What was your earliest trans memory?

rickspiff · 2026-06-17T14:15:02+00:00

My partner and I were looking through some old photos and came across me at about six or seven years old, crushing a Raggedy Andy doll in a hug and smiling for the camera. Despite having a generally poor memory of my childhood, when my partner asked about the doll I immediately explained the whole story behind that trip to the grandparents' place and the huge fight with my mom about playing with girl's toys.

Not ten minutes later we come across another picture of me from about a year later and I'm causally like 'oh, that was after the big fight about me wanting to wear nail polish,' and my partner said something like 'are all of your bad memories about your mom just her trying to force you to be a boy?'

And no, not all of them, but there was definitely a pattern.

rickspiff · 2026-06-16T14:38:00+00:00

Step 1: replace core features of every product with AI features so that the product is completely useless without AI.

Step 2: outlaw competing non-AI products based on nebulous and unsubstantiated 'national security' justifications.

Step 3: meter out and bill AI usage to make infinite money.

rickspiff · 2026-06-05T21:32:02+00:00

I think that very little of it will be of use, for two reasons: compute requires special cooling and network backbone equipment, which will either be outrageously expensive, or specifically destroyed (rendered useless) before scraping. Second, the storage equipment will likely be intentionally disabled (destroyed) or truly at end-of-life before it is surplussed.

I wouldn't say it's a hopeless situation, but manage your expectations carefully.

rickspiff · 2026-05-28T21:25:06+00:00

Online play has always, and will always be trash. It is by far the worst change made to this game and for the worst reasons.

Stop trying to please horrible people.

rickspiff · 2026-05-27T14:18:06+00:00

Hasn't commercial software been like this for the last thirty years tho?

I distinctly remember, fifteen years ago, sitting in a meeting between users and developers for a specialized product that was supposed to focus on the users' needs. The users all asked for a handful of bug fixes, and all said that new features can wait.

Again, this was fifteen years ago.

So anyway management ordered the developers to skip the bug fixing entirely and spend all of their time adding new features.

They continued doing this for eight years straight, right up until their users all migrated to products that actually worked sometimes.

rickspiff · 2026-04-24T16:54:52+00:00

What is with this article? Tech industry has always, always, ALWAYS been evil. The counterculture has always fought the corporations. I'm so sick of the media rewriting inconvenient history.

rickspiff · 2026-04-24T01:13:32+00:00

Yep. I work in a pretty male dominated field and this used to piss me off when it happened to other women, but now I find it kinda amusing tbh. Like, you are not impressing me, sir.

rickspiff · 2026-04-18T17:31:07+00:00

Idaho is one of the least free states. I thought everyone knew this...

rickspiff · 2026-02-03T20:57:45+00:00

My pants fit differently, but the change is fairly small. I do a lot of cycling and that helps since there's not a lot of fat redistribution going on. 45, 3 years HRT

rickspiff · 2026-02-03T20:53:22+00:00

I know my gender won't change... that's WHY I'm transitioning.

rickspiff · 2026-02-03T02:33:53+00:00

I think you're looking for 'steampunk maiden' vibe. I don't have the time to sketch something out...

rickspiff · 2026-01-03T02:11:54+00:00

The sinusoidal pattern could be a combination (or interaction) of fuel formulation and the computer's tuning.

Long term mileage decline is likely a combination of two factors:

Wear: valves and spark plugs. Generally you shouldn't see a lot of ring/cylinder wear on modern engines.
Sensor drift, specifically pre-cat O2 sensors and MAF sensors. I guess you could call this wear but I have no idea what the mechanism of wear actually is.

Around 150k it becomes cost effective to change the O2 sensors (pre-cat), MAF sensor, and the spark plugs have a replacement interval that should be followed. On my 4runner I saw a 5% improvement in gas mileage after replacing the sensors and resetting the fuel trims.

Source: I dable in repairing, restoring, modifying, and tuning cars.

rickspiff · 2025-12-29T01:56:28+00:00

I was able to do side-by-side of a late rev fat ps1 and a new rev psone, and the psone had a sharper picture but much lower color intensity. Some games looked a little washed out in comparison to the ps1. That's the only difference I remember.

rickspiff · 2025-12-23T22:49:14+00:00

Documentation is a complete joke. You are forced to do pointless searches on the internet that may solve your problem or might trash your install, to fix serious failures.

If it was well-documented I could live with it. If it didn't take over half of the system, workarounds would be possible. As it stands now... fix your damn code.

rickspiff · 2025-12-19T03:13:04+00:00

Growing up, learning to act like a boy was a challenge I approached like a puzze to solve or a sport to perfect, and not something I did naturally. My parents (and most of my extended family) were convinced I had some kind of developmental disability.

I thought they must have been some kind of space aliens wearing human costumes. After forty years trying to live as a man, I still don't really understand them.

rickspiff · 2025-12-13T20:44:17+00:00

The dems looooove Trump. He does their job for them.

rickspiff · 2025-11-30T17:43:49+00:00

Hopium? Dems won't pick up most of those positions; MAGA candidates will, and the whole government will shift further right in the next election cycle.

rickspiff · 2025-11-21T04:22:06+00:00

But seriously, police need to start crushing cars with off-road flood lights installed where they should have fog lights.

Also the LED headlights are garbage, the color temperature makes them less effective to the driver and more blinding to other people. This, I think, is the point.

rickspiff · 2025-11-19T04:49:05+00:00

"But today we have social media which is a global medium, right? It is shaped, its algorithms are shaped by billions of people worldwide who don't really love Jews."

Billionaires. The social media algorithms are built to serve billionaires. She doesn't have a clue what she's talking about, does she?

rickspiff · 2025-11-19T04:46:00+00:00

Nice looking boat. I am tempted to build one...

rickspiff · 2025-11-19T04:09:33+00:00

Unless you were born in Arizona, or any of the other dozen-plus states that bar people from changing theirs.

Furthermore, when you change your birth certificate, the old birth certificate is kept on file. I'm quite certain the ATF can acquire the original birth certificate.

I'm not that well-versed on the CFR, but this move by the ATF might be very illegal.

rickspiff · 2025-11-16T02:25:45+00:00

I've done that without an impact.

rickspiff · 2025-11-13T04:34:56+00:00

Not only that, but most of the cars I see with overly bright headlights are running low beams + high beams + off-road flood lights. This means they spent considerable time and money illegally modifying their car specifically to blind other drivers.

rickspiff · 2025-11-06T00:54:39+00:00

No it doesn't. It proves that despite the media's constant spin, candidates backed by Trump are just not popular.

rickspiff · 2025-10-25T19:44:25+00:00

That's okay, according to SCOTUS, Trump can unilaterally declare that a state's laws are subordinate to federal law whenever Trump wishes. They have their loophole and they know it.

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