cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/16690486
I am thinking about getting a phone for my son.
There are some really cheap android phones around.
But I also want to restrict what he can do on it while he is still young.
I was thinking something like net guard but with a password, so the settings can’t be easily changed.
I could just get a dumb phone, but I also have some old android phones hanging around.
What options are there for this kind of app/network control?
Agreed, the already has my old laptop which he uses at home sometimes.
I really just want to be able call him when he and his friends are away from the house.
But also have some apps like signal, and a chess game. The Wikipedia app… There really is a lot of good stuff available.
No social media, no unsupervised internet.