I switched to Mint a few weeks ago. There was no particular reason at that time, just all the general discontent with Microsoft built up since they released Windows 8, but things like this make me glad I did. Also glad that I've mostly not had any issues with the switch. Proton and wine are amazing.

I don't think I even have the luxury of choosing. I think it will be decided for me, because I am a minority under an imminent regressive violent fascist regime.

The worst possibility for the games is they make fromsoft games exclusive to their platform, and then maybe or maybe not release a PC port of it a year or more later. We saw with bloodborne that that was a "not", and the demons souls remake seems to also be a "not". Other games, I guess we'd wait and see.

Because the people with that holier than thou attitude believe that if they just convince enough people, their socialist/progressive third party that gets one vote every election will definitely overtake both Dems and Republicans in a total landslide, and will immediately stop the genocide in Palestine and the war in Ukraine once they're in. Or they're a tankie accelerationist and want trump to win because they think it will lead to a revolution and their perfect political utopia will be in place in mere weeks. They'd just rather die of old age, suffering in a corrupt and polluted fascist hell decades after all their friends were culled, than ever admit that they are wrong or ever accept they will never live to see their desired future.

Edit: I realize I sound super rude and aggressive in the last sentence, sorry. I say they'll never live to see it because something like eliminating capitalism is an extreme long term goal. It can't happen overnight, or in a single geneation. It's too deeply engrained in the entire operation of the world as it stands. It has to be pruned back until it can be removed. It's like that one phrase, something like men plant trees in whose shade they'll never sit, or something like that. I don't think I'll live to see it either, but I would love to. I'd definitely prefer a socialist society, capitalism has been the cause of all my life's traumas. But you just can't get the world to change that fast.

You can be interested in politics without having to engage with the media machine and all it's biases.

Sorry, this is gonna be kind of long and rambly. So, I'm transfem and kinda sorta nonbinary (still figuring it out, but putting an x on my driver's license felt the most right to me, when I did that). Been on hrt for a year, my transiversary was this past Sunday in fact, and I am turning 30 this year. Finally got on progesterone, and switched from sublingual estradiol pills to estradiol patches, and they seem fine with no ill effects so far; very exciting. I'm still not out socially (I'm kind of afraid to) so that's kind of a downer, but I'm still way happier than I was before. Consequently, I also don't have makeup or girl clothes. Need to get those too, but it's rather hard, between the dicey financial situation and a home life where I'm not completely sure how risky coming out to my mother will be.

Apperancewise, I'd consider myself a work in progress. I need to lose weight as a top priority for my health and looks, I'm very heavy. And I want bigger boobs (who doesn't?) since my current measurements are a 44c, but while that's apparently more than a lot of girls get in their transitions, they just look so tiny on me, between the chubby gut and the big rib cage. I was hoping I'd get lucky and not need breast augmentation to have a reasonably nice chest, but it's looking like it's gonna need to happen some time.

I also definitely need to visit a salon. I've needed to for like the last 4 years, still haven't been to one since way back at the start of the covid pandemic (goodness gracious, where has the time gone), but despite that, my hair is nice and long and curly, and I wear it in a cute side style, even when boymoding (which admittedly is kinda my only mode when I'm out of the house at this time). Honestly, it just kinda fits me too well, and thats like my biggest source of euphoria right now. It's just a tad scruffy, but otherwise so close to exactly how I want it to be. I need to dye it red some time, too. I have a thing for dyed red hair... Literally every customizable girl character in every video game I've ever played, I've always gone with red hair and this same sort of hairstyle, even before I knew I was trans. As if it's written into my very soul!

But anyway, I also have some self conscious feelings about my face. You know, the common stuff like dysphoria about the stupid brow ridge, etc etc. So I'm thinking maybe facial feminization is something I'll need to seek out some day too, but I am also trying to just get used to loving myself without needing surgery. I already got over my high cheekbones! But hair removal, gosh that really can't come soon enough. Please delete every last one of these awful hairs from my chin and upper lip! I really gotta find a place for laser hair removal, and hopefully be able to afford it.

I'll spare any additional rambling, I've said a lot as it is. I think my transition is going decently, like I could improve in a lot of ways, including actually coming out and socially transitioning some day, as I said earlier, but nevertheless I'm pretty happy with the progress I've made since a year ago. We all go at our own pace, right?

When someone starts accusing their partner of cheating out of the blue, it can rather often mean they themselves have been cheating and are projecting their insecurity about it onto their non-cheating partner. I'm sorry you went through that, but it's great to hear you're in a better situation now.

Hmm, I'm a little surprised at how consistent the responses are, but I guess I shouldn't be. I just know that if I did that spam until death and pass it all on to family thing that others here are about, well I wouldn't trust my family to adequately handle big money after my death; they'd fuck it up, the greedy shitty ones would try and steal the will, keep some other family members from getting any; just anything to not just do what I wanted, and I wouldn't be there to deal with it.

But regardless, since I found out I was trans, 1% death chance is too big for me. I want to live and experience my life approximately closer to how it always should have been, even though I lost a couple decades getting there. Hell, just the million dollars, even if we say it's somehow still taxed and the fed takes a bunch, could resolve all my debts, pay for all my trans surgeries, and I'd still have more to help my family without them just fucking it all up. But I still wouldn't want to risk the death for that.

The existence of an estrogen laser would imply the possibility of a testosterone laser, so if someone didn't like getting estrogen lasered, they could just go get the t laser fired at them after. A hell of a game of laser tag, that.

I'll probably get whooshed like I always do in this fucking place, but. Andonuts says the f slur in Toby Fox's earthbound halloween hack, that's the "beef". It was released back in 2008 by a teenaged Toby, and he regrets writing that and thinks it was very cringe today, so I'm sure the idea of there actually being a problem is exaggerated.

I don't know, burning a pile of copies of mein kampf would be pretty based, I think it really depends on the book.

I feel the same way, my block list is massive. The app I use to browse, the lemmy version of Boost, also has a word filter option too, which isn't on the desktop browser interface (I don't think), so I can block names of certain people and current event incidents I'm not interested in seeing any more, without needing to block communities or users. It only works when the post actually has the words in the title, so ironic memes slip through all the time, but its better than nothing.