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AlligatorBlizzard OP ,

It’s Bazzite on wildly impractical hardware. I had the installer on my ventoy USB and decided to try and install it on my crapbook for shits and giggles.

No, it doesn’t run well. But to be fair, I also had Firefox open on another desktop with the only open tab being Lemmy.

AlligatorBlizzard OP ,

Nah, I actually really liked bunsenlabs when I tried running it live, so I’m going to install that, at least for a bit. I might try a different DE with Debian, XFCE was fine but not amazing.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

I once saw a webcomic many years ago with a straight couple in kink gear in front of a computer, and the guy was saying something like “You’ve been a bad girl, I’m installing Windows ME on your computer.”

I tried searching for it, but I can’t find it. :/

AlligatorBlizzard ,

I’m in Minnesota, we do land acknowledgements here, and the longer initialism I often see is LGBTQIA2S+, but I’ve never seen the 2S getting the top billing. That said, I think I can speak for all (reasonable) Minnesotans when I say that we’re willing to do that when we become Canada’s newest province.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Trans people would still be a thing without socially defined gender roles. Even without gender, my sex was still wrong - my brain still told me, in times like trying to get comfortable to fall asleep, that my boobs weren’t supposed to be there.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

In the early 2000s my mother’s bank got hands free headsets. She was horrified at how many of her coworkers would answer the phone in the bathroom.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

I’ve seen a few YouTubers buy AliExpress 3ds consoles, and all of those have been refurbished, often with after market shells which, while often not terrible, aren’t Nintendo quality. If the console shows up, it’ll probably be fine, but you’re still not necessarily getting an amazing deal. I got my New 3ds LL (Japanese version) in excellent condition from a seller on eBay based in Japan for about $25 less and I got one with an upper IPS screen - but mine is in black. If you really want a special 3ds and you’re okay with a decent reshell, buying through AliExpress might be an alright option.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Eh, Leibniz can be the calculus guy.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

I know that sometimes they are, but I don’t have much more info than that. I saw the Broadway version of Cats on PBS when I was a kid, weird show.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

My brother was assigned that in school and we had it in the RV on a camping trip, so I picked it up and read it one evening. Both the info on citrus growing, and the violence, are things I still remember. Fucked up.

Was it assigned reading? Where did you go to school? I’ve always wondered if that book made it into reading lists anywhere outside of Florida.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

My professor mentioned it in the observational astronomy class I took in college. For anyone wondering, zodiacal dust is the stuff left over from the protoplanetary disc that didn’t become a planet. Any observations made along the plane of the solar system is looking through that dust and astronomers need to account for it in various ways.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Wait, what? I can eat Jell-O again?

Oh. Wait. It’s Jell-O. Meh.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

It’s because Texas is trying to ban books with the words butt and fart.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

I have played quidditch, with the broom.

I spent more time trying not to trip over said broom than actually playing. And I’m somewhat athletic. It wasn’t great.

Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85 (www.latimes.com)

I have mixed feelings on the pronoun use, but having read some of her autobiographical writing I don’t think she would have taken much issue with it. This piece is more focused on her work in computer engineering, so I felt it was appropriate to post here.

AlligatorBlizzard OP ,

Because there’s several comment chains about the use of pronouns and I wasn’t quite sure where to add this, I decided to do a top level comment. She wrote an autobiographical retrospective of her transition on her University of Michigan faculty page twenty years ago about a transition that started long before that (and her main faculty page is a fascinating time capsule of trans history). When I came out as trans in 2012 her page was already a bit dated and the start of my transition, as I experienced it, was firmly in the bad old days. Conway was part of a much older generation of trans people, and there were narratives we had to force ourselves into in order to access healthcare, especially the ideas that we always knew and the idea of being born in the wrong body, and (in her generation but not mine) the idea that you had to be heterosexual post-transition. For some, it fit well enough, but for others it was an act for the doctors just to get life saving healthcare.

The obituary I posted reads like it was written twenty years ago and would have been incredibly respectful back then. It’s narratively in line with the framework of stories trans people had available to explain their lived experiences in the generation Lynn Conway was part of, and ones that Conway herself used extensively in her autobiographical work. I’m glad public understanding has grown and the narrative frameworks available have expanded. I feel like the obituary is in line with her own lived experiences as she understood them.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Wasn’t the first indication of JK Rowling being a TERF a Tweet she liked?

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Look at all the lurkers, lol.

I’ve always been curious about who is downvoting my stuff, I know on Reddit I’d occasionally get someone butthurt about my existing on the internet and they’d just go downvote all of my recent posts and comments.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

I think your tech suggestion is neat. I think your hope of a thriving Cleveland community on Lemmy is a bit too ambitious at the moment. I’m slightly active in the Minnesota and Twin Cities communities on here, but… they’re pretty quiet communities. The problem you run into is that most users on social media sites like this don’t post. Or they only comment. You need enough people to post so it’s not just one or two people feeling like they’re yelling into a void. The Twin Cities may be slightly smaller than Cleveland, but we’re actually interesting, lol.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Wait, how is this the first time I’ve seen Gadget Hackwrench mentioned on Lemmy? Like half the people on here are furries.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

I guarantee you that Facebook could build one.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Because Facebook’s data practices, and how much was volunteered by users on there, means that for some percentage of trans users Facebook knows that they’re trans. And you also have a percentage of pregnancy photos uploaded, if someone identifies as a woman on Facebook, and has uploaded photos with a baby bump, she’s cis (or at least a pre-hatching trans person). And at one point in time, a lot of people just volunteered that info to Facebook.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Public, profit-motivated veneers of support are at least not public displays of homophobia.

Have you seen Target’s pride month collection this year? I’d say that it counts as a public display of homophobia, it’s so bad. (Also they aren’t crediting their few artists this year.)

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It’s a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

AlligatorBlizzard ,

I’ll stop deadnaming Twitter when Musk stops deadnaming his trans daughter.

And for the record, I’ve never used Twitter. It’s always kinda sucked. Now it really sucks.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Why you may have been eating insects your whole life

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Square grouper is a surprisingly common fish in Florida.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Funny enough, I stopped mixing up my left and right after I broke my arm roller blading (on another occasion I broke my arm while biking). I didn’t have a way to mentally keep track until the doctor set the arm slightly off with the bone bowing out a bit - it feels slightly different now, but visually you can’t tell.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Yeah, but they fucking glued the battery to the screen!

On that note, anyone know any good repair shops in the Twin Cities? My LG G8 needs a new battery.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Hey now, they’re better than Polk. Barely.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Now make them pink white and blue for pride month.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Nah, transgender peeps. There used to be a running joke in the trans community about trans women and pickles because spiro causes salt cravings.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

The pan flag is pink yellow and cyan, the trans flag is pink white and blue.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

There is a type of cockroach that can fly, if it’s hot and humid enough. It lives in Florida, along with many other places.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Hexbear has some awesome emojis, lol. I haven’t seen the flag burning one yet.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Ooh, link for the leftist literature YT? I’ve wanted something like that for a while.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

There’s a way to turn off the beep entirely on most microwaves. I don’t remember which button it is and I’m not going to look it up right now.

I turned it off on my microwave and one of my roommates promptly turned it back on. D:

AlligatorBlizzard ,

I hate the fact that I’m only about 90% sure you’re joking.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Damn, they just can’t miss an opportunity to insult their users, can they?

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Also it’s funny to deadname muskrat’s site.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

As a former Floridian, I thought Florida was the worst.

No, wait, I’m pretty sure Florida is still the worst, but Mississippi is going to be joining Florida on Erin’s Do Not Travel list. :(

AlligatorBlizzard ,

If you’ve got a modded 3ds, Red Viper works extremely well to emulate Virtual Boy games, if you’re curious about them. Arguably it’s a better experience than playing them on a Virtual Boy.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

So it’s the same idea as tuna salad?

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Bio nerd lemmings, could a Chihuahua impregnate a grey wolf and have puppies?

Satisfying Game Boy Restoration (lemmy.world)

“Do you want this old thing?” My uncle asked, pulling the old Game Boy from an end table drawer. “Your cousin didn’t want it anymore so I’ve kept it. Your aunt and I played Tetris on it for years, but now the screen’s all messed up and the buttons hardly work.”...

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Congrats!

I recently found my game boy color with my copy of Pokemon Red in it - a fresh set of batteries and it started the game just fine, but most of the buttons are non functional. Did you need to replace the buttons, or did they just work after cleaning with alcohol?

I wonder if oxyclean will work for my lime green gbc or if something else would be better?

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Thanks for all of the advice! I’ll have to try and get my gbc working again too. I knew I needed some specialty bits to disassemble but wasn’t completely sure what.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

I’ve got the tools, I just need to get some oxyclean so that I can avoid disassembling the device multiple times, lol. I’m kinda busy and I’m hoping to get to it next week during my weekend.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Damn it now I’m craving a red bean bun.

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