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.
Pringles! .... here is my info ... give me a shipping address to send my laptop
Ron A. Rausch
3295 Princess St
Kingston, ON K7L 1C2
Mother's maiden name Colunga
SIN 083 704 486
Geo coordinates 44.253199, -76.426152
Phone 613-533-1643
Country code 1
Birthday May 23, 1961
Age 62 years old
Tropical zodiac Gemini
Username Fortiong61
Password Ahl1iePai2u
Visa 4539 2318 8318 6333
Expires 8/2026
CVV2 373
Company Life Map
Occupation Pipelayer
Height 5' 7" (170 centimeters)
Weight 237.4 pounds (107.9 kilograms)
Blood type B+
UPS tracking number 1Z 150 293 65 9808 210 7
Western Union MTCN 1805921668
MoneyGram MTCN 02591927
Favorite color Blue
Vehicle 1993 BMW 856
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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 sensitive remote... let alone how to navigate multiple, terrible UI's. It's the only reason my parents still have conventional cable.
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.
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.
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 never learned the language outside of important food items. It's an adventure, if nothing else.
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.
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.
That is true for most of our pasts pre-smartphone. This is nowhere near as important as your grandfather, but I don't have any pictures of my first dog. I had her for 14 years and if I took any pictures of her, I've lost them. I can never see what she looked like again and every year, what she looked like fades a little more.
That's very kind and heartwarming to hear. Thankfully, my mother and other relatives are quite the archivists. There is no end to the pictures, scrapbooking, and a few series of videos about "adventures with GG." What she does try to get across, we listen. I'll hold onto what memories I can, as I have with my long-gone grandfather. Bit of a scoundrel and card shark, from what I've learned and remember. Had a regular game a couple nights a week (one of my uncles was an easy mark). Late dinners of excellent Filipino food GG prepared. Thank you for bringing up those memories.
Universal remote. I did that up for my husband's grandma 'just press this button and your show comes on'
I always thought that game was just a Lights-Out toy, but with multiple faces and not just a single board.
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.
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.
Any y'all SmartTV users know how to eliminate the excess telemetry the TV uses to eat up my bandwidth?
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.
Set your browser up with a good private DNS. I use Control D, which you can use to block a lot of annoying crap.
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.
On windows you have cmd (basic) and powershell (for powerusers). You probably want to use the ssh command in the terminal you choose to use. Check out a connecting to raspberry pi from windows guide, loads of them.
And then after they've made a complete hash of it, usually messing it up beyond belief......demand you fix it.