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Parental controls? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all,

I'm getting a pc for my daughter. I'll install Fedora KDE Spin. I'm looking for a parental control solution that also integrates with her Android phone. I'm currently using Google's Family Link which while not great it offers enough. I'd be happy to move to any other solution that can count both device's usage screen time as one so she doesn't use up her phone and then move to the PC.

Any cool recommendations?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What are you looking to do? I personally would look into more generic management tools. You definitely want to setup blocks for any questionable content and you should be monitoring everything. I would create them an account and then lock it down so that there ability to break things is limited. You can either use Gnome or Xfce4. They both support restrictions. To my knowledge KDE does not focus on restrictions at all.

To start I would setup a Firewall on your family network and then lock down what sites are available. You can block things like adult content and any other things like social media. You say you don't want her sitting and watching YouTube all day so you could just only allow YouTube at certain times a day. You could then tie her phone into a VPN that goes back to the home network. On the phone you can also use https://timelimit.io/