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It's a useful idea but I think solving the "email is hard" problem is secondary to the "managing a computer is hard" problem. I've tried setting up fool-proof
by dschobel 18y ago
It's a useful idea but I think solving the "email is hard" problem is secondary to the "managing a computer is hard" problem.
I've tried setting up fool-proof systems for elderly family members in the past. All the applications and URLs they would ever need were sitting right on the desktop, anti-virus and windows automatically patching themselves, etc.
It only ever last a few weeks until they started downloading attachments from their marginally more savvy friends for it all to come crashing down.
From my experience I would say extending this into a suite which allowed full remote (with no RDP setup required) maintenance and solving the end-to-end problem would be more compelling.
But this is definitely a good start.
- rjurney 18y agoI built a firefox/ubuntu point of sale once, and all it did was launch to firefox which was quite hard to get out of, and went to one url. Something like that could work.