To be fair, the smartphone market kinda sucks. There’s not a great way to limit what the device can do without setting up privacy-violating controls.
So I’m looking into Linux phones like the Pinephone so I can completely remove access to certain features. I’ll probably start with disabling WiFi and data (except access to the carrier for calls and texts), then slowly open things up from there. That way I don’t need to monitor what they’re doing, since I know the boundaries I’ve set, and I can loosen it up slowly as they earn my trust.
In the meantime, they can still access the Internet and whatnot on family owned devices, but only during times my wife and I set. That, too, will be loosened as they earn trust. I’m mostly concerned about time spent, not what they end up actually doing.
To be fair, the smartphone market kinda sucks. There’s not a great way to limit what the device can do without setting up privacy-violating controls.
So I’m looking into Linux phones like the Pinephone so I can completely remove access to certain features. I’ll probably start with disabling WiFi and data (except access to the carrier for calls and texts), then slowly open things up from there. That way I don’t need to monitor what they’re doing, since I know the boundaries I’ve set, and I can loosen it up slowly as they earn my trust.
In the meantime, they can still access the Internet and whatnot on family owned devices, but only during times my wife and I set. That, too, will be loosened as they earn trust. I’m mostly concerned about time spent, not what they end up actually doing.