Post #4245847

2026-07-30 15:59 UTC

It’s my birthday! I have a big favor to ask 🙏🏼 This year has been especially financially challenging. Long story short, if everyone who downloaded @elementary@mastodon.social OS this year paid just $1, I’d be up some $30,000 but alas I’m down about $11,000 and I’m really concerned about making ends meet until the release of OS 9. If you feel inclined to help me out, I’d really appreciate it if you’d buy a copy of my AI-free Open Source OS or otherwise help with funding via this page: https://elementary.io/get-involved#funding

Replies (12)

@tragivictoria@mastodon.com.pl 2026-07-30 16:27

@danirabbit@mastodon.online @elementary@mastodon.social happy bday!!!

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@faithisleaping@anarres.family 2026-07-30 17:33

@danirabbit@mastodon.online Happy Birthday!

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@wafflesies@infosec.exchange 2026-07-30 19:27

@danirabbit@mastodon.online @elementary@mastodon.social happy birthday! I don't use discord right now but I'll grab a badge anyways. Never used elementary before but it was my friends intro to Linux back in the day so I definitely appreciate everything you guys do.

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@Oldfartrant@mstdn.ca 2026-07-30 19:45

@danirabbit@mastodon.online @elementary@mastodon.social 🎶🎊🎉💃🎁🎂

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@TerminalTilt@social.terminaltilt.com 2026-07-30 19:45

@danirabbit@mastodon.online @elementary@mastodon.social Happy birthday! I left you a little something on Liberapay. Its not much, I wish I could leave more. Thank you for doing what you do!

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@YKantRachelRead@social.treehouse.systems 2026-07-30 16:04

@danirabbit@mastodon.online @elementary@mastodon.social happy birthday Dani!! :blobfoxheart:

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@DavidNielsen@mastodon.social 2026-07-30 16:07

@danirabbit@mastodon.online @elementary@mastodon.social congratulations on your birthday, I hope you have a good one. I will look at my budget to see if I can send you a few bucks.

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@firebreathingduck@social.vivaldi.net 2026-07-30 16:12

@danirabbit@mastodon.online @elementary@mastodon.social Happy Birthday, Danielle! I increased my Elementary sponsorship in GitHub just a bit, but I have a lot of family expenses right now. I hope others chip in. I love Elementary, it’s on my laptop. (Edit: eh, I threw in a few extra dollars as a one-time donation. Call it a prepayment for Elementary OS 9 - but no rush on the release, I’m quite happy with 8.1.1 )

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@jameshowell@fediscience.org 2026-07-30 23:47

@danirabbit@mastodon.online Sent a small sponsorship to @elementary@mastodon.social It's tough out there for all of us now. But c'mon, people, if you can spare it, now is the time to support alternatives to the ethical Chernobyl that is the tech landscape today. Now is the time to make the smallest public gestures and to stand up just the slightest bit for the brave queer role models in tech. And truly it's a worthy project. https://elementary.io/get-involved#funding #Foss #elementaryos #mutualaid

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@keen456@infosec.exchange 2026-07-31 00:16

@danirabbit@mastodon.online @elementary@mastodon.social Happy birthday! Sent you a donation for this. Wishing you and your wonderful project all the best!

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@nechesh@mstdn.social 2026-07-30 16:18

@danirabbit@mastodon.online @elementary@mastodon.social happy birthday! Wishing you the best!

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@masek@infosec.exchange 2026-07-31 16:50

@danirabbit@mastodon.online Done! Good luck …

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