The OS ought to let you deny internet access to an app entirely, but DNS-based adblocking might solve your problem: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Mullvad’s DNS routes to it with adblocking, you do not need to be a subscriber to use it: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

One that doesn't need some form of 'login', 'account', or client. While this site seems to be the well intentioned and not shady, technically it offers nothing more than what https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls as a byproduct of their other offerings. It just has better presentation, and maybe finer granularity via their client? Who knows? In practice it isn't needed. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Confirming what ekjhgkejhgk is saying. It really just is Firefox with more privacy tuning. As far as I'm aware all the add-ons work as expected. I've used it as a trial and can confirm ublock works perfectly fine but that's the only add-on I tested. Also, it is bundled with a mullvad add-on, but it is easy to remove. You should also go to the Privacy and Security tab in the browser. By default it is set to Max... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

If you don't mind them knowing but resent the ads, you can just block the ads. You can do dns ad blocking[1], in-browser plugins/extensions[2], finally, patch the apps[3]. Or deploy all of them. [1] https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls#specifications [2] https://ublockorigin.com/ [3] https://revanced.app/patches?pkg=com.google.android.youtube. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

The game dev environment they’re talking about is MakeCode Arcade. I’m also a big fan of it. There are a number of little handheld gadgets that you can use with MakeCode—scroll down on the homepage and there’s a section that shows them all: https://arcade.makecode.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

I recently installed Ubuntu on a little Geekom mini PC for my 6 and 8 year olds to share. So far my 6 yo isn’t too into it, but her older sister mostly uses it for the games I’ve put onto it through Epic and Steam and programming using MakeCode, mostly for Arcade (https://arcade.makecode.com) (I have a couple of micro:bit-based handheld shields) and more recently getting into the awesomely simple networking that... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Alternatively, get her an emulator of an old 8 or 16 bit system, I started coding at the age of 10 in these systems, with books that were oriented for kids. https://www.atariarchives.org/ http://redparsley.blogspot.com/2016/08/input-magazine-retrospective.html https://archive.org/details/input-hi-01 Or if you prefer something more up to date, https://arcade.makecode.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Https://arcade.makecode.com/ Is great fun to use and made for kids. The forum (forum.makecode.com) is well moderated and safe too. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

I'm not sure how this reduces the barrier to game developement. There are already lots of free assets and game engines designed for making arcade games that are a lot easier then say Unity or Unreal. Like https://arcade.makecode.com/ or https://microstudio.dev/ or https://scratch.mit.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago