• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I refuse to allow my own child on it. It takes zero effort to see all the super shady shit happening there. I wont have my child exposed to that crap.

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        I played Roblox with my kids for years and didn’t find any shady shit. Not saying there is no shady stuff on there, but after 100s of hours either it’s suddenly gotten worse, we somehow dodged all the shady shit or the media have exaggerated the issue. Take your pick.

        I played with my kids because they desperately wanted to join in on the fun but the reports of it being pedo land made me create a rule of “you only play when we play together”. We had great fun, have many fond memories of our time on there.

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          You definitely dodged the shady shit with that rule. Not just pedo land either, also the illegal child labor.

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    6 months ago

    The real question is : Why did you invite anyone over, before having a guest VLAN set up ? Classic beginner mistake.

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        Whatever happened to just talking to each other? I’m glued to my devices all day every day, yet even I ignore the phone during holiday family gatherings.

        Nobody’s forcing you to go; if you prefer be on the internet rather than interacting with your family, please just stay home.

        Edit: Downvotes be damned, I stand by what I said. If this asocial shut-in who hasn’t had a friend since 2014 (because people annoy me) can come out of my shell a few times a year, and spend some time with the people I grew up, so can you. No excuses.

        One day they will all be dead or estranged, and you will regret not looking up from your phone for two hours to spend quality time with them when they were alive and in your life, as you die alone in your nursing home (assuming you’re rich enough to afford assisted living, that is). Don’t say you aren’t warned.

  • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    I’m very against Roblox. I know a kid who had a really hard time with online predators and a lot of it stated with Roblox. He’s 19 now. He and I were talking about it recently.

    Parents think Roblox is like Minecraft bc of the aesthetics of the game. But, Roblox is not a game with a chat feature, it’s a chat room with some games. That’s a big difference.

    They have 380 million users. Around 60% of the user base is under the age of 16. 40% is under the age of 12. That’s 152 million mostly unmonitored kids.

    I’m sure Roblox has gotten better moderation during that time, but in our experience predators meet kids on Roblox and get them to exchange Discord or other contact info with them.

    Discord is also a problem here, but that’s for another rant in another thread. If you are concerned about your kids and want to discuss it with me, feel free to message me.

    TLDR: DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS PLAY ROBLOX unless you are actively monitoring the game.

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      The younger kid’s chat is disabled. not allowed to friend anyone.

      The older kid has chat enabled, but is only allowed to friend people we vet.

      Computers are in an open area, chats have been keylogged, we check occasionally.

      If friends show up unanounced, or they chat where they’re not supposed to, they lose internet access long enough to regret it

      When they get old enough to have friends online, we contact the parents, make sure they’re compatible politically, theologogically, just generally not extremists and their kids have some base level of dicipline and are safety minded.

      We also semi-regularly play with them and set rules about the appropriateness of the games in relation to the kids ages. The younger one’s don’t get to play the violent ones.

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        Making sure the parents of your kids friends are compatible politically and theologically sounds incredibly dodgy to me.

        I will say this as well: strict parents raise sneaky children

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          Not from a multi-race household I see.

          If little Timmy’s parents start talking about “those kids” my kids isn’t playing with him. Too many racist fucks out there.

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        we contact the parents, make sure they’re compatible politically, theologogically

        This is insane. You call that kid’s mom to ask who she votes for and what name she uses for god, and if it doesn’t match yours, kids can’t have fun?

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          We have a 15 minute conversation to find out if they’re batshit crazy slur calling racist trumpeters because we dont need to subject our kids to that shit.

          I find it insane that you wouldn’t take 15 minutes to get to know who your kids influencers are, but you do you.

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            There is a vast difference between ascertaining that someone is or is not a racist and asking about their religion and political affiliations. Do you not understand that difference?

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              d asking about their religion and political affiliations.

              To be completely reasonable, I’ve not seen any strong right-wing supporters that are not either deeply racist or don’t care what’s going on with black/brown people right now.

              If someone is so far up Fox News’ butt that they think nothing wrong is going on, I sure as FUCK don’t want them recruiting my children.

              There is a vast difference between being in a different political affiliation and whatever the fuck is going on right now. I don’t want my kids wrapped up in that bullshit and if you support it, just block me now.

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    Guest vlan? Smart.

    Blocking 80/443 knowing all to well everything depends on those: evil.

    Throttling to 56k: the original original poster just being a dick.

    Took 45 minutes: Maybe find another job. You’re not good at it.

    Conclusion: The sister was right. Evil incompetent dick.

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      Took 45 minutes: Maybe find another job. You’re not good at it.

      Bit harsh.

      The OpenWRT guest wifi guide isn’t a simple switch like you would get on your OEM router, but involves manually setting up a bridge device, a new firewall zone, and a new AP on one of your radios.

      This can take some time if you want to do things the right way. 10 minutes to setup with no extra config steps. Add another 10 if you need to move around your firewall rules, and another 20 for random debugging.

      https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/guestwifi/configuration_webinterface

      Although, you set it up once. After that it’s just a checkbox.

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        and of course you need to tag the new network on all your switches, routers, APs… not to forget testing and integration in your monitoring system. 45 minutes is absolutely fine.