IsoKiero

You are on the right track. Installing Debian packages don't require password to access shared libraries but to write into system wide directories. That way you don't need to install every software separately for every user. Flatpacks are 'self sufficient' packages and thus often way bigger, since they don't generally share resources.

From security point of view there's not much difference in every day use for average user. Sandboxed flatpacks can be more secure in a sense that if you harden your system properly they have limited access to the underlying system, but they can be equally unsafe if you just pull random software from a shady website and run it without any precautions.

Flatpacks tend to have more recent versions of the software as they can 'skip' the official build chain and they don't need to worry about system wide libraries. Tradeoff is that the installations are bigger and as flatpacks run on their own little sandbox you may need to tinker with flatpack environment to get access to files or devices. Also if you install flatpacks only for your user and you have multi-user setup other users of the machine can't access your software, which might be exactly what you want, depends on your use case.

Personally I stick with good old Debian packaging whenever possible, I don't see benefits of containers like flatpack on my own workstation. Newer software releases or using software not included in official repository are pretty much the only exceptions when flatpacks make more sense to me.

But there's a ton of nuances on this, so someone might disagree with me and have perfectly valid resons to do so, but for me, on my personal computer, flatpacks just don't offer much.

My now near adult kids have actually understood and been thankful that their childhood was 'unfairly strict' on what they could do on their devices. They have friends who have had unmonitored access to anything on their devices and it starts to show badly enough that even their peers notice how short their attention span is and how twisted their view of the world has become.

There are all kinds of laws regarding on how parents should treat their children and one might argue that keeping non-age appropriate material away from them is a reasonable line to draw into. For example in here with movies it's pretty common practice (depending on a theater) to allow kids to 'higher age bracket' PG-rating with a guardian.

But the whole problem, at least from my point of view, can't be solved only by either technological or legal barriers or solutions. Parenting is a tough job and from what I can see there's really not enough support for them to do the job. "It takes a village to raise a child" used to be pretty commonly understood approach where all individuals from school bus drivers and cashiers played their small part on educating kids on how to behave and how the world works. Today it's just rules and regulations which adults can use to hide behind and avoid taking any kind of responsibility and also, at least on some cases, the same rules say that you're not even allowed to intervene if kids are being kids and do something stupid.

Obviously a lot of things are better now too than even in the 80s and 90s when I was a stupid kid, but I'd say something is also lost on the way.

We need to pick our battles. I don't see much difference in paying Google for a service than having a Spotify family plan like I do. I know spotify has its own problems and my money would be more ethically spent on some other service, but with everything else going on life I can't be arsed to switch to anything right now. For me it gives enough value for the money spent and that's good enough for now.

I agree. It's a bit tedious to configure, but rock solid and has all the features you could ask from a proxy.

Sikäli kun tämä muutos menee läpi niin sehän ei suinkaan tarkoita automaattisesti mitään ydinasevarastoa Keuruulle. Näin kaikentietävänä nojatuolikenraalina veikkaan että jos ydinaseiden käyttö Suomen lähialueilla jostain syystä tulisi ajankohtaiseksi niin todennäköisempi skenaario on, että jonkun natomaan sukellusvene/lentokone koukkaa vain Suomen alueen läpi itään päin mennessään. Ehkä pysähtyvät matkalla tankkaamaan ja abc-burgerille.

Sitä minäkään en ymmärrä että miksi tuo muutos piti nyt noin hosumalla alkaa puskemaan läpi, ei tässä nyt mikään kiire asian kanssa ole ja, niinkuin uutisissakin on ollut, tällaiset päätökset on aikaisemmin viety ihan koko eduskunnan voimin eikä minkään hallituskabinetin ilmoitusasiana.

If they actually worked, sure. I've been a parent for nearly 20 years now and at least in here there's always been some kind of programs, information campaingns, news articles, tools and pretty much everything you can imagine to help keeping your kids safe. You obviously don't buy porn magazines for your teens and don't show news from war zones to your young kids and keep eye on the movies/shows they watch, but somehow every precaution is lost when it comes to the internet. I don't know if it's lack of understanding in general (as in what you can find from the net) or if it's just the easy way out since you don't need to learn how to apply limits on devices, but somehow (at least in here, based on what I've seen/heard) it's not taken as seriously as PG-ratings on physical media.

And in that a system-wide setting on devices which would include allowed PG-rating on HTTP-headers (or equivalent) might be a decent solution. Obviously parents still need to pay at least some attention on the devices their kids use, but that wouldn't require setting up a pihole on your network which blocks tiktok. However, as I said, that's helpful tool to the parents only as long as it's just a field on a local user account for the device, not something you'd need online services to verify.

Technically that would be pretty easy to implement and even if it's just an extension to HTTP headers that would cover nearly all of the use cases today. Sure, the kids interested in tech could bypass that pretty easily, but that applies to nearly all of the parental controls anyways. But all those benefits obviously vanish if the age setting needs verification from someone else than the parent and it's not stored just locally in the device. Building systems for adults to verify their age in order to look some bare nipples is a colossally stupid idea, but I'd guess nearly all of us here on fediverse already understand that.

A lot of parents sadly lack any kinds of skills to use those tools nor even know that they exist. I'm not inherently against the approach where user agent sends some rough age (allowed R-rating or something) to the website which can then block minors from accessing porn/violence/whatever. If it was just that, locally stored info if the user is minor or adult, it could be a pretty decent approach to even technically less inclined parents to give some limits on what their kids can do.

But as with nearly every 'protect the kids' thing, it's a pretty damn slippery and steep slope. If adult verification requires something more than a local variable that's the point when the whole system becomes a tool for surveillance instead of a helpful thing for parents/schools and all of these "solutions" worldwide seems to be going in that direction.

Said all bread tasted like dessert.

A friend of mine was couple times on a work trip in the USA back when Nokia was a dominant player on cellphones for a few months at a time. He often complained that his breakfast sugar could have used more juice/youghurt/bread/whatever. Also, while he was a bit on the heavy side and not a light eater by any stretch, the portion sizes around there were apparently just ridiculous everywhere and everything was covered in some form of grease. Either straight up deep fried or just buried in cheese/bacon/etc.

I don't think situation has much improved in 20 or so years.

"They intentionally had schoolgirls in a school for girls that we were targeting with missiles in order to give the other guys something to whine about". I don't know what kind of twist in thinking you'd need to make that sound perfectly legitimate and good reason.

I'd guess there's some tools which rely on RSS feeds or something to update seeds automatically, but that's just a gut feeling. Also it shouldn't be too difficult to write your own, but I don't know if anything 'production ready' is out there.

Discoverability is one issue and trust for longevity is another. No bigger distribution is going to rely their official download links on an individual home lab which can disappear overnight. Also I guess there's also guestion if images are provided as is without adding/removing your own 'extensions', but that's what cheksums are for.

And this is obviously on a general level, I'm not trying to suggest that xana is not trustworthy :) But torrent seeding is a helpful thing for community, and easy/safe to set up.