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Joad The Wet Sprocket
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This kid rules
Looking for parental controls for a child hacker. Not easy to break FamilyLink or Qustodio, but what? My son is 11. He's a game-eddictive. If I give him a phone with unlimited access, he'll do nothing but play games. He'll even stop eating and sleeping. He first hacked Family Link when he was 9. And he found an uncontrolled browser when he was 8. Since then, there has been a constant technological war. I tried third-party parental control apps, such as Qustodio and others, but he removed them all or bypassed them even faster. Now, his most common hack is to reboot without the internet and add a second user, where he does whatever he wants until I discover it through Family Link (the Add User option becomes enabled). So I have to check it often. His studies suffer because as soon as I leave for at least 20 minutes, he's already on his phone. With the help of AI, I realized that I need to install MDM (some device owner system), but Family Link doesn't want to be the Device Owner, and the other apps I found (Google Endpoint Manager, SureMDM, TinyMDM) are all paid. Maybe I need to install Google Play Services as a Device Owner right after device resetting, then learn how to manually configure policies via ADB? I've already gone through a similar process on a PC when I couldn't get Windows under control (Microsoft Family is even more full of holes), so I had to install Linux and configure a lot of things manually. The only thing that helps is to give him the phone only when necessary and then take it away and hide it in a safe with a 7-digit code (he's already figured out and opened codes with up to 6 digits). But it's exhausting. Who else has a little hacker in a family? What do you use?
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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probably something like that, yeah.
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Update:
the Kenwood CD player from when I was in high school
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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today of all days
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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It's not the most important thing, but I do think we're going to have to address TVs being too cheap.
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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TMNT logo that reads "Donald Trump Can't Stop Elections"
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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this is so much funnier to me than it should be
shot of the fake wood wall at the forward end of the passenger cabin, which has a mounted iPad in the middle and two TVs displaying the home screen of the iPad, with pillarboxing because an iPad screen doesn't have the same aspect ratio as a TV. Fancy!
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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"soup for my family" in the Zohran-script
November 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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guys check out what the coin stomper thing at the children's museum runs off of
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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POV: my wife in the hotel room after the fancy party
November 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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they put a different version of this (assuming dress rehearsal) on YouTube and it's really not as good as this one from the live broadcast
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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[Evan Hansen cums]
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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it's like a Studio 60 sketch
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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new euphemism for "carnival" just dropped
MrBeast, the world’s most subscribed-to YouTuber, is opening a limited-time theme park in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of a larger festival featuring various acts, events, and attractions.
November 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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His lawyer:
Rob Lowe as The Grinder
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I'm really curious to see if the entire FireTV business has been propped up by easy piracy this whole time
In a new first for the company, Amazon will begin blocking sideloaded apps on Fire TV devices that are determined to provide access to pirated content, according to The Sun. While Amazon has a long history of blacklisting apps, it has previously done so only to stop users from bypassing its Fire TV home screen with custom launchers or to prevent malicious apps. This new app blocking marks the first time Amazon has actively restricted Fire TV users from accessing pirated content, primarily to aid copyright holders.
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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solid stunt perfectly underlined by the Speaker of the House hitting the entire government with this bad boy
School TV cart with a CRT TV on it
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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he's so mad the grim reaper keeps missing
November 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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is this child being educated
Hardee's Introduces New Rizzwich Meal and there's a photo of The Rizzler looking at some fast food
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Virginia's power monopoly built itself a glass skyscraper in Richmond
November 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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they're so crossed up, they don't even know how to posture
Yall got really excited that a democrat won in a democrat state. I mean congrats. But also the mental gymnastics yall use to justify this psychopath is hilarious when yall also whine about political violence when its mostly you that commits it. Anyway congrats lol. But ICE is still coming
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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The Hobie Doyle fandom is dying

REPOST if you can SENSE YOUR SADDLE
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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JohnRocker @itsJohnRocker Subscribe Taxis will be replaced by camels. Women will be forced to cover themselves head to toe. NYPD will be replaced with religious police. All hot dog stands will be replaced with goat meat stands. THIS IS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR. utopia dot jpeg
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Fart_Man_Cometh
I can deal with Spanberger but to elect someone that literally advocates for the death of his opponents' children is insane
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM