Don’t put parental controls on it. What do you want to control? Maybe put controls on the website that they can visit, but that goes on the DNS or router. Most kids will go to a mate’s house that doesn’t have any or as harsh parental controls anyway if they are particularly keen on seeing something that they ‘shouldn’t’. Parental controls are a fix for parents who can’t talk to their kids; they make the parents feel safer but just send the issues underground. Gen X will have been writing code for a while at your child’s age. I was. There was no choice if you needed to unlock a game you could’ve afford. At that time GUIs were a bad overlay over MS-DOS or DR-DOS. You had to know what you were doing to get the best out of it. Your kid will be fine with any distribution of Linux. If your kid is technically inquisitive likely to be good at maths/science, get them installing Arch. If not and they just want to use a browser, install one of the top five popular distributions from distrowatch.com. The Office suite for Linux is called LibreOffice. If you use Chrome as your browser you’ll easily tell if your child has been on bad sites because your timeline will be filled with adverts for unsavoury impotence remedies. Enjoy.

PS printers are still bastards in Linux. Happily they’re less bastardish in Linux (and Mac, because Linux and iOS use the same printing software) than Windows. If you like your life buy a decent Laser from anyone but HP - my generation bought the last decent HP printers they made.

Mostly in times of economic growth and very positive sentiment. It’s the antidote to the catch-22 that you can’t get a particular job without the experience but can’t get the experience without the job.

Simply put ‘fake it until’ applies when you can put experience you don’t (quite) have on a CV; get the job and acquire the experience before it is ever tested in any meaningful way. That only really happens in a period of rapid economic expansion (whether that be in your (their) business, sector, or country wide). In such cases no-one really knows what they’re doing.

I don’t have much experience of celeb or influencer culture FITYMI - finding someones parked Lamborghini or private plane and dancing in front of it for a TikTok pretending that is yours.

[help me out please: add-ons are the Home Assistant thing that you can’t use with Home Assistant in a container? Extensions are the Home Assistant add-on that you can … ?]

Almost everything is WiFi, I can’t remember the thing that isn’t.

I’m really looking forward to Home Assistant; I have to learn to use containers first.

Thank-you most kindly for your imputus. Very well received. 😁

That’s very well received. Thank-you.

I have only a small place but being without some items would be disconcerting. Most of my set-up is in Tuya/Smart Life on WiFi.

I’m trying to learn podman/containers to make it possible.

Good luck!

That’s an amazing set of references to throw my way. Thank-you. I’ll read through them in a while. My assertion was based on talking to real people: I’m only just not-Russian myself.

I don’t really think you’ve captured communism: Cuba isn’t. China has been moving away from communism for decades. Russia rejected the Communists for the Bolsheviks shortly after the revolution. There’s a huge difference between socialism and communism.

The West is in somewhat of a hard time. There’s a left shift going on since my golden days (as Gen X). Young people (Gen Z) rightly feel hard done by and the social mobility seems to have been damaged. It feels like the sodding seventies again here in Blighty ( I hadn’t even become a teenager when they ended but remember the mood and despair. Candles lighting the supermarket visits. Dead bodies of the unburied and the rats).

They already tax alcohol everywhere as far as know. Maybe you’re in the 'Mercan mountains and you’re a moonshine master; but noting the instance and name probably not!

Hullo to Deutschland!

Answered my own question: Yes. I’ve put the various anti Reddit spam in ublock so not really necessary.

Much rather have addy.io than Firefox Relay. I used the beta here in the UK and moved on.

Don’t know what oldlander is; directs to old.reddit?

About to reopen a matrix account. Mostly for tech support.

Didn’t really like Twitter, Mastodon holds no interest really.

I do like Lemmy a lot but mostly awaiting a search engine and the rest of the Reddit subs moving over.

Maybe there’s room for a fediverse fb in my life but I don’t see the world moving over anytime soon. I loathe fb but find some of the groups too useful to leave.

The West has lost the ‘war on drugs’, whatever that means.

The only way out is to regulate (and therefore tax) them. Cannabis is the gateway drug (pun intended).

I’m old and tried something mild ish when I young. It didn’t really do much for me so I never went down that path. I don’t even drink more than a unit a fortnight, usually I’m driving and I only drink socially. Just don’t fancy it much anymore.

As far as I’m concerned, the benefits of living today are mainly being funneled to an elite. Taxes were mostly levied on companies and have become taxes levied on the individual, with companies not really paying tax at all. People are struggling to hold it together. Drugs represent escapism pending some kind of revolution.

I’m one of ‘Thatcher’s children’ - A Gen X watching young people today giving up. If you had told me last century that I would have written such a thing today, I would have punched you.

I believe that the move left of the politics of today represents the population asking for help.

If you’ve never lived in a communist state you’re much more likely to favour communism. People who have (lived in communism) don’t.

'Mercans believe that social healthcare is communism - until they get seriously ill whereupon they opt for moving to a ‘communist’ country: UK or Canada or go for the US healthcare provider called gofundme.

Chips (that’s not crisps for the 'Mercans). Cheese and tomato. BLT.

My bad!

They’ve got another Tory leading the Labour party advised by Tony Blair (himself a Thatcherite). The Tories and Labour are so far left that George Galloway is described as far right.

Guido where are you now?!

In reality, he’s probably trying to save himself from the dole queue.

I’ve not quite got across that I’m looking for learning to improvise having the basic patterns in mind.

sapo@beehaw.org (don’t know the form for linking to a user on Lemmy) has grasped what I’m trying to convey.

Thank-you. I’m looking for patterns tutelege.

I’m not sure I got across that I’m looking for patterns rather than metronomic timing. I explained better in a reply above.

I wish you the very best. And thank-you for the extensive reply.

I think that this is the one I’m going to end up getting, thank-you very much. I know nothing of his work but the first book you mentioned is apparently well regarded.

Thank-you very much indeed.

Thank-you ! 😁

Second vote for Niagara. Admittedly I haven’t tried other third party launchers. [Pixel 7 Pro owner who balked at the standard Pixel screen on sight in a way that I hadn’t previously with any phone]