It sounds like a similar situation I had learning Spanish. In english, I’d say “It’s hot”. In Spanish, that’s “Hace calor”, which translated literally means “makes heat”. And it was strange to me because I wanted to know what was meant to be making this heat

Multiple tattoos! I used to have multiple piercings as well, but they all ultimately rejected, so now I have none

Do you need to be an activist? Absolutely not. You have a chance to live on your own terms in a world that made that really hard. You don’t owe it anything.

That being said… Visibility makes a huge difference, and it’s super important that some vulnerable folk are visible and loud. But remember, they’re the ones putting themselves on the line, so that in the future, it won’t be as bad for those that follow, and that needs to be respected.

For me, being trans was always just a medical issue

This isn’t helpful. Whether you see it that way or not, being trans is not “just a medical issue”. The fact that you were able to live your life as if it were, gives you a position of relative privilege that most trans people don’t share. The truth is, if you get publicly outed one day, it won’t just be a medical issue for you either. So whilst you don’t have to be an activist, you shouldn’t be downplaying the reality that other trans folk do have to face, and honestly, you shouldn’t be pretending to yourself that you are immune to them either.

Live your life on your own terms, and do so without guilt. But even if it’s just in the privacy of your own thoughts, make sure you build your visible peers up rather than mentally separating yourself from them

Australia

Would like to end up in Argentina or Uruguay though!

It means you won’t end up with dual boot breaking one of your installs, you won’t accidentally overwrite anything etc.

Entirely optional, but if you were already planning on removing it anyway, it’s not really any extra work

If you’ve got two slots and a modern motherboard, you can do the same thing but keep both m.2 devices installed. If you really want to be sure, take out the windows device, install Linux on the second, and then put the windows device back in. You’ll be able to swap back to windows if needed that way without swapping things out

It does voice via Jitsi https://matrix.org/blog/2020/04/06/running-your-own-secure-communication-service-with-matrix-and-jitsi/

5:30 or so

Westworld

My RC hovercraft! I loved that thing, but it had such a short battery life, it was basically unusable

The hot water tap in my shower turned itself completely off one day.

The whole gender thing? And I say that as a trans person. It’s real, but I can’t explain it…

That feels off somehow, or at least, the unsolved problem part isn’t as narrow as that makes it seem.

I can recognise a place, just like a face. I don’t eliminate options, I just recognise it. I can recognise voices the same way.

I don’t understand how faces are different in this context?

Yep. The first trans people in my life that helped me when I was struggling to come out were trans men. And they were the first people I had ever spoken to about this stuff where I didn’t have to explain everything. They just got it…

Comprehensible input! Start with simple content in that language you’re trying to learn, without any use of languages you understand. And then try and actively understand what you’re hearing, and work out how it all fits together!

Friendica, and to a lesser extent, misskey and it’s forks

Faux outrage isn’t playing around though. They’re not doing it for fun, they’re doing it for social capital.

I don’t drive, so a full tank of petrol wouldn’t be of much use to me.

It’s on my list to try!

And that’s why it’s good that it’s an option! I just don’t want it to become the only option

10/10 this is the future of Linux.

I hope it’s a future of Linux, not the future. I’m not a fan of atomic distros, mostly because if their reliance on flatpak and the like