Elise

Only problem I ever had with Linux was having too many different versions of the Nvidia driver installed, so it would take lots of storage. It was easy to fix.

I’ve actually never even had office, just libreoffice

Didn’t Lenovo have some privacy issues, like a key logger or sum iirc? Kinda a vague memory but I remember that’s why I didn’t buy one.

This is the clippy key

Yea those are still the best. I like watching Arte sometimes or other public channels because there’s no ads.

Back then ads were quite nice tbh, like they’d actually put effort into it to make it catchy and funny or beautiful. And TV was worth watching. Like the discovery channel was amazing.

Haven’t seen an ad in over a decade, except by accident, which is jolting. The stuff in my head is from the 90s…

Or replace the ads with something else like Lemmy

Was watching a movie on Netflix with a friend a while back and it didn’t even support subtitles for her…

God, I have so many of these annoying catchy lines in my head. If I can’t access anything I’ll just use that Goldberg website to get some classics to read.

You can always hook it up to a fediverse account that you can use with more complicated software. It can post it like a link and people can comment in the fediverse, but your page would be simpler because it doesn’t need to support all those fancy features.

I wonder if there’s an rss to activitypub adapter. Unless you want comments on your entries.

Then you’ll also be surprised to learn that I am insulted constantly and laughed at. Don’t get me wrong, there are lots of great people, but it is naive to think the Netherlands is a tolerant place. When you go through the medical system you face the same attitudes.

The issue is, if you believe in the system, you’ll give it a chance to traumatize you. This is added on top of other traumas such as losing your family, becoming homeless and so on. The trans thing itself isn’t actually the biggest part of it, it’s the culture and the society.

Sure, you could get lucky and have the right gp and meet the right psychiatrist, and then you have to wait 5 years before you get any medical support. I’ve tried. I mean I’ve literally been at a gp that I knew was trans friendly and I told her I was at risk of suicide, and she was OK with that.

And about the medicine, well you can compound it yourself. I honestly can’t live without it, because it is night and day for my mental wellbeing. Without it, it is extremely difficult to live. It’s like you’re in a state of dissociation and it’s painful. It’s quite a complex thing to describe, but you are effectively disabled and are at risk of suicide.

I’m trans. Giving up on the system has been good for me. It was like a one sided relationship. Now when I need something I just solve it on my own and it works.

NL

I’m in Europe and can’t get my meds either

5 ways to emotionally scar your kids for life!

Ya that makes sense. I guess it was kinda black and white to me and I was thinking of what’s called Basic in The Expanse.

I didn’t understand the second part, could you elaborate on that?

How do you imagine unions to function at all without workers? The work is what provides unions with leverage, which is why we see strikes even in countries that have really good laws.

If you receive UBI, what can you do that genuinely creates leverage? Maybe make blockades like XR does? I don’t think that’s as powerful.

Or we could fix the system and I have the right information as customer to be able to purchase a headphones that lasts long and can be repaired.

I’d argue we need a market that provides more useful information to the customer.

For example I’d like to know what environmental impact my products have. How long I’ll be able to get replacement parts. Longer guarantees perhaps. The ability to upgrade. I’m not an expert on the details.

At the moment I’d prefer to own rather than to rent. Quite frankly what you’re imagining sounds dystopian to me because you lose power.