I’m consider getting one for surfing the web on a secondary monitor. Nothing important is occurring but I asked this question for two reasons.

1. I’m a nerd who finds a lot of this neat
2. It can be hard to create a threat profile if you don’t know a threat exists.

Plenty of people put some level of work into making their PC’s OS more secure using YouTube tutorials and tips but they may not think to update their BIOS for example

Do most motherboards receive long term support updates? I feel like I’ve only ever gotten a few updates for the ones I’ve used but maybe that was because I was buying older boards.

Where’s the line though? I feel like a lot symptoms can crossover into things like anxiety or ADD and people might disqualify themselves because they don’t have some of the more stereotypical symptoms

I feel like Google Maps is going to be the biggest hurdle. I mentioned in another comment but a minimalist launcher might help.

Beyond that you could always consider getting a case for the Nokia phone off of Ali Express or looking up feature phone operating systems. For example KiaOS is quite popular among feature phones and appears on some Nokia ones.

I looked for this and it sort of doesn’t exist. I need it for a technologically challenged family member who gets hopelessly confused by smart phones. I have had the idea of writing an Android dumbify app that runs in kiosk mode (i.e. there is no way to exit it) that just disables everything except phone calls, and keeps the phone keypad permanently on the screen, like an old fashioned phone with physical buttons. It’s on my infinite todo list.

A minimalist launcher is probably the easiest possible solution to that. Aster for example is available on F-Droid. The only issue I could see is it not having a lock function that would prevent them from accidentally entering some sort of edit mode.

I feel like your right about complacency playing a big part.

It does make me wonder if a user of both MacOS and Windows would be more willing to consider using Linux over individuals who have only used Windows. Maybe someone who has used multiple operating systems would be more aware of what could be improved in their computing experience.

That said a lot of people seem to be migrating to Linux because of Windows 11

It is a niche open source social network. I feel like having enthusiastic Linux users is inevitable.

When does this ever happen?

What is in synthetic clam juice?

If you are into the Lego video you may want to check out Brick Experiment Channel

Or switching profiles in GrapheneOS so I can look at my Google apps

Totally. It’s cool seeing what people are enthusiastic about

I feel like he would continue trying even after his turn limit if he won

Totally. I feel like that’s a bit of a holdover from Reddit is all and there’s usual some flexibility here so I’m saying it’s good when people utilize it.

Personally I like altering the title, including the origina title in the text, and maybe a few other articles on the topic or to add context. It doesn’t take much effort on my part and I feel like it shows I’m not just dumping links and might engage in a conversation about it.

I don’t think there’s much escaping that besides finding a small niche instance or blocking communities that aren’t relevant to you.

Each social media site has a stereotype demographic and I don’t see Lemmy’s changing in the foreseeable future.

Redditors using “This” is another thing I hated. It adds nothing to the conversation and came off as someone fishing for upvotes

It’s more targeted at the lemming who posted this. Considering people can edit post titles and add additional text to a link post there’s not really a risk in trying something more informative. They wouldn’t need to delete their post or match some ultra rigid formatting.

I don’t have any faith in Huffington Post (or several other news outlets) deviating from clickbait. In this situation someone might not recognize the name or act and assume it’s irrelevant to them. I can see why they do it but I don’t like it.

I miss a lot of the smaller dedicated communities. There were a lot there were essentially mirrored from Reddit but a lot of the userbase disappeared. They are widely federated and posts get votes and comments but there’s not a lot of people putting out content.

What I don’t miss is the power mods and all the auto mods. They just get tiring.

I haven’t seen a lot of people get upset about altered titles on Lemmy. I feel like there’s a general understanding that an accurate title is better.

Some people cite the article’s original headline in the text below the submitted link.

Why not edit the title to be a little bit less clickbait?

Maybe something like:

Mark Kelly, A Possible Democratic Veep Pick, Just Changed His Position On Protecting the Right to Organize Act