I would put her on the latest Ubuntu LTS, make a single-user Ubuntu pro account so she keeps getting security updates and don't do major OS updates on that machine for the next decade. You and her can decide which DE, either Gnome (more mac-like) or Budgie, Mate, or KDE (more windows-like. Those are my win-like preferences in that order)

Proton Mail Bridge requires a paid account.

Homicides in the country I live in are down, and so are homicides by police.

I read this post as along the lines of: "Isn't it a shame that even if you don't use instagram because of privacy issues, it is so pervasive in modern society that you will end up on it regardless"

Instagram almost certainly do facial recognition/tracking on a huge scale, and due to the popularity of instagram it's practically impossible to opt out of it.

That was my reading of the article.

looks dead to me. last post was in july. I agree with the sentiment however.

you can now enter google meet rooms without a google account. i did it last week

a spoon

I reckon if you showed the picture of the giraffe to a human and asked what's wrong with it, many people wouldn't notice anything "off" about its coat.

Harvey Birdman, Off The Air, SuperJail, Space Ghost Coast to Coast.. most adult swim shows from the mid 2000s

I know you're asking about transmission, but.. Qbittorrent has an option in the GUI that allows you to specify what network interface it uses to communicate through. Therefore if your VPN isn't up, it won't use your normal network. And if your VPN drops out, it also won't use your normal network. Just another option in case you're interested.