Microsoft wants 2025 to be the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh." They want up to 400 million perfectly good computers running Windows 10 to become e-waste. Why? So Microsoft can have their cake ($140-$200 for a Windows 11 license) and eat it (your data) too

It's time to switch sides, and break away from this cycle of endless upgrades. Our new guide walks you through installing a Linux-based operating system—keeping your computer secure long after Microsoft walks away

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Install+Linux+on+a+Windows+PC/196722

According to multiple reports at X and other social: "The DigitalOcean documentation team was fantastic, but they were laid off just in time for the big LLM content scraping runs that would have catapulted their work into the AI zeitgeist."

I guess the Google AI summary killed it because no more traffic was given to them. It is only a matter of time before many communities that depend on Google search traffic will die off.

Source https://xcancel.com/QuinnyPig/status/1977852223951626372

I made a thing called Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice.

You get regular check-ins via email. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get notified.

Built it for anyone who might go missing and needs someone to notice: activists, journalists, researchers, solo folks.

I paid for premium hosting (high-reliability VPS in Sweden) and a quality email provider because uptime actually matters for something like this. Also paying extra for minimal data retention (7 days email activity, working toward zero content storage).

Free forever (as long as I'm alive) and open source.

https://wellness-p.ing

I'm going to sound alarmist to my colleagues when I contend that: the US government has been compromised; the threat intelligence from them can't be trusted; and we (industries) are going to have to build our own intel apparatus to compensate.

But I'm pulling the alarm because I see the fire.

By popular demand, a single post to boost global switch day across multiple platforms on February 1st 2025.


For those who can no longer get behind Musk or Meta's new policies and feel like switching (e.g. from #Whatsapp to #Signal, from #Instagram to #Pixelfed or from #X to #Mastodon) I made you some graphics to use freely in communicating with your contacts.

Let’s lead by example 🙂

You can help communities and organisations leave behind platforms like X ♟️

We've put together some resources to help you and others learn about New Social - including some bits for you to share.

As we help educate others on this side of the social internet and the morals behind it, more will come.

Together, we can rebuild social media into something social.

See our New Year, New Social kit on our website: https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/new-social/

#SocialMedia #LeaveX #Revolution