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For those who lack the technical aptitude to use a smartphone (e.g. children, the elderly), a device that shows information in random places in the home is much more useful.

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It’s more than that. Anything like this that takes me away from constantly checking my phone, and can be glanced at by the whole family is better.

Plenty of elderly people have the aptitude to use a smart phone. It's shockingly ageist to assume that old == inept.

"For those who lack the technical aptitude" > Well but many people do have the aptitude!

No, it's ableist to ignore the fact that many people _do_ have such issues, and many people don't but start having problems as they age.

It’s also offensive to only think older people have these problems. Have any of you considered race or sex or gender when talking about these issues? It’s really offensive not to include all these other categories. Maybe certain genders have this problem or maybe I enjoy getting offended by everything.

As far as I can tell any gender issues is just culture lets some people become helpless when they could. Meanwhile many people lose cognitive functionias they get old. Thus elderly is a safe fact while any other gender reference is citation needed.

Citing citations is offensive and insensitive. When someone claims their emotions are extremely hurt do you go to them and say "I need citations for that"? Of course not!

I’m quite sure they are not offended by these HN comments. They probably think we are all nerds.

tbh, I'm more offended by people pretending to be offended by everything.

Also nerd is an offensive term. It’s similar to mis-using a pronoun. Please don’t use derogatory or discriminatory terms here.

Just a joke. Was self deprecating.

50,000 die per year from suicide due to depression. Self deprecation and other self esteem issues should not be joked about. It is highly offensive and inconsiderate.

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