zabby

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

With what I've been through, I'm beginning to wonder if OP is telling the truth ๐Ÿ˜‚

About 7 years ago I got a call from some random lady in her 70s. Turns out her husband passed away not long ago and every computer in the house had Linux Mint installed. She needed someone to help her with some various simple techy things that her husband used to handle.

I couldn't help but wonder how this random lady got my phone number. Turns out that one day, my Grandfather went on a walk down the road and this lady was outside tending to her garden. I have no clue how the conversation shifted to the topic of Linux, but it did. And my Grandpa knew I was in college for Computer Science, so he just volunteered me for this task.

Fast forward to today and I still help her out once or twice a year with whatever random questions pop up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I've had some luck blocking instances within mobile apps, but that doesn't scale well if the number of toxic instances is constantly growing. I'm curious to see how this gets addressed in the long run (or if it is left as is, since it is technically working as designed).