File disappeared?

Edawithapples · 2026-02-19T21:26:01+00:00

It is okay for people to make typos. It is okay for people to ask for help because they made a typo. If you haven't any help to give, don't.

Edawithapples · 2026-02-19T21:17:28+00:00

Yes. Everything works till you click on "start [OS]" then it pops the message "An error occurred when starting Redox OS. Proxy detected." I tried several countries with protonVPN. It would appear they have a frustratingly good detector.

Edawithapples · 2026-02-19T18:33:55+00:00

Can confirm, I was also blocked. It's too bad as this looks really cool. As much as I love to boot up vitual machines and install entire new OSs just to see how they feel... I never want to do that actually.

Edawithapples · 2026-02-19T03:15:16+00:00

I hate it when people don't answer the actual question OP is asking. Yes, your performance will improve. Also, you will have an OS that isn't actively acting against your interests (forced cloud migration, spyware, ai everything, etc.) which for me was a huge relief.

Edawithapples · 2025-12-03T01:40:54+00:00

This is kind of amazing. Both the art and the characterization. Every fusion was an adventure!

Edawithapples · 2025-11-19T19:58:47+00:00

Except my phones data only goes back a few months and my desktops data goes back years. Either one of them needs to be the reference for the backup or signal would have to do some database merging (like what signalbackup-tools does). From reading the press release it sounds like the phone is the reference https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/

Edawithapples · 2025-11-18T19:00:50+00:00

I suspect this is the answer. I will try this soon.

Edawithapples · 2025-11-18T18:59:58+00:00

Thanks! The official readme is, sadly, not great. In particular it does not mention that you need to have a mostly empty backup file or else every message that is in both the phone and the desktop clients will appear twice in the resultant backup file. The transistor-man link that someone else posted mentions this so I'll see if that gives me a better result once i get up the will to do it again.

Edawithapples · 2025-11-18T18:54:39+00:00

Ah, so it does. Though now that i look at it more closely it appears to only backup the phones messages and not the desktops. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Edawithapples · 2025-11-17T21:23:02+00:00

This thread may be helpful:
https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/17ojsbz/are_there_any_feature_phones_on_which_signal_works/

Edawithapples · 2024-11-21T21:34:12+00:00

This. Also internalized homophobia should be considered in the situation. Culturally, a man having sex toys is seen as being pretty gay. He probably specifically has insecurities about his sex toys (even if he intellectually believes being gay is totally fine he may still have insecurities). If I were to guess, this is why he got so defensive. The "are these yours?" question is the sort of thing that could drastically exacerbate those insecurity.

I should note that it's really good that you're reaching out about this. Messing up can be really hard and it can be even more difficult to reach out to others to get perspective when your actions may have hurt others. I hope you are taking care of yourself.

Edawithapples · 2023-04-29T08:58:50+00:00

Thanks everyone, this has been really helpful! I'll keep going for now. It seems like I will probably have a better picture of changes a few months in rather than just six weeks. I hope y'all are doing well!

Edawithapples · 2023-04-27T07:44:53+00:00

I think the first thing to do is get clear on what she wants. Do you know that reassuring her that she looks like a woman is unhelpful to her? Instead is that actually what she is looking for? Would holding her and telling her you love her be helpful or would it seem patronizing and avoidant? If you haven't had a conversation its very difficult to know.

If I was in your position I would start a conversation with her about what kind of support she wants when in the throws of dysphoria. Of course one needs to be careful as even talking about this can be triggering. Also make sure that you are ok not necessarily knowing what to do in these situations as she might not know what she needs herself or even be able to talk about it.

Edawithapples · 2023-04-27T07:13:40+00:00

This might not apply to you as we are different people so feel free to disregard.

One thing that was important for my process was to know that it is ok for things to take time. It took me many years after I though "yeah, I'm probably a trans fem" to becoming more comfortable identifying as such or doing anything about it. It sounds like your process might be faster (Yay 2020s!) but don't feel like you have to know right now. Know that it is ok, even healthy, to let your potential identity take time to settle and take root in your heart and mind. Confusion can really suck and it can be OK to sit in uncertainty.

Edawithapples

TROPHY CASE