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I find it a bit ironic that 4chan's /wg/ of all places seems like the safest choice here. Plus, the content is always up-to-date
wallbase.cc used to be an archive that scraped the various wallpaper boards on the chans, it worked brilliantly with colour searching, tagging and they had a fantastic supply of dual/triple monitor papers.
Teach him how to use Linux. He can use Darktable instead of Lightroom.
tldr: Linux. I had more or less the same issue (except things still booted) with my parents about 5 or 6 years ago. In a move I thought was insane, I put them on Xubuntu. I moved them to Mint for a while, but they are back to Xubuntu. It's my preferred distro, and the Ubuntu base (for good support) and XFCE (Windows familiarity) made me comfortable it was Mom and Dad proof. Aside from showing them where things are, t…
RawTherapee and the other Linux RAW software can't hold a candle to Lightroom. I don't even like Lightroom, but the Linux RAW editors are just not very good. My advice to the OP is to tell them to buy a Mac, get Apple Care and let Apple Genius Bar deal with it.
This is just plain false. I used AfterShot Pro and I think it's better than Lightroom. The only reason that I switched back to Darktable is because I don't want to locked in the proprietary software.
1) Install GNU/Linux, most click adds target windows users.
2) Install an ad-blocker at DNS level. I use a custom variation of this: https://pi-hole.net/ (by default logs DNS requests, mind you. You can disable logging though).
3) Spent some time to educate him on what to avoid online
4) Lastly, I have an RPi running on a VPN exit node (actually I have an RPi cluster, but anyway). When I had an openWRT-based router, I had a script which was fetching porn/torrents/etc. IP addresses and adding routes to the router redirecting connections via VPN.
5) A separate guest network with radius accounting can go a long way into securing your network and help control access (I have a radius RPi server but my APs do not support accounting. I felt kinda screwed when I realised)
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I find it a bit ironic that 4chan's /wg/ of all places seems like the safest choice here. Plus, the content is always up-to-date
wallbase.cc used to be an archive that scraped the various wallpaper boards on the chans, it worked brilliantly with colour searching, tagging and they had a fantastic supply of dual/triple monitor papers.
Here's what worked for me: 1) Install GNU/Linux, most click adds target windows users. 2) Install an ad-blocker at DNS level. I use a custom variation of this: https://pi-hole.net/ (by default logs DNS requests, mind you. You can disable logging though). 3) Spent some time to educate him on what to avoid online 4) Lastly, I have an RPi running on a VPN exit node (actually I have an RPi cluster, but anyway). When I ha…
Here's what worked for me: 1) Install GNU/Linux, most click adds target windows users. 2) Install an ad-blocker at DNS level. I use a custom variation of this: https://pi-hole.net/ (by default logs DNS requests, mind you. You can disable logging though). 3) Spent some time to educate him on what to avoid online 4) Lastly, I have an RPi running on a VPN exit node (actually I have an RPi cluster, but anyway). When I ha…
Put your parents on a VPN, great idea, instead of the other way around where I am the sole VPN user and pay more for my Internet connection because surfing without a VPN just feels weird these days. Also five minutes of OSINT on Google tells me I share my ISP-Issued IP with at least 1000 other paying subscribers, whereas a VPN can run into the millions of users, albeit not all using that VPN-Issued IP at the same tim…
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Chromebook ($200)+ wifi printer ($50) is still cheaper and smoother than a workable Windows laptop.
$200 Windows laptops exist and work perfectly fine, having the same specs as the Chromebooks.
I second what some others here are saying - get your parents a Chromebook (or Chromebox if they want a desktop). I got a Dell Chromebook for my mother. It's nigh on unbreakable, and is great for non-tech parents. Each tab/app runs in its own sandbox, and it allows them to do the things they want (i.e. browsing). It automatically updates in the background (none of that Windows update rubbish), it has inbuilt malware b…
just out of curiosity, which model of Dell Chromebook did you get?