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It's not entirely devoid of value, but that doesn't make it a good idea. Junk food contains healthy ingredients, too.
My gripe with Paw Patrol is that everything is met with a cheery "sir, yes sir!" and then the show stops short of ever showing real challenge, friction, risk, failure, or loss. It's a missed opportunity.
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Non-constructive reply: Developers have been burned too many times by snake oil vendors and "solutions" that only work for toy examples. Also, I've never seen being slow to be encouraged anywhere. Most consider it an acceptable tradeoff though. Constructive reply: What would be an approach to writing a large web frontend (large as in, many pages and controls) without using a large framework? I'm asking this because I…
> without using a large framework? I have explained this countless times. It rarely sinks in and quite often is met with hostility, so I don't bother any more. The problem is simple: its where people stake their career. Do they build their career upon writing original applications or upon using a tool? This difference is rather extreme. By the way, without React shouldn't default to jQuery. If that is your perspectiv…
I never claimed it does. I stated my experience to give context for my question for other solutions than React.
> The problem is simple: its where people stake their career
I meant my question to be about building a large frontend without a large framework, purely in technical terms. This has nothing to do with career choices.
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Non-constructive reply: Developers have been burned too many times by snake oil vendors and "solutions" that only work for toy examples. Also, I've never seen being slow to be encouraged anywhere. Most consider it an acceptable tradeoff though. Constructive reply: What would be an approach to writing a large web frontend (large as in, many pages and controls) without using a large framework? I'm asking this because I…
> link to an example open-source application that does it that way My experience is with this: https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr (what I currently work on is quite similar, but it's not open source). It works fine. Clients don't complain about the interface. The project has been going on for 20 years or so now, and doesn't need big refactors every time a dependency gets updated because it avoids dependencies.
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I have a DIY one, which took two evenings, but it's limitation is that it isn't portable. I expect there are big benefits to portability, but I'm okay with not having them. Is there anything else I'm missing?
Access to the audiobooks published for Yoto. Yoto daily (daily podcast for kids that my kids absolutely love). A button that plays relaxing music to help them go to sleep. The display (they love this a surprising amount). General polish (I imagine it's pretty janky if it took 2 evenings).
I had a listen to Yoto Daily, and it's nice! https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/yotodaily
The relaxing music plays the same track, or varies it? I guess it's on for ~20 mins or so?
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My biggest gripe is how terribly slow it is to navigate UI on a TV. The latency between user input and the UI responding can be upwards of 10-20 seconds. Just incredibly user hostile.
Do you remember analog TVs? Switching channels was a sub second affair.
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I argue that most kids are far better at using complicated remotes and mobile phones / apps than most adults. This has been true for a long time. Programming VCRs was a dark art reserved only for teens in the 80s, and I have no doubt the Romans had similar issues :)
This kid is only 3. I doubt that he is old enough to navigate the complex on-screen menus, while taking the delays and other puzzling behaviors into account. This is not to say that young kids are stupid. But the modern device interfaces often feel like a pile of random hacks, rather than something based on the sane and well established design principles that were formulated on the basis of experience and human psych…
> Modern TVs are very poorly suited for kids. They require using complicated remotes or mobile phones, and navigating apps that continually try to lure you into watching something else than you intended to. I'd argue that's not too different for grown-ups. ;)
My biggest gripe is how terribly slow it is to navigate UI on a TV. The latency between user input and the UI responding can be upwards of 10-20 seconds. Just incredibly user hostile.
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What additional hardware? If you're torrenting you have a PC or laptop, plug said device into your TV and you're good to go
Are you finding and setting up a remote that works on your PC/Laptop, or are you getting up every time you want to change shows or play/pause?
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Is the data stored on the card, or on the player? My guess is that each card just holds an id?
It's just an id. But the audio is stored on the yoto itself for offline play. And second the blank/customizable cards, that's what 80% of our cards are and my daughter loves helping track down and extract content. Biggest hits for her have been Roald Dahl and random science stuff.
Also David Tennant reading the How To Train Your Dragon series. He is a superb reader with an amazing range. Before he hit the big time with Dr Who he did a lot of radio.
We've also had family members record stories and I've put them onto cards. We gave my son a dictaphone to record his own stuff. He would do great long sagas of mayhem and battle, but he's lost interest in recent months.
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Given enough determination, you can learn how to locate antennas in the TV and remove them, which would render the TV dumb for all intents and purposes. I have no experience with it, it just might be less work to remove antennas from any TV than finding a dumb TV in 2026.
Or one could just, you know, not connect it to the Internet rather than ripping apart your new TV.