[Ipg-smz] Any ideas for helping a friend with a computer-related addiction?

[David Needle]

Thanks Daniel ... yes, more than email, standard web surfing etc. as well.
he is extremely non-technical, so there may be a way to implement a
solution, perhaps one that has already been mentioned.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 1:58 PM Daniel Dern <dern at pair.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Feb 2019, David Needle wrote:
> > Thanks Joe. I did mention email as a primary use, but I should have
> stated he
> > still wants to surf news sites, watch YouTube videos etc.
>
> If just for email, and he was savvy/patient enough, retro-ing him to a
> terminal-prompt ASCII style screen would do it (Yes, I know there's ASCII
> prOn.")
>
> Maybe a student machine -- something that's configured with blocking out
> that stuff?
>
> But realistically, if he wants to get around blocks, or find stuff they
> don't block, it'll happen, absent somebody sitting by his side with a
> wooden ruler (to rap him on the wrist).
>
>
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