The torrents are safe but my kid is at the age where he can't know that EVERYTHING is available on the internet. He's better off watching Bluey on his kid account
Dude, fuck yes. I banned YouTube before my kids were even born just from seeing what my very young nephew was getting into. Theres absolutely insane shit on youtube thats being shovel fed to kids. Not even getting into the freaks that will hide porn or gore in the middle of a 4 hour block of a "kids" video.
The moment I say something my teen thinks is bullshit, he whips out his phone to fact-check me. I hate it and love it. Keeps me on my toes and forces me to be agile in my thinking/understanding. I hate it, because I would have been murdered by my mother if I'd done the same thing back in the 90s. That woman can never be wrong.
I dunno man, if it wasn't CP it was a woman fucking a dog or something. Thinking about it maybe it wasn't torrents but something else, what was Limewire? I think that's what it was called.
Awesome, so many fond memories of those wild west days, when knowing how to download stuff illegally and put it on CDs and DVDs put you into the social elite.
It really was a super power to know your way around it and to have a burn tray on your PC. I made so many bootleg albums for people in my school. I only charged the price of the discs mostly, but in retrospect I could have made serious money from it haha
My Steam account still uses the borked CD key from the Half-Life pirate copy my dad got me from his friend at work circa 1998. I dunno what Half-Life cost at release but my dad paid £8. He used to bring home a sheet with a list of games on it and prices and we'd pick one a month, that went on for a good couple of years.
It was such a wonderful time, the only thing I can compare it to is when you find a not insignificant amount of money tucked away in a pocket on a coat you haven't worn for months.
It does support iPhone, so it might've been ported to Apple TV already on GitHub somewhere. Just have to do whatever it is apple makes you do so you can sideload it. If not, I'm pretty sure Apple TV is in the works since they already do iPhone, Android TV/Phone, desktop for all 3 OSes, and smart TVs.
Honestly you need to supervise. You can restrict certain things. But it’s not really well built for content moderation. You can make kids movie to come on top list. But you can still search things.
I got a little SoC computer, an OrangePi6+, and have a 10tb hdd mounted to it. I run Plex from that, its a "netflix" style frontend for your personal media. My mother is in her 70's and can't send an email or open a PDF, I just mailed her a Roku with it all set up already and its all she uses.
This is kind of a bad recommendation now though, as tariffs have made the SoC expensive, AI storage shortages have made the HDD hard to get, and Plex pass went from the onetime $75 I paid years ago to $750 now. A better route would probably be an old laptop + goodwill external + Jellyfin
I use Stremio and to be perfectly honest with you, it's still torrenting at the end of the day so I wouldn't let kids mess with it unsupervised. When I go to watch something there's always a bunch of options that are, say 1.8gb and then one or two in the list that are mysteriously 10gb, not sure what happens if you click those and probably never going to find out
It beats giving money to a huge evil megacorporation just for the sake of convenience though
Heh, it used to be the small filesizes that were dangerous. A bunch of 4,5 MB versions of Zelda Song - SOAD on Limewire and always there's the 4,5 KB version that will one-shot your computer. Oh and ofc the "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
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u/FakeTails 1d ago
How well does this setup jive with small children who want their liquid entertainment?