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[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

My notes said I tried nobara but they werent very detailed, I assume it wasnt great? Manjaro is one of the ones I didnt test, along with Garuda. I tried Fedora base and Arch base and they didnt work out of the box with most games.

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

GUI absolutely does matter for helping adoption of linux, I'm not interested in hearing arguments to the contrary either. Everything should be as GUI'd as possible if we want linux to grow

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does it have a driver gui?

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, thats useful for laymen / people that dont want to tinker a whole lot

 

Lately I've been suggesting Mint or PopOS for laymans looking to swap to linux, but do any of you know of any good gaming distros with a driver manager GUI built in ala Mint?

I've tested most gaming distros with latest (nvidia) hardware and they do not run most major titles out of the box due to driver issues. If there were a gui for driver rollbacks while having great general performance, I could see it beating out Mint/PopOS for my recommendation. Being able to install .deb files is quite nice for laymans too, though I don't know of any other deb based OSes that run well out of the box.

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Nah, I'm on latest hardware (4080) and did a bunch of tests recently. Mint was the best along with PopOS. A lot of distros like CachyOs or Bazzite have a lot of great enhancements but they break so often without easy rollbacks that a layman shouldnt use them. Mint has a driver manager and can install KDE if you want with no breakage. Bazzite and CachyOS couldnt even run many major titles due to driver breakage and not having an easy way for a layman to rollback. (I could do it, though a layman would hate it). Whereas PopOS and Mint both ran major titles without any configuration.

I don't know of any 'bleeding edge' distros with driver managers, I might ask about that though.

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

guess a lot of people that post there got banned? idk. i may make an account on ttrpgnetwork 🤔

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] marcie@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I personally found it kinda jank. Mint feels best for a laymans gaming distro ime

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i use it as an editor even though thats not really its use case. i just feel like gimp is far too clunky, it just feels "off" to me in comparison to photoshop

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

In general I feel like its probably KDE's best software package outside of its DE. Know of any other super good KDE apps?

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

My biggest complaints with krita are around it not being easy to align objects and the text tool could use some love. Other than that, it feels like a great photoshop replacement

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

Krita, I use it for everything, I hate gimp, it feels so bad

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3635039

Various thoughts:

  • Around 20 people weren't properly covered by the gender categories, obviously we're trying to be as inclusive as possible and a different approach will be tried next time

  • There were about 600 respondents, which gives us a accurate sampling of the active userbase. If you multiply any number by 3, you'll get a fairly accurate representation of the full userbase each week. This means there are around 800-900 people who don't identify fully as cis each week on this site.

  • Nearly 300 trans/gender diverse/questioning people unanimously agree that hexbear is an inclusive space

  • There was so much data on gender that I was really struggling to find a way to convey the data that wasnt a pie chart, graph, or an incomprehensible kalaeidoscope. If you have an idea on how to beautify the data, you can download the raw data here: https://pad.artemislena.eu/file/#/2/file/xzy4pck8on+oZp9yGRUIezR+/ - I further anonymized this data by removing time of response and any specific comments, I don't think it would be easy for anyone to figure out who is who.

  • There were a couple of text responses that really needed further elaboration, I noted hexbear's rules next to these comments

  • I'll probably be doing a demographics survey sometime in the future, including basic fairly anonymous stuff like "what region were you born in" "where do the languages you speak originate" "would you describe yourself as a POC" "what age range are you in".

  • The percentage of people answering they were cisgender increased by 8% than the previous survey. This could be for a myriad of reasons, such as cis people being afraid trans people will hunt them down in the public thread and assassinate them. Anonymity may have made them feel safer to respond. Regardless, way more people responded this time, which signifies that people felt safer responding to the cryptpad or it was easier to do. The leading question was a bit more inclusive than last time, but I think I'll include both questions (are you transgender / gender diverse and are you cisgender) to see how people respond.

  • We have a lot of people that aren't binary trans on this site.

  • Some of the questions were pretty funky and we got a lot of fuzzy responses on them as a result. In particular "After you realized you were trans/gender diverse, how long did it take for you to begin to act on it?" and "At what age did you begin transition?" caused a lot of friction, I think I will ask more vague questions in the future that lead to a path of more specific questions to capture better data, and to save people time. Questions like "Do you feel your gender transition had a defined starting point?" and some further ones.

  • Around 20 people each week on this site are cis she/hers, which is very low and roughly the same as last time. I feel like if hexbear ever starts hosting other federated stuff (like a federated tiktok or something) and can hook into it natively with lemmy, we'd see a better ratio.

  • I tried to be very sure any data with >2 people on it was clearly legible, I think some people might find it fun that there are others with their same fairly specific classifications per this survey lurking around on the site.

  • Overall I feel like the survey was a success despite some bumps.

  • You can find the other surveys/links here: https://hexbear.net/post/3016455

  • I made these graphs on company time bridget-pride-stay-mad

nerd

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3520611

You can find updates on this group on the link below. You should only trust information provided in this link and verified via our general Simplex Chat mentioned in the link below. We have affiliates that will be monitoring Hexbear and other trans groups to assist people. Our goal is to securely help transgender people in unusual circumstances with basic necessities that trans people need. Thank you.


We suggest viewing this link via TOR or VPN, while this site (hosted by a trans person) mentions they do not log IP, you can never be 100% sure about hosting providers. All further updates will be only through this URL and our Simplex Chat.

https://pad.artemislena.eu/code/#/2/code/view/OBjUSvB-We-z4zoAFcFp2qicIFWwExL81W9sdkwILBY/

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3520611

You can find updates on this group on the link below. You should only trust information provided in this link and verified via our general Simplex Chat mentioned in the link below. We have affiliates that will be monitoring Hexbear and other trans groups to assist people. Our goal is to securely help transgender people in unusual circumstances with basic necessities that trans people need. Thank you.


We suggest viewing this link via TOR or VPN, while this site (hosted by a trans person) mentions they do not log IP, you can never be 100% sure about hosting providers. All further updates will be only through this URL and our Simplex Chat.

https://pad.artemislena.eu/code/#/2/code/view/OBjUSvB-We-z4zoAFcFp2qicIFWwExL81W9sdkwILBY/

 

Privacy benefits aside, does qubes run better than a typical vm like virtualbox? I tend to fiddle with distros a lot and I feel qubes might be a good choice, though I'm wondering about how efficient it is

 

I'm calling for https://lemmy.ml/u/Beaver@lemmy.ca, the most prolific user of the transgender comm here on lemmy.ml, to be immediately unbanned and nutomic to be removed as admin. It is good and correct to leak the DMs of transphobes.

@dessalines@lemmy.ml @JoeBidet@lemmy.ml @cypherphunks

edit: you can find more info from kristinas post here and beavers post here

edit 2: proof, also beaver was banned from the whole instance modlong

edit 3: For trans people looking for a safer instance, I suggest Hexbear. They have a very active trans user base and are extremely supportive.

 

If you have no preferred pronouns, just say (none) or something

This will help make people feel more comfortable in this comm and has a side effect of showing you support trans people when making comments in other communities. It will also make reactionaries seethe and make it easier for mods to purge them, and make trans people feel safer all over the fediverse.

 

Hello, if you are transgender and socialist, please make an application below. We have lax requirements, I'm basically hoping to copy the success of Hexbear's trans community. Basic ideas of modding this space:

  • Rule with an iron fist. This is meant to be a safe place for transgender people. If someone is making that not happen / is fucking the vibes, they should be gone.

  • Purge transphobes on sight

  • No leftist infighting. Anarchists and communists can be friends

  • Suggest to cis and trans people that they change their username to include pronouns so no one misgenders them

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3016455

Hey folks, hoping to have a semi-permanent thread for compiling resources to make finding really cool posts easier. Please suggest links and info in the comments below. I consider this necessary because there's a lot of things we would like pinned but obviously things get very crowded quickly. This thread will start sparse and I will edit new things in as people suggest them.


Trans Chemist Series

These posts are done by a Hexbear user that I have verified as legit, offering unique information about trans DIY hrt, including quality sources, sanitation, storage recommendations. Verified by very expensive industrial chemistry equipment.


DIY Electrolysis Series

There posts are also done by a Hexbear user that is making an open source DIY electrolysis setup.


PSAs


Site Surveys


Links

  • https://genderdysphoria.fyi (this link has allegedly been problematic deep into the past, but seems to have cleaned up a lot)

  • /r/transdiy wiki archive : https://archive.md/gDgj1

  • /r/transwiki wiki archive : https://archive.md/OzyAk

  • trans australia : https://trans.au/

  • haircuts for trans people : https://strandsfortrans.org/

  • .Do It Yourself - Hormone Replacement Therapy - Very Basic Information Thread on DIY HRT. https://hexbear.net/post/8763710, guide to using Monero, a private cryptocurrency

  • https://www.transacademy.org/ - Trans Academy is a VRChat group that provides help/community for trans people. Among other things, they do free bi-weekly voice training seminars (in VRChat but also streamed on Discord and Twitch) and make-up tutorials (on Discord), and the classes include content for transmasc, enby, transfem peeps. VRChat is free and doesn't require VR (using the desktop or android app), but you can also participate in most of the class stuff through the Discord.


Webrings and Friends

 

i know people here have a sour taste over hexbear but im so happy to see trans spaces on the fediverse popping off, im so done with corporate social media and its great to see.

love seeing hundreds of trans people vibing

 

I'm looking for ones that ideally don't log IP. Is there a guide somewhere that looks into each of these instances and whether or not they fulfill the privacy promise?

I'm most interested in Invidious.

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