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In my case, it started wonderfully, until they learned that they could just launch firefox from the terminal, and proceed to stupid prank videos on youtube. Wh
by enriquto 4y ago
In my case, it started wonderfully, until they learned that they could just launch firefox from the terminal, and proceed to stupid prank videos on youtube. When they log-in, all that they see is an xterm (no menus, no icons). And they just arrow-up+enter to run their previous command that is invariably firefox. I tried disabling youtube on the hosts file and let them figure it out, but apparently is too large a step to make yet. Sigh.
- kibwen 4y agoDon't despair, you're on the right track. You just need to keep erecting increasingly elaborate artificial obstacles, one tiny increment at a time, and by the time they're teenagers they'll be manually linking together their own custom OS from scratch every time they want to watch stupid prank videos on their homemade reimplementation of Firefox.
- nominusllc 4y agomitm their requests and make everything render backwards or in 144p. Make it interesting. My parents would give me challenges like taking the cord to the computer, and they'd find increasingly elaborate improvised power cables. It took my mom 5 years to realize why the treadmill only worked 'sometimes'.
- tym0 4y agoMy dad (an IT person) had set specific time during the day when my computer was allowed to access the internet on the router. One day I asked him to login from my computer to whitelist my brother's connection, I had installed a keylogger to grab the login and change the config. Don't think he ever caught on.
- hulitu 4y agoYou can help them a bit: alias firefox=lynx in .bashrc