See, that's an adventure for months of late night tinkering.
Or just boot Windows and it will auto detect everything just fine. Done and done.
Not everyone is an adventurer. Most people just want to get on with it.
PlutoniumAcid
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You're right in that case - most "granny" users just need a browser and maybe a printer. Don't need Windows, you could probably run that on a Raspberry.
The catch is when they want more, like their VoIP App that only hat Mac and Windows installers, or some arcane HP scanner with 32 bit Windows 7 drivers. Or they are competent and want an actual full MS Office suite including Excel formulas and functions; Calc is still not on par. Or, kicker, if they actually need to exchange Office files with others without lossy conversions.
Full encryption means privacy. From everyone. For everyone. Please explain to me why that should not be given to minors?
In my view, protecting children online is not inherently a tech problem. It's a part of parenting.
Yeah, maybe try the Dodo first or something else less dangerous than a giant wolf, right?
I am certain that the software has improved a lot in 20 years.
Back then it was a bold move. Today, doable? I'll be following this.
US LEO are the real ones. In UK+EU they really aren't murderous villains, many don't even carry a gun.
And politicians don't murder, they just fleece us.
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I see what you did there 😄
I pay ~8€ per month at DreamHost, for many, many domains and databases and mailboxes. I worry that having to maintain a VPS myself is tedious and risky, and there's no automatic backups, and there's no tech support, and it can't possibly be as cheap. I'm fine hosting some stuff at home, but for some things (like mailboxes) I want a real independent service I can trust.
I'm still a huge DH fan. It's just that the latency from Europe is noticeable, and also there's an increased risk that some self-proclaimed dicktator might do something stupid so I lose access to my account and my mailboxes. We've all read the horror stories of people suddenly being permabanned by Google and losing access to all their precious data. I'm trying to cover some scenarios here.
Hah, I get you, man. I left the place almost 25 years ago and nothing after WinXP was good. It irks me that open source Office suites just aren't good enough (looking at you, Calc) or I'd be using Linux on desktop, too, not just on my servers.
Hey, I'll take you up on that. Better than no sex, amirite?
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Stupid, lazy, overworked, underskilled - it must have been easier to raise us who are adults now, pre Internet, than it is to raise our kids today. And I repeat, tech is not the solution.