

You could always just install Linux Mint and then install the Mint XP theme. No Microsoft Account required.
Hi! I’m Katherine, or webkitten. I’ve been on the internet since our family got our first computer - a Tandy Sensation.
Yes, I went to computer camp as a kid and learned how to program BASIC on Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 4.
I’m trans, queer, and bisexual. #actuallyautistic
I started programming with PHP in the mid 90s and haven’t stopped. I’m an advocate for the open web; I used Netscape as long as I can remember.
I have an obsession with Hello Kitty, Moogles, and Squishmallows.


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


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


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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.


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.


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.


I can finally change the deadname Gmail I’ve had for 25 years?


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/usr/bin/retain-logs --days-to-keep 365 > /dev/null 2>&1


But not what Loop users can see.


I believe this one is the original which was linked on the original bsky post, too: https://archive.org/details/3mam75w3oec2n
Boost is the only one I know of, but that’s only because I’ve not looked beyond that.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy! As much as I love the 1981 BBC series, you can’t beat the radio series.
Boost for the longest time; but since I’ve been using Piefed, I mostly just use mobile Vivaldi/Firefox instead of an app (Boost still works with it; I just got used to using it over apps).


Thanks! That seems wild, I never knew that existed.
Happily.