My 5 year old son does have access to an android tablet, but i restrict, selectively, what he can do on it and time limit his usage so it locks down after a few hours. I curate his youtube and frequently spend time watching kids content to decide if i want him watching it. If its good and educational i will share it to his kids youtube account. He cant browse the web, he cant buy things on the play stores. He has to get me to approve any app install and i will always install first and play to ensure it safe.

Its hard work, but its worth it to protect him online. And this has lead to it just being another one of his toys, it doesnt absorb his whole existence. He can take it or leave it. Which i am chuffed about.

When he is older and i can help him understand for himself how to be safe, i will help him however i can. Rather than restric, i will help him understand what the internet is, the good the bad and the ugly.

Hey man, i wanna be clear. That wasn't intended as a freak out. At all. I'm sorry it came off that way. It was a general musing about how vast the world is and that despite thinking everyone must know about a particular thing, there will always be people that don't.

I was more wonder and amazement at that fact. I wasn't having a go at you.

Sorry again my dude.

Be right back....

Yeah! Thats what i am saying.

It absolutely makes sense that there will be vast numbers of people who dont know any single well known anything.

But it never fails to blow my mind just how big the world is.

It's so strange for me, having been born in 1988, to hear someone not know who this guy is, and this song.

I fully understand that it's been just about 30 years since this came out, and there are multiple generations of kids that will never have heard it that are fully grown adults now.

Its just that this song was not only massive, one that everyone knew, but it lived on way past its release date, it was played on radio, tv, used in films and tv shows (silicon valley is a recent one of note). The same band also had a meme based on the film "napolean dynamite" with the song canned heat, which the main character did a dance to that made it into games such as world of warcraft and fortnite.

The band is a part of pop culture, and despite it all, there are still places in the world where people dont know instantly what this picture is from and who that is.

I get it. It just boggles my mind how vast the world is. Even 10 years ago there were people living in the north west of england asking who the beatles were. (Beatles are from liverpool in the north west of england and liverpool is littered with beatles murals, staturs and that kind of shit) its insane that anyone could not know who they are.

But hey ho. Just thinking out loud.

Since google puts twitter feeds at the top and that cesspit is full of idiots i decided to check lemmy to see if i was alone in thinking this is a huge over reaction.

Pretty safe to say that people of lemmy are my people.

Personally i see it as a joke, maybe one in bad taste. Maybe one that shouldn't have been said. But a joke none the less. Its certainly interesting to see how the right react when the shoe is on the other foot.

Is it now the norm to make the term WiFi synonymous with the term cellular/mobile data (or 4g/5g)

They are not the same thing.

Is this like when people call tablets ipads? Or call vacuums hoovers/dysons.

Apple already made a folding phone. It was called the iphone 6.

Ah yes! Three of my favourite reptiles:

Spiders, Centipedes, and Scorpions.

Why does anyone care? I dont mean care about trans people, i mean care about people wanting to transition.

Its so fucking stupid.

It doesn't affect you in any way. It screams the main character syndrome.

Just mind your own fucking business.

Im a cis gendered white male, and in my opinion, i dont care. Please do what you want and come be my friend if you want.

Lets have a pint and laugh at kevin.

Id say she got to know just about eveything she needed to know about this person.