Katherine 🪴

So it’s less a Siri upgrade and more just a getting rid of Siri and putting in Gemini slop.

Weird how many billionaires are just openly pro paedophia.

Good news; I found an outfit with pockets.

Bad news; it’s a romper.

Wait’ll you find out that over half the states in the US have age gating laws on the internet.

Don’t praise Cloudflare or Italy; both are part of the problem.

Lawnchair Nightly; it’s not as good as Nova, yet, but it’s getting there.

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.

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.

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 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

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.

But not what Loop users can see.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8B0E11D798B2314C