Right - ran a search and got no results, so am asking directly

This thing any good? Anyone run it?

https://circlus.org/

Use case: want to give my kid a SEVERELY locked down Moto E (2nd gen) as a Youtube music player device and a “message Daddy” app - strictly wifi / in house only.

The first thing is simple enough. The second thing is…interesting.

I had my local AI do some research and it spat out the above. I don’t think it’s quite right but It looks interesting. Any one use it / can comment? Failing that, can anyone recommend a simple WLAN messaging app that will run on Android 6 / lineageOS? I’m sure I can dig one up but if someone has one running, I’m all ears.

PS: I’m not looking at using a VPS for this…but the above did catch my attention as fairly normie friendly. Might be worth self hosting something like that…

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    5 hours ago

    Hey buddy this doesn’t look like a great service. It isn’t open source but claims to be, and appears to have only been around a couple of months.

    A project with a lot of backing called Nextcloud could work for you. It has a service called Nextcloud Talk that you’ll be able to throw on their dumb phone and if you want to you can use it as an alternative to dropbox/onedrive and google docs.

    edit: a benefit of nextcloud talk is that your kid won’t be able to add some random person or do anything too nefarious with it and if they did you’d be able to see everything