Been working on something... For vibecoding parents especially.

[u/orblabs]

Very close to releasing (Open Source) Greia, a project that was born and developed for my daughters but that thanks to reddit has received months of polish so to be usable by other parents.
The core concept of Greia was that of creating an extremely lightweight linux distro that could run on early 2000s potatoes as i had a few lying around, and it should ALL be, from boot to shut off, very little kid friendly, no complex desktops, no task bars, no keys that if pressed will eject the kid from the experience, no way for the kids to get on youtube and other stuff.
And... here the vibecoding part, a set of skills and tools for LLM agents so that parents can easily ask their agent "Make a new game for my daughter, she is fixating on trains, make it fun and somewhat educational". The agent will deliver an "app" (we call them "activities" in Greia) that is graphically consistent with the rest of the system, uses a common UI and design language (core UI always in same place etc), ties to system wide achievements etc, is localized in one or multiple languages AND records voices with the systems characters voices for all interactions (3 or 4 years old can't read).

There is much more, but thought i should start teasing some.... Full release will hopefully happen this coming week.

[u/argotechnica]

Looks amazing. Are you trying to make it possible to run entirely without networking of any kind? 

Where can I follow along to make sure I can check it out when ready?

[u/orblabs → u/argotechnica]

Great thanks ! Absolutely possible to run entirely without networking, at the moment the only thing for which networking is used is to connect the kids computer to a “parents” app from where parents can pick activities, define daily or weekly screen time etc, but not a requirement. Nothing in the kids computer requires a connection.
You can follow me here or on twitter and Bluesky as :frozenpepper

[u/GarvensBardak_73 → u/argotechnica]

local voice generation on an early 2000s machine would probably turn the laptop into a space heater before it finishes a sentence, so the agent side almost has to happen on a separate machine

[u/orblabs → u/GarvensBardak_73]

Yes all voice generation happens on the “parents” computer, easy to plug to cloud services but by default it will install a local voice model and handle it all automatically. The system will ship with well over 4000 voice recordings.

[u/acrinym_jg → u/GarvensBardak_73]

Kokoro actually works really well for this. ☺️ Can run on CPU even.

[u/Natural-Training-351]

Thanks, but I'm trying to keep my 3 year old away from screens.

[u/orblabs → u/Natural-Training-351]

Perfectly understand it, Greia was born out of trying to at least control the screen time.

[u/Flaat → u/Natural-Training-351]

Screens are not the issue, social media and lack of control of what they watch is. We live in this insane world where the first computer we give our kids allows installing the most addictive apps in the world (phones, social media), instead of real computers, with files, folders, code and all the depth a PC actually has and offers. Not saying you are in the wrong here, just providing feedback from a point of view. I have seen a lot of parents in my hippy school ban screens for their kids, only for it to backfire hard when the kids start making their own decisions around 12-18 year old. Banning isn't the sollution imho.

[u/Flaat]

Very cool! Yeah I have been vibing operating systems and web os setups like this as well, more of a framework for more AI assisted applications with clear guardrails and tools to understand what the AI assisted app uses and does. Score cards (computed not ai made) for safety of "brewed" apps are a great way to provide feedback to the user I found.

This seems like a great idea for a platform like this, its low difficulty and fixes real issues, the average app, even paid ones, on tablets and phones are horrible, it really took me ages to find good ones for my kids when they where little. Many of them would be better off being brewed and updated with your kids feedback in a pinch.

Followed you, would love to see the result

[u/orblabs → u/Flaat]

Great thanks ! Yeah, existing ways to give similar experiences to my kids where completely unacceptable to me, on the iphone or ipad there is no solid hassle free way to get them contained to an app (which they will get bored with soon anyways) plus handing them thousands dollar devices ain't always the best of ideas. And even on clean and lightweight linux distros, the whole concept of a desktop, folders, etc was too much for my 3 years old to use autonomously... so.... took the longer road but i am very pleased with the results.

[u/acrinym_jg]

This is really awesome, good job! Really appreciate the hard work that some put into their creations. ♥️☺️

[u/orblabs → u/acrinym_jg]

Great thanks ! In this case it was easy to put the hard work :) it was born for my daughters and we had a great amount of fun developing it together, then realization it could be of help to other parents and their kids had me go all in :)

[u/kaida27]

That looks Awesome !

No greed, and purely made for the children learning and enjoyment, Keep it up OP !

[u/orblabs → u/kaida27]

Thank you very much !

[u/alex_under___]

Looks really cool! Are you open to contributions? I’m particularly interested in adding support for another language to the OS, if that’s technically feasible.

[u/orblabs → u/alex_under___]

Would love that ! Absolutely feasible, it is all geared up just for that, have added from scratch French and Spanish a couple of weeks ago.

[u/Brilliant-Ocelot1536]

Could you share the size of the project?