> Why would little children need to access motherboard firmware updates though?
Because they're interested in it. I was installing Linux when I was 9 because I thought it was cool.
If my parents had walled me off into a foam internet safe-room, it would have stifled one of my lifelong interests that led to my career, and bred trust issues and resentment against my parents.
Weird, because if it was my kid in that scenario, when they found a false-positive in the Internet filter, they'd open their mouth and show me the problem, and I'd just type in my code to unblock it and say "Sorry, kiddo!"
If I had to ask my parents for permission to be interested in something, there's a lot I wouldn't have pursued and the simple gatekeeping is enough of a motivator to find something else to do or bypass the gatekeeper altogether.
Because they're interested in it. I was installing Linux when I was 9 because I thought it was cool.
If my parents had walled me off into a foam internet safe-room, it would have stifled one of my lifelong interests that led to my career, and bred trust issues and resentment against my parents.