silent_water [she/her] @ silent_water @hexbear.net

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taking progesterone orally doesn't make any sense -- progesterone is metabolized very strongly by the liver. all of the progesterone taken this way will be converted into metabolites within hours of ingestion. there is no way this pill is supported by the science.

we run our network directly from our modem into one of our computers that we've set up as a dedicated server and just install network cards on that so we get complete control over the network. if you have a box with spare pcie slots, this is a fairly cheap way to run things. vlans get configured by networkd and the network cards get bridged together based on vlan assignments.

Also, does anybody know of a way to browse two instances as one feed, and easily switch between users?

I've heard the Liftoff app allows that but I've stuck to the webpage installed as an app on my phone so I can't check to confirm.

to clarify, you can't see what's transphobic about accusing trans people of not actually being trans?

post em to the dunk tank if they're egregious cause it's time to issue hunting licenses.

they apologized in this thread.

it was before the right turned it into a culture war issue. the CDC, then as repeatedly since, has blood on their hands - we knew it was an airborne respiratory illness and still they put out bad public policy that backfired tremendously.

fascism as an ideology is still at it's core a defense of capitalism. liberalism has many flavors but it includes everything that exists to support, reinforce, and defend the capitalist project. fascism is only different in that the violence liberalism wreaks in the colonies are turned inwards, towards the nations of the imperial core. but violence itself is a central pillar of all ideologies and it does not differentiate liberalism from fascism.

yes, and we should be masking for that as well. even so, covid is far more insidious because so many of the disabilities it leaves behind are invisible.

millions dead, millions more permanently disabled, and you can't even comprehend the notion that it was all preventable. advocating for further deaths+disabilities and justifying it as fear is beyond stupid - it's bloodthirsty membership in a death cult.

ufw allow 22/tcp comment 'Open port ssh tcp port 22'

is this a typo or is port 5522 actually not open on your firewall?

yep stuck on Xorg forever gang

this is fucking terrifying

I'm not in quite as bad shape but I also reacted badly to the vaccine. I get awful migraines after every shot/covid exposure lasting months and it's become permanent since the last one. I quite literally have not had a single day free from migraines in 6 months and I'm completely intractable to every medication we've tried. like they're talking about burning out various nerves in my face and neck to try and prevent them but it feels hopeless. I no longer get to have a social life and I'm struggling to keep a wfh job - I'm effectively bedridden all the time because of the side effects of migraines (dizziness, vertigo, muscle weakness, primarily), and I've been getting seizures for the past year.

I wish people would just do the bare minimum to protect people like us but I've mostly given up. just trying to get used to my new, extremely small world.

dear god if I could just run xmonad and dmenu on windows or mac I'd hate employers that tried to force me to use one or the other so much less.

when you say "something is not properly supported" what do you mean? like nvidia/amd haven't released graphics drivers yet for linux? or some peripheral isn't recognized?

basically, by buying new hardware just after it launches, you're effectively one of the very first people to boot that hardware with linux. you can usually make it work but most hardware manufacturers don't work with the linux devs to make sure support is in place. so devs have to get ahold of the hardware retail and then fix whatever is broken. the exception to this is AMD and Intel - both companies have people working on linux so they will merge support for new hardware into the kernel before that new hardware is even announced to the public. so if you stick to cpus and video cards from those two manufacturers, you'll make your linux life easier.

even then, though, the support might exist in the latest version of the kernel, but the last Ubuntu or Mint release is still several versions behind. so you're effectively forced to use a distro that releases updates much faster (ie rolling release), or be willing to make modifications to the system post-install to get it to work.

tl;dr: you've got a constellation of requirements that can't all be met at the same time. either give it 3 to 6 months after release of new hardware or be willing to learn how to make it work. expecting software to work with hardware it hasn't yet been designed to work with is always going to be a recipe for failure.

more stuff just works, if it doesn't, you might be able to fix it but it's rough.

it's sunk cost bias. I have this trying to use windows or macos, after using linux exclusively for half my life - everything feels foreign and frustrating, with an obnoxious amount of UX patterns you're expected to know in order to find anything. ugh, I could rant for hours on how obtuse macos is (mainly because I have to interact with it for work right now - if you force me to use windows, I'll rant about that too)

covid exposure exacerbates my disability. my immune system freaks out and gives me months of debilitating migraines - it's had me more or less stuck in bed for 6 months at this point. another exposure would cost me my wfh job. and that's without infection - just exposure. pretending covid is over throws people like me under the bus.

eugh, if they embedded them as posts, they'd be federating the ads as well.