On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 5:58 PM Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 3:22 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>[...] >> > Any third party selling time on their rust server? >> >> The people that make it: https://rustdesk.com/pricing.html > > I have a similar problem. My wife's mother is developing dementia. We got her a chromebook. We would like to be able to remotely manage it for her, but we need a solution that does not require her to take any action. chrome remote desktop would not be an option because she would not be able to understand the instructions to use it. > > Any ideas? I don't think a Chromebook is a good choice for a senior. I tried to put my father on a Chromebook back when he was in his late 70's. It was too hard for him. He would ask me things like, "why does the internet require a password." He was speaking of the tight coupling of products and services, where the Chromebook would ask him to login using GMail. I found the best choice was an inexpensive laptop like [0], running Linux Mint. I set it in auto-login mode so it logs him in automatically. He does not use email, so I did not need to support that. I administer the laptop remotely using SSH. Other remote admin tools should work well, too. One thing we (folks who support seniors) need is a dedicated Linux distro. One dumbed down with big icons and big text. And believe it or not, we need something similar for a phone. Something derived from LineageOS or similar. I have not found them, and I've been looking for several years. Regarding Linux for seniors, I contacted AARP and asked them to sponsor some work to get seniors their own distro and own phone OS. The assholes did not bother responding to the emails, phone calls or a letter. I find AARP is a greedy bunch, and not really interested in their members; AARP is only interested in their member's money. Jeff _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
