https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?sort=date&term=(("Screen+Time"[Majr])+AND+(+"Cognitive+Dysfunction"[Mesh]+OR+"Cognitive+Neuroscience"[Mesh]+OR+"Cognitive+Aging"[Mesh]+OR++"Neurobehavioral+Manifestations"[Mesh]+))+AND+%22Nervous+System+Diseases%22%5BMesh%5D

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?sort=date&term=("Screen Time"[Mesh]) AND "Nervous System Diseases"[Mesh]&page=2

or configure your keyboard as English international, dead tildes. You can use ~ with an n to produce an ñ. At least in gnu/Linux that’s easy to do

Yeah that’s more an ocular thing… for me the main worry, and what I’ve seen in some children, is a tendency towards ASD signs, lack of language/communication skills, easier addiction/hormone reward cycle… that kind of things. It kinda makes sense because screens are so new and there is nothing like that before, so we are not evolutionally (is that a word?) used to this technology I tried to find but couldn’t get to the exact papers I’ve read, but just a search could give some clues: https://searx.tiekoetter.com/search?q=neurological+effect+screens+children&category_general=1&language=en-US&time_range=&safesearch=0&theme=simple

Yes, I think that tv screens are also harmful for small children. Beyond the content, that is.There are some pretty concluding neurological studies on the subject.

I think it is true. At least it was last time I checked. Give it a try.

Use newpipe anad install grapheneos on your pixel. I wish i had a pixel to install grapheneos.

I try to keep them away from screens as possible until they are 12

Yeah that’s a sad situation. I suppose you already know about the dangers for the future of our children of not having access to software code and one big company having control over our devices and surveillance capitalism and blah blah blah so I won’t waste your time with that again. Every context is different, every mind is different. Hope you succeed in giving this child what will be best for his future. Good luck and congratulations for your motivation!

Yeah less use Linux. But, even with all of Microsoft lobbies and marketing, a bunch do. For example in the country where I live, the desktop computers of the main bus transport and courier company all use Suse linux. In a school where I worked, all computers also had Linux. It really makes sense in educational contexts.

My experience is different. I tend to think the billions of dollars spent by microsoft on marketing and lobbies give them some advantage. And a lot of companies use linux more than windows. But of course it depends on your historical experience and choices.

For me this answer is biased. I am a technology teacher and father of five. Had great experience with Linux. Get them on the free ecosystem with no barriers! That’s the best educational environment. Kturtle, gcompris. Krita. Inkscape. Scratch. Godot. Freecad. Gimp. Libresprite/Aseprite. More than enough to keep you busy. I grew up with DOS. The best fuel for me learning computing was trying to make games run. Nowadays everything tries to be so easy and simple and that’s great but sometimes it has an educational drawback. Linux is so much easier for kids than for adults who are already used to windows/Mac. Edit: you could also start with i3wm. That’s what I did with my kids. Of course, the hard part of that is not them learning, but you first learning it so you can show it to them. Have an eye on that and adjust difficulty depending on your time for this project. If you don’t have that much time and willingness to learn yourself, just go KDE plasma or other.

Really really please install gnulinux on that child’s computer. He will be grateful for life. If you install windows he might not hate it but he’ll never know what he missed. He will get used to that and will be hard for him in the future to get out of the windows ecosystem. my humble experience installing hundreds of Linux systems: childrenand young are the best adopters. You can do it and ask for help here or on other channels if needed. Maybe go for Linux mint Debian edition.

A few drops of lemon is all you need. Apply only every three days or so. Not every day.

Bluesky doesn’t even have an app available for us who don’t have access to the google store. So it is a no go for me.

I understand your practical/functional approach. But I think the approach that sounds radical to you might also be a practical one that considers long term and big scale effects. I mean, the same happens in many aspects of life. Sometimes you do something in a more difficult way because you bet it will bring you benefits in the long term. Sometimes it really pays over but other times you think it will bring you benefits (and for example instead of doing something manually you write a script that does it) but you miss it and end spending more time on the job than if you’ve had just solved your specific problem manually. When we talk about sociology, politics and other complex subjects that go beyond our short term/personal benefit impact, we really frequently don’t have the knowledge to make the best decisions, so we kinda guess based on our experience and convictions. I think that’s what making us disagree right now. Personally, for me using libre software was a chimera until 6 years ago or so when I think it reached a mature point in which nowadays it can solve most needs with more practical benefits by far than proprietary software. Before that, I used Windows, Adobe and other proprietary software and dealt with its limitations. I mean I also have to say that I also used it because it was comfortable, easier and familiar for me (I was trained on Microsoft/Macromedia/Adobe ecosystem since a small kid) Probably, if I had no experience with computers before (and as I can confirm from the experience of installing GNU/Linux on other people’s computers, those that have no former experience with Windows nor Mac whatsoever have so much better/faster adoption of GNU/Linux), I could have adopted it earlier. The thing with libre software (contrary to most things in the material world) is that the more people use it, the better it gets, so that makes a special point on why using it could be beneficial for the whole system called humanity. Well anyway… Thanks for reading!

With or actions, we are creating a future for humanity Something like this: https://mastodon.social/@jxself/111377315321163727

Check this short videos to understand more: https://www.fsf.org/resources/videos/

Good. But sometimes not paying for something now makes you pay more in the long run

I’m sorry if I insulted you. Didn’t mean to. What I mean is that its not a matter of paying or not paying. Or a matter of privacy or not. It’s a matter of freedom and the future of humanity.I Iove paying for libre software. We need software that respects people’s rights and gives them the possibility of studying, sharing and evolving to us humanity as a whole. That gives them control over their computers and lives.

A lot of us here are on the same boat. We don’t know each other but deal with these same issues. We know the truth behind proprietary software and surveillance capitalism and we know that we can only succeed in our efforti if we bring together our loved ones. We need to find the best language and ways to let people know the reality behind the software they use, the dangers of using it, and the marvelous solutions of the free software community. We are a community. Let’s hold ourselves together and keep going. The world may be based in libre software in the future. If it doesn’t, it will be not a good place to live on. But at least we tried. If not for us, for the ones that’ll come in the future.

And trusting with closed eyes and giving away control of their computers to that big tech co Having ads And enjoying updates at good moments And having to have an antivirus And paying licenses And having your children learn computing on an environment that they’ll get used to so they’ll have to buy their own when they get older and cope with all this sh*t