I am profoundly grateful that my dad (84) is still very healthy, mentally acute, and tech-literate enough to avoid scams. If anything, he's even more paranoid than I am.
But he will have nothing to do with smartphones even though he's a long time gadget freak with an engineering background, and at this point my mom would have difficulty using anything other than a landline. I got them onto VoIP with an unlocked analog telephone adapter some years back when the poorly maintained landline (loud hum when plugged into the demarc) became too horrible to use.
His frustrations with Windows 10 (and MS's irritating habit of "helpfully" changing your settings) are about to the boiling point, but there's a hell of a lot of Stockholm syndrome involved in getting him to use anything else, not to mention he still uses a DOS app via DOSbox. I'm not sure how insufferable Windows will need to get before he would be willing to jump ship. Windows 8 was enough for me, but only because I can do anything I personally need on any random Linux distro.
But he will have nothing to do with smartphones even though he's a long time gadget freak with an engineering background, and at this point my mom would have difficulty using anything other than a landline. I got them onto VoIP with an unlocked analog telephone adapter some years back when the poorly maintained landline (loud hum when plugged into the demarc) became too horrible to use.
His frustrations with Windows 10 (and MS's irritating habit of "helpfully" changing your settings) are about to the boiling point, but there's a hell of a lot of Stockholm syndrome involved in getting him to use anything else, not to mention he still uses a DOS app via DOSbox. I'm not sure how insufferable Windows will need to get before he would be willing to jump ship. Windows 8 was enough for me, but only because I can do anything I personally need on any random Linux distro.