date: 2025-12-10 title: Making a kid-friendly laptop draft: true toc: true

Limiting access to some websites.

General setup here is thus:

  1. Set up a dnsmasq server on the machine.
  2. Configure the machine to look at that DNS server instead of another.

Set up dnsmasq

I used a dnsmasq approach.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install dnsmasq
  1. Copy dnsmasq and resolv.conf files
  2. dnsmasq is w

Configure dnsmasq (/etc/dnsmasq.conf)

Also /firefox-esr/distributions/policies.json

Terminal games

moon-buggy espeak cowsay