You should try a grant from this gov agency. Administration for Community Living
https://acl.gov/programs/research-and-development/disability-and-rehabilitation-research https://acl.gov/about-acl/about-national-institute-disability-independent-living-and-rehabilitation-research On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 6:52 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 5:58 PM Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 3:22 PM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > >>[...] > >> > Any third party selling time on their rust server? > >> > >> The people that make it: https://rustdesk.com/pricing.html > > > > I have a similar problem. My wife's mother is developing dementia. We > got her a chromebook. We would like to be able to remotely manage it for > her, but we need a solution that does not require her to take any action. > chrome remote desktop would not be an option because she would not be able > to understand the instructions to use it. > > > > Any ideas? > > I don't think a Chromebook is a good choice for a senior. I tried to > put my father on a Chromebook back when he was in his late 70's. It > was too hard for him. He would ask me things like, "why does the > internet require a password." He was speaking of the tight coupling of > products and services, where the Chromebook would ask him to login > using GMail. > > I found the best choice was an inexpensive laptop like [0], running > Linux Mint. I set it in auto-login mode so it logs him in > automatically. He does not use email, so I did not need to support > that. I administer the laptop remotely using SSH. Other remote admin > tools should work well, too. > > One thing we (folks who support seniors) need is a dedicated Linux > distro. One dumbed down with big icons and big text. And believe it or > not, we need something similar for a phone. Something derived from > LineageOS or similar. I have not found them, and I've been looking for > several years. > > Regarding Linux for seniors, I contacted AARP and asked them to > sponsor some work to get seniors their own distro and own phone OS. > The assholes did not bother responding to the emails, phone calls or a > letter. I find AARP is a greedy bunch, and not really interested in > their members; AARP is only interested in their member's money. > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |O O| pepeb...@gmail.com ~~~~ Javier Perez ~~~~ While the night runs ~~~~ toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch.
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