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  • True. I wouldn’t hand my kids bb guns at 8. I’m also sure you don’t hide dangerous items completely from your kids, and some way demonstrate using them responsibly.

    I don’t own any guns myself, so I used nerf rival guns to demonstrate safety to my children. Again, my biggest concerns are what to do with a found firearm, never point one at anything you don’t want to shoot.

    I also allowed them to hang out with Grandpa for an afternoon and familiarize themselves with firearms. If they were more interested in firearms, a bb gun would have been okay for them to take out to Grandpa’s firing range. I’m only referring to a spring action device, and my children are a little older.


  • IDK about where the person you are replying to is from, but I see it as a viable strategy in the US. There are too many stories of children playing with guns and killing someone. Teaching firearm safety and demystifying them is like teaching sex ed.

    Not having firearms everywhere is a better answer, but I can only control so much.





  • I remember these being suggested to me as a newbie a long time ago.

    Please continue to learn! It’s great to bring new perspectives to play.

    I kind of answered this elsewhere in the thread, but here is my answer to you.

    If you are referring to basic OS level functions, they are super similar, but they are also wildly different.

    Ubuntu is based on Debian. It is centered on keyboard and mouse input, often with touchscreen. It uses a Canonical kernel.

    Android is its own flavor of Linux, entirely centered on touch input. It uses a heavily customized AOSP kernel.

    While I think it might be entirely possible to install and remove packages to have one act like the other, they have wildly different kernels.

    Here is a pretty lengthy write up on the subject by Richard Stallman.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/sep/19/android-free-software-stallman


  • Oh, I forgot about Chromebooks and ChromeOS. They are similar, but there are significant differences.

    ChromeOS is based on Gentoo. It is centered on keyboard and mouse input, often with touchscreen.

    Android is its own flavor of Linux, entirely centered on touch input.

    While I think it might be entirely possible to install and remove packages to have one act like the other, we are comparing a different Linux flavor against Android.

    Also, my answer is probably generic enough to answer OP.