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I have a 5 month old daughter, so I obviously haven't tried it yet, but I'm pretty keen on and have been setting up a Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi, so that when it's time for her to watch some videos, I want it to be a closed environment. No ads, no pushing of shit but specially, no endless stream of videos. I think what makes it worse is having the world in their hands and just be able to watch 2 minutes and skip. I see kids doing that all the time and it makes me feel uneasy. If it completely changed my ability to concentrate as am adult I can't fathom how that "power" affects the mind of a child.

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Have you considered to not let the baby see any videos at all? Apparently there is some research that claims that upbringing like that might still create a bad video addiction. The baby should be focussing on you or other people that are around for socialization, not a screen. I understand if there is no time. Hell, I don't have time. But apparently that's what some psychologists are saying.

you seem to have misread the parent commment in regards to his childs media consumption.

that said, we found that putting up a short video to capture the attention of small children is very effective at calming them down while changing diapers for example.

You seem to have misread my comment. There is research claiming that videos are bad for babies. (!) Then it makes no difference if they're calmed down during diaper change. Valium is also calming, but most people are recommended to stay off it.

my apologies then.

i'm sure there is such research, haven't read into it thou. ime no problem if you limit the exposure to video to a few minutes a day. it's basically the modern version of a sockpuppet.

I'm not going to give her any video before she's 2 years old. And after that we'll try to not do it for as long as we can and it makes sense. Because in the end, I watch movies and series and whatever. But she'll want to watch stuff as we're part of the society. And when that time comes, I'll be prepared with a Jellyfin instance to at least curb some of the attention grabbing feed and ads of current systems :)

That is precisely the same idea I ended up on, that feels like the best option. Basically, as a caretaker, nowadays it is most important to curate 100% the kind of media your kids have access to, as otherwise it is impossible for them not to be consumed by the algorithm and end up with a lot of psichological damage. Kudos for taking on such a hard job, hope you find a way to share your projects and results in the end, hope they work out well.

I have a Raspberry pi 4, with Kodi, Sonarr, Radarr, Transmission and nzbget for that. I recently added heimdall as a panel to have all links in one place.

I have all of that, except instead of Kodi, Jellyfin. Also no nzbget because I just found out about that and AFAIK you need some kind of invite to enter a Usenet? I dunno! I get by with torrents :)

The good thing of Usenet, apart from the speed, is that you are downloading only, not sharing, and in some jurisdictions that matters.

Anyway, most free Usenet providers place limits on how much and what you can download. I use Eweka, which is a paid provider. But there are a lot more. Eweka is a normal Usenet provider (I use it to access normal Usenet too) but it gives access to the entire Usenet, and it's fast.

Then nowadays all the pirated content in Usenet is scrambled, so you'll need an indexer, which is a search engine for content on Usenet. I'm not sure if I can share which one I use here, but you can check the Usenet subreddit, if you want to use one.

All in all, the setup works well. I give preference to Usenet content, because it's fast. If the *arr apps can't find the content in Usenet (because it's too old, for example), they switch to torrent.

I believe you're a good father since you're concerned. As time goes you'll teach them focus and they'll teach themselves. Focus is a general problem and it has to be solved as such. More and more distractions will be born as years go by so you need a general solution. That's my suggestion.

~I have all of that, except instead of Kodi, Jellyfin. Also no nzbget because I just found out about that and AFAIK you need some kind of invite to enter a Usenet? I dunno! I get by with torrents :)~

Sorry, wrong thread!

This is a good solution and pretty much what I've done. When you need screen time on the go, putting those videos on an SD card and sticking it in a cheap Kindle Fire with VLC installed also works well.

This would be my approach. My Plex only shows content that I myself hand picked to be on there.

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