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FrontierProject··on Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
Simple example: Android has a airplane mode toggle in the notification tray, iPhone does not. No surprise that once I put my elderly family on iPhones all problems of accidently enabling airplane mode magically went away.
FrontierProject··on Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
This type of comment gets downvoted because its right on the border of incoherent rambling. You say there's no ux difference for the elderly between iPhones and Androids, I say you're dead wrong. I've invariably become the IT guy for most of my extended family, and all of the elderly members found an iPhone easier to manage. Once I got one of them to switch, they convinced the rest.

Your argument is basically pure conjecture, everyone in the thread was talking about their personal experience with elderly family members. And your argument is there is no difference between the two devices, based on surveys for the usage percentage of TikTok? Are you kidding me? Has the thought not occured to you that elderly people might be a minority and outlier in such a survey?

Even granting that 90% of elderly screen time is spent watching TikTok, that does absolutely nothing to prove your claim that there is no difference between Android or iPhone for this purpose. Someone above mentioned a simple example of the differences between the two. Androids have an airplane mode toggle in their notification tray while iPhones don't. This is pretty much the sole reason for elderly Android users constantly turning on airplane mode, a problem which is almost nonexistent with iPhone users.

FrontierProject··on Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
1. It's your notification tray, you know, the thing that's been default behavior of swiping down on smartphones since their inception. 2. It's not one side or the other either. It used to be that anywhere you swiped down opened the notification tray. Now only the right side has a different effect, opening control center. The notification tray still takes over two-thirds of the swipe-down space at the top.
FrontierProject··on No one buys books
Terribly ironic of you to want to divert library funds to homeless when the homeless are some of the most faithful users of libraries in major cities. Homeless aid organizations even base their programs around libraries.
FrontierProject··on Equinox.space
Space Station 13 is a much deeper take on a similar premise.
FrontierProject··on How to colorize Game Boy games – Backgrounds
Yeah, I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek. What does it mean for a book to endorse making color illustrations of it's content? Why is the lack of endorsement for color illustrations in the Bible noteworthy when explicit endorsement for illustration is not really something we expect from any book.
FrontierProject··on Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026
This was one of the foundational points of Gnosticism in early Christianity. It's worth noting that this position is considered heresy by most of the major established branches of Christian tradition.
FrontierProject··on Our Super-Secret Plan to Bring the Internet Back (Part 1)
I can personally say that this single image would preclude me from recommending this platform to 95% of my social circle.
FrontierProject··on How to colorize Game Boy games – Backgrounds
Do all the other illustrated books endorse the practice?
FrontierProject··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
You underestimate the amount of people who don't at all care whether or not their stroller goes splat as long as they're on asphalt they like the feel of.
FrontierProject··on Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
> You will literally be a living cult leader like no other in history. Think of all those BTC fanatics finally meeting their leader. See the way Elon fanatics follow Musk and multiply that by 100.

Didn't you just answer your own question? What sane person wants that?

FrontierProject··on Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird
MKBHD mentions in his review that the elastic strap is more of a marketing gimmick to make the headset look unique. The solo strap makes it really uncomfortable for long periods because all the pressure goes to the front of the face. They actually include a traditional double strap VR headband with it which is much more comfortable.
FrontierProject··on In loving memory of square checkbox
> Extra little borders defining window box corners from horizontal and vertical borders - a distinction that surely didn't need highlighting.

This actually designates an area where you can click and drag to resize the window. I'd argue that this behavior has become a ubiquitous expectation because of this design.

FrontierProject··on In loving memory of square checkbox
No.
FrontierProject··on Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics
That can't be from tires tho, a farm field won't have tires in it more than 3 or 4 times a year. And it probably smells like manure because pumping manure onto fields is one of the most common methods of fertilizing.
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