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
    42•9 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 SlothEnglish
        5•9 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•9 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_loweredEnglish
      3•9 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.