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@sturmsucht I hope you’ll check out the nixbook project. Perfect for this.
@flypaper uuh, that looks fantastic. Have to try it out! Thanks for the hint!
Yay! Thank you.
@sturmsucht doing the work of the Lawd
@sturmsucht I'm afraid we would loose the knowledge they have on computers that we are starting to forget already
@Mahura I'm worried about all the knowledge of self-sufficiency we're losing with these people.
@sturmsucht @Mahura Something else you might want to look at. Between WWII 70's we had an economy where minimum wage = living wage. affordable education, gaining wealth was possible, medical care was affordable.We should not have lost any of those except greed There were any number of social experiments and discussions talking about UBI when AI took our jobs, different forms of pay, of welfare that brought people out of poverty, real education. The 60's was not all sex, drugs and R&R, tho fun.😜
@sturmsucht not all heroes wear capes 👏
@sturmsucht That's great until she needs to do her taxes and none of the software works. Then you have a problem.
@egoldblatt a lot of tax tools here are browser based 🤷♂️
@sturmsucht Well, that's lucky.
@sturmsucht This is similar to my experience. I volunteer for my local repair cafe and there's usually at least one person, often in their 60s or older, who would like to switch their old Win10 computer to Linux.
Everyone I've helped switch to Linux Mint so far seems very happy with it. It's easy to use and stays out of your way, unlike Windows which will nag you to set up OneDrive/Copilot among other annoyances.
@sturmsucht my experience with my elderly parents was that they were much less attached to major brands... they just wanted it to work, and most things worked very poorly for elders if not outright trying to take advantage of them.
That's nice ... but how about getting the teens together and teaching them the difference between fake and real, especially 'news', remove the ads from their phone, and how to protect themselves from predators ...
Oh wait ... teens already know everything :)
1. I didn't realise your original comment was an accusation.
2. My reply was not a propagandist accusation. It was a joke Joyce ...
3. Shove your Whataboutism up your clacker ...
@sturmsucht that's awesome
@sturmsucht - for better or worse, its the older generation who created the technology the younger crowd take for granted.
You're welcome.
They may not know how certain products work or are installed now, but they're keenly aware of what it means to have it.
@sturmsucht Great work. As an older person myself I have turned to IT as a means of keeping the brain active. Dumping MS and migration to #Ubuntu on my laptop has felt quite liberating. As has ordering a @jolla phone. I don't have the patience to do what you do though!
@sturmsucht I switched my grandparents to LibreOffice in maybe 2010? My grandfather wrote his attempt at a memoir as a .odt file. I cherish it
everyone thinks Chris is doing a great thing
but we all know he's after some of Grandma's cooking, some free food, and to steal recipes!
🤭
just kidding
Chris: you're awesome
@sturmsucht this is great! I'd love to do something like this but just moved from the US to the UK and don't really know how to even look for this kind of thing
(it's so funny how moving to another country makes you realize how much system knowledge you just take for granted.... Like, I have to relearn where to go to buy/find/do specific things that before didn't even require thought - I just knew 😂)
@purplelotus13 community centres are a great start for that
@sturmsucht This is exactly the kind of thing I'm hoping to get involved in, I'm doing research right now on Zorin OS (tip of the iceberg) in order to help folks accomplish the same goal.
@sturmsucht Well done Chris 
That's my experience too, those with the least technical skill are the most open to change (nothing to lose I guess...)
Good luck with your mint install! #endof10
Wow! You rock 🤘
@sturmsucht Bravissimo Chris! Loving everything about this ❤️
@sturmsucht This is great 👏👏