It's easy to judge from like 30 minutes in public, until you have an autistic kid and no support network.

Imagine portraying Homelander judging anything as an argument for agreeing with him.

Why are you approaching other people's kids and take away their ipads?

People when kids screech at a restaurant: 'Must be shitty parents.'

People when kids run around at a restaurant: 'Must be shitty parents.'

People when kids use an ipad at a restaurant: 'Must be shitty parents.'

There's no winning here. Children just aren't allowed to exist.

We are the exception because we most definitely weren't like that at all as a kid. /s

Don't judge the kid, judge the parents. Parents who should not be parents prefer to make their kids less of a burden to them by handing them over to the overstimulation square

App suggestions make it so hard to keep kids away from slop. I started out only letting my toddler watch PBS Kids programs and a few other educational programs, but then your kids start seeing suggestions for all sorts of shlock, and they want to see the show with the superhero kitties is (it's called Super Kitties and it is garbage). God help you if you try to watch something on YouTube; every suggested video is either low-quality home movies of people playing with toys (which is like crack to toddlers or weird shit like this that absolutely shouldn't be on YouTube Kids but often is anyway.

Somewhere right now there is a iPad kid watching skibidi toilet that will one day be president.

Good god this hits home

Months ago I was visited by a relative who brought their eight year old. She's single and her boy is ever so slightly mentally not there. He's smart enough but just not there with everything. Plus the mother is not capable of looking after him. So many wrong things and I hate to judge anything about it .... both mother and son are having and will continue to have a hard life.

As we talked, the son spent the entire time with their device looking at YouTube videos.

At one point I wanted to try to make friends and asked him what he was watching .... he mumbled and ignored me. I looked over at his video and it was just a completely nonsensical animation of characters running around like in a video game ... I couldn't understand what was happening or why, the cartoon animals were just mumbling nonsense, laughing, running and flashing lights and constant cuts to new scene after new scene. I looked at the kid and he was two steps away from just drooling.

I couldn't believe it and it scared me. This device was melting any amount of brain power the kid had.

It made me think about myself and what the hell I was doing with my time.

It made me think that the world is all doing the same thing to one degree or another. Some are better, since are terribly worse.

It made me think that humanity is doomed.

And their parents allow them to blast the sound in public with no headphones. I can't fathom the lack of give-a-fucks for their fellow humans (to include their own children).

I'm not having kids, but this always feels like such a missed opportunity to let kids do something more mentally stimulating on that tablet.
Drawing apps and eBooks are right there! Hell, set up Termux and Acode up for them and let them program a bit (or like, I bet there's a mobile version of Scratch they could use if they can't read yet). Let them take photos and make little collages. Get them some music Synthesizer App so that they can tinker on their own little beats. Literally just show them that they have the tools to make something great instead of just shoveling in mindless content all day..

You watch skibidi toilet on a corporate-controlled spyware machine known as the "iPad"

I read the anarchist cookbook on my RISC-V PineTab

We are not the same.

This look is solely directed at the parents.

Sometimes that iPad is there for you not the kids, try raising an autistic kid with unlimited energy, when you get them in a restaurant or bus, if the iPad is gonna keep him quiet and occupied, that means you don’t have to hear him complain. Kids aren’t robots, they’re people, and some have special needs and get overwhelmed in the fucked up world we made. If super kitties is gonna keep him relaxed for a bit so be it.

You're on lemmy. Such hypocrisy.

I've recently gotten a hold of an older ipad. I've been installing apps and stuff on it and playing with all the things.

And godDAMN that os has problems. I'm back on my android phone and it's so much smaller, but Jesus Christ having a back button and responsive apps and ui and os feels like coming home.

Android isn't without its problems though. The apps are all definitely aimed at a poorer/cheaper demographic, the audio drivers suck big fat rectum, and the hamburger-scrolly-floating-button design philosophy is straight up garbage.

But there are so many missing QOL and presumably standard features on Android. On iOS, I get so lost in the loose ux standards that often end up bewildering me. I used procreate for like 8 hours today, and by the end, I had memorized a ton of really really bad designs. They work, and within the app, they're.................... Mostly consistent. But I have this deep down rage for whoever made some of these decisions.

It's entertaining, at the bare minimum, to see UX and UI slowly develop over the years, and neither OS (or Samsung's OneUI) are perfect. It's fascinating to see what the other camp is doing.

But yeah... Kids crying over having their ipad taken away? Shame.

Get them something better.

Like a desktop computer.

Me when a friend of mine who's an engineer who sometimes works for the CERN unironically watches Mr. Beast and listens to Papa-a-pate (?, this nonsense k-pop song, it was popular some months ago...).

Like, yeah, you have the hardware, why fill your brain with malware! ;-;

Meh, back in the days we'd watch youtubepoop videos and whatnot. Nonsense you like os funny, nonsense you don't is brainrot.