It's worth looking into Lutris for non-Steam games as well. Comes preinstalled with Bazzite (heavily gaming-optimized Linux distro), though I don't have any non-Steam games to try it on since Steam works fine for all the games I play.

I also just got back into reading, and was curious about the same thing!

I HIGHLY recommend Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. That's the book that sparked my trans realization, and it's incredibly well illustrated with a wonderful story of eir life (it's a memoir); I've read it 3 times. I actually just bought 5 other queer books, but I have yet to read them:

• Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun
• How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
• Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
• The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library

I can update this comment when I finish reading a book to give my thoughts on them if you'd like!

Well, the hardening, just as with Tor Browser, does break some sites. It comes preinstalled with NoScript and uBlock Origin, the former of which you will either have to learn how to use or disable, depending on your wants for privacy. While it doesn't include some of the anti-features of base Firefox, it is still based on Firefox so it will have similar performance for similar tasks.

Personally, I use Mullvad for most of my browsing, and Firefox for a few specific things (like staying logged into site long-term and such).

It's available as a flatpak via Flathub for an easy installation, otherwise you can check https://mullvad.net/en/browser/linux for distro-specific installation instructions.

If you're in the US, here's a big list of resources that could help you figure out where you want to go! There are multiple provider finders for gender-affirming care, therapy, financial assistance, and all sorts of stuff. I do recommend seeing a therapist (like a LICSW)! Not only is therapy wonderfully helpful in finding out who you are, but if you're looking for some types of care further down the line, insurance may require a letter from a qualified professional (sometimes even 2 different ones depending on what you want; I have a therapist and a psychiatrist so I go to them). Getting things documented and tracked would be to your benefit if you ever need a letter.

I wish you luck on your journey!

EDIT: Gender Justice League is based in Washington State, so there will be many resources specific to Washington, but there are also national resources listed that you can search through!

I agree with the shared sentiment here. Satire is great, and it has its place, but when the things the people you are satirizing are saying are on par with your satire, it's just depressing. Like, I can understand things being a joke, but it isn't funny if all it does is remind me of how, without the context, it would be impossible to tell by glancing if this was actually stuff said by these kinds of people. The joke falls flat when the joke is so close to reality, that it's just a reminder of how awful people truly are. I understand that people deal with trauma and misery through humor, but this is such a strongly sensitive topic, that the jokes about it in this capacity (at least with this execution) aren't funny. They're simply depressing. So personally, regardless of the satirical nature, I'm not going to go out and defend that community. There are plenty of people out there who wouldn't even think it's satire, and it could simply feed the cycle of hate they're a part of. I draw the line on humor when it can be used to fuel the very thing it's making fun of. The reliance on people being aware enough to understand that it's satire is a big flaw to me, especially given how widespread this kind of thinking is, and how close your satire is to the reality.

Just my two cents.

I've had it go back and forth my while life (at least that I can remember). I'm my youth, I mostly was male in my dreams, but had the occasional dream where I was a woman (and some dreams that really should have cracked my egg sooner). I realized I was trans about 9 months ago. By "realized", I mean that I had been thinking about it seriously for 2 and a half years (and had fleeting thoughts long before that), and 9 months ago is when I was finally confident that it was who I am. Since then, I have dreamt of myself as a woman much more often. I'm on hormones, and I don't dream most nights (always been like that), but its rare for me to have a dream where I'm a man nowadays, despite the fact that I haven't outwardly transitioned (only among friends and online am I presenting fem because of some life reasons that make it unsafe right now). I spend most of my time alone in my room, and I present fem to myself in the way I behave, in my mannerisms and such. I have spent a lot of time changing my voice, so when I'm alone, I speak to myself in my new voice, even though I never use it with anyone else in person. I've very significantly changed the way that I think about myself, and for me, that has affected my dreams significantly. That's not to say that just because someone else has a different dream experience that they way they think of themselves is differently than I do. Dreams are a really mysterious thing, and everyone has different experiences with them. They aren't necessarily representative of your real life, or your real beliefs or thoughts, though they can often be influenced by them.

But I think something that has actually had a significant effect on my dreams is how much I've been daydreaming since my realization. In daydreams, I'm entirely in control, and I imagine myself as the girl I want to be. I think that has affected my dreams significantly, and it's definitely influenced my conscious thoughts. I don't know if it's related, but now that I've gotten used to my voice, my inner monologue has changed. I've almost outed myself by accidentally using the "wrong" voice before because of it, but I really think that it's a lot of little things that have caused my thoughts and dreams to change.

I think it's going to be different for everyone. Just remember that your brain loves to use the same connections that it has used your entire life. It loves being lazy and ignoring new things when it can get away with it. Your brain controls your dreams, despite it not being conscious control, so it's likely to use connections from the before times when you are dreaming. That doesn't change who you are, and it doesn't make you any less (or any more) valid. That's just the brain doing it's thing; falling into patterns established when it was younger because it likes to be lazy about it.

Norway is wonderful for LGBTQ+ travel, pretty much everyone is able to speak fluent English, and the natural beauty of the country itself is breathtaking, even in the urban areas!

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I had a similar experience! When I first started questioning, I ended up concluding I was agender, but mostly because the feminine parts of me had been deeply repressed by childhood trauma and life experiences. It was probably 3 or 4 weeks where I was sure that's where my gender identity was, but that revelation came with a huge wave of dysphoria, and as I started presenting less masculinely, and explored femininity, I felt more and more like myself. I eventually hit a kind of breaking point where I realized that I was trans, and I've never been happier with myself after committing to it! I don't think of myself as agender anymore, but I related to your experience!

Because it's had stellar Wayland streaming support (with audio) for somewhere around 2 years at this point, is still way better in that regard than native Discord, and has a thriving plugin suite that lets you enjoy features the native app will never allow.

UPDATE: Looks like in the compatibility list, the last letter can sometimes be omitted, so it does look like your model (G513QY) is in fact supported, as G513Q is listed in the supported devices list. That should mean most main functions work.

Your best bet for finding compatibility with WINE (and by extension Bottles, because that's what it uses) is through their AppDB:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&sTitle=Browse%20Applications&sOrderBy=appName&bAscending=true

Here is the page for Photoshop (and all its different versions) and here is the page for Fusion 360 (or rather, a version of it being developed to work with WINE)

As with many things WINE, the answer is "it depends" (silver is workable, but still has very significant flaws). You can always try it out yourself, and I recommend walking through the HowTos that people post in the listings and the known bugs. The two programs you asked about are particularly difficult, as they are incredibly complex and use many libraries that are specific to only their own application, meaning their implementation in WINE is not priority (WINE tries to be as compatible as possible, targeting the broadest stuff first before gradually narrowing). Most programs "just work" through WINE, but these two in particular have been struggles to get working for years. Development is always happening, so I recommend to try it out if you're curious if it'll work for you. And if not, perhaps it will be better in a couple years.

The token recommendation for apps that don't work through WINE is to try to find alternatives that play nicer. After all, supporting the anticompetitive business practices of Adobe or Autodesk spits in the face of Linux and the libre software movement as a whole. If you are able to reasonably find alternatives, then that would be ideal, but I find that recommendation quite naïve. As an alternative, you can run Windows in a VM from Linux, or you could dual boot if you only need to use these programs occasionally.

Bottles is really just a frontend for WINE with some extra features baked into the GUI to make the experience better for the end user. Compatibility in Bottles will still be determined by the compatibility a program has through WINE.