Isn’t that where Amazon makes 1/3 of their money?

Why try to reconnect? Everything you’ve listed is (more or less) true. If you’d rather not contribute to that shit pile, then don’t. You don’t need to be in control of a bunch of this stuff. If you’d like to opt out, then you should. It sounds like that would be more fulfilling to you.

The original is in a better format. The thing from OP was extracted… somehow.

they made a whole movie out of this one

You made a gecko happy! 😊

I’ll take “unexpected worries of home ownership” for $100…

wow, nobody mentioned the open source thing yet. I’m here because I really like the open source thing and the idea of federated servers run by hobbyists.

If you find anything, lmk. Lemmy is a fine reddit clone, but it doesn’t have enough niche content.

You gotta get the prompt right.

Dude is right: parental controls suck. I suspect that’s because they kind of take a back seat in most purchasing decisions. Of the various platforms I’ve enabled parental controls on (Apple, Nintendo, Android, Xbox, Epic, Roblox), I’ve found Epic’s to be the most straightforward.

It’d be nice if there was a mandated API that any kid-platform had to support, and a nice simple app to control it.