It’s the best of both worlds

Have you ever heard about our Lord and Savior Linus Torvalds?

I hope so. On the up side, it largely killed my social media addiction. Now I am learning stuff for fun again.

It is not about people’s lives being privileges, I resent you saying that. I thought I made it clear that I support trans people and do not tolerate bigotry. Everyone matters. Even if in a theoretical situation “just” 1% of the population is getting genocided, it is still genocide. I don’t value you or anyone else less than anyone else. I simply disagree with your premise, which I believe to be a false dichotomy. The statistics do indeed say there is a higher percentage of suicide rates for trans people. And why is that? In my opinion from looking at the evidence, I do not believe it is primarily or even very much at all related to bottom surgery being expensive. A lot of trans people are not even interested in that at all. It is because trans people are under a spotlight and a microscope, often scapegoated, and it really wears on somebody to be hated all the time and not know where it is safe to be themselves. And why is there such a spotlight? Part of it will always be bigots and right wing politicians deflecting blame. But part of it is self inflicted.

And that’s what I mean by the “taking over spaces” part of my comment. You are perfectly welcome in Lemmy as far as I concerned. You shouldn’t have to “hide” that you’re trans or avoid talking about issues that concern you. That’s not what I’m trying to say.

Think about it like this: imagine the trans spam was literally anything else. Say like…it was about India. I have Indian friends and coworkers, Indian food is great, Hinduism is kinda foreign to me but I find the concept and ethos very interesting, traditional Indian clothing is pretty and cool. Positive opinions, neutral at worst. Now imagine if Indian people refused to shut up about India. Screenshot of a movie with a character wearing a white shirt, orange light from a sunset and green grass “OMG GUYS THE COLORS OF THE INDIAN FLAG, ARE THEY IMPLYING THAT THIS RANDOM CHARACTER IS ACTUALLY INDIAN?!” Every food or cooking sub is taken over by Indian food, people comment on non Indian food “why not just make Indian dish?” Any random brown person “yeah it’s giving Indian vibes” Comment on a pretty girl’s Instagram : “So cute! Glad to see a fellow Indian be loud and proud” “Actually I’m not Indian” “Not yet ;)”

I think you can imagine people would start to have more negative opinions on Indian people if this were the case, or at the very least find them immature. Except this actually makes a lot more sense because there are literally a billion of them, and there are nowhere near that amount of trans people.

This, combined with the false dichotomy makes the movement come off as immature teenagers to a lot of people. I have not found that to be the case from trans people i know in real life, but that is the perception.

Even if I were to believe the false dichotomy of “pay for trans surgeries with taxpayer money or trans people will die”, that’s not any more convincing than it was when my ex girlfriend threatened to kill herself if we broke up. Me having sex with her is not healthcare because of her potential actions. I think it is important to be precise with language. And to be clear, I would vote for covering trans stuff with universal healthcare if it got on the ballot, as long as there were legal protections from something like a mentally ill parent forcing transitioning on their child.

Lastly, you say “politically convenient” as if I’m running for office. As previously mentioned, people die every day because they can’t afford healthcare, and it’s only getting worse. I know someone who divorced his wife so she won’t have to pay his medical bills after he got cancer. After burning through his life savings that he worked hard on and made sacrifices for, for THIRTY YEARS. Not only does he not get to enjoy any of the money he saved by working overtime, but he can’t even die young in peace knowing that his wife will be supported. He now has to worry that debt collectors will sue her after his death if they suss out that their divorce was due to debt. That is dystopian, a nightmare. And that is not “my problem vs your problem”. It can happen to you. And it is probably more likely to happen to you, as transitioning can be hard on your body. I’m not a fan of politics, I just recognize the reality. To some, people, being trans is an affront on god himself. It sure is stupid, but they will vote against their own self interest just to spite you. There is no universe where we will be able to jump to “trans people should get whatever they define as healthcare paid for by someone else.” from absolutely nothing being covered. Not anymore than we should have campaigned Frederick Douglas for president of the United States before we, you know, got rid of slavery. Could he have been a good president in a vacuum? Yes, he was an intelligent and wise person. But you knowing that, and me knowing that doesn’t mean it would have been a good idea. And NOTHING exists in a vacuum. Ever.

Couldn’t even tell you tbh.

Well that’s pretty cool. I always liked the idea of being mega reproducible. I might try it on my home server instead of Debian.

That sucks sorry dude hope there wasn’t too much non-backed-up data

That is very surprising, last I heard it had to catch up with having popular applications. Is this due to how package dependencies differ on Nix vs what people think of traditionally as packages?

Yeah I get some good RPMs on my 2001 Honda Civic.

Yeah doing standard computer stuff is great, though the limitations start to hurt if it is a personal device. Some odd design decisions too like the Settings menu being unforgivably bad and unmaximizable for no reason, Finder being always open which messed with my OCD, a few other things. For hardware the prices for increased storage or RAM are highway robbery and can’t be done yourself. Plus I’m pretty into open source and Linux is more customizable. That being said, Homebrew is pretty great these days, and Little Snitch or an open source equivalent does a good job of blocking telemetry so I could probably make it work if I had to.

I’ve gotta say, as a long time Apple hater, it is not bad these days, especially with their incredible hardware at the best value per dollar they’ve ever had. I use my Mac as much as possible at work when Windoes isn’t absolutely required (I’m not allowed to use Linux)

“Debian or Arch?”

How is Nix with software support these days?

Has anyone found a way to finagle better battery life on Linux laptops? One of my few Linux complaints is that…

But your PC has been such a good girl :(

Nothing wrong with GUI but yeah there are a lot of resources. I don’t know if I can point you to any because I usually just web search the command for the thing I want to do and add it to a long running note of Linux commands

Because it takes at least HALF A FUCKING HOUR FROM START TIME TO THE ACTUAL MOVIE

The first thing I would try is booting from a live USB, mounting the old install, regenerating inframfs then update GRUB from terminal (it may or may not let you from terminal in the GRUB menu also)

First one is a quintessential skill issue.

DRM free would improve Steam, I’m with you there. But if we’re talking about theoretical enshittification, there is nothing to stop them from adding DRM to existing purchases. And then you’d have to had to make a backup of every exe you downloaded, and not care about cloud saves, etc…so I’m saying I get your point kinda but there isn’t much point in speculating because services like that can always change unless the law prevents it. Which it SHOULD, but I’m not holding my breath. So all we can do is reward good behavior with how we spend money.

Yeah. Not too difficult to see how we got here. How to get OUT of this hellhole, however, that’s the real question…

I think this is well said. You should be proud to be who you are, and sometimes bigots need a reality check, but it gets to a point where it is counter productive. I remember a few years ago when people were upset about the Proud Boys militia, and leftists made memes about gay dudes wearing banana hammocks being our “proud boys” because of gay pride. And, uh…no. First, it’s just not funny, so it fails as a meme. Second, being gay does not make you the representative of leftist/progressive ideals, I’m sorry. And third, I don’t particularly want to see a dude’s dick imprint on my home page either, please stop.

Granted, I am in more leftist spaces than most people, but I see the trans flag more than any flag, even the US flag. Even during the world cup where every country was patriotic, I still saw more trans flag spam than anything else. And that is absolutely ridiculous to me, especially for a cause such as being trans, whose identity is generally “I want to be seen as the other gender and I’d prefer people don’t make a big deal about it”, not “my identity is being trans and I will never let you stop thinking about what’s in my pants”.

I hear you with healthcare but in most cases, “my cause or your cause” is the same cause, even if it doesn’t specifically apply to you. If life saving medicine is free, we all win, period. Nobody is like “fuck people with type 1 diabetes, my tax dollars shouldn’t go to them getting insulin which would be negligibly cheap in a socialized system” unless they’re just vehemently anti-socialized medicine in general. Trans “healthcare” is, ultimately, not health related, it is cosmetic surgery or changing your body for cosmetic reasons. Mental health related? Arguable, and I do agree that it is personally. But VERY arguable, and not a lot of people support it. So leading the charge on socialized medicine by making it about trying to psy-op people into thinking “trans rights=human rights, and trans rights=access to expensive treatment paid by tax dollars” only hurts everyone by being an easy scapegoat. Not to mention the whole related psy-op of trying to convince people being trans, particularly “girldick” is hot in porn and whatnot, which is a whole other can of worms. Trying to trick people with thinly veiled propaganda is not the move if you’re trying to start a serious movement. And it makes the trans movement, which is already polarizing and on shaky ground, come off to outsiders like a fetish, ESPECIALLY if you don’t personally know a trans person and only see what’s online. Which is a lot of people, since trans people are like 1% of the population, Trump is president so it is not popular to come out, and many trans people i didn’t know were trans until years of knowing them, because once again, the idea is to be quietly accepted as the other gender. Which makes all the trans spam even more perplexing. Who is actually posting all of this? LARPers? Well meaning supporters? Russian trolls trying to flanderize the movement?