Done :)

Love it!

My mom insisted that it look the same lol. I figured it was a small price to pay to get them off Windows. I still might change it secretly before I leave haha.

It went smoothly, even smoother than I was suspecting. I just made sure to backup all their data, and made sure they had all their passwords for accounts.

Awesome!

As if I’m not already doing that. Why do you think I was home working on my parent’s computer in the first place?

Plus with how shitty Windows is getting, I’ll likely be doing less tech support going forward.

Already threw RustDesk on there and tested it.

Right on!

Hellotux.com, little family owned embroidery shop that uses mostly FOSS software to do all their embroidery.

Lots of different FOSS projects they have Merch for.

Had a manager once that was super strict on start times with me. Like, if you came in 5-10 minutes late once a month he would make a super big stink about it despite me staying late multiple times a week and working through lunch often.

Of course for him, he would come in whenever he wanted, an hour late, two hours late, etc. And he would leave early mutiple times a month for random reasons like hanging out with his buddies at a party.

He was also super anti-remote work for me, but of course he would work remote all the time.

Cherry on top; he was super sexist and racist, total douchebag.

Yeah, it’s a bit tough to find. Glad you found it!

Yes, with labels and filters, and you can set all kinds of conditions including the subject lines of the email and the senders and user filters to both label and sort them into folders, star them, mark them as read, etc.

I do this to auto sort my inbox into a bunch of different folders and groups.

Nyfure is right. Wayland support is experimental but has been added to Rust Desk since earlier this year.

I haven’t tested it on Wayland myself, and remote login isn’t yet supported according to their GitHub documentation, but if you just need a reliable way to provide remote support to your fam, it’s a really solid option.

Wayland is quickly becoming the standard, and Rust Desk seems to be on that train which is good. I wouldn’t be surprised to see full Wayland support or close to it by the end of next year.

Also, I just use the .appimage file and it works fine for me. Just make sure to set it as executable with chmod +x or in the file permissions tab in your GUI.

I’ve been using Rust Desk for a few months now and it’s awesome. Works on Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.

It’s open source and super easy to setup and configure. For limited use cases, you can just use their freely provided servers, but you can also host your own server if you want.

I’ve been really impressed with the connection speeds and features, it has everything I need including end-to-end encryption for all network traffic, so your remote connection is at far less risk of getting snooped.

Thank you so much for your work on this instance.

How best to donate to help support?

I’ve heard of bridges but never tried them, I’ll look into them more.

Peertube is pretty cool, just doesn’t have all the creators I watch currently. I do still watch some content on there though.

1. Lemmy 95%. I use Reddit for tech troubleshooting help sometimes but that’s basically it, and I removed my account.
2. Never used Twitter. I have a Mastodon account but rarely use it. It’s just not a content format that I’m very interested in.
3. Sadly I use Discord still. Matrix is fine, but nearly all my friends use Discord for gaming and related stuff, so I can’t get rid of it without losing basically all my gaming friends and servers.
4. Still use YT all the time, but only through apps like NewPipe, FreeTube, and GrayJay. I haven’t signed into YT for well over a year now.

Slowly but surely I’m getting rid of the corpo’s grip on my life.

Thanks for your reply, sorry if I came off aggressive in my initial response.

For me I’m as hardcore anti-intellectual property as it gets. I think the very concept of IP is nonsense. And I don’t mean nonsense like it is stupid or silly or I don’t agree with the laws, I mean literally logically contradictory.

I view laws against copyright/IP infringement the same way I would view a law against poaching unicorns.

Despite the propaganda, IP law almost always protects giant corporations, not the “little guy.” It’s used to create and maintain multi-billion dollar IP portfolio monopolies. It supresses creativity and literally kills people in the case of pharma companies and their ridiculous drug patents.

I would love at a minimum for copyright to have a hard limit no matter the conditions. Like for all creative works, 20 year hard limit. After that, no matter what, it enters public domain forever. There are a million issues to work out, but not being able to hold IP for literally a century in some cases would be something.

I know what you mean, I’m so pissed that my 1978 Space Invaders arcade machine doesn’t even support WiFi-6.

You’re coming off fairly condescending. Leftists of many stripes not only have thorough critiques of Capitalism, but offer a wide range of solutions, both legislative and grass-roots.

There may be a lot of ranting, but most of it is based within robust theory and legislative efforts.

Strengthening unions and workers rights laws is almost always advocated for. Weakening the ability for corporations to exploit their workers and the general population/environment is another.

I’m an Agorist, that means I advocate fighting Capitalism from the ground up using grey and black markets to subvert existing Capitalist structures.

So acquiring and distributing pirated materials like college textbooks and otherwise expensive software is one example. Helping people jailbreak/hack their devices to run unofficial software that the corporations don’t approve of is another.

There’s lots of information out there, don’t mistake memes and ranting for empty idealism.