Katherine 🪴

Happily.

This reminded me to donate to Wikipedia.

You could always just install Linux Mint and then install the Mint XP theme. No Microsoft Account required.

We just need an Old Piefed theme. :)

There is an opt-out. It’s called deleting your account. An people should do it.

It’s not an “official” theme but I was playing around with a Hot Dog Stand inspired theme because I was bored.

Imagine a nostalgic ezboard replacement built on top of Piefed. :)

Also I know what you mean, I’ve been looking at the source code and learning. I’d love to see some alternative themes like Lemmy has (especially an “old Reddit” type of theme for Piefed.

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2026 shouldn’t be the year of any one specific thing; 2026 should be the year of teaching the less inclined how to be conscious with their data and go over methods for taking back their data from whatever service they might use.

Correction; a tomato pie with pineapple.

I basically moved to Linux Mint from Windows myself back in March so this is everything I’ve learned since then. Auto update and auto backup (using Timeshift and Update Manager) are pretty straight forward since they’re all options in the GUI. Clamtk comes from me using Clamav on Windows for the longest time and most of the packages were found right in the GUI for the Software Manager.

For most users whose main computing habits are browsing the internet, word processing (desktop or Google Docs), or email, you’ll rarely have to touch a terminal.

I set up my mom’s laptop with clamtk (set to auto update definitions), auto backup, and auto update and she generally uses it the same as Windows.

Discoverability; both with posts and following.

Also, nuclear blocking and feeds/lists are two things that Bluesky gets right.

The problem is that electronic mail requires internet tax an internet is mostly privatised with a high learning curve whereas postal mail generally just requires a residential address (still not perfect but better). Postal mail in many regions has also been largely privatised, unfortunately, too.

The actual poll is here, but it’s locked behind membership; I can’t find any additional downloads. https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/31088367

The original article that the graphics came from is here, though: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/29/politics/americans-predictions-1998-2025

Oh, gosh. Our first family PC was a Tandy Sensation and Winmate which had “In Touch”, the phone center and 11 year old me was fascinated with the idea of having different inboxes for all the family members with personalised greetings.

It never worked since we never actually hooked it up but I still pretended.

http://toastytech.com/guis/winmate2.html

I remember the day my gram got one. By today’s standards, it might not be pretty great but when it first came out I thought it was super cool tech.

To Torvalds, Chromebooks “are the path toward the desktop.”

Please don’t associate Linux with a close-source proprietary neutered web browser owned by an ad company.

Parents will go to where their family are on social; either get the family to post elsewhere, or teach them to be conscious about being on the big tech platforms.

Teach them about privacy settings like post audience; post pruning; privacy options; privacy checkups.

The best kind of cat tree.