Obviously, I know its impossible to completely child-proof a PC, but theoretically, what steps would you take? Assume its a laptop with internet access, meaning you’d want local solutions and something like a pi-hole wouldn’t work well.
I would personally assume, you’d want to:
A) discourage internet exploration by offering ready-to-use options for most needs, such as thumbnails/bookmarks for common websites.
B) Implement some sort of blacklist for common or easy-to-stumble-upon negative content. Maybe something as simple as a Ublock filter?
C) Robust monitoring tools, although I have no idea what.
Edit: To be clear, I know education is the number one tool, but let’s say a tech illiterate friend is asking for help. What might you set up for them, or recommend they use - tools to assist in parenting, not replace it.
Depending on how computer literate and scared of you they are, you could just lie?
My dad told me that he got his IT friend to rig my first PC so everytime i opened something it sent him a notification and he could see what i was doing at anytime. That scared me straight for longer than I want to admit
If you lie to your child, they will distrust you forever.
Don’t be an asshole to your family.
That would NOT have worked on me.
“What were you doing?”
“Researchkng where to hire hitmen for murder.”
I always incriminated myself so far beyond what I actually did, and it was obvious I was lying, that it momentarily distracted my dad from what he was doing. Then he’d forget, and not realize he never figured anything out. He just got bullshitted by a teenager.