I didn’t have an iPad either at 6 years old but then my parents rarely ate out because I was not the best behaved child. Maybe in hindsight I should have sat my kids at a different table and let them annoy everyone instead of keeping them quiet. I certainly wasn’t going to sit there and let them ruin it for me at the time, it was my holiday too.
I didn’t have an iPad until I was middle aged. But that’s because they hadn’t been invented.
Thanks. I hope that you will find some peace of mind when the time arrives for you.
When I was eating my cheeseburger combo meal today, I noticed the dad of the family across from me, not teach his child about being polite and moving out of the way, but he jumped over her onto the plastic bench seat. Later, the parents left the restaurant with the kids still finishing their food, including the toddler in a high chair. The older one cleared the table and took care of his siblings but gaaaaahhhhhh, what kind of parents do that? Unfortunately, I'm sure it's too many here.
I still have my mid-2012 quad-core i7 MacBook Pro. It works quite well and the discrete graphics hardware helps, but it's better in winter when I need a heater for the room. My M1 MacBook Air seems to handle most anything. I wouldn't be ready for another until the M6 version. This AI nonsense is likely going to be a mess, like the dotcom business.
I was 27 and playing Space Invaders on an Atari 2600… 57 when the iPad appeared. 😳
The place mats had our games at restaurants.
I'm only 31, so I had a Gameboy and all that stuff as a kid but my siblings and I were absolutely not allowed to bring them into restaurants, or really anywhere else for that matter. The placemats and crayons were absolutely crucial for us.
I'm old enough (barely) that technology wasn't a central part of my life when I was young. I didn't have an iPad till I was 9 years old (it was an iPad Air 1st gen). Back then, I'd use it to watch a movie on the plane or on a road trip, but not for much else. I NEVER brought it into a restaurant or anything though.
I was waiting for someone to say "You had place mats! You went to the fancy restaurants!" 😆
I feel the same every time I need to record a video. On the bright side, apart from these recordings, I don't spend time thinking about how I look or sound. So at least it has a limited effect. Once you're done with it, you'll just go on with your life.
I think the worst are those who have mobile phone conservations in a voice to shatter glass on trains, particularly when the conversation is vacuous and insipid.
I cannot stress enough the importance of proper lighting when it comes to videos/photography. It's more challenging with video since the lighting can change as you move about. And composition. Good composition is even more important than good lighting. Crop out any extraneous background, include only what adds interest to or supports the main subject.
Plus here in the Geneva Lake region we can hear several languages!
So do I. I will say, I am a bit more comfortable recording videos without my face in them, but I still don't like it.
