For sure, hands are generally getting better, but they are still a persistent problem. Mostly you need a prompter who isn’t lazy and is actually looking at the outputs.

As long as they don’t try to mandate that tech companies provide encryption backdoors, have at it.

I didn’t think to mention this until just now, but you’re probably going to have to do a more significant rework of the app pretty soon to work with Lemmy backend v0.18. You can test it against some public development instances in the short term, but unless the release candidate is held up, you probably have like 1 week before the app at least has issues on most servers (not entirely sure how much of a breaking change it’ll be code-wise).

Are you going to put it on GitHub? Obviously you’re not required to release code until you release a build into the wild, but just curious if we can see your progress in real time by any chance lol

Unless you hate the name Lemmur I don’t know if you have to change it yet either.

I’m sure there are cellular Android Wear watches where the same concept could work, but you’d probably need to be a lot more careful about battery life.

I know they specifically said they want it to be able to call 911, but they probably also would like for it to be able to call them (the parents) as well as any other relevant adults. Your Apple Watch idea is a really good one and it’s also probably less likely to get carelessly lost by a kid.