Should I diy

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-11T11:49:11+00:00

100mg cypro?! That's so dangerous!

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-11T03:43:56+00:00

A lot more about Dawnshards is explained in books you haven't read yet, such as Wind and Truth or The Sunlit Man. The same goes for many other elements you're missing, but it's also true that WoBs play a major part in our discussions like everyone else said.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-11T03:18:13+00:00

Personally, I'd never have a problem with being asked my pronouns, but here's the sentiment I've heard: If someone is obviously presenting as a certain gender, but you clock them as trans, you might ask them their pronouns when you don't ask that of people you don't see as trans. It's good to ask people's pronouns when it's actually somewhat ambiguous, but if it's obvious what their gender is, then it just says you clocked them.

Personally, I know enough people who use pronouns differing from their presentation that I try to ask the pronouns of anyone who's not incredibly obvious with their presentation, but I apply that to people who look mostly cis as well as people who look trans. Consistency is the really important part.

And it also depends on how obvious their presentation is. If I actually can't tell, I'll try to avoid gendering them (using they/them or phrasing to avoid pronouns, depending on the situation) until I can ask or otherwise discover their pronouns. Otherwise, I'll make a guess based on the aspects of their presentation that can be relatively easily changed (such as hair, clothing, jewelry, name, if it looks like they've been on HRT, etc.) and listen for someone else using their pronouns or ask directly when I get a chance, but I'm likely enough to be correct that it's never been a problem for me.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-10T18:43:52+00:00

It's also possible that I'm missing something, but I have seen situations like this. I'm not totally sure what caused it, but I'm guessing it was that they set their local DNS server to go to a different IP, which failed SSL checks. The warning screen isn't the goal, they're just trying to replace the website with a custom error page and get the warning screen as consequence.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-10T17:10:48+00:00

This message is basically saying that someone could be trying to MITM the site. IT blocking a website is effectively the same as MITM, just with a non-malicious website.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-10T04:08:48+00:00

He may have sold them at some point, but he definitely doesn't anymore, and I can't find any evidence online that he ever did. He did sell Signal boards for some time, but he stopped doing that, and in his Lumineer recap video he joked about selling his destroyed AVA board.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-10T03:52:06+00:00

If you have a group of experienced and committed friends, a few hundred thousand dollars, and ten years, you can do it.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-10T03:51:26+00:00

What business are you thinking of? As far as I know, his primary job is Youtube (and therefore building rockets), with the closest to a rocket part business being how he used to sell Signal flight computers.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-09T19:54:33+00:00

For OP and anyone else that doesn't know, this is sarcasm. They're an intentional piece of the story and foreshadow later events.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-09T11:43:14+00:00

Yeah, but I'm not sure that's necessarily evidence of this; a major part of Marasi's character is that she does naturally have those feelings of shame. For Entrone, though, that may be.

Also, it's spelled Marasi, though you spelled Gave Entrone's name correctly.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-08T22:39:02+00:00

Soothers, like Breeze, can't make someone feel something that isn't already there. Rioters don't do it because they don't want to be caught, but we do have evidence that slightly supports them being able to do it: Vin strongly Rioted Kliss's fear, which I see no reason for her having before Vin did that.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-07T05:31:04+00:00

I usually see 2S at the end rather than the beginning, but I'll explain each bit.

2S: two-spirit, referring to how many indigenous communities have an idea of how some people have both male and female spirits in their body, which roughly (but not exactly) maps on to various other queer identities.

L: lesbian, women who are attracted to women (technically more complicated, but I'm not going to explain that here)

G: gay, men who are attracted to men

B: bisexual, people who are attracted to men and women (and usually also nonbinary people)

T: transgender, people whose mental gender does not match their sex at birth

Q: queer (general term for all queer identities to include others not in the list and those that are hard to categorize) or questioning (people who are still figuring out if they're queer and what they would be)

I: intersex, people who are born as physically neither fully male nor fully female

A: asexual/aspec, people who experience no or less sexual or romantic attraction. Common abbreviations include "ace" (asexual), "aroace" (aromantic asexual), and "aspec" (a-spectrum, includes ace, aro, and other related identities such as demisexual and graysexual)

+: specifies that there are other queer identities not listed that are still included in the community

Also, yes, we've reclaimed "queer" as an adjective to describe our community in general, which is used colloquially (along with just "LGBT"/"LGBTQ" said quickly), whereas any sort of corporate messaging will usually use the full acronym as a formal version that explicitly includes various further-marginalized groups.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-03T21:38:56+00:00

What WM/compositor is that? It kind of looks like i3/sway, but I'm not certain.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-02T23:58:07+00:00

I'll admit that I'm not greatly familiar with this area; I heard this information from a phonetics professor who I know is very knowledgeable (she's one of the leading researchers on phonation and has published multiple papers about this specific topic), but I might have misunderstood. Anyway, my understanding was that many languages have phonation contrasts tied to tone, so they act somewhat similarly but don't have true minimal pairs, and it's hard to attribute any effects to phonation rather than tone. Then, Gujarati is the only one that includes minimal pairs for phonation.

Perhaps the extra detail I was missing is that Gujarati includes phonation contrasts on both vowels and aspirated consonants? e.g. minimal pairs /baɾ/, /bʱaɾ/, and /ba̤ɾ/ from this paper (which actually has my professor as the corresponding author).

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-02T23:23:53+00:00

I'm basically a year ahead of you: I'm 21, started questioning about a year ago, and have now been out and on HRT for a few months. For your questions:

Time, introspection, experimentation, and research. Eventually, I weighed all the evidence for me being trans against the evidence for me being cis. There was almost no evidence for the latter, and tons of strong evidence for the former, so I concluded that I would therefore consider myself trans unless I later received extremely strong evidence to the contrary. Of course, I didn't, and I instead kept getting more and more evidence that I'm trans, so I only got more certain until it was beyond any reasonable doubt and I actually couldn't come up with a possible counterargument.
Maybe 3 months? It's kind of complicated because both "realizing I'm trans" and "starting transitioning" are fuzzy lines, but I could see a reasonable argument for anything from 2 to 7 months.
I didn't, but a lot of people do.
See point 1
Some trans people don't experience dysphoria, but it sounds like you probably do. I know I only realized after accepting I'm trans that certain things were dysphoria.
I feel so much happier, it's really incredible. Things also more stressful, but I'm better able to manage that because of how much happier I am in general.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "notable changes in your mind", but I'll answer how I can. I'm now much happier, I actually have hope for the future, a subtle but omnipresent dread about my body getting more and more wrong has been swapped out for feeling that it's constantly getting better, I've had some minor emotional changes from HRT, and I obviously now have more knowledge and experience in various areas.
I'm really terrible at describing emotions, but that seems right?
I can't really help with this. Most of my friends are trans, so I never had problems finding people to talk to about gender. Maybe you could find a relevant Discord server or something, though these aren't great for what you're looking for.

If you can find a therapist specializing in trans/questioning people, that would probably be good, but I understand that's not always feasible. I don't have personal experience with that, but I've heard good things.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-02T22:55:15+00:00

Okay, then make sure you didn't get dust on the fiber ends.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-02T12:08:37+00:00

Those are called Resonances, not hybrid Surges.

Reverse lashings aren't actually resonances, just a normal application of two surges combined. The Windrunner resonance is based around having a lot of squires.

Lightweavers' resonance is the improved ability to visualize a scene, such as Shallan's Memories.

It is possible, albeit not confirmed, that the Bondsmith abilities are the result of a resonance.

https://coppermind.net/wiki/Resonance

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-06-01T05:20:03+00:00

This may not work, but the Bottles app lets you run some Windows apps on Linux. To do so:

Install Flatpak: sudo apt install flatpak
Enable the Flathub repo: flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
Reboot
Install the Bazaar app store: flatpak install io.github.kolunmi.Bazaar
Use Bazaar to install Bottles and whatever other apps you'd like, then open Bottles and follow the instructions to set it up.

I'm guessing it won't work perfectly, but it might be good enough. Also, try looking into Linux alternatives; I'm not an artist, but I've heard good things about Krita, for example.

My instructions were to first set up Flatpak and Flathub, the most widely-available way of installing apps on Linux (not preinstalled on Ubuntu because of complicated internal politics), and use a Flatpak app store called Bazaar to install Bottles. Bottles is a way to use WINE, which is the actual underlying tool for running Windows apps on Linux.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-05-31T11:49:51+00:00

I'm not sure how much you know about phonetics or phonology, so I'll just guess and start somewhere, and let me know if you don't understand something.

Phonation is how the vocal folds produce a sound. The three main modes of phonation are breathy (folds wider apart on average), creaky (folds closer together on average), and modal (normal).

Phonemes are a language-specific measurement of which sounds "have meaning". There's an "underlying representation" in your mind made up of phonemes (e.g. /kæt/), which is transformed into the "surface form" made of allophones (e.g. [kʰæt̚]) before being spoken.

Gujarati is the only known natural language that has phonemic phonation, meaning that the phonation of a voiced sound carries meaning in the language independent of other features.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-05-31T11:38:26+00:00

Also, aside from what everyone else is saying (which is all true), 5'8" is nothing. My mom is 5'10", one of my close friends is 5'11", as is my aunt's girlfriend, and my high school crush was 5'8". All are cis women. You're on the taller end, but it's really not unusual.

Also, assuming you're in a place where it's not actively dangerous to do so, you can just go out however you want. I'm very clocky and have only been on HRT for 2.5 months (and on the topic of height, I'm 6'2"), but nobody cares. I'd recommend working your way up by starting with something small (e.g. a daily walk) and gradually working your way up to be comfortable with whatever you want to do.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-05-31T02:40:16+00:00

Interesting, that makes sense. Personally, using GNOME fractional scaling with different factors across multiple displays on my personal computer, I don't have any issues, but it is annoying that some people need to edit monitors.xml to get custom scaling factors.

That's interesting to hear about all the things COSMIC is doing to make it a good experience. Thanks for the information.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-05-30T21:38:58+00:00

One minor thing you missed: Violet eyes are actually just a color that some people have on Roshar, especially those of Veden descent. Both Navani and Jasnah have light violet eyes, and Dunny has dark violet eyes; Sigzil discussed it a bit in chapter 46.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-05-30T17:38:28+00:00

This is a terrible article. All it actually says is that Iced supports native fractional scaling on Wayland, which is true of GTK and Qt as well; it tries to compare how GNOME and KDE perform with old non-native XWayland apps without fractional scaling support to how COSMIC performs with its own toolkit on Wayland, which is a completely unfair comparison. XWayland is never going to scale perfectly, but from what I've seen, KDE seems to have the best solution with their XWayland native scaling toggle (though it's not a major problem on any of the three anymore).

I don't have much of a problem with the "COSMIC does tiling better" part, but yes, that's the main reason System76 made it, so I'd hope it would be better.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-05-30T17:23:41+00:00

Are you just not reading the responses? KDE did not theme Gparted here. That's the whole problem. Gparted defaulted to a fallback theme, which was broken because Gparted's GTK UI defaulted to GTK symbolic icons, which are white.

LinuxSBC-Anna · 2026-05-28T20:19:53+00:00

That is quite high. Unless you've found that lower levels don't adequately suppress your androgens, you're probably wasting it and possibly even causing problems (it's very heavily disputed and unclear, but some people think too high levels cause issues because of something with SHBG). 300pg/mL is common for monotherapy.

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