bluGill

the school devices are locked down. However your experience shows why the locks are not good. Too many useful searches could be bad. They are not going to assign a team of humans to review every search result. Either they whitelist things so restricted that you can't research anything or they blacklist so little things not on the list spread faster than they can block. (Both is a real possibility)

I want my share of those resources to go to my retirement account. A shorter work week would be better. Or maybe a machine to do my laundry so I can do other things with my limited time on earth.

Not by enough. We will advance, but the speed of light is still a hard limit that we won't get close to.

we are not able to detect a civialization as advanced as us but orbiting our nearest star (which probably can't have life as we know it) if they aimed all their antennas at once at us and we happened to turn all our antennas to them at the right speed.

there is no reason to think we can make a spaceship that will make it to the nearest star. Even if we could make a generation ship survive, if the star doesn't have perfect conditions for life we won't be able to redirect to enough stars to hope to find one (assume one exists and we ignore the ethical problems of invading like that - both we should not ignore but this is too long already)

mars is just slighly more life friendly than the worst parts of antartica. We could maybe get something there self supporting, but it will be with massive investments. Everything else is far far worse. (We will probably get someone to mars and back in a few years, but it won't be a place to raise a family)

anything worth doing in space involves robots. If you want to 'inspire man' or make life better on earth there are better ways.

Almost everything is a webpage these days. Or a youtube video

They are enabled - the kids have found bypasses. Turning on the hotspot and then using their school device for instance

But not my kids phone that they turned the hotspot on before then. even if I take it their school device can be got from the backpack

I managed to do this once on mbin - but I have no clue how. This is a commonly requested feature.

Depends - what don't you like about your current instance? The ui will be different on each but that isn't good or bad so much as what you like. (No project has a real ui designer)

It only takes one kid to figure out the bypass and it spreads all the kids. Some of those kids are talking to kids going to other schools.

every week my kids hear about a new game the school isn't blocking while they are in class. Sometimes the teachers catch them, but kids are good at hiding what they are doing - and switching to what they should do when the teacher comes near.

I can't - teachers give them homework that must be done on the device all the time.

Every week my kid hears about another game (not boobs) that the school didn't block and thus they can play when the teacher isn't looking. There are also a lot of non educational youtube videos they can watch, but since some of their real educational videos are on youtube they don't block most. (Again youtube will block boobs - but that is not all I'm worried about)

They are only easy to setup if you don't care about getting them right. Either you block a lot of useful content (only approved, audited things allowed), or you block only things that are known evil (that is you audited it). Either way the vast majority of the internet is not audited and we have no idea which of that is good vs evil. (nevermind trying to get a consistent definition of good/evil). The name "onlyfans" makes me think of sports fans and thus something I'd allow kids to access - of course I know better, I'll be there is someone out there who would be setting up the firewall who doesn't know it is in fact adult content.