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.

Good to know. I’ll have to look into it further

Unfortunate. It’s available as a RetroArch core isn’t it? I wonder how that will effect things

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?

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

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

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’d say it’s pretty predictable and comes in waves as issues come up.

For example some people from exploding-heads posting rightwing content outside their instance before they were widely defederated.

Another example is when illegal content was being posted in large communities and Lemmy.world started blocking users from posting/commenting using a VPN.

Other than that it’s a lot of knowing your audience.

I told a coworker this once and they went from saying African Americans to just loudly whisper the word black like it was a derogatory term.

Gotham Steel pans. They work decent the first couple times but I found the non-stick part of it wore down real quick

Internet Historian made a pretty good video about it a couple years ago

I wonder how this will work with local accounts

I was referring to drives like the Seagate 16TB HDD Exos X16. That said there are MDD drives that are apparently cheaper but I haven’t heard of them before.

I wasn’t sure about that considering HAMR and HDMR drives are being developed like Seagate’s Mozaic 3+ which has 30TB.

My stake is really that 30 TB mark. That should be enough to consolidate all my storage conveniently in one spot. I don’t need incredibly fast transfer speeds so I think an HDD would do fine.

In general, technology gets cheaper for better products over time. Short term that’s not always true, but the longer timescales you look, the better is it for consumers.

Yeah that’s why I linked the graph above. I asked here because I thought someone might have looked into this before and have a better insight on it. Maybe they’ve read about foretasted chip shortages or some kind of technological improvement with manufacturing? I am not sure. It’s something I only sporadically see articles about.

A year or two is a long time, and probably worth waiting.

If the price of a HDD on sale this year is equal to the average price of the same tier of HDD two or three years from now I’d probably just pull the trigger now.