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by 2Gkashmiri 1379 days ago
dunno.... this might be an unpopular opinion but set up jellyfish/emby/plex at home, download all the stuff your kids "might" watch and let them be.

you would be in control of what they can and cannot watch, there wont be any ads, your kids wont be exposed to "stuff" which overall is a nice thing.

i remember doing this back in 2015 when i had a bunch of kids at home and internet was scarce. Now, there are no kids in the household so i stopped maintaining the library
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throwaway27727 1379 days ago
That's a great idea. How do you find appropriate and engaging content? I can go back in time to find copies of classics but I'm sure there are attractive modern options as well. This is one of the pluses of PBS, where you could let your kid loose with whatever they're showing and be comfortable with it.
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2OEH8eoCRo0 1379 days ago
The content was better back in the day. Bill Nye, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, Cosmos, Reading Rainbow.

I don't have kids but my friends do and the content that they watch is insultingly low quality.

I like the idea that you can set up a media server with only what you choose and turn the kids loose on it. They can go nuts because it's only content you've chosen.

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2Gkashmiri 1379 days ago
yeah, thats the idea. a 1TB of media goes a long way to satisfying the "interests" of kids. cost wise that is peanuts as a pre-transcoded media could be streamed off a pi-HDD combo. that is fantastic.
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2Gkashmiri 1379 days ago
that honestly depends on the person who has taken the responsibility for that.

i remember finding old charlie chaplin movies torrent, "all movies", or classics.

then, most of the modern animated movies/shows that has been curated from imdb/commonsensemedia

i know i know the whole piracy thing, people are put off by "tools" because "it could be used to stream pirated media" but that is honestly the end users responsibility.

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