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No it isn't. Every TV comes pre installed with Netflix. It's so easy to sign up my 67 year old mother can do it.

My 67 year old mother moved to America when she came as 27, with me her 4 year old child. She didn't speak english. She worked retail, without speaking English. When the 89 SF earthquake happened, she was stuck in SF not speaking English and made it home via ferries to Oakland. She attended government visa hearings in SF, driving a car there without a license, without navigation, while at that point knowing a few words in english.

And you think she's incapable of using a computer.

So what if an elderly person can use Netflix? That doesn't mean another service isn't a decent competitor if it isn't tailored for the widest possible audience.

> It's so easy to sign up my 67 year old mother can do it

this narrative that a 65 years old person is so stupid that unless things are really easy and dumbed down, it's impossible for them to do anything, must die!

Old people have done a lot of things a lot more complex than signing up for Netflix. Which is a process unreasonably complicated, not complex.

Anyway, Stremio just works.

In my experience old people do tend to struggle a lot with technology, I’m sure a lot don’t but it is quite common

If someone is 67, home computing has been a thing for likely over 1/3 of their lives (depending on geography).

Kind of a terrible take to treat 67 as "old" in this regard.

But this wasn’t talking about all 67-years but a specific example. Of course the fact that it was mentioned implies that it’s relevant but I think it is because people who didn’t grow up with it tend to struggle a lot more

If it's a specific example, why mention her age.

What you're trying to retcon into the comment is that they really meant to say "My mother, who is not great with technology, can easily sign up for Netflix."

This is the way to communicate this in a non-ageist way. The age was thrown in as a clear attempt to draw on stereotypes that the elderly are poor with technology.

> In my experience old people do tend to struggle a lot with technology

people in their 60s are the generation who literally INVENTED the technology we use now.

they struggle with the idiotic interfaces people in the 2000s have started using

especially touchscreens that are a specific subset of the entire HID, that are rarely better than any tactile input device [1]. Just like joysticks are better than joypads when precision is necessary.

My dad (82 years old) had no problems with windows 3.1 and 95 UI, now they mean nothing to him, because they literally don't! [2]

[1] I started having loss of vision due to my age going forward, instead of backwards, and I can't use my smartphone as proficiently as I used to anymore. I've been working in tech for 27 years, I have no issue at all with mechanical keyboards, but I struggle a lot when I have to write a sentence longer than 3 words on a smartphone, it has become unusable as soon as my eyesight has become less than perfect. Imagine having every other part of your body working imperfectly and you'll realize that the problem lies in the input interface, not in the person age.

[2] except XFCE or MATE

EDIT: grammar

>It's so easy to sign up my 67 year old mother can do it.

Casual ageism is awesome.

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