV8QAJk but tl:dr I believe that a child young enough to need parental controls should not be left alone unsupervised w/ an internet device, and that teenagers should have already learnt discretion and have built a trust relationship with their parents in a good world then, parental controls would just be guardrails for the former, but in the world we live in, i fear how much abuse, well, abusive parents might cause on the latter by forcing parental controls on their devices

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@f4grx@chaos.social 2026-03-20 07:45

@cas@social.treehouse.systems @jane@smolhaj.social @freya@social.highenergymagic.net Edit: not even. This is all bad, period. Previous toot: agree this is app stuff. Let kde and gnome do it. Let me install something else if need be. Let me remove it. I want none of it in fucking systemd.

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