Perhaps ironically given the thread author's concerns about surveillance, I solved the computing problems of my elderly relatives by switching them to Chromeboo

Perhaps ironically given the thread author's concerns about surveillance, I solved the computing problems of my elderly relatives by switching them to Chromebooks. They really just use the computer to browse the internet anyway. The fact that there's no room for malicious actors to install crap on that architecture to interfere with the user experience because the user experiences completely dominated by one megacorporation's notion of how the computer should work has been a Godsend for maintenance of their machine. Now, the Android phone is an entirely different story, unfortunately.