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  • Does your monitor go to sleep when you're not using it? If so, you'll be fine

  • I'm not a fan of most anime for similar reasons to you, and whilst I'm not loving Dungeon Meshi, I'm enjoying it. The biggest trope that it has that I struggle with is the female character is very much the overly anxious worrier that has to be cajoled in to everything by the ensemble of males.

  • Busy. Before the political environment changed, I had my heart set on moving to Buenos Aires.

  • They had two admins, only the first of which had the keys to the castle.

  • There's at least three of us!

  • How incredibly unreliable my own perception of how feminine I look is. People were treating me as a woman well before I could see even hints of it in my face.

    So so true. We so often just can't see ourselves accurately, and even knowing that isn't always enough to change it. For me at least, I had to learn that the version of me that I see isn't the version that everyone else sees, and most importantly, my version isn't automatically the "correct" version.

    But otherwise, honestly, I don't even remember much of what else surprised me anymore.

  • They move to m.org, then they find their feet with matrix, then they move to a better instance.

  • I run uBlock on top of a pi-hole, with invidious and de-arrow for youtube stuff.

    I don't see ads anymore.

    And when I'm on a different device, where I can't stop the ads, I simply don't consume the content.

  • The thing you need to realise is that when someone signs up for a safe space instance, they are making their own decision about the content they wish to see.

  • Look, I absolutely understand that some people want to make their own choices about moderation. I was the same, until I existed as trans on Twitter for too long.

    My point isn't about blocking right wing transphobia stans.

    My point is that if they don't block anyone, you get CSAM, you get Nazi's, you get ethnic cleansing advocates etc. And that's why an empty defederation list is a red flag. I'm explicitly not taking about instances that don't block many other instances. I'm talking about instances that don't block any.

  • It's not about you. It's about the type of content that will appear on the server, even if you personally block it.

  • especially since there are no blocked instances

    That's not a good sign tbh...

  • Yep, but piefed and lemmy both have tools to propogate communities to small instances so that they can be discovered and followed. So you won't see content that no one on the instance is interested in, but if someone is, they'll be able to find the community for it, even if they're on a small instance.

  • Because I am. I want to be me. Not a watered down version of me

  • These days, the radiation is dangerous on the long term exposure level, not short term

  • For what it's worth, a few years in to my transition, I reached the point where I realised I have no desire to be cis. I would absolutely choose to be trans. But it took me years to get to that point

  • I've never used LUTs in darktable, but my understanding is that they're applied in a module, which means that they are incuded in your regular image editing workflow within darktable

  • No, I'm not religious. There's no elevator pitch, because it doesn't need one.