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by TZubiri15 hours ago |
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upvoteby Fire-Dragon-DoL14 hours ago|
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Do notice that the big all powerful computer doesn't come with games and it's way more complicated to use, challenging the kid from the get-go.

Also they have to learn to use a mouse and a keyboard to do that. You probably forgot how hard it was to learn to use both. Double clicking was really hard for me as a kid

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upvoteby TZubiri13 hours ago|
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Maybe desktop computers? But touch computers have been designed to be dead simple to use, I don't think jobs had uniquely designed the iphone to be simple enough for a child to use, but he did design it to be usable by people from other countries and cultures with no previous training, children being able to use these touch devices is at least a side effect.
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upvoteby Fire-Dragon-DoL12 hours ago|
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I did mean desktop or laptop computers. Yes touch devices are like you described
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upvoteby pizza23412 hours ago|
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I've personally tried to do use a tablet in a productive way for the child, and it's all about the apps rather than the tablet itself. Tablets for children (Android knockoffs, essentially) provide what's needed, that is, account controls.

Problem is: there is a limited amount of apps that are genuinely fun and educative. If Amazon wanted really to do something truly educative for children, they'd build a whole market for it, the marketese I see in the article doesn't support that.

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upvoteby ArcHound14 hours ago|
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You are the parent, you can start at the IF. I'm attacking the premise, not the conclusion.

And I do respect the disclaimer, but lately my experience tells me the devil's advocates help the devil (and I'm an atheist!)

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upvoteby djtango4 hours ago|
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Sudden lightbulb moment:

What about if I just handed my kid a linux machine and put a 30 min cap on YouTube time via the router. (tiktok etc all just banned)

That might go some way to reproducing the kind of friction we experienced growing up with PCs...

Edit could even start with some on-device parenting apps. What about a local LLM powered to classify videos as slop/educational. More power to them if they figure out how to disable it (I'll add more restrictions after a brief honeymoon period)

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upvoteby aleqs14 hours ago|
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a big tech device/platform designed and algorithmically optimized to hit/increase corporate metrics with small kids as the subjects... hard to imagine anything more dystopian

maybe it'll help us raise good docile consumers and workers tho /s

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