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I've suggested my solution on HN before: 1. Buy 2 iPads. Don't use laptops or any other tablets: it's not worth the hassle. 2. Buy a cheap/light-weight glass
by newsbinator 5y ago
I've suggested my solution on HN before:
1. Buy 2 iPads. Don't use laptops or any other tablets: it's not worth the hassle.
2. Buy a cheap/light-weight glass side table (the kind that goes next to your sofa to hold drinks/snacks, for example).
3. Pick up and place the glass side table on top of the kitchen table.
4. Put one iPad, camera side down, on the glass table. Put the second iPad on the kitchen table, underneath the glass table.
5. Initiate a FaceTime video call on the upper iPad and help parents use the lower iPad.
This set-up has saved me a hundred hours of frustration.
- drak0n1c 5y agoCool setup. But with SharePlay in iOS 15.1 FaceTime now supports screensharing with a button tap.
- newsbinator 5y agoHalf the battle is your parent insisting that the giant blue button in the center of the viewport doesn’t exist, isn’t labeled “checkout” in 24-pt font, and can’t be pressed. Having this kind of setup lets me guide their finger. Likewise for explaining how to do a hard reset of the device, “I pressed it but nothing happened”, etc