• Prethoryn Overmind@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Hear me out, I genuinely want to know what someone thinks of this idea.

    We have Life Phone 3 coming soon and some good e-ink options.

    I have been thinking about one of those e-ink box Palmas and putting a minimalist launcher on it making it my primary work device or get away from the world device.

    My Pixel 8 Pro is running GrapheneOS so my primary phone would manage my worldly needs in a private manner while my Boox would handle my get away needs for just the essentials. Reading and browsing nothing more.

    I would lock the device down with a child google account and Google’s family link app. This could see screen time prevent launcher changing and unnecessary app downloads my primary phone could manage it under a segmented Google profile in GrapheneOS. I think I would find myself to annoyed to even bother allowing app downloads so I would just install what is felt the phone was necessary for. A basic web browser, minimalist launcher and reading apps, lemmy and maybe Reddit. It would cut downy screentime a lot I think.

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      2 months ago

      It’s still too easy to install apps. You xan just type a parent’s password on the kid’s device to continue.