I swapped off Windows to Mint at the start of the year but I'm looking for my next distro for my next system. So far I'm pretty set on CachyOS. Fingers crossed I get a similar experience.
Fans are nice to make white noise when sleeping, as are softer sounds like a sleep music playlist. For earbuds and headphones, look for stuff with individually customizable audio per side if your tinnitus/hearing damage is asymmetric like mine. I also found a lot of use for headphones that allow audio passthrough and turning up that ambient sound because I lost hearing for certain pitches (which coincidentally are really close to same pitch as the ringing in my ear now) and sometimes struggle to hear what people are saying in surrounding noise. Earbuds that focus on voices help with that as well.
As far as getting used to it, my hearing was damaged at 24 and I'm 35 now. I got more used to it with time, better at selectively listening what I need to, and finding ways to block the ringing out or ignore it mostly wasn't a terrible experience. Mostly that means I just am always listening to something. Music, TV, a stream, whatever. For me it's medium-ish loud so it's always a bit annoying, especially when it gets in the way of actually hearing something or it keeps you up at night or something like that, but please believe me when I say it isn't so bad. I still enjoy music just fine and get to sleep on time. I just don't need all my hi-def audio equipment anymore, hahaha.
It's also insanely toxic, right? Like, disposing of it is a bit of an issue? I'm not super informed on all this but I've only ever read bad things about both mining it and disposing of it, though.
Absolutely. r/egg_irl memes are funny and relatable when (IF) you're in your egg phase or you went through one. The retrospective nature of "I did this thing because I was desperate to live my gender in a safe/outward way... still cis though" is a completely understandable and cathartic thing.
But that is a place for people who ARE trans or gender questioning to release some of that pressure. Dragging that elsewhere and being so arrogant that you'd be okay with diagnosing someone else's gender dysphoria is awful.
I said in another post that the people I've met like this are often terminally online and not really socialized very well outside their cultural spaces and I think that holds true here, too. If you live and breathe in trans-focused spaces (especially if you're younger/the space is oriented towards that age group) it becomes easy to completely misunderstand communication and acceptable behavior outside those spaces.
I'm gonna be real with you, I've met those people you're talking about and they're mostly just terminally online people who don't have a ton of life experience. They found something out about themselves and it was so profound to them that they think it's a global truth to paint everyone else with. It is completely understandable to be annoyed or put off by those people because it's a hella inappropriate thing to "jokingly" accuse someone of.
Worse, people like who you're talking about actively push harmful rhetoric that straight cis men must be trans because otherwise they wouldn't have feelings/be gentler/dress non-confirmingly/whatever and end up contributing to the harmful gender stereotypes themselves.
Don't get me wrong, I'm trans and it was true for me, but there's a time and a place and a type of relationship you need to have with someone before talking about that sort of thing.
The difference there is that the basis for restrictions comes from already established precedent surrounding regulation of firearms. It would be illegal for the layperson to build, but not necessarily someone licensed to do so.
In this case, there is no precedent for requiring an ID to use computer hardware. The basis (as far as I understand it, but I'm not a lawyer) being used to force these ID laws is that these OSs (Google, Apple, and Microsoft) are actually a commercial service which knowingly deals with children, and there are established laws about how companies are allowed to enter into service with children and obligations/regulations that require a good faith attempt to determine what sort of customer they are dealing with.
In the case of FOSS, though, there is no associated company and no contract of service, and no reasonable way for a developer or maintainer to know who is using their service. It's much closer to someone giving away a book than it is to basically anything else, and there are decades of precedent backing this up, which makes it a much easier thing to challenge in court.
I don't know what their arguments would be, but even if it were, that seems akin to saying it's legal to say but it's illegal to hear. It depends pretty much entirely on what the courts think of an argument like that.
Saw a comment on an article about this specifically.
"All the "age verification" bill are unconstitutional 1st Amendment violations and can be struck down in court.
Code is expressive conduct under Bernstein v. DOJ and Junger v. Daley.
Compelled creation of expressive content is still compelled speech (Wooley, Hurley, Janus).
Age verification mandates require developers to author, maintain, and deploy expressive logic they would not otherwise create.
The state cannot force a private actor to speak, design, or encode a message or system that expresses the state’s preferred policy. "
So it seems, if this is sound, that an open-sourced software, being from a private entity, cannot be compelled to implement something like this without infringing on free speech. Maybe they go after the first amendment, but that's an entirely other legal struggle than this looked initially and would be significantly harder to do.
There's the obvious egg joke in here somewhere, but my hot take is that cis men can also feel envious because they desperately crave intimacy free of toxic masculinity.
I feel like men are robbed of emotional maturation and complexity growing up and that's what they're missing. Not a girlfriend or a wife, but someone who they can share feelings that they have no words for completely.
Being completely, wholeheartedly, smitten, enamoured, and left speechless by love and intimacy and emotionally vulnerable gets reduced to being whipped (before) or simping (now) until men can't allow themselves to connect as deeply.
Obviously, I don't think it's the same for everyone and there's probably a gradation of how true this is, but sometimes I see men that fit this idea and it just makes me sad.
Presumably, the room itself. This isn't about the router so much as the shape of the room and the way the waves move through the room in terms of data.
I swapped off Windows to Mint at the start of the year but I'm looking for my next distro for my next system. So far I'm pretty set on CachyOS. Fingers crossed I get a similar experience.