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As part of the GNOME Foundation funded Digital Wellbeing project, the GNOME Shell for GNOME 50 has merged options to prevent unlocking the desktop session past their bed time. The intent here is on rounding out GNOME's parental controls functionality.

As highlighted in This Week in GNOME, the GNOME Shell has landed the functionality to prevent unlocking your desktop when it's past your scheduled bedtime. Plus parents or others with control can extend their screen time via new options added.

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[-] notgold@aussie.zone 5 points 13 hours ago

Brilliant. I love these parental locks. No arguing, the device just locks.

[-] msokiovt@lemmy.today -2 points 1 day ago

Alrighty, what the flip made them do this?

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 19 points 1 day ago

What do you mean? This option for parental control is pretty great.

I don't get most commentors on that board though that think that this feature is a bad thing.

[-] turdas@suppo.fi 7 points 15 hours ago

Phoronix forums are full of some of the most miserable human beings around.

[-] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 6 points 15 hours ago

People don't affectionately call it Moronix for no reason.

[-] petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

At least you get a sense of how old the people hanging out here are ๐Ÿ˜‚

this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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