Subj : Re: Pi for kids?
To   : The Godfather
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Wed May 27 2020 09:10:01

On 26 May 2020, The Godfather said the following...
 
 TG> Hey all,
 TG> 
 TG> I bought two Pi4's that just showed up in the mail.  I bought the most
 TG> fully featured I could get for both.  One is a combo kit for my kids ...
 TG> I noticed they have a minecraft mods things (I know nothing about it,
 TG> but my 12 year old does) ... he's begging me to unbox it to get startd. 
 TG> however .. I have no clue where to begin  ... what OS would you
 TG> recommend best for kids?  And seperately, I have no clue what I'll do
 TG> with mine.  But as someone who runs a BBs, I imagine once I'm
 TG> comfortable with Linux, I'll a) be switching the BBS over to it, b)
 TG> putting up a website for the BBs and using the PI as a server, c) I
 TG> really want to play around with these Pi's, so ... the SLR camera is
 TG> looking fun; but also I've heard of people using them inline with their
 TG> routers (not sure why....) so second question would be, which version of
 TG> OS would you recommen I install?

Hey dude, well I think Deon already has had some input into this question,
he's the resident Pi guru =)... I would say that you would probably be best
sticking to the OS that was made for it for now, Raspbian, which is a version
of debian for Raspberry Pi and ARM. I think as stock it's pretty neat.

For the kid, I would definitely go RetroPi as you can put all the old rom
games on it and have an arcade machine. There are a few good videos on
youtubes showing you all about RetroPi, I'd recommend watching a few.

Another cool project you might consider, is installing "pi-hole" which is a
network Advertising blocker. You would configure it as your network's DHCP
server and let that issue IP addresses out instead of your router, but stock
config once set as DHCP will block pretty much any and all banner ads and
video ads on anything that would use them. I use pi-hole in a VM (as it can
be installed on anything), and I love it. I even patreon them as I believe in
it so much.

 TG> Lastly, and cool links on "things to do with the PI" would be awesome. 
 TG> They're so cheap, I can imagine owning too many if I continue to have too
 TG> much time on my hands.  The internet radio conversation sounded
 TG> intersting, have the page pulled up to review as well.  Pretty excited!

Yeah I think that is the case with many people lol, once you get one or two,
they just start multiplying haha!

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