When I came out after boymoding what I thought was successfully no one was surprised, I was so obvious that they had in fact thought I was transitioning in the other direction 🤦‍♀️

The Affinity suite is not an Adobe product.

"Oh shit I'm a girl?"

Just buy a cheap Casio if that's your budget. It'll keep better time and is less likely to end up in a landfill

After a certain point, learning to code (in the context of application development) becomes less about the lines of code themselves and more about structure and design. In my experience, LLMs can spit out well formatted and reasonably functional short code snippets, with the caveate that it sometimes misunderstands you or if you're writing ui code, makes very strange decisions (since it has no special/visual reasoning).

Anyone a year or two of practice can write mostly clean code like an LLM. But most codebases are longer than 100 lines long, and your job is to structure that program and introduce patterns to make it maintainable. LLMs can't do that, and only you can (and you can't skip learning to code to just get on to architecture and patterns)

Just because you don't understand academic terminology doesn't mean it is a buzzword

I've gotten all my friends hooked on OpenTTD multiple separate times

"Colonists", "Invaders", "War Profiteers"

Likewise, an open source project can totally die if they refuse to engage with the needs of the users. The lack of moderation and content management tools have been a longstanding criticism of Lemmy, and instances will migrate to alternatives that address these concerns. It is a genuine legal liability for instance operators if they are unable to sufficiently delete CSAM/illegal content or comply with EU regulations.

I get creepy men staring at my boobs, but at least I pass I guess 🥴 🫠

I recently came out to my family and found out that they had noticed nearly immediately and just hadn't said anything

At least John Oliver has done some nice pieces about trans people I guess?