Today at the grocery store a sweet older lady approached me and asked if I knew anything about computers. I said yes I do, and she produced a mouse saying that her son set up Linux mint for her and she was wondering if the mouse was compatible. It needed kernel version 2.6 or newer so I said that the mouse should work, guessing mint itself was probably newer than that kernel. Happy with my answer, we chatted a little, then she thanked me and left.

It was a nice experience, so I thought I should share!

  • Space Sloth@feddit.dk
    42·
    10 months ago

    Have an elderly patron at the cafe that I volunteer at as a tech support (basically helping the old sods learn how to use their phones and connect to the new digital services from the government in Denmark) and he is a Linux user too. Dude is 79 and is the fella I go to if I have any linux questions. Think he uses an old IBM ThinkPad and practically consoles everything except his web use. I want to stay as pro as him when I turn 79!

      • Space Sloth@feddit.dkEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Man, I tried that approach on a MacOS terminal and it’s confusing as heck. Great for slacking off at work pretending to still be working, though. Someone once made a terminal app for browsing Reddit, maybe they can for Lemmy too? :D

        • Lupec
          2·
          10 months ago

          Looking around, I’ve found two seemingly functional projects, neonmodem and temi. The latter is even listed on the official Lemmy site, so it should be safe.

    • Lifted_lowered@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      My computer science teachers were all over 70 and *nix users, that’s the generation that created a lot of computer stuff we use to this day.