Comment on Having to re-teach your parents how to work the smart T.V.

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• negativenull@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pringles?

  me nefariously installing linux on your laptop

  BWAHAHAHAHAHA

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pringles! … here is my info … give me a shipping address to send my laptop

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    • cabbagee@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      UPS tracking number 1Z 150 293 65 9808 210 7

      Letting the real secrets out.

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• ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That may work for them, but not my grandma. She just turned 98! I couldn’t fathom teaching her to use a minimalist, multifunction, touch sensative remote… let alone how to navigate multiple, terrible UI’s. It’s the only reason my parents still have conventional cable.

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is there some kind of law that consumer electronics have to have a terrible UI? It’s pretty much just smartphones and computers that don’t totally suck.

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    98! wow … lucky you … if my grandmother was still around, I’d operate everything for her myself and allow her to use me as her personal butler. I’d want to make her life as easy as possible.

    Good for you and I hope she is happy and well … we should be so lucky to see as much life as she has … my best wishes to her and your family.

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    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you for your praise and understanding. My family and I do what we can to ensure she’s comfortable and taken care of. Her husband, my grandpa, passed in '94. We like to joke that she sapped his life force in order to carry on. Sometimes she starts talking to us in Tagalog, but I’m a second gen half-breed who mever learned the language outside of important food items. It’s an adventure, if nothing else.

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      • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m Indigenous Canadian and I remember living with my 90 year grandfather in the 1980s … he was an Ojibway/Cree hunter trapper who was born in the bush and lived on the land all his life and he was a first world war veteran (he never saw action but he was the first in our family to see Europe). He only spoke our language and knew just a few English words (which is amazing because he had been to England and back and never bothered to learn English). Our whole family spoke our language so we were freely able to listen to all his stories. We took lots of pictures back then but for some strange reason, we don’t have many photos of him. We just took for granted that he was there and that someone, somewhere was taking pictures … but it turned out that not enough people did.

        I only remember bits and pieces because I was a wild kid that never sat at home … now I just wish I had spent more time with him, taken photos and even video recorded him. I’ll always remember him sitting outside our front door in the summer in his warm wool clothes soaking up the warm sun. We live in a cold part of the country so the sun and warmth were always important to him. He had so much history, so much information and so much to share … I will forever feel bad about losing all that.

        Which is why I want to say … take lots of photos … record a video … record her voice, even if you don’t understand … record as much as possible and often … those recordings, the pictures and the sounds will become precious memories you’ll treasure for life. I remember what my grandfather sounded like … but I just wish I could hear him again.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Universal remote. I did that up for my husband’s grandma ‘just press this button and your show comes on’

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