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		ojbyrne 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and ... We gave our parents an iPad for Christmas. Now they have two and never turn on their computer.

tombert 14 days ago [–]

I could probably convince my mom on that. My dad still writes a fair bit of code (GNU Octave, mostly), and so an iPad would be a decided downgrade.

Scrapemist 14 days ago | [–]

MacBook Air then

tombert 14 days ago | | [–]

Yeah, I think I'd be more successful with trying to convince them to move to a Mac.

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