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Met a nice lady at the grocery store (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by _n9@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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!

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[–] stagen@feddit.dk 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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!

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If the website doesn't work in lynx, it's not worth visiting

[–] stagen@feddit.dk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] Lowered_lifted@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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.