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Parenting kids often requires tricky compromises. When his friends started getting gaming consoles, we wanted to give our son the same opportunity so he wouldn't feel left out. However, we have a small apartment, no TV, and I wasn't keen on buying hot, loud hardware or getting locked into walled gardens. Working in sustainability sciences, I also try to avoid unnecessary resource consumption. I wanted to see if I could build a viable alternative to buying a dedicated console.

I ended up buying a used 4U Supermicro server on eBay (I lucked out and broke even by selling the included Tesla V100S GPU) and installed a 24GB RTX 4000 Blackwell. This machine sits 130km away, running on remote PV-solar power. I set up a cloaked Windows 11 VM with GPU passthrough, streaming via Sunshine over a rock-solid IPsec (IKEv2) tunnel.

For his device, I rescued an old 2017 Galaxy Tab S3. I flashed a clean ROM, set up TimeLimit via F-Droid (allowing 30 mins/day, 2 hrs on weekends), and attached a GameSir G8 controller.

I also wanted him to be somewhat independent, so I created a simple Home Assistant dashboard. When he wants to play, he taps a single button that sends an IPMI Redfish command to boot the remote server. A minute later, he opens Moonlight and is playing Forza Horizon 5 fluidly. A 2024 game running flawlessly on a 9-year-old tablet!

The flexibility is absolutely great. Whether we are traveling with an old laptop, using my Pixel phone (greetings #Graphene), or visiting his grandmother's TV, the setup just works. Best of all, I only have one central OS to maintain. The Xeon CPU has 72 cores and barely hits 9% usage during gameplay, so I'm planning to add a second GPU to share the server with a friend's family.

I am aware that having the technical capacity to build this is a unique privilege. I still wanted to share this to show that alternatives to constant hardware consumption exist. By pooling resources and reusing old tech, we can escape walled gardens without sacrificing the experience.

#HomeLab #Parenting #ScreenTime #Upcycling #SolarPunk #CloudGaming #Moonlight #Sustainability

Aston University: From teddies to tablets: new global research reveals that digital devices are being used to comfort babies and parents . “Despite recent government guidelines that parents should avoid screen time for babies under the age of two, a new global study finds that one in ten babies now regularly fall asleep with a screen.”

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#DigitalWellnessDay
#DigitalFlourishing
#wellbeingatwork
#mentalhealth
#screentime
#DigitalEquilibrium

@dylandrakos have you seen this? Lot of interesting thoughts and ideas that seem relevant (also sneakily hoping you might be keen to print a few of his worksheets out 😇)
https://youtu.be/j-TK_oWSg0g

#screenTime #bigTech

Woof, too much #ScreenTime. 🤦🏻‍♂️

#AVIF #discipline

Four features that keep people glued to screens:

Feature 1: Solitude - When the relationship is just between you and the machine, it removes social cues needed for stopping.

Feature 2: Bottomlessness - There's no natural stopping point, so you never feel finished or satisfied.

Feature 3: Speed - The speed of the feedback can cause this sense that you merge with the screen. You don't know where you begin and the machine ends.

Feature 4: Teasing - They rarely — if ever — give you what you're looking for. They give just enough to keep you engaged, keep you looking at the app and interacting with it as long as possible.

When an app combines these four features — solitude, bottomlessness, speed, and teasing — it creates a kind of recipe for overuse for nearly everyone.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/21/nx-s1-5776665/surprising-origin-features-superglue-kids-adults-to-screens

#Psychology #Addiction #ScreenTime #Gambling #SocialMedia #META #Facebook #TwitterX #BlueSky #NPR

PsyPost: More time spent on social media is linked to a thinner cerebral cortex in young adolescents. “New research published in the journal NeuroImage suggests that spending more time on social media is associated with physical differences in the developing brains of young adolescents. Specifically, children who spent more hours on digital platforms exhibited a thinner outer layer of the brain […]

Teacher reveals the ‘really obvious’ reason teens no longer read. It’s not just the phones.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/teacher-explains-why-kids-dont-read-anymore-ex1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=teacher-explains-why-kids-dont-read-anymore-ex1

Prego Has a Dinner-Conversation-Recording Device, Capisce?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/prego-has-a-dinner-recording-device-capiche/

BBC: The parents using play to stop children getting ‘trapped’ by screens. “Parents have told the BBC about how they try to prioritise meaningful ways to connect with their children, as busy schedules, rising living costs and the pull of technology continue to dominate family life.”

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Kære netværk — jeg tillader mig lige at række ud her på Mastodon.

På mit arbejde forsøger vi at knække koden på et velkendt problem:
Mange børn føler sig udenfor, hvis de ikke har en telefon som deres jævnaldrende. Og netop dét pres er en af de hyppigste årsager til, at en smartphone ender i børnelommen langt tidligere, end vi forældre egentlig ønskede.

#ScreenTime #Privacy #DigitalMinimalism #DigitalDetox
#DumbPhone #SimpleLiving #DanmarkSkifter #SmartphoneFreeChildhood

Bildschirmpausen einplanen | PCtipp https://www.pctipp.ch/themen/praxis/bildschirmpausen-einplanen #DigitalWellbeing #Linux :tux: #Ubuntu :ubuntu: #OpenSource #ScreenTime

People Who Spend Most of Their Day on Phones and Screens

📰 Original title: The Screen Time Maximalists Who Spend an Ungodly Amount of Time on Their Phones

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/people-who-spend-most-of-their-day-on-phones-and-screens/?redirpost=0e152105-74bb-4f6a-880e-ddebb252ea09

#technology #screentime #socialmedia #addiction

Screen time among children and adolescents has increased significantly over the past three decades, with clear rise occurring after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The rise in screen exposure raises concerns about potential impacts on physical health, mental well-being, sleep, and development.

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#ScreenTime #ChildHealth #DigitalWellbeing https://www.utu.fi/en/news/press-release/screen-time-among-children-and-adolescents-has-increased-over-three-decades
Reenviado desde Science News
(https://t.me/experienciainterdimensional/10632)

I feel like I'm tired and have a headache. I don't know why. Maybe because I was drinking more caffeine than my body needs, and I have been looking at and interacting with electronic devices more constantly and for longer than my body is capable of.

#DigitalDetox #Caffeine #SelfCare #ITStudent #Productivity #MentalHealth #TechLife #Balance #Sabah #Malaysia #HeadacheRelief #Wellness #ScreenTime #HealthTips #DigitalWellbeing #StudentLife #Papar #Recovery

Brain Rot and Your IQ: What Science Actually Says About Screen Time, Social Media, and Intelligence

Henry David Thoreau coined “brain rot” in 1854 in Walden, writing about society’s preference for simple ideas over complex thought. The complaint maps remarkably well onto algorithmic content feeds 170 years later.

https://iqcertificate.org/blog/brain-rot-and-your-iq

#brainrot #iqscore #science #socialmedia #screentime #brain #society #adhd #health #tiktok #neuroscientist #pisa #student #digitaldetox #iqtest

New Streaming-Video App for Preschoolers Aims to End Screen Time
#TV #TVNews #Meevee #Screentime

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/meevee-streaming-service-preschoolers-end-screen-time-1236553760/

Taylor Lorenz’s Screen Time Is Almost 17 Hours a Day

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/user-behavior-taylor-lorenz/

(2/2) Når smartphonen ender i børnelommen langt tidligere, end de fleste forældre ønsker det, står vi med en udfordring, der kun kan løses i fællesskab. 
Lyst til at bruge dumme telefoner til at udskyde smartphonen sammen med andre forældre i klassen? 
Kontakt mig på 55609732 for at høre mere.
Jeg modtager med kyshånd kyndige tech-input fra jer på Mastodon på [email protected] ift. projektet
#ScreenTime #Privacy #DigitalMinimalism #DumbPhone #DanmarkSkifter #SmartphoneFreeChildhood

Recently I was in a group with grannies (70+). One of them had brought her granddaughter (about 6) along, who got obviously bored. She kept her entertained with "funny" #TikTok videos. The girl wanted to explore our #books: 'Don't touch!'
And all these grandmothers, their eyes sparkling, could rattle off the names of the TikTok influencers who ‘keep children aged two and above entertained’. And calm. (Their parents, too!)

#ageRestriction #influencers #children #socialMedia #exposure #ScreenTime

iOS Parents out there - do you also face a problem when you set App time-limits for the Kids, that the usage time continues running, even though they paused a video or stopped using an App to take a break or have a meal?

Any workaround?

#iOS #FamilySharing #ScreenTime #Parents #Parenting #Kids #Children

RE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/116239388293932404

The narrative arc that @tg uses to guide you to the central message of his essay is simply remarkable. 🌿

#MentalHealth #ProductDesign #TechFatigue #ScreenTime #Essay #GoodReads