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Lalabadietoday at 3:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

The fixed computer is also a huge factor to facilitate supervised computer use (and make it a shared experience!) with kids at home.

As much as I agree with the point of the article, I keep getting tripped up that every second sentence is "It didn't X, it Y'ed".

I think it's repeated to form a stylistic device in the second paragraph, but then the shape is interspersed so much in the rest of the text that it reads like a clumsy first write.


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NewsaHackOtoday at 3:26 PM

Yes, this is definitely AI-generated. It's always weird that people don't even attempt to sanitize the output to look a little more human. The last pic was very nostalgic, however. It's like we have shared experiences very similar to the corner computer in the living room, complete with the stack of CDs (which will never get completely used).

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everdrivetoday at 4:48 PM

When I was a kid it would have been pretty unusual to let a kid have a TV in their room. Some parents did it, but it was never seen as appropriate. This was the 1980s to 1990s. Now we make sure everyone has much, much more than a TV on them at all time. It's a huge cultural shift in itself and has not been a healthy one.

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