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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 908B64B197 »

jasonhansel wrote: post #218
simonh wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s probably running a process that’s connecting to internet services such as mine craft or league of legends out of working hours. I’ve found that disabling internet connectivity at the WiFi router from 12:00 midnight until the morning can be effective to prevent wasteful background processing over night.

Disconnecting Wi-Fi is not recommended, since it may prevent access to firmware updates that improve overall friendliness. The real problem may be in your educational system, whose operating hours may be incompatible with the standard, pre-set clock phase that most models naturally acquire at that age. I suggest contacting your local school board to continue troubleshooting.

Alternate take: some private third party school boards use a different scheduling algorithm and manage to bypass that issue. Plus you get an API key that gives you better support.

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by sophacles »

dylan604 wrote: post #80
sophacles wrote: post #79

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Yeah, but look at puppy for example - it just eats what you give it. (If anything, the makers of that product should introduce a bit of pickiness tbh). The small child makers should really take an example from puppy - AI is a nice way to get some behaviors trained up, but over-doing it (e.g. in the "what to eat" module) can be just as bad as not enough (compare brine shrimp for the problems of a no AI approach).

Sorry, you're blaming someone else for the decision on chosing Small Child vs Cute Loveable Puppy? Buyer's remorse is strong. You should have researched the return options before purchase. However, adding Cute Loveable Puppy can sometimes improve Small Child, or just add to headache.

Oh sorry, I didn't mean to mislead! I don't own either model, I just am disucssing my experiences as a user. See my sister has both a puppy and a small child... Her and my brother-in-law have set up a combined SCaaS and PaaS called 'extended family'. As an early adopter (they call it "uncle" but whatever, silly naming has been a thing since "tweet"), I get more access than I can use to both small child and puppy. It's actually a great service if you're on the fence about getting your own, you can just send an SMS to 'extended family' and reserve some time. Most of the benefits of ownership, and when one of the defects littering this thread pops up, 'extended family' takes care of all the maintenance.

My best friend runs a similar service called "chosen family" and my early adopter title is "godfather" (i like that one, very mobster), but otherwise the service is basically the same.

If you're at all unsure about investing in small child or puppy, take a look around for a similar service to help with the decision!

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by whoomp12342 »

plaidfuji wrote: post #2

How do I get new features added to the roadmap? I’ve been asking for an “eat vegetables” interface without the “offer dessert in exchange” workaround for over a year, no response, yet in the same time frame I’ve seen things like “climb top-heavy bookshelf” and “unfurl entire toilet paper roll” deployed… who is asking for these features??

There is a good workaround for the "eat vegetables" feature that so many desire. Introduce the french style "3 course meals".

Always start with the vegetable course, if the child is hungry, they will eat the vegetibles. Keep other courses out of sight, otherwise it leads to distraction. Then the next course is something filling. This tends to improve performance metrics and overall ability to function. Finally the third course is something they really enjoy eating(desert)

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by leslieylinen »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #322

Maybe McSweeneys should do a series of these, next up: who was the idiot on the engineering team who decided to put a recreational center and sewage treatment plant right next door to each other?!?

I'm writing a sequel about implementing agile... ;)

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by atom058 »

iab wrote: post #177
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.

Honestly this sounds like a systemd/timedatectl issue, try hard reset (ctrl/shift/fn/cheddar goldfish)

My model doesn't come with a ctrl key

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by coldtea »

currency wrote: post #350
Noumenon72 wrote: post #202

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Splinantero so rare Google didn't even guess it from how you spelled it. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=AOa... Arnisia ameletita doesn't even have any non-Greek results at all. https://www.womenonly.gr/kreas/arthro/ameletita_aganaktismen...

Edge's translation of the Arnisia ameletita page is hilarious. I don't know Greek, so I have no idea how much of this is in the original— "The composition of the recipe for negligentness is the product of deep study by the entire staff of pandespani, which dedicated its energy both to the symbolic significance of the proposal and to the gastronomic one.‎ ‎ In order to enrich our indignant recipe with meanings and sym…

>Edge's translation of the Arnisia ameletita page is hilarious. I don't know Greek, so I have no idea how much of this is in the original—

It is. It's a recipe site, but this particular article was written during the period of austerity measures and protests, and has some humoristic references to the era.

Note that amelitita means "unmentionables", and those are basically the testicles of the animal.

This recipe however is for bovine "unmentionables", not arnisia (lamb) ones.

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by coldtea »

Noumenon72 wrote: post #202
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?

Splinantero so rare Google didn't even guess it from how you spelled it. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=AOa... Arnisia ameletita doesn't even have any non-Greek results at all. https://www.womenonly.gr/kreas/arthro/ameletita_aganaktismen...

>Splinantero so rare Google didn't even guess it from how you spelled it.

I has a typo in my spelling. Spinantero is basically a composite word for "splina" kai "entero", the Greek words that are the ancient etymology of english "spleen" and "enteric". And the recipe is exactly that, speen and other meet wrapped in intestines, and grilled with spices etc.

>Arnisia ameletita doesn't even have any non-Greek results at all.

Ameletita is literarlly unmentionables (basically "testicles"), and arnisia is means "from lamb". So this recipe is easy too (though the recipe site gives one for bull ameletita).

Re: The UX on this small child is terrible

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Post by burticlies »

eitland wrote: post #64

As someone who's gone through this five times (ok, going through it for the fifth): My experience has been that once I understood it it became very simple, but learning it was hard since none of the documentation is complete and it often only covers the small child that the author of said document had. One piece of very practical advice that I picked up from some docs somewhere though: For some reason adults easily u…

Oh wow, this is the first internet baby tip that has actually worked. Our two year old would take 30 minutes of settling every night, with one of us in the room sitting in a chair. Tried this checking in every couple of minutes idea, and within a few days he only took 6 minutes and was relaxed the whole time. Thanks a bunch! Got any tips for when they wake up freaking out in the night?
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