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I found the best way to deal with YouTube is to download the videos and airdrop them to my son's iPad. This way he can still view a selected range of Minecraft
by Dramatize 2y ago
I found the best way to deal with YouTube is to download the videos and airdrop them to my son's iPad.
This way he can still view a selected range of Minecraft videos without getting stuck in the cesspool of '100 days as a chicken' playlists.
- dyauspitr 2y ago[flagged]
- CacheRules 2y agoWhy's that?
- strulovich 2y agoIf you get downvoted, it’s because you threw a trollish text without any arguments or explanations to back it up. If you did, this could have been a good and useful discussion.
- dyauspitr 2y agoWell let me try and fix that. In my opinion, a child sitting in front of the screen for long hours and being occupied enough with a videogame that you want to watch additional media on it when you’re not playing belies a waste of potential and frankly social and mental (outside of a small band) development. It has created a generation of stunted individuals and there’s a pushback coming. Now it’s for social media but it will expand to all forms of screen time.
- demosthanos 2y agoI'm an adult who doesn't have time to play Minecraft anymore because I'm too busy between a career and raising kids, but I did play a ton of it in its early days and I still watch a selection of Minecraft YouTube channels (mostly a few of the Hermits). My early experiences with Minecraft absolutely helped get me to this point in my career. Minecraft is less a video game and more a sandbox and development platform. Redstone is a fabulous introduction to concepts that are applicable to programming, electrical engineering, and really any logic-oriented field. I first learned Forth through a Minecraft mod, and my first technical documentation experience came from writing docs for people to use that Forth system. I later picked up Lua through ComputerCraft, and my earliest real Java projects that I built were Minecraft mods. All of which is to say: I'm totally going to introduce my kids to Minecraft when they're old enough! I wouldn't trade the hours I spent on that game and in its community for anything.
- shrimp_emoji 2y agoYou're totally wrong. Apart from myopia and obesity, it's all nature, practically no nurture (without exceptionally negative environments, like abuse, drugs, or malnutrition). You're better off blaming social trends and microplastics.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoPlex, Jellyfin, and similar solutions where you rip content for your own media collection and serve in a constrained manner can solve for this. App gets installed on kid's device, and you use the cli or use the web interface to push it into the storage system it's streamed from. (i do this, it is very straightforward and keeps my kids off of Youtube)
- Dramatize 2y agoI've been thinking of doing something like that with a Synology
- toomuchtodo 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36378689 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36378689 might be useful
- whazor 2y agoThough the UI/iPad app of Plex is buggy and difficult too use. I haven't tried Jellyfin enough yet though.
- autoexec 2y agoI agree that this is the way to go. I'd also recommend the PBS kids video app as something you can let them navigate and explore without worry.
- kyleee 2y agoYes, seems like a better strategy. Even something like newpipe on an old android phone curating/downloading locally and playing through vlc. Simple and works great. I actually noticed in the brave settings on android recently it can block all youtube comments/recommended/etc so that may be even simpler