Hello, born and raised in Florida, lived here my whole life, still living here now (life long registered democrat, never voted republican)

Do people from FL like DeSantis?

The Maga’s love him because of his racism and gay bashing, outside of the Maga’s most people cannot stand him, many non-maga replicans too.

impression that there are quite a large number of people in FL who are seeing the effects of climate change, I wonder if environmental policy is something that is beginning to matter

True most people are noticing effects of climate change but most republicans here, including non-maga are still in denial, I do not believe it affects voting at all in any major way… yet, I believe after a few catastrophic hurricanes votes will start to change.

I do not believe this article at all, I know many people who live in the villages (from work, family, friends, marriages etc…) and finding any number of people who would/do support Kamala is in the unicorn numbers and to openly admit it would lead to banishment.

There are a lot of Democrats in Florida, DeSantis barely won and i’m sure cheating was involved, but this state is red and seriously gerrymandered now and the corruption is at gangster level, it would take a world changing event for this state to ever be won by a Democrat President anytime in the long future.

Not all republicans are bad and not all republicans are maga, there are a lot of kind-hearted level headed people here but currently the maga’s are in charge

Senator Mark Kelley (60 years old)

• U.S. Navy combat pilot (actual combat experience)
• U.S. Senator for Arizona
• NASA astronaut (actually been to space)
• B.S. degree in marine engineering and nautical science
• M.S. degree in aeronautical engineering
• Married to Gabby Giffords (remember her? maga lunatic victim)
• Both parents were police officers
• Zero controversy or baggage

Independent leader whom the middle really like and even republicans respect him. Kamala will probably make him VP pick to block him but I believe with all my instinct he could/would beat Trump

I have 0% problem voting for and supporting Kamila, but…

We are doomed! Trump will win without cheating including the House and the Senate, he will scream “Mandate” and get another term too.

This is not the America Obama won in. Do you really belive a woman of color can be elected to lead this nation at this time in this climate?

I really hope I am wrong, I would love to eat the words above, but I am a realist.

I think we had/have one chance of hope. Senator Mark Kelly (Navy combat veteran and Astronaut) but the Democratic party leadership is full of braindead sycophant’s, that’s why we are here now.

Arizona Senator Mark Kelly is the only one in the entire field I can see possibly defeating Trump, you may like Gavin Newsom’s progressive policies but the levels of crime and drug abuse in his state are not fake news, the middle will never support him and they are the ones who will decide this election, Mark Kelly is a puzzle piece that fits perfectly here, even republicans sitting on the Trump fence would vote for him, he is a blue blooded true American hero.

I will always support Biden but sadly I think he has become damaged goods and I’m in fear for our liberty.

OK, since this was my first post here I did not expect the conversation to get so lively. I appreciate every single input. I thought my initial request was simple and clear with the words “non-tech” and “family members” but for the curious I will expand a bit.

For starters of course I am the “sys-admin” of my families tech life, my main personal PC is not Windows based but every member of my family is because every flavor of Linux I have convinced a family member to try has resulted in utter failure for them, sad but true.

They like the simple UI over the Windows firewall because I had no success trying to get them to understand/use the built-in windows version “Easy” to block per-process out/in traffic “Easy” to block ALL traffic, etc… Having them understand/use traffic blocking at the app level has made all of them much safer/smarter users. I start them with almost everything locked down, they open/monitor what they use, nobody shares a PC so this works perfect.

and finally for me, I needed Open Source so I can inspect the code for any tomfoolery, make any custom changes needed/wanted, and compile on my own. Free is never a requirement, I will always support the devs of software I end up using.

Thanks again for all the input, I read and followed everything, I was not planning on this much TMI but felt it warranted after reading the responses.

Update: I just discovered that TinyWall is now FOSS, GitHub Link If a very powerful, easy to config/maintain Windows firewall that is also now FOSS is something your interested in, I highly recommend giving TinyWall a try

Started a couple years ago with a simple home network website using Flask to simply save/organize my notes.

It has slowly grown into an entire eco-system that manages/records my entire life, from work to play and everything in between.

• Music player that organizes huge collection of mp3’s, scraps the album cover artwork and lyrics, integrated converter (youtube,spotify etc.), playlist to stream/copy to any device, statistics on everything and dozens of other percs/tools/toys custom built.
• Custom news, weather, sunset/sunrise, daylight savings reminders
• Easy on the fly statistical analysis of anything with advanced and simple graphing
• Easy on the fly AI, ML playground
• Reminders, text messages for all upcoming rocket launches (scraped and rss feeds of course)
• Manage my entire home automation setup/status/cams etc.
• Dozens of music related applications for learning/practicing/recording/tracking etc.
• Many, many more applications, just scratching the surface here but everything is automated, I don’t want to work it, just enjoy it.

Sometimes I feel a little selfish for keeping all this to myself (my entire household uses it too) but I’ve been programming and building websites for decades and it’s nice to work on something that has no schedules or expectations and the cherry on top for me is zero worry about security or compatibility.