@Alonely0 🦀 Well no, I can verify the identity with my eyes. I can read a fingerprint. But it means I need to deploy a trusted CA to devices like my unrooted tablets that wont let me choose the trustroot, or my babysitter's iPhone. Not being able to verify myself is bad.
@growse ❎ I tried but they're Fire tablets, when I bought them I thought they were Karnaks which have been pwned but they're Onyxs, so they are in a no-internet subnet and the appstore runs locally, so they have apps and stuff but no internet!
Bravo! Curating one's own app store is a great example of how Open Technology enables people to take control of our tech life. I yearn to see this sort of thing included as basic, default, built-in functionality in modern libre personal computer systems like Linux, Yunohost, and mobile OS's.
My 3 year old is sick and would normally be watching TV and trying to sleep. But right now he's on a tablet, exploring freely. All the games, the shows, and the audiobooks are safe, some are old, some are new. But he's able to be safe and happy.
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in reply to silverwizard • • •oh,this is a great idea.
Are your tablets on GrapheneOS (degoogled) or something else?
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in reply to Julian Foad • •@Julian Foad It was a little thorny to setup, but it probably would be pretty simple! F-Droid is pretty friendly.
apt-get install fdroid server
fdroid init
fdroid update --create-keys
put apks in the repo folder
fdroid update -c
fdroid update
then point a webserver at the repo dir.
not saying that *anyone* can do that - but it's well within the ability to make an ansible playbook for!
But yeah - letting my 5yo install and remove apps gives him power without exposing him to the wider internet
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