But why are the patches kept separate at all. Especially if it’s a copyleft licensed code they’re patching. Many of those require release of the code. And the spirit of that was to make companies who profit off of the code release anything they add as they add it. Otherwise, they’re welcome to instead of taking open source code and patching it, creating closed source code from scratch without using any of the code from the open source version and selling that. It’s very simple. The license says, you want this code, you’re welcome to it, but release any fixes or improvements you make do we all benefit, not just developers, but users all benefit. If they keep it locked up, even if they release it as a patch that’s not accessible to the large majority of users, then it’s violating the spirit if in some cases not the letter of the license.

Yep. Let us survive while creating all the cool stuff and contributing all our energy to society instead of draining it performing painful tedious tasks for a corporation.

Exactly. But the corporations do it because it benefits them more than starting from scratch. They should release all changes to the central repository for all to consume as part of the agreement to get the benefit of the already created software. Not hold onto the patches to give them to their customers and people who pay them with their personal information.

Same they did before or red hat does or every other corporation who has benefitted from the labor of open source developers. Services built on those things or built around them. Not the things themselves. Their corporate customers benefit from the stuff they produce, but they didn’t produce most of it,so either start from scratch with, propriety software, or they need to give the content to everyone at the same time, not hold onto it for some time. That’s against the whole idea of open source and probably technically violates some copyleft licenses, but definitely violates the spirit of them. Even if they fix some bugs or add some features, they didn’t come up with the ideas, build the thing while it wasn’t producing income, or build the communities that they collaborate with. They just add what benefits them to the existing content.

It’s a disability. Like with most disabilities, rich people can afford to take the time they need to get around and do things at their own pace. Unfortunately, the world doesn’t let the majority of people exist that way so that’s why it’s a disability, but not a disease.

Ubuntu has that dumb subscription to get security updates that pushed me away. Sure it was free for personal use, but I don’t want to have to give my personal information to get updates that are created primarily by volunteer open source developers anyway.

Wow 3 years even for just attending a gay/lesbian wedding, that’s crazy. Guilt by association is a slippery slope.

Cool. I activate all of the public ones. They come and go and rate limit and such. So just use them all. Unless you want to pay or try to find an invite to a free private one. That I can’t help with. But it works for me. Takes a little longer to search all of them, but it’s usually in the background so no big deal for me.

If it’s tedious, this, if it’s interesting, now I’ve wasted the whole day and have ro work overtime to get to the tedious stuff.

Try prowlarr.

You can get this: 100 pairs for like $25

https://a.co/d/3Bt0170

You really should throw them away. They are porous so cleaning is not going to work well. They are meant to be disposable.

Or get longer-term ones if you want better quality sound for music. I have a pair from EarPiece that I use. They have much better sound distribution, adjustable components to change the protection level, and they can be cleaned with alcohol. Plus they come with a nice case and an extra plug in a separate compartment in case you lose one while at an event.

It’s usually the opposite that’s the issue for me. If it’s not free, OK, let’s pay, but if it’s not a reasonable price for the product (including both the content, usability, and reusability, in case of media), then I’ll go out of my way to get it free or totally give up on it depending on how much I want it. That’s why I switched from piracy to Netflix for many years and now am back to piracy because I like shows in the background while working on projects, for example, or piracy, then Steam, then, fuck gaming as much because I found other hobbies.

Actually that understanding is totally being reevaluated. Anecdotally, my case is a good example, but far from unusual. I never took anti-androgens and my testosterone production significantly reduced once my estrogen levels started to raise. While still only using 1 patch, twice weekly for a few months, my testosterone dropped from around an average of 400-500ng/dL to 46ng/dL. My estradiol levels at that time were still in the low 100pg/mL range. Prior to my surgery I had moved up tp using 3 patches my to bring my estradiol levels to the low 200pg/mL on average and my testosterone dropped to around 10ng/dL.

I did misspeak a bit. You’re body will consider one or the other to be your “primary” hormone and will prioritize production of that and deprioritize production of the other. But all bodies do produce both through various means. And in fact estradiol is essential to male sexual development. Just non-intersex, “average” bodies are not capable of producing as much of the opposite. But if the balance of hormones changes, most people’s bodies will switch, but just be unable to maintain the balance if the imbalance was caused by supplementation.

There is not a hard male/female separation in any species with genders and never has been. Hormones, genetics, hormone intolerance, and many, many other factors play into what genitals we get at birth and what hormones we make and his efficiently we use them. The x/y chromosomes have a little to do with initial selection of “primary” hormone and thus genital creation in the womb, but if the body can’t uptake testosterone effectively, then having a Y chromosome will not produce male genitals and the body will default to a more female configuration and produce estrogen primarily. It’s one reason the “biological sex” fanatics don’t actually want people to get their chromosomes tested. It would destroy their narrative to find out just his common it is for AFAB people to have Y chromosomes, vice versa, or totally different configurations outside of people traditionally classified as intersex.

My point on taking anti-androgens before knowing if you need them is because these are uptake inhibitors and your body us still producing the hormone, but you aren’t using it, do your body produces more, etc. This means, until your testicles are removed, it’s often too late to switch to estrogen-only if you start with anti-androgens. But it’s still not understood how common it is to need them or not, and drug companies refuse to test any hormone therapy for trans people, which is why it’s always “off-label” use, so studies rely primarily on existing data and volunteers and takes decades to compile.

Yeah, the closest place to put them…isn’t that what a closet is? Oh wait, closets are…

This is actually part of it though it’s more nuanced with smaller form devices, than say a desktop computer, that run on very little power and have parts from lots of different manufacturers rather than integrated motherboards.

Firmware sometimes needs a hard reset to get past bugs, and sometimes a capacitor or two have enough power to keep a low power memory chip active for days, weeks, months, or longer.

Problem at a high level is with devices that are not well integrated because a lot of products these days are a mishmash of pre-made rather than purpose-made components from various companies, and some have some kind of firmware running in local memory and they try to cache information rather than reloading each time to speed up startup times.

Could be a motor driver chip for focusing the lens from some fly-by-night manufacturer with buggy firmware throws an error that the main device interprets as a potential for a catastrophic failure and refuses to start up to prevent what it thinks might cause damage or user injury. But maybe really its just a bug.

That chip stays charged and continues to throw the error when the main board does startup checks and every time the battery is put back in, it replenishes the charge in the driver chip. Finally once it loses charge and has to load from scratch and actually runs the checks again it doesn’t remember that it previously threw an error and the current checks don’t trigger the error anymore, so it’s “fixed”. Could be that there is a part close to catastrophic failure or could have been a bug that triggered it, but for now it’s fine. Just a wild top of my head example, but the basic idea is there. Also, could be something physically is lose and it got knocked into a place where it’s making enough contact this time, but might get lose again shortly after.

Always hard to say without a trained technician or a good product with good error handling. But good error handling isn’t profitable anymore. That means more development and testing time up front and less likelihood of the user having to replace the product sooner and since competition is more scarce these days, there’s no incentive to make better, longer lasting products.

Won’t have immediate effects. It’s a slow process. These hormones don’t have a lot of direct effects on the body, they affect other hormones and other bodily functions. Even two weeks probably will have very little effect. You need several months for emotional changes and breast growth to start up.

Also are you just taking estradiol or also an androgen blocker. General guidance now is to avoid androgen blockers at first and test testosterone levels to see if your body slows production of them. Androgen blockers have side effects, but without them the changes may take more time. And if you use them, generally your body adapts and you can’t stop using them until maybe after bottom surgery. But you may have to use them if your body doesn’t switch from androgen to estrogen production as the primary on its own which can be caused by both genetic and/or environmental factors. For me I may actually need supplementation of testosterone, because even before my bottom surgery, and without anti-androgen I don’t have enough. You need a balance and it takes time for that to happen. I’m over a year and still not fully stabilized.

Anyway,

Often the content is available without masking for a very short time so scrapers can access them or similar tricks to allow them access immediately after posting. But that requires that you hit the server immediately after the story is posted and there is no masking at all usually in those cases. That’s how things like archive.is get a copy for example. But none of that is client/browser side anymore, at least on the major sites. Otherwise it’s easy to defeat if the content is already provided to the browser and just masked with JavaScript or something that runs locally and can be blocked.

Yeah, it’s very similar for me. But I’m also AuDHD, So that might be a difference. The worst and best of both. Poor sleep, from ADHD and burnout from masking both Autism and ADHD. Plus a drive to use every last drop of extra mental energy to do what hobbies I can afford the spoon deficit for or the anxiety from ADHD will kick in hard, especially when I don’t have the spoons to suppress it. It’s a vicious cycle of conflicts, but has lots of advantages if I could just find a way to profit off of them. Neurotypical jobs just take advantage of me and kick me to the curb when I break.

Good point, I should have said repulsion to masculine typical features not men since not all men have those features.

Not directly tied to neurodiversity, but Autistic people tend go be extremely mentally exhausted regularly if they’re forced to heavily mask all day long with both jobs and family or other social situations and overwork themselves for decades without being able to drop that and not allowed to sleep as long as they need due to work and responsibilities. I’ve had to go without any sleep for days at a time in the past due to work, school, and kids and I was in the Navy. Trust me, it’s a very similar feeling to that a large part of my life.