I'm going to try to put Kubuntu on my grandma's computer.
She only uses it to check email, so I'd like to make it convenient for her.
She doesn't know computers at all (she has a hard time with the mouse!) and as a result, my mom has to check her email whenever she visits.
1. I would like to get her set up so that, with one click, she can connect her dial-up modem and open Firefox (I can already get her email to log her in automatically).
2. She can't see very well so I want the computer to read her email to her
3. When my cousins come over, they stay online for hours (they are, apparently, used to a broadband connection and don't know/care that they are tying up her phone line). How can I automatically hang-up her modem after X minutes of inactivity (with a prompt to warn her, of course) and have a prompt come up after Y minutes, no matter what, to remind anyone still online that they are tying up the phone?
I am grateful for any help on any of these steps.
(maybe this could eventually be a How-To, as old computers seem to go to grandparents and Linux runs great on old computers.)
Afterthought!
Could there be a way to set up an email client to download her mail automatically at, say midnight? Really, I'll take any suggestions for a good Linux Grandma computer.
She only uses it to check email, so I'd like to make it convenient for her.
She doesn't know computers at all (she has a hard time with the mouse!) and as a result, my mom has to check her email whenever she visits.
1. I would like to get her set up so that, with one click, she can connect her dial-up modem and open Firefox (I can already get her email to log her in automatically).
2. She can't see very well so I want the computer to read her email to her
3. When my cousins come over, they stay online for hours (they are, apparently, used to a broadband connection and don't know/care that they are tying up her phone line). How can I automatically hang-up her modem after X minutes of inactivity (with a prompt to warn her, of course) and have a prompt come up after Y minutes, no matter what, to remind anyone still online that they are tying up the phone?
I am grateful for any help on any of these steps.
(maybe this could eventually be a How-To, as old computers seem to go to grandparents and Linux runs great on old computers.)
Afterthought!
Could there be a way to set up an email client to download her mail automatically at, say midnight? Really, I'll take any suggestions for a good Linux Grandma computer.
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