Re: parental control app for open-source desktop

Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.questions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2026-03-10 at 19:38 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> 
> you are all crazy.

Personally, I think it's okay to give children a computer without an
internet connection.

However, I would like to point out that specialist literature in the
form of books on a child's areas of interest is very expensive.

The internet cannot completely replace specialist literature in book
form, but in many areas, especially for children who are just starting
out, it is a useful alternative.

The Internet rarely provides such material in the form of PDFs, it is
usually found in wikis or individual articles.

Just look at how the world has changed. Coffee producers, for example,
have always sold lifestyle products alongside their coffee, such as
clothing. In the past, they also sold books, but nowadays you're more
likely to find a smartphone case than a book among such additional
products.

One should not assume that children are generally interested in crap.
They have a thirst for knowledge, and once they have found an area that
interests them, they stick with it and engage with it instead of wasting
their time with some rubbish from the internet.
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