granny

Windows is like a granny in the OS world, she needs to retire.

Stepstool for your granny... this shit isn't going to fly even though you are 100% honest.

Or granny eyed? Let's go with granny eyed.

I'd even go as far as saying that ChromeOS is a better "granny OS" than your stock Ubuntu...

The average Google user is more like your granny. When she borrows Uncle John's tablet, she expects it to work just as if she had borrowed his lawn mower.

Linux can be made that granny-proof. And that's what ChromeOS is. Hell, it's so granny-proof that it doesn't ship with gcc, or even header files!

From my exp and from the good advice of my granny, I can only tell you to invest into good tools, safety matches, soap and food stash. Everything else is just fiction.

Sometimes it feels like I drive like the stereotypical granny, but this has saved my bacon several times in the past two decades.

The public will accept it, until granny is taken out. If we carry on this way, it wont be long until we are all required to carry trackers so some creepy organisation can follow us 24/7 on bloody google maps.

It's no coincidence LulzSec weren't after granny-loves-her-cat blogs, but after commercial services.

However, while perhaps "nobody robs a granny to buy a single malt," alcohol can very obviously have damaging effects, especially if it's misused. Sexual assault and drunk driving are just two examples.

As someone who has been one of those geeks, every time I see another tech head recommending Linux for their granny, I believe that a small kitten dies somewhere. > We've come as far as we have because of open protocols and competition and Apple seems to be afraid to compete on a level playing field.

The stories of how granny and gramps put the remains of their retirement savings into "startups" because they have like 1000x returns right? And then want their money back and discover that some large fraction of these companies are kids with no clue, no work experience, and have just burned through their 'seed' round buying a server farm that turns out overloads the circuit breakers in the garage.

Do you think that granny from your example wouldn't click "Ignore" on a browser warning? Second of all, if we really get down to an argument about elders, society and making the world a better place, the priority shouldn't be to keep the status quo because the elders wouldn't cope with change - because in that equation, today's children are more important, don't you think?

The whole "Oh, the monstrous heartless conservatives just want to throw granny over the cliff so they can save a buck" is just a propaganda smokescreen put up so you don't look too much at the actual product you're pitching beyond the catchphrase level. Personally I feel some people are being pretty careless about what will actually happen to real people while they are moving abstract political footballs labelled "socialized healthcare" around without caring what's behind the abstraction.