On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 21:43:36 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a customer (actually she is a great grand mother) who > wants me "specifically" to put her together a cheap machine > to only play Freecell. No internet, no printing, no sound. > So Xfce, Fedora, and K Patience to the rescue. I don't know that it makes teenagers run for their lives, but there is a brain game called brainworkshop on sourceforge that uses dual n-back training (based on research) to enhance / sustain working memory, thus keeping executive function of the brain in top condition. There is a talk group for people who use it with lots of useful information if you are interested in brain exercise / improvement. There is also another game based on useful field of view. This one exercises speed of responsiveness, another thing that diminishes with age. There is a paper reporting that in a study people who exercised their brain using this game for only a few hours had half the rate of dementia after 10 years of a control group. Worth a search to try to find it for someone older, or even someone younger who wants to try to prevent dementia. It might cost, and not be available for linux, but worth a look. Another thing to look at, while not a game, is brainwave entrainment. There are lots of free programs on sourceforge, and the one thing your older person might appreciate is that entraining the brain in the delta range (the range of deep sleep) improves the ability to sleep. Not to mention that entraining the brain feels really good, and who has enough of that? :-) _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
