This is my dad in a nutshell. I’ll tell him about something simple on either his laptop or on whatever app he’s using on the smart TV and he’ll tell me to be quiet and that he can figure it out. I definitely think it’s a pride thing in us males. That, or he’s getting old and doesn’t want to deal with the realization that he doesn’t fully understand modern technology anymore.
Having to re-teach your parents how to work the smart T.V.
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AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 11 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My dad used to absolutely love gadgets, but couldn’t understand how to work any of them. So he’d buy the latest tech of whatever interested him, try it once or twice, get tired of trying to figure it out, then let it sit in a closet for a year until I asked if I could have it and he said yes.
That’s how I ended up having stuff like a video titling system for home video tapes in the 90s and could make cool title screens for all the videos I pirated.
Oh yeah, he also had a dual-deck VCR which had the ability to beat the VHS anti-piracy technology. Now that he did figure out how to use and we copied a lot of stuff from the video store. Also, to his credit, he did know how to program a VCR.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I always thought that game was just a Lights-Out toy, but with multiple faces and not just a single square.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Modern smart TVs have so many “features”. I’m glad to use Kodi
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Any y’all SmartTV users know how to eliminate the excess telemetry the TV uses to eat up my bandwidth?
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Use a dumb TV and a HTPC
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
That was both my boyfriend and I’s preference, but we got offered a free TV when we needed one, and that’s a hard price to beat, especially in these times. I’m hoping the PiHole will do the trick.
flatplutosociety@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Set your browser up with a good private DNS. I use Control D, which you can use to block a lot of annoying crap.
cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Pi hole
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Yeah? I got one half assembled on my desk right this moment! I feel a little sheepish, though, because I got the SD card set up with Raspbian Lite as per a guide on AdaFruit, but, uh… I don’t know what terminal program I’m supposed to launch to talk to the dang thing! 😅 the guides on the site seem mostly based for Linux and I’m working on Windows. I feel silly to be stuck at this step as I feel once I cross it, I should be good with the rest of the guide.
Taleya@aussie.zone 11 months ago
And then after they’ve made a complete hash of it, usually messing it up beyond belief…demand you fix it.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Coffee in the case of Janeway … Or candy … or chips … Or donuts … Or an herbal tea
You just offer a distraction and the adult will step aside.
I know because you can give me a bag of chips and I’ll let you do whatever you want to my laptop.
negativenull@startrek.website 11 months ago
Pringles?
me nefariously installing linux on your laptop
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Pringles! … here is my info … give me a shipping address to send my laptop
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ummthatguy@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months 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.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 months 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.
Taleya@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Universal remote. I did that up for my husband’s grandma ‘just press this button and your show comes on’