Ohh fuck yes, I support antivirus, but only on Windows, maybe, possibly OSX. If you give bare Windows to a kid, they'll have viruses as soon as they learn to use Google.

TBF, Fam gets my guest network. It's not allowed to touch anything in my house, they can only route through. DHCP sends their DNS to 4.2.2.2 and 8.8.8.8, They can't even touch my DNS, they can't see any of my home automation and they can't see each other. They can push the connection as hard as they want, the QOS won't let them take priority.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

For my son I just used APLs in group policy. Only approved apps could run. I encouraged him to be better than me and he has definitely kept me on my toes. Now he is in college for cyber security and loving it.

So far he hasn't broken anything major on his computer or the network, well, aside from messing up his BIOS a couple times... But then he got to teach me how to program EEPROM (like I said, he has kept me learning stuff I normally wouldn't).

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

EEPROM's are fun. If you want more of that, check out Ben Eater on YouTube, he has a giant series on building an 8-bit computer from scratch. he actually goes through the whole design philosophy. There's a lot of 'new' stuff in there that's not entirely boring.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks! I'll definitely check it out!