Protip: You can get remotes made for grandmas for a few bucks.
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This doesn't work. I tried it. They sit on it or something and hit the wrong button by accident. Then when they call you for help, you can't talk them through anything because they can't see the buttons. Then when you take the tape off, the remote is all sticky.
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Whenever I hear "I'm not good with computers," I think "WTF have you been doing for the last quarter-century?"
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just gave me a flashback to when we bought mine one of those digital photo frames, and loaded lots of family pictures to it for it to display as a slideshow.
She picked her favourite picture and made us disable the slideshow and set it to only show that one.
Next time we visited it was no longer on the mantel.
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But then grandma is gonna remove the tape, mess up all the settings, put the tape back on, and suddenly she never touched the remote ever, so it's clearly not her fault that this happened.
No, grandma. I'm not going to be an enabler for your Fox News addiction.
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Amateur. The real solution is to take the remote apart, wrap the entire buttons area of the pcb and only scratch/cut free the buttons she needs. That way it still looks the same but she actually can't hit a button she should keep her fingers off, bc the buttons are disabled.
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Been there, done that. Pro tip: Don't try to provide written or printed directions. They just get lost or destroyed and it won't help.
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I do this for all the buttons permanently assigned to certain streaming services that will remain unnamed.
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Is this loss
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And when she has a newer system that navigates primarily by d-pad? :)
good UI
I'll joke with this, I prefer using my flipper instead of all these new remotes.
I don't need enough buttons to start a bird (sarcasm) to watch tv. Sure the flipper isn't the most simple thing but every tv or controller having a different layout is annoying.
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