Computers for Grannies

[renz20003]

Grannies are not a bad word, it just means simple.

I'll just leave this here...

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/this-old-computer-for-grannies-video-is-my-new-favorite-1783972980

 

[Cappuccino]

My nanna dont even know how to turn on PC. She dosent even know how to switch channels on her 240p TV.

 

[IronWing]

Today's grannies spent their youth programming mainframes, by hand, in the dark.

 

[brianmanahan]

Today's grannies spent their youth programming mainframes, by hand, in the dark.

not my granny, she paid for aol for 20 years because she insisted that she still needed it

 

[Fanatical Meat]

All I can say is iPad = no problems from Grandma

 

[Midwayman]

All I can say is iPad = no problems from Grandma

absofuckinglutely. Only so much they can screw up on an ipad.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Yup and I'm not an apple fan either. I do have to admit all the various problems disappeared shortly after the iPad arrived. Plus my Father can actually do shit with it like read & compose an email, look at google earth, look for YouTube video's and actually play them, use the Sirius app to listen to Howard Stern, open picture attachments in emails, reply to an email within a reasonable time frame plus look at websites!

 

[DAPUNISHER]

My nanna dont even know how to turn on PC. She dosent even know how to switch channels on her 240p TV.

This is the average over 50 consumer IME. If they hit the TV input on the uni remote the cable co. provides and turn it from channel 3, they are boned. It turns into the monkey f'ing a football, and they cannot puzzle out how to get the cable to work again.

But kids are worse yet. Their 4th grade reading comprehension, despite their being 10th graders, was sufficient to download that xbox mod tool. But they clicked through all the malware that came with it and narfed the whole laptop. And of course the trial av that it came with expired long ago, and they have no clue about all the free av and malware tools they could have installed. Luckily for them, their mommies do not understand how much more disappointing it is that they infected it in the process of trying to get a gamer score they did not earn, instead of from fapping to questionable pron sites. :biggrin:

 

[Kaido]

Today's grannies spent their youth programming mainframes, by hand, in the dark.

Worst story I ever heard - one of my professors was telling us how, when she was in college, they did all of their programming on punch cards. The final exam was a big program with like a thousand punch cards. One of her classmates tripped on the way to class, dropped it all, and just crumbled to the ground crying because they weren't numbered or anything. Can you even imagine D:

 

[Kaido]

All I can say is iPad = no problems from Grandma

I switched my entire family out to Chromebooks this past Christmas...I've enjoyed the last six months of nooooooooo tech support calls :biggrin:

iPads would be even better, but they like having keyboards & touchpads for Gmail & gDocs and whatnot.

 

[preCRT]

Dad started using computers in the 1960s, was programming in DOS & LISP through the 1980s. Still has a computer museum in his basement... but he loves the iPad he received for his 80th birthday 4 years ago and hasn't looked back.

 

[Scarpozzi]

absofuckinglutely. Only so much they can screw up on an ipad.

A former colleague of mine called the iPhone, "The Fisher-Price of Phones"....that basically applies to iPad as well.

 

[BxgJ]

This is the average over 50 consumer IME. If they hit the TV input on the uni remote the cable co. provides and turn it from channel 3, they are boned. It turns into the monkey f'ing a football, and they cannot puzzle out how to get the cable to work again.

But kids are worse yet. Their 4th grade reading comprehension, despite their being 10th graders, was sufficient to download that xbox mod tool. But they clicked through all the malware that came with it and narfed the whole laptop. And of course the trial av that it came with expired long ago, and they have no clue about all the free av and malware tools they could have installed. Luckily for them, their mommies do not understand how much more disappointing it is that they infected it in the process of trying to get a gamer score they did not earn, instead of from fapping to questionable pron sites. :biggrin:

+1

I used to live near my grandma, and it never failed that once every week or two I would get the dreaded phone call. 'Can you come over real quick? I need help! The tv doesn't work!'. Always something like she switched it from channel 3 by pushing the wrong button.

 

[Kaido]

+1

I used to live near my grandma, and it never failed that once every week or two I would get the dreaded phone call. 'Can you come over real quick? I need help! The tv doesn't work!'. Always something like she switched it from channel 3 by pushing the wrong button.

This is why I love the new Roku TV's...it boots straight into the Apps menu & they have an app for watching cable TV, or playing a connected DVD player, or whatever. No inputs list to cycle through, just big easy buttons. Bonus, on the 4K Insignia models from Best Buy, the built-in sound is the best I've ever heard from a flat-screen TV.

 

[Pardus]

My local senior citizens center has one of these for the old folks, they seem to like it. http://www.telikin.com/

old joke by Jay Leno:

So last time i went to visit grandmother, i noticed she kept getting up and down to change the channels. Decided to get a brand new flat screen with remote. Next time i went back over, grandma is sill getting up and down to change the channels.

I asked Grandma, why don't you use the remote that came with the tv instead of getting up and down. Grandma says it's in the kitchen draw somewhere.

Jay replies, Grandma, why are you not using it, it will make your life easier.

Grandma says, thanks Jay, but im afraid of that infra laser thing, if i miss the tv, the remote will set the house on fire.