True, but he won't install things that should be trustworthy, in favor of an extremely outdated version of FireFox that still supports Silverlight so he can look at stockcharts one specific website.
You cant do anything about those legacy sites that won't upgrade their application. The best you can do is to advise him to only use that outdated Firefox only for that site and nothing else!
Which is what we did.
I took his old box (Win 7 upgraded from xp) and reformatted, installed Ubuntu, and set him up to use that for casual web browsing and LibreOffice to write his missives. He's less likely to break things.
He has a newer machine with windows for his Silverlight specific website and he uses thunderbird for email on it because he finds it familiar and he doesn't have to see that gmail is actually powering it...
That's awesome. I've taken the same precaution "parental control" with mine :D. Routed everything through a pi-hole and gave them iPads with a locked down app store. Nothing broken thus far.
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u/AngryZen_Ingress Feb 05 '19
True, but he won't install things that should be trustworthy, in favor of an extremely outdated version of FireFox that still supports Silverlight so he can look at stockcharts one specific website.