Post #718984

2026-03-18 17:29 UTC

@zaire@fedi.absturztau.be yeah,,,, i've always just laughed at the "parental controls" thing in gnome if your kid is smart enough to be using linux instead of an ipad or windows or whatever, they're probably smart enough to either find a bypass or just reinstall the computer?"okay pookie here's your fresh gnu/linux desktop, mommy set your bedtime to 9pm and blocked super tux kart after 6"this won't happen for 99% of young people using gnome, since they set up their OS themselves, have root, and can set their age to any number they want the sheer uselessness of this anti-feature for most of users doesn't excuse the shitty ageist intentions behind it. and sadly, just from how many users gnome has, some creature out there is probably going to be oppressed with this gnome devs should know better :neocat_floof_sad:

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@miss_rodent@girlcock.club 2026-03-18 19:04

@sel @zaire Is this even new? I've known people who used apparmour or SElinux settings, user permissions, iptables, timeoutd, and user groups to block kids from accessing certain things, and system logs to monitor what they get up to. (I agree doing this to your own kids is bad - just, this seems to not be a *new* antifeature, nor limited to gnome? Controlling parents have always been able to be controlling to their kids on linux.)

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@zaire@fedi.absturztau.be 2026-03-18 17:39

@sel gnome devs seem to want to bring us all back to the microslop-esque dynamic of one’s operating system being their adversary

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@me@snac.stupidmintrabbit.gay 2026-03-18 17:35

My dad wouldn't touch Linux as a desktop OS with a 39.5 ft pole, and for a while, he tried preventing me from doing such a thing myself under the excuse of, you guessed it, lack of parental controls (at least that's one of his excuses; he makes his intents way too obvious). I still did it anyways. CC: @zaire@fedi.absturztau.be

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