

That’s a really interesting set of protections: they’re targeting categories of scams and trying to prevent them.
I can see that causing a lot of problems for people walking relatives through legit tech support, but if it prevent vulnerable people from getting scammed, that may be worth it.
“dingus” is so judgemental.
What about a formal “my good fellow”? Or a friendly “brah”? Perhaps “bean-breath” if you want to push the Lemmy in jokes? Or even “dawg”?