Trying to solve a modern parent problem:

I want to give my kid an MP3 player for his birthday so he can listen to music + podcasts without handing him a dopamine casino disguised as a smartphone.

I’ve got an old Android phone I could lock down, but then I’m still teaching phone habits, interfaces, notifications, swipe-brain, all that bullshit.

So I’m looking for a real standalone player.

Need:

- MP3s
- podcasts
- Bluetooth headphones
- simple controls
- no browser
- no app store
- no addictive glowing nonsense
- not stupid expensive

Parents / tech weirdos: what are people using for kids now?

Because I’m not buying a child a pocket casino just so he can hear Angine de Poitrine

@franklinlopez snowsky mini. it's cheap but very barebones. you're not gonna have any nice integrated podcast feed thing, tho. maybe someone techier than me has a solution but it's gonna be drag and drop with that audio file

@franklinlopez ahem. snowsky echo mini

@ombres @franklinlopez i second that, https://www.fiiocanada.ca/products/snowsky-echo-mini a friend of mine got one of those and is pretty happy

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