Steam itself does age verification, which when you first boot a steamdesk, afaik it forces you to log into steam before you can do much of anything without some initial hackery. That said, once in there's nothing stopping them from launching into desktop mode, launching firefox, and watching pr0n that way.

Sadly the solution is still for parents to do real parenting, but that's like saying stupid people shouldn't breed.

"Nah dog, we like watching everything you say and do."

Wishful thinking, this has been a problem since tablets (android or ios) were a thing and trying to use one linked to your phone.

Not a bad idea really if you have kids, as the alternative is basically spyware on your kids phone, and today it's somewhat trivial to build your own MVNO off a mainstream network like this. Would I ever trust it? About as much as I'd ever trust a priest around my kid, which is never.

I know because I use keepassxc as my secret provider, so I get an approval prompt to allow or deny it _every_time_, so I darn well notice it as it'll grab focus when typing something. Inside a sandbox it tries but without access to creds or env, it just silently fails, so I never noticed while in-sandbox, just when out-of-sandbox, which I do occasionally to let it do some sysadmin/housecleaning task for me.

I finally asked Claude why: "Root cause: It's Claude Code's built-in git context feature, not hooks.

So unless you keep your secrets open to the user regardless who's asking for them, it'll nag you to escape out of menus with a gh query. KeepassXC doesn't let you set a per-session limit, it's either right now for forever.

I've always done networking (isp, datacenter, large enterprise), security (networking plus firewall, vpn, endpoint), unix/linux admin, even windoze stuff with active directory, but never any development or programming directly. I was just never wired for it, though I can do ip/cidr/bgp/acl stuff in my head for days. I missed out on higher ed entirely after high school, and I learned along the way what I did after 45 years of tinkering with pc's from apple II on i life.

Right now I'm taking my network and security knowledge in writing an mcp to do network and security tasks enabling agents like claude-code, claude-desktop, codex, openclaw a means of accessing resources indirectly via my mcp, and it's something I could have never done before the advent of AI as I "don't do code". Now I can tell it intimately everything I need/want it to do, and it just literally does it. It's extremely effective too, if not at times aggravating/infuriating.

My biggest gripe is it does everything half ass, but nothing I haven't seen time and again from outsourcing. It feels like the usual contractor slop you might get hiring wipro/infosys or any other offshore development effort, but at least without human idiocy.

AI in general really needs a "don't do half-ass work" option, as it typically feels like I'll get "good enough for government work" sort of results until I kick and slap it at least twice to fix its shortcomings. It invariably feels like it always only gives me half of what I ask for. You can almost tell it's built to not give you everything up front, instead make you work for it.

It's a trap, as a wise man once said.

Now put GrapheneOS on it with better support than the vendor can provide, now that's highly appealing. I wanted to get a used pixel 9 pro xl to update my old pro 6 and run graphene on, but pixel 9xl have defective screens on whole, so maybe not, and with Graphene divesting from pixel hardware now, maybe this is the way.

The final nail was them offering a $50 credit toward overage use that within a half hour of enabling maxed out and began digging into. It's become almost predatory now, and I have no way to quantify the actual usage I'm getting from it other than it burns now at an alarming rate.

Since I've stopped using Claude, I ultimately landed on Codex where for my usage, where I'm easily getting 4x less quota usage from it than Claude for the same period of heavy use. I keep it as a backup now if Codex gets stuck on something, but I'm annoyed enough to stop paying all together.

If you want a clean chrome, use ungoogled-chromium. Like IE6, some stuff just doesn't work in librewolf (less scummy firefox), so I use ungoogled-chromium when so, and I just don't do anything googleish on it that it latches onto google again.