Hi all,

I’m getting a pc for my daughter. I’ll install Fedora KDE Spin. I’m looking for a parental control solution that also integrates with her Android phone. I’m currently using Google’s Family Link which while not great it offers enough. I’d be happy to move to any other solution that can count both device’s usage screen time as one so she doesn’t use up her phone and then move to the PC.

Any cool recommendations?

  • @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    5•2 months ago

    What’s Activity Watch do?

    I looked at Github, by like so many projects there, the descriptions vary from minimal to non-existant.

    • melroy
      8•2 months ago

      ActivityWatch tracks time under Linux across all your applications and windows. So you know where you spent your most time on. It can categorize them as well for you. And there are plugin for eg. for Firefox to also track time on sites, etc. So you get a much better understanding about how you spent your time (maybe too much youtube? Or are you too much recompiling the kernel all day?).

    • Snot FlickermanEnglish
      2•2 months ago

      The goal of ActivityWatch is simple: Enable the collection of as much valuable lifedata as possible without compromising user privacy.

      We’ve worked towards this goal by creating an application for safe storage of the data on the user’s local machine and as well as a set of watchers which record data such as:

      Currently active application and the title of its window Currently active browser tab and its title and URL Keyboard and mouse activity, to detect if you are AFK (“away from keyboard”) or not

      It is up to you as user to collect as much as you want, or as little as you want (and we hope some of you will help write watchers so we can collect more).

      Well, they linked to the releases page instead of the main page for the project, for one.

      • melroy
        2•2 months ago

        I also linked to the readme as well… If you click on “ActivityWatch”.

        • Snot FlickermanEnglish
          3•2 months ago

          I need to change my default colors then, because it was way too easy to miss that first link. That’s on me.

          • melroy
            1•2 months ago

            My bad… I should make it all text with hyperlinks instead. --> fixed

            • Snot FlickermanEnglish
              1•2 months ago

              I appreciate it, but genuinely, the best thing about Lemmy is being in control of how you view your own feed, and so (especially considering I’m fucking red-green colorblind lol) it really is my responsibility to make it readable for myself. Thanks for being a good fellow, regardless.

              • melroy
                2•2 months ago

                Mbin also does have a lot of theme options, layout settings and different colored themes.