It seems possible to me at least, that social media can distort or negate any parentally installed firmware, despite parents best intentions and efforts.
First thing I did after getting the csv export was throw together a python script to save all the URLs as PDFs based on the title.
Not horribly robust, but a csv list of failed URLs will be ready when I wake up in the morning.
Somewhere around 2005, most of my job as an Oracle DBA/developer for a pension company seemed to consist of writing small scripts to automate some process. Somewhat like little Unix daemons to do my bidding - hence the handle ”daemoncoder” :-)
I often joke that I'm just writing a small script to replace myself with.
Currently I do a lot of data wrangling and analysis, mostly in Python, so still plenty of small programs to automate the boring stuff.
digital tech is a small fraction of your emissions - reminds one of David MacKay's book:
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air.
In particular as Professor MacKay puts it: "Obsessively switching off the phone charger is like bailing the Titanic with a teaspoon. Do switch it off, but please be aware how tiny a gesture it is."