birdwing

[Question] What laptop to get? So, I’m finally getting around to buying a Linux first laptop. I’m familiar with Macbooks, and so far liked them. I’ve also live stick used Fedora w/ KDE (though Gnome might fit too) and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and liked them. But I do want to have more freedom and privacy. My most important considerations are: The laptop is European (or at least, not from the US, unlikely to go Chinese either). Good specs for gaming (if need be I could virtualise for playing Mac games). I don’t play shooter games, but do play Paradox games which iirc are more CPU heavy. Edit: the most intense user case is probably Cyberpunk 2077. I have no idea what makes a good processor - at least with SSDs and the like it’s clear that ‘higher number = better’. For me, battery life is important, as well screen resolution, clock speed, and graphic card and processor. Looks - I like the Macbook touch and feel. I don’t want a numpad. The four main laptops I’m considering are in no particular order: Star Labs (Starbook Horizon or Starfighter). British. Lookswise they are a great match but the specs I’m not sure. How well would they hold up to an Intel Macbook Pro from 2017? Tuxedo (Infinitybook Pro 14 or 15) Bit more well-known German brand. Slimbook (most likely the Evo). Spanish brand. Seems more customisable but again, I do not know shit with graphic cards and processors. Novacustom (PrivacyGuard V54). Dutch brand. Not a fan of the tiny ass arrow keys. 7 hours for battery life is also not much, imo. If any of you know something better, please do tell!

Last lines say, "My blood; revolutionary".

A peaceful negotiator and a revolutionary fighter. Alone, both will be crushed; together, both can push society into a new direction.

Also divided. A divided proletariat (class of wage earners) can make less of a fist against the elite.

Lemmy, piefed, kbin, all valid and handy, tbh. what's important is that people go to the fediverse, and also contribute every now and then to the devs and instance owners for hosting costs!

i think a better label is guy, enby, gal

Chaotic Evil

Education itself would resolve so much more...

The only thing they care about is profit and what would maximise it for them.

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Northwestern Europe, to be precise. It'd include the Hiberno-British Isles and a little southeast of that.

The way I like to think of it is this example. For clarity of explanation, let's assume these ones are mutually exclusive. (IRL, they may overlap but need not be). Let's assume the user wanting to increase privacy/security/anonymity is the 'sender', and the receiver is your threat model.

Privacy - you receive an unlabelled box. Upon opening the box, you can't exactly tell what is in there, only something. There's a receipt (which would tell who ordered it), but you can't read it.

Security - you receive a box from a sex toys store. You try to open it, but it takes way too much effort, so you don't bother.

Anonymity - you receive a box from a sex toy store. Upon opening it, you only find a sex toy, but don't find a receipt (or there are many, but you don't know which is the real one).

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Bad practice would be to receive a box, clearly labelled as from a sex toys store (and it also is a sex toy). It's easily opened and you find a receipt telling you who ordered it.

Good practice is that you receive an unlabelled box, can't open it, and if you somehow managed to open it, you don't find a receipt. At most, you'd find there's something in there, but what?

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Would that be a good illustration?

Too guylike, I was thinking of an androgynous person who would make someone go like, "Hot damn, handsome beauty!"

Is it propaganda if it's true?

"Trust me Jarvis, holding their dick to pee is CRITICAL to the plot."

Copy the alt text and put it below the OP as normal text _as well_ That way you will have it available either way

Depends on the country. You can go as cheap as €20 per session in e.g. Turkey or Egypt, or as expensive as €200 in the US. I'd advice to go for a place that at the very least is queer affirming, and knows what they need to do (e.g. aftercare, insurance). If you can afford to, and want it all gone, I'd go for paying in bulk. It's usually cheaper than paying per session. I paid like €1,500 for my face.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish...

finally, i'm togethew with the othew hownies;;; :3~

What's rofi do? How custom does it make the menus?

never heard of the skippy one, the last one's great though, thanks!

Not sure.

How does it feel?
The laser also stops hurting the second it stops. But at worst, every zap feels like a painful electric shock. Think when you have static electricity from rubbing a balloon and get shocked by it. But that x8 worse. Coupled with a hint of the feeling of stabbing and pinching hair out with a needle (like one can do manually).

What I tend to do is get an ice compress on the lasered spot and communicate with my laserer to stop and pause, then after about 20-30 sec to 1 min, continue.

The closer the to-be-lasered hair is to the bone, the more painful it is. Some areas you can laser through in one time (ie., w/o needing an ice compress break), others I felt I needed to pause after every three zaps.

A session usually lasts about 15-45 min, depending on how much you rawdog the pain. The most painful are the moustache and front leg area (and the groin), the rest is much more doable.

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What to do w/ lasering
Depending on what kinda hair you have, and on your goals (completely gone or soft?), it may require more or fewer sessions. Dark hair is easier to laser than bright. You might need a particular type of laser (iode, IPL, etc.). Shave a day before lasering, and after laser, smear aftersun on the area and don't expose it to sun. During your area's summer (in terms of sunshine and solar intensity), lasering is not handy. Hair grows back in a cycle of 6 weeks, so it's best to laser again after that if you want that.

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Reimbursement
Some countries' laws allow you to get the laser reimbursed, perhaps w/ specific insurances, so go check that. You might sometimes need to send pictures for insurance though, and they might formally only reimburse part of the body, which is annoying bullshit considering the dysphoria.

I had the luxury that I could reject to send those pics, but still.

Thanks <3 I will try it out tonight for the first time then! I've never gone for Linux before and now I wanna try it. I think I'll start with Fedora or OpenSUSE, though I considered Arch, but that's not exactly beginner-friendly nor intermediate-ish, iirc.

Gotcha. And choosing this OS happens on every startup?

I'm considering to dual boot an Intel Macbook, but first a legitimately stupid question: is the dual boot 'undoable'? I sound like a facebook mom right now I feel but I've never dual booted before, and I assume that if you assign the GBs of RAM to your Linux boot, and later want to remove the dual boot, you can reassign it fully? eg: Initially: 8 GB Macbook boot Dual: 4 gb mac & 4 gb Linux distro Later: 8 GB Macbook OR 8 GB Linux distro (ie., fully shifted to Linux). is that possible? i assume it is...

Out of curiosity, I thought all USB sticks can boot? I have a 32GB usb, but idk if that would work...

... I'll take it.

"I should buy a funny bicycle instead of a Dodge Ram."

Pucci? Is that you

I think you’ve cast the last one on me :( (Though it is ironically due to that, that my egg broke quickier!)

Hey, late, but do you still have the flowchart? I no longer can see the original and am curious what it looked like.

Slutshaming? Nah sis, 'round here we partake in slutpraising!

Self discipline

Alas! Thanks nevertheless for the quick answer :)

Crone, come and keep no longer — Wait not thy answer woeful or bright, I plead to know new the truth, What have you got grand in stock, To tell in doom and day for me?

Character from Hirohiko Araki’s “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure”, a manga that features all sorts of characters with magical powers. One of them (Pucci) features a character who, through growth, eventually can reset the universe.

Damn you, now I’m curious what that is lmao. I don’t really watch porn much, but sometimes there are really funny parts out there.

Lastingly change people’s stances with a fingersnap to whatever I want. Can work on many at a time (even if I’ve not seen them), but the more, the longer the cooldown up to a few years. Let the whole world be less misogynist and queerphobic, more peaceful and favouring labojr rights, sustainable, friendly, and less corrupt!

In the same vein: something that made me think, is that when places try to ban ‘revealing clothing’, they’re not helping women to be safe. They’re moving goalposts of what is appropriate, and making those who wear just as normally (but now claimed to be revealing) seem like ‘valid targets’ for predation. Banning it doesn’t help. People have been unkind to many gals regardless of whether they wore corsettes with enormous dresses and fluff, or whether they were nudists. In similar vein, banning trans women from basic access to services is also creating its own problems. It doesn’t help anybody; and it never will. It only creates gender polices and apartheid. If a misogynist is so independent, then why fear women being assertive and happy?

And if pepper spray isn’t available either: bandaid spray! Or one of those Aztec death whistles

Looking like a homunculus and a gremlin had a crossbreed (fashion wise)

No politics? Hm… that’s going to eliminate a lot of people I’d want to cw harsh acts hang, draw and quarter for their misogny, queerphobia and exploitation. Also living… hm… I think Lauren Esposito, she’s a great scientist who had to deal with gendered harassment and strove for more queer visibility in science!

I saw the meme, thought it was from lascivious lesbians, and thought this is amazing! I should post it on the womensstuff bylemmy, then saw it was on there. Ha. Amazing nonetheless. Makes one ponder what other jobs we had in the past that were viable for avoiding marriage etc.

I do this, yeah. I have a tampon in my purse so that if someone needs one, I can always offer it. Queer & nonqueer solidarity ftw. ✊

I don’t lie, but if the truth would affect the atmosphere negatively (nor improve future labour conditions), then I don’t bother talking about it. So, I speak out about abuse and harassment, and am pretty chatty, but when it comes down to religion, that’s very much a private matter.

I was mostly thinking of schools in the West where they ban dyeing your hair, ban books (for discussing LGBTQ+ and feminist topics), actually.

Might not be cats though, I think it could also have been bears.

Hiya welcome sis!! I’m mtf as well :3 (will edit this message 'cos I’m on mobile and have links saved, will put them here. When it’s all in there, this part will be removed.) A lot of it depends on how it feels for you, what your dysphoria and euphoria centers around. You don’t need to follow all below, there’s no FOMO for not doing any - do what feels handiest. If you’re starting HRT, check out this list for which method is best to take. For appearing more femme prior to HRT, breast forms and hip shapes helped me through my worse dysphoric days. If you’d like, you could try foundation and lip stick, as well nail polish. They help a lot. If you have the money, I’d recommend laser or electrolysis. Otherwise, shave (epilating is possible but its the devil). Here’s a guide, also for hair care! I personally didn’t want the “IRL test” but wanted to be smooth with transition. So I started with growing out hair and shaving&laser. Then I changed clothes, switching to striped tighter sweaters (or baggy clothing). Once I got on HRT, and my boobs and curves began to be visible, I changed to femme sweaters, then femme linen trousers and heels (I do tuck, but I just wear shapewear). Now I wear skirts. Haven’t gotten to wearing yoga pants and swimwear yet, but that’s for after surgery. (There’s tuck wear for those too, but personally I prefer not to). Text me anytime if you wanna know whatevs!

Also to add, apps typically only match you with someone who just isn’t a fit (same reason: to keep you have come back). On top of that, dick pics. And if you’re using the app, mildly disagree with something small and gauge their reaction. Don’t agree to meet at a home; but in public, at say, a cafe.