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Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]

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The recontextualisation of "parental" is very amusing.

As nicely illustrated in this Young Sheldon episode fragment: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nd90rFPYVnc

Are you aware that every YT Short can also be viewed with the normal player? If you do, do you prefer the Shorts interface and thus posted that URL rather then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd90rFPYVnc ?

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Sunday, passable weather but still sunny, wonderful river view, restaurant at 50% capacity, outside tables full. In comes grandma and grandpa with granddaughter on a stroller. They sit, he starts smoking, gives a tablet to the granddaughter who goes through the entire meal with that in front, and grandma spends every pause scrolling whatever on her phone. Grandpa switches smoking and feeding himself through the whole…

I saw a family of five at a nice restaurant with the ~11yo daughter wearing headphones and playing a Switch. The adults were talking normally. It was very weird. When I was that age I was expected to at least listen, and contributing to the conversation was encouraged.

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Just add channels you like to your rss feed. It works great with freshrss. Or if you want to get fancy use tubearchivist with the Jellyfin plug-in.

TIL tubearchivist has a Jellyfin plug-in. Cheers.

https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist-jf-plugin

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> I hook them up with each other. There are parties. OnlyGrandparents.com? (I looked it up, the domain name was registered six days ago!)

If anybody wants to do something with instagran.org, I know somebody who would be willing to part with it for a good cause…

Sounds like it's worth a good Cease and Desist from Instagram.

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consumption is easy. I read alot of Webcomics and well they are literally made for the Phone. Mangas are usualy also fine. Watching Videos also. The Creation point I completely concur, I hate typing on my phone.

I sometimes edit photos I took right on the iPhone while on the bus or in a coffee shop and one time I edited a gaming clip through iMovie on the same iPhone. It feels good to use that processing power for something that isn't mobile gaming or reading reddit. for typing I use the swiping keyboard if I am typing in a language it supports, but I concur it sucks using the mobile keyboard in either horizontal or vertical…

Fairly enough I do have a natural advantage for reading small stuff on my phone. I just put my glasses up on my forehead and have the advantage of my diopters working like a zoom lense.
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