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Estrogen, yes. Trans guys are fucked if we’ve got to order testosterone off the internet.

I had a friend who got in trouble with the FBI this way.

The insane pricing creating a miserable push to do all the things is basically the entire Disney experience for families. I used to work in one of the parks, and people were exhausted and burnt out trying to do everything, and my advice to people visiting the parks was always “don’t try to do everything, try to pick some of it and enjoy what you do”.

If you’re in a bigger city, maybe see if you can get work with IATSE doing stagehand stuff?

I’m going to disagree with you on the “is Mac better than Windows” front - I think there’s good arguments either way though. At least with a Mac, the end user is still, mostly, who they are designing for. On Windows the end user is becoming the product.

Another Jak and Daxter could be awesome, but I was so thoroughly disappointed in the Crash Team Racing remaster a few years ago it has basically made me give up hope that nostalgia-based games can be more than cash grabs.

Are bean memes wholesome?

That’s neat, someone in my city freezes jeans for a similar effect.

Best: full size candy bars Worst: US Smarties.

Content Warning: mood killer, anti-LGBTQ violence

So, I’m queer and originally from Orlando, and I used to listen to WJRR, the local rock station, in the I heart Radio app (don’t use it, fuck clear channel). One morning in June 2016, I shuffled outside for my first cigarette and I decided to check my phone. There’s a push notification, from the I heart Radio app, about a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando. And that’s how I found out that there was a mass shooting at Pulse. That is probably the most jarring and horrifying push notification I’ll ever receive in my life.

Yeah but that broke GRUB and had a pretty specific error message associated with it. I don’t think problems with grub look like what OP is describing (although I don’t know enough to say for sure).

Anecdotally, I’m running a Fedora Atomic-based OS alongside Windows and that Windows update didn’t cause any problems for me.

I went there on a field trip through my community college. The museum was amazing, definitely worth the trip if you’re in Florida.

Orlando used to have a pro women’s fastpitch team called the Wahoos.

I just wanted to share my pointless knowledge that is so obscure that it wouldn’t even be useful at trivia night, lol.

Oh big time. I’m a transgender man and it was very noticable for a while when my body odor changed.

It’s a 196 community thing. The only (official) rule is that you must post before you leave, so people put the word “rule” in the title, sometimes that’s the entire title, lol.

Unofficially, if you’re a jackass, you’ll get banned.

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Got an extra USB stick and an old laptop kicking around you’re okay with wiping? Ideally 4GB RAM but 2GB would be okay. Start with Linux Mint and follow their installation guide - verifying the ISO image in Windows is probably the toughest part.

Or make absolutely certain you’re on the official Mint website, torrent it and don’t bother checking, I’m not your mother. “Who the f**k checks those anyway?” (Mint hasn’t been hacked since, but it’s part of why they’re pushing verifying, they know that their users have been targeted before. Also if something goes wrong with the download the install will fail and you’ll waste more time than if you just checked.)

If you don’t have a spare computer, a live USB can let you try Linux without making changes to your computer, but it’s going to be slow - a proper install is going to be a much nicer experience. If you’re okay without persistence (ie you can’t change anything or install additional programs for the next time you boot into it), just follow the Linux Mint website’s installation guide and stop before the actual install step. For persistence, try this method instead, but you really don’t want to use it long term, USB sticks aren’t designed for this.

Once you’ve tried it live and you think you like the desktop environment, but if you’re not sure you’re ready to fully commit, if your computer has an extra slot for an SSD you could buy a second one and dual boot, that’s what I did. (Dual booting on the same drive is doable but more of a headache, and even on a different drive Windows doesn’t always play nicely.)

Bazzite, it’s based on immutable Fedora. But it made sense for my use case because it’s one of the more consistent at working out of the box with Nvidia graphics cards and I wanted the gaming stuff, but Plasma should be more or less the same everywhere. I’m not sure which version of Plasma it’s running but Bazzite is generally pretty up to date with everything but I can’t check right now.

Windows 10 is being supported until next October, you’ve got more than a month. That said, I’ve been on Linux for just over a month and I’m so much happier with it. I really like KDE Plasma as a desktop environment. I made the leap because I was unhappy with Windows, but at this point I genuinely prefer Linux.