Recent content by SuperSubZero

I thought the OP was done a while ago. The Linux folks crawled into the thread and it became one of those again. On a computer that can directly support Win11, the notification is pretty tame, it pops up in Windows Update, maybe a notification? It's not particularly persistent, and I thought...

https://www.aarp.org/research/topics/technology/info-2019/2020-technology-trends-older-americans.html "In 2014, when 8 in 10 younger Americans owned a smartphone, only half of adults over 50 owned one. Today, smartphone adoption is 86 percent among Americans age 50 to 59 and 81 percent for...

I know plenty of old people, and they all have smartphones. Every single one of them. Even the most physically encumbered. They have phones and they are capable of making calls and sending texts and emails. Not all of them have computers, and they are fine with that.

Then should this person be using a computer? Does a keyboard and a mouse help?

The modern smartphone has existed for 15 years, they've sold about infinity-1 of them, and thanks to programs like "Obama Phone" they can be had cheap or free. If someone would be totally brand new to a smartphone in December 2021, one really needs to evaluate what this person actually needs.

OK, so why would he be using one now? The point of the posts is that "old person, able to use a computer, but I don't trust them." If they are past the mental faculties to use this stuff, they ain't using this stuff.

Why? Any smartphone or tablet can do this, and likely better. What Linux video chat comes anywhere close to FaceTime, and has a protocol likely both parties have? Even Google Duo (if they still use that) is probably tiers above anything Linux offers to both ends of a call. Again, if you...

Sure it does. Unless you think when *you* are 80 someone's gonna just say "oh, Shoganai is old, they don't know computers" and you're just gonna mumble and get back to your prune juice. We didn't jump from the 1950s to the 2020s suddenly. Grandma has less and less reasons to be so far out of...

You're not grandma. When the grandkids come over to visit and they want to play Roblox, uh.. what are you gonna do, set up WINE for grandma? Actually we can go the other way with this.. I brought it up before, why does grandma even have a computer? What is grandma going to do that needs a...

I'd comment on this but the only accounting package I know is Quickbooks, and well wouldn't ya know... "There is no need to download QuickBooks Online because it is connected to the cloud, which means you can access online accounting from any device with an internet connection. You can download...

Maybe. Then again, you are forcing an OS on grandma that may limit what she can do, so, maybe she won't have much to steal anyway cuz she doesn't use that PC much. I do not quite know where you see this. I am on Ubuntu 21.10, and like every Ubuntu before it, when I want Chrome, or in this...

A scammer could just totally take a shot in the dark and say "click the first one" (Debian / Ubuntu / Mint (64 Bit)) and it would probably work. It's just a .deb. You then proceeded to overlay your personal preference on grandma. "It's not like Grandma installs software anyway" -> If you...

As I said, I've never seen those Indian Call Center scam things come in an application. It has always been a web page with a malignant ad. It's not even necessarily a bad page, just one where the ads aren't critiqued. For grandma who is just checking email and doing.. prescriptions?.. it...

"you are am go to https://anydesk.com/en/downloads/ and download" (it will automatically select your OS, which the scammer can casually gleam from the user). As for the distro, unless one is a sadist, you're not going to give grandma a complicated distro. It's going to be Ubuntu (it may even...

That's awful, but that doesn't say anything about the security of Windows. If a scammer is randomly calling phones and gets someone who cooperates with them, the OS they have is irrelevant. As well, AnyDesk is multiplatform, and any Indian Call Center scammer worth their salt has a...