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		wpm on April 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly p... This works only if you're on-call for every little thing. macOS is not Windows, running as a standard user is highly constrictive. For someone just watching YouTube videos maybe it can work, but its also incredibly infantilizing too.

skyyler on April 23, 2024 [–]

The topic of this thread is protecting the elderly from their devices. Some level of infantilising is required, unfortunately.

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