Ask HN: Parental Controls You Use?

Post by leakycap » Mon, Jun 16, 2025, 7:33 AM UTC

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Great recco! I'd set it up on the network their devices connect to, as well as the device. FYI - Kids are way smarter and have so much time. I enjoyed working around my parents, who resorted to a wireless VGA mirroring device that put what was on my screen on a display in the living room (which I found a workaround for with my 3500 AGP card, see what I mean?) If your young kids use Apple devices, I'd also consider se…

Thanks. It’s great insight. Yeah trying to balance for sure but wanted to see how extensive folks get to. The parental controls that individual apps/sites seem terribly weak. And yes, kids are incredibly smart at figuring stuff out but it sounds like the DNS layer might be the simplest. I wonder if I have to lock things down like how InfoSec teams do. Will check out an MDM. Is that like Kandji that gets deployed on c…

Post by leakycap » Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 1:37 AM UTC

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Yes, Apple Configurator 2 lets you install an MDM profile similar to Kandji. I'm so glad I didn't have cell phones when I was a kid. I would have never been able to make it through school. Good luck.

Thanks. So true. At least not the cell phones that we have today. My first was a Nokia 8310 and I already felt like a baller playing Snake.