• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    27 days ago

    But then you have to remember which one is which. The ones in your example are already labelled.

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      27 days ago

      You work in their marketing department, don’t you?

      The scenario I mentioned would have the buttons simply labeled with a number/letter. 95% of the time I don’t even look on the remote to use a button. Also, if you hit the wrong button, no big deal, you just the other/s.

      Like I mentioned, stop giving them excuses.

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          27 days ago

          You do realize that we already know the only reason you have them on your remotes is to charge the streaming services a licensing fee for the advertisement. You couldn’t care less about grandma.

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            27 days ago

            Can we stop with accusing people with working for corporations and treating them as representative of that corporation just for the purpose of appealing to emotion and making the other person sound worse? It doesn’t even make much sense. Lemmy is too small for corporations to spend money to astroturf.

            The only thing you manage to do is make Lemmy more toxic and unappealing to spend time on.

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              27 days ago

              We also have a problem with people massively overestimating the amount of hassle “normal” people are willing to go through to use technology.

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              27 days ago

              Whatever you say.

              I mean I do need to keep my antennae from buzzing all the time. But, whatever you say.

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        27 days ago

        This is literally what certain manufacturers do. Here’s a side by side of the receiver remote for my setup and the one for the TV (which has never even been connected to the internet). One has these dedicated buttons. The other just has ones labeled for streaming or similar.>!!<

        I’ll add that the location of the buttons makes a significant difference. If they’re easy to hit by accident you’re more likely to have grandma launch a service she didn’t mean to and not know how to back out of it. This causes more problems than it solves.

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        27 days ago

        There’s a lot of people in this thread who’ve never had to be tech support for elderly relatives.

        Grandma doesn’t know what a streaming is.