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This holiday season, what will you advise your relatives to change on their desktop computers?

Install a backup tool? Change browser? Change an OS setting?

inb4 "defragment"
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>>107485368
uninstall 4chan
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>>107485439
>i don't want my relatives to get high quality information about technology
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>>107485439
from the internet
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>>107485530
>high quality
>frog and simp threads

cool story bro
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>>107485368
I bought my mom a 500gb ssd and 16gb ddr3. Her work computer from 2010 is going to be the fastest thing in the house.
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>>107485368
I don't have relatives other than my parents and they don't even know how to turn on a computer let alone USE one.
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I would never make the mistake of talking about desktop computers with a family member.
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>>107485368
Install gentoo
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>>107485368
reinstall windows
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>>107485368
disable unnecessary programs from running at startup on niece's laptop
install ublock origin BE or equivalent on niece's laptop
install yt-dlp on niece's laptop, leave a kid-friendly note that explains how to upgrade and use it
uninstall dell telemetry and other worthless predatory garbage from niece's laptop
install Linux Mint on niece's laptop if there is free space (no overwrite) (I lied, it's actually Gentoo)
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>>107485368
I’m going to update my mother’s Apple devices to 26.2 after I’ve used the new OSs on my own devices for a week
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>>107485439
are you retarded
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is she ok?
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>>107489476
>install Linux Mint on niece's laptop if there is free space
Why? Does she actually want to try a new OS?
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>>107493815
Why not? && Yes but she doesn't know it yet.
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>>107493945
Okay, as long as she doesn't mind you changing things on her computer and using at least 20 GB for that.



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