[-] SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 months ago

The gender unicorn is a similar model that leaves room for gender identities entirely outside of the binary (albeit still simplistically)

[-] SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 months ago

That's definitely one of the problems with this graphic. Those are a part of "gender roles", stereotypical expectations of masculinity/femininity. Your impulse to consider them independent is correct, but you may encounter bigots with old fashioned ideas about what's appropriate for someone to get up to based on their gender.

[-] SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago

It's called lucid dreaming. I've read that it can be trained.

[-] SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago

I mean i'd count it as trek but it's definitely not the best crew.

[-] SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago

I tried it out to see how it was coming along a year or so ago. It made Kenshi look polished.

[-] SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I recently started migrating my email and went with mailbox.org. I opted for it based on it having a good balance of ethical/environmental stances, support for custom email domain (so email doesn't feel like vendor lock in in the future), and a business model focusing on paid service.

There were a lot of options but ultimately I just wanted something "good enough" rather than spending weeks on comparing. A part of that decision was realizing I didn't care about getting something with the best possible privacy - email is predominantly an insecure medium and things with E2EE work only if the recipient is in the same ecosystem, which is rare. In practice I'm not going to trust anything sensitive to email regardless, so I might as well prioritize picking something that looks like a decent and stable balance.

Mailbox.org has calendar but I haven't really played with it much. I'm realistically going to look in to look in to something self hosted since I will require more features than most email providers will offer, so I don't want to tether the two services. That was a part of the reasoning for Mailbox.org over something with more services - I wanted email, not something trying to be the next ecosystem - that's what I was trying to get away from!

[-] SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 months ago

I can't bring myself to upvote this, but I salute your title 🫡 It is perhaps the most apt caption I have seen.

[-] SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago

Sometimes you can spot a critical design decision that experience with the genre can tell you right off the bat it won't be for you.

Sometimes you have to play through it to realize it doesn't meet expectations. A lot of the games I play are deep sandboxes that if I like I'll sink hundreds of hours into, and often come with a very steep learning period. With those the problems can be subtle and take a depth of experience to understand. I have 108 hours in Civ 5 because that's how long it took me to realize I didn't like it at all, despite previously being a fan of the series. There are other games I've played for longer and wouldn't recommend if asked because having developed a nuanced understanding of the systems I see how some design decisions undermine the fantasy the game is trying to sell. Sure I enjoyed it well enough at the time, but for someone who likes to engage with depth this sort of perspective can be appreciated in a review so you know the time is better spent elsewhere.

[-] SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 months ago

An abstain, maybe? Would also be useful for questions that you won't know enough to answer. Then if you keep getting hung juries you know you're asking bad questions.

[-] SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago

Dang that is a perfectly shaped box for such a streamlined cat 😍

[-] SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 16 points 7 months ago

TLDR: The collective agreement was extended until May 22 after the return to work order. Negotiations for a new collective agreement are ongoing, but could just end in a strike again.

[-] SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

As a general rule, if you're getting a service for free, you're the product.

I don't know much about the downsides of free in the context of VPNs, as I didn't really get in to the technical ins and outs. But when we're talking security and privacy I think the cost of supporting something good and sustainable is well worth it.

I've heard port forwarding is helpful for speed, and that might be a paid only thing, but to be honest I'm consistently surprised by how fast things go for me just using mullvad.

Another thing you may wish to consider: the Proton CEO has praised Trump which is a huge red flag to me in the privacy space.

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