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The UX on this small child is terrible

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Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by napier »

tkgally wrote: post #234
cookie_monsta wrote: post #89

I have a slightly ageing model (my co-developer is adamant there will be no upgrades, please do not suggest) and my problem is that it appears to have defaulted to ICT time (we are at GMT +11). I hear it performing operations well into the early morning, but booting from a cold start any earlier than 9am leads to all sorts of unexpected behaviour and system errors.

It sounds as though many of the commenters here are still trying to deal with the first-generation Small Child. My sympathies to all of you. A couple of years ago, I was fortunate to acquire a next-generation model, rebranded as Small Grandchild, and the UX is much superior. All of the troubleshooting and command-line interactions are handled by the Grown Child, who herself now has a reasonably good interface. For me…

Absolutely brilliantly put.

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Post by Vinnl »

glandium wrote: post #272
quadrangle wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can understand peas, but avocado is fatty indulgent wonderful food. Not liking avocado is absurd. It's like not liking peanut-butter. Side-note: I learned the most grotesque aberration that shows how the U.S. is orders of magnitude into complete dysfunction: there's something called "diet peanut butter" (learned about this because of a warning I saw online not to give it to dogs). WTF is "diet peanut butter"???? Pe…

Is peanut-butter really liked much outside the US/North America?

Widely eaten in the Netherlands (though not on its own - usually on bread, and never with jelly). Many people swear by the main brand Calvé, although peanut-only single-ingredient peanut butter has gained serious traction in the past few years.

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by Thlom »

virgilp wrote: post #316
jokethrowaway wrote: post #60

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Talking by experience, my kids would just eat dessert and cry later that they want more dessert. I went in the opposite direction. I put a small portion of meat on the dish. When it's over, I put some vegetables; rinse and repeat until the portion of food is assimilated. It seems like giving small goals is helping with going through the entire dinner and not having a choice minimises building up dislike for a specifi…

Kids are very different. My first daughter had a healthy appetite while small, then after a cold she became a very picky eater; she remains somewhat picky today, as an adult. The second daughter, we "trained" to eat varied, healthy food. We were proud of ourselves and thought we know "how it's done". The third one broke us completely - at some point we were begging her "eat this cupcake, it has loads of chocolate!"

All our three kids ate everything until they were about three, after that they were really picky but it seems to get slowly better once they reach 8-9 years old. That said, when they were in daycare/kindergarten they eat what they are served. Very strange. Our oldest attended an “alternative” kindergarten where everything they were served was full of spices and herbs. She ate it all, but at home she barely touched the most plain of plainest meals. Peculiar.

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

eru wrote: post #256
LadyCailin wrote: post #230

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My model keeps downloading things for offline and even electricity free use. It’s a serious problem, I’m not sure how to patch it.

Run down your model's battery during the day? Tire them out enough to make them want to sleep?

Mine evidently felt in need of a recharge last night and used its optional fuel intake valve to ingest some of my espresso, finding it not 100% compatible with its system it ejected the espresso and made an error sound, after which it walked around the room, came back and went for the espresso again. Prevented second time by manual intervention.

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Post by detaro »

glandium wrote: post #272
quadrangle wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can understand peas, but avocado is fatty indulgent wonderful food. Not liking avocado is absurd. It's like not liking peanut-butter. Side-note: I learned the most grotesque aberration that shows how the U.S. is orders of magnitude into complete dysfunction: there's something called "diet peanut butter" (learned about this because of a warning I saw online not to give it to dogs). WTF is "diet peanut butter"???? Pe…

Is peanut-butter really liked much outside the US/North America?

It's fairly common here in Germany.

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by omegant »

tkgally wrote: post #234
cookie_monsta wrote: post #89

I have a slightly ageing model (my co-developer is adamant there will be no upgrades, please do not suggest) and my problem is that it appears to have defaulted to ICT time (we are at GMT +11). I hear it performing operations well into the early morning, but booting from a cold start any earlier than 9am leads to all sorts of unexpected behaviour and system errors.

It sounds as though many of the commenters here are still trying to deal with the first-generation Small Child. My sympathies to all of you. A couple of years ago, I was fortunate to acquire a next-generation model, rebranded as Small Grandchild, and the UX is much superior. All of the troubleshooting and command-line interactions are handled by the Grown Child, who herself now has a reasonably good interface. For me…

You could say that Grown Child is now Turing complete.

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by coldtea »

jeegsy wrote: post #169
coldtea wrote: post #140

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With that kind of cuisine how would they ever appreciate the finer taste of splinanetero and arnisia ameletita?

I had to look those up. Wasnt disappointed. You can definitely keep the ameletita though

The latter is a delicacy though too!

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by satyrnein »

MichaelMoser123 wrote: post #282
satyrnein wrote: post #248

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The teachers would speak mostly in Mandarin. My son came out of Spanish immersion preschool speaking pretty close to native level Spanish (despite neither my wife nor I speaking it).

Congrats! I tried to teach my kids Russian (my wife doesn't speak the language). My big daughter used to understand Russian, but didn't speak it; Later, our second daughter did have some slight delay with language acquisition, so that I stopped trying. I am not sure that your son will keep the language, once he is out of the preschool. A second language is a very fragile posession, as far as i know...

Keeping a second language is certainly hard; I lost my parents' native language when I was a kid and still regret it.

Since my son left the preschool, he's been doing online virtual lessons with a lovely woman we found in Guatemala to keep it up, and fortunately his new school has a heavy emphasis on foreign languages. They have different Spanish classes depending on the child's ability, and they put my my son in with the kids who are native speakers at home. Our only problem is that the teacher sends communications to (presumed Spanish speaking) parents in Spanish, which my wife and I have to Google Translate!

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Post by enaaem »

Symbiote wrote: post #207
enaaem wrote: post #93

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I find that many western households don’t know how to cook vegetables. Often mushy and overcooked. I as an adult don’t enjoy eating that either.

Are you including the cultures with a reputation for the best food in your "western" generalization? France, Spain, Italy, Greece and so on.

Oh yeah, they have great food. The more northern parts not so.
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