https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/

ivpn ia the one i would recommend

that is like saying that people of color can’t support or be allies with white supremacists, but candace owens exists. membership in an oppressed group doesn’t preclude you from aligning with groups that seek to harm the group you are a part of. see also blaire white…

not all supportive communities are toxically positive, and any community as obsessed with “passing” as 4chan might feel comforting in a doomery way but anecdotally every single trans person i know who went down the (smug and self reinforcing) self hating 4chan path has been noticably worse for it and every single one who nanaged to escape that spiral talks exclusively about it as something they regret

for the record, i do get the appeal - it /feels/ like it’s just painful honesty and, when you are used to not flinching away from painful truths about the word and the systems which shape it, it can feel correct that it should hurt to be trans (especially if you don’t “pass”). the problem is that, in my view, much of the painfulness of being trans or feeling like you don’t “pass” is directed at trans people by cis people - we don’t need to do it for them. you don’t have to set up a headquarters for the passing police in your own head. to not do so isn’t to become part of a “hugbox” - you can be honest and just not police (even when invited to do so) how other people and you yourself align with social expectations of the physical (and other) expressions of gender.

fuck that person for not understanding and me for getting carried away and writing too much; i just hope you aren’t embracing and perpetuating a community that feels comforting but is doing harm to you because that harm feels more correct to you than being truly and honestly accepted

not parents getting rid of their children; people not having them in the first place

the issue is the inability to use imap and smtp - i use mailbox.org instead

surely now all of those projects, like systemd, who capitulated in advance will all roll back the changes they made to enable age collection, right? right?

if you figure out how to get this working i would be v grateful if you told me how

if it worked like that an age field wouldn’t be in systemd for everyone everywhere because of the california law having passed

it /shouldn’t/ work like that, but not enough people and projects seem willing to hold their ground atm

hopefully you know how to pick better friends now

i am glad you are enjoying it. like i said though, i prefer cachy as a project more than other arch wrappers because it adds more of substance beyond an easier (or prettier) installer

i started off using ubuntu back in the day, but these days i refuse to use any of the distros downstream or tied to a for profit company (so not fedora, opensuse, or ubuntu - and by extension mint), and i prefer distros that are used as the base for other distros rather that ones dependant on another distro (so extra not mint, ubuntu, endeavour, or manjaro).

that leaves, essentially, slackware, arch, and debian.
i am too lazy to learn slackware, so for my main desktop i use arch and for other machines i own i use debian.

departing from the original question:
for new people i mostly recommend cachyos, debian, or bazzite depending on their ability & interest

i feel that, unlike the other ‘arch but easier’ distros, cachy actually adds something to the arch ecosystem (the optimized packages) and the installer showing videos of the different desktop environments all running on cachy is excellent

not seeing anything when searching for it, do you have a link? looking on the github it’s still merged so it’s difficult to believe

where do you see that?

this looks great. before using it i would love to know - if gen-ai has been used in the creation of helix notes, in what capacity has it been used?