59The "Work/Government Issued" one make me laugh because I served in the US military, and a handful of years ago, they approved gender reassignment surgery for trans people.
You're allowed to receive one "cosmetic" surgery for free while serving in the US military, and this counted for that. So you could literally be "issued" a new gender by the government, for free.
Trump became president, and while military people were signing up for gender reassignment surgery, he randomly ordered that trans people weren't allowed in the military and had to be kicked out immediately. So a bunch of people who outed themselves to take advantage of the surgery suddenly were at risk of losing their jobs.
Fortunately, the Department of Defense put a hold on those orders and managed to talk Trump out of kicking people out for being trans. But I guarantee, if he becomes president again, he's not going to be talked out of it again.
56It's factory installed bloat. But a lot of legacy software relies on it, so uninstalling it is a hassle.
36one night i was pondering gender stuff because my internet circle became queer enough that out became common to see chosen genders around and i thought that i didn't want to be a girl, being a guy was fine, but i would like to be a creature.
and now i'm he/they :3so, uh. software update ig
33Incompatibilities between hardware and software caused data corruption. This resulted in hangups and increasingly frequent crashes. It was necessary to download a new gender, which is currently being installed.
32As a diligent worker drone living paycheck to paycheck:
Work/Government Issued
31Data corruption/re-write. Installed a bunch of psychedelic programs I bought on the black market and restructured my OS from the kernel level. Worth it because shutdown/sleep signals were being ignored as well as CPU buffer trashing issues (resulting in system crashes, hangups, etc.). Works a lot better now, but handshakes are difficult because my non-conforming configuration isn't recognized by the majority of the network. Still very much worth it though as I find complete network access isn't exactly necessary.
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23Found it on a usb stick in a parking lot
21I took what came out of the box, very much factory default here. My offspring are figuring it out at the minute, Imma let them cook.
19Beta testing a system update. Lots of improvements here. This beta has been open for quite a while, and it seems to be catching on. It's already more or less stable. I expect mass adoption with somewhat regional distribution at the 1.0 release. Of course you'll have the stragglers insisting the out-dated version was better. In comparison I find it clunky, restrictive, and demanding. Our processing power has increased in orders of magnitude; why we'd want to keep using an archaic way of doing things like this is a head scratcher.
17I have a little wheel that I spin every morning
16Uninstalled so I could enable expert mode
14Uninstalled. Bloatware. The only pronoun this cognitive substrate requires is "it" :3
13Yarr!
12Factory default, I'm boring but a good selection of my long term boyfriends have been bi (I dgaf), so I don't know what that says about me lol. People sometimes assume I'm gay, but I've never questioned my gender or sexuality. Lots of friends across the rainbow though, luv you all. I have gay and trans family so it isn't something that I've ever seen as "not normal."
11I didn't write my own, but I did clone the git repo, and then compiled it myself.
10Factory default but apparently I'm one of those models that run a combination of software designed for other models.
10It was freeware, but a nightmare to install. I learned several new languages that weren't even necessary in the end. There was no wiki, just disparate posts on decade old forums, most of which were misinformation. Definitely a learning experience.
10When I first booted, it was assigned then
9Factory default. Put a dick in my mouth a few times for spice
8Factory default here
8Factory default, but at least I'm compatible with all other models.
8I'm testing different software as I'm not fully aware of what my requirements are. All of it behaves differently, and comes with different perks so I'm trying to see if the non factory software is for me.
7Data corruption, it’s a bunch of garbled stuff that I can’t make heads or tails off.
Miraculously, everything keeps working. So I don’t dare to interfere because it might crash the system :)
7Been writing my own, a fork that's almost identical to the factory original. I think I messed up one of the .ini files, hair loss is happening on the scalp
7I derived mine through scientific observation the way we detect black holes through the behaviors of nearby bodies (or through gravitational lensing and accretion discs).
Gender is very important to some people. We see this with trans folk who will suffer social stigmatization, take hormones and undergo medical procedures to identify as a gender they weren't assigned at birth. We see this with alpha males who do not feel masculine enough, no matter how big the bumper nuts on their wide-bed SUV.
I don't feel this at all. I have an [M] on my state ID. My body has the boy bits, but meh. As a young adult, I thought I just was confident in my masculinity, only I didn't do anything that was particularly masculine.
As a kid, to man up was to take care of business. These days, it seems it might have been related to pony up which is to pay the ante, since it often is about paying bills. But I was taught this was expected of everyone who was an adult, and is in fact called adulting to make sure bills are paid and household chores are managed enough to keep the larder full, the dishes clean and the elements and pests out. (Sometimes adulting was calling the utility company and asking them to please wait since I don't have the money yet. It still counts.)
Also in my youth, we had Cold War notions of manhood, which was the capacity to have unthinkable levels of violent power that you never use in any untoward fashion. Nukes were the ur-example, and guns were the obvious domestic example, but the gun was one of a dozen power tools that were only to be used with full safety precautions for their intended purpose.
But now, these days, gun owners believe the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives them the right to shoot people they don't like, and our elected officials act like children on the floor of their respective parliamentary halls and Dick Cheney shot judge Harry Whittington, and Whittington apologized to Cheney because WTF?
So I'm enby: don't care. There are no characteristics or traits I can imagine one sex should have that the other sex shouldn't. I am the black hole that no-one would notice except for all the stars.
7Ya'll have gemders?
7wrote my own lol / piecework from stuff randomly found on the internet
it's open source anyways (at least the kernel) in case anyone wants a copy :D
7Failed copy/paste
6cis He/They user so I guess that counts as dual boot
5Malware
5I was fine with the factory default, but I rarely ever used it so I unsubscribed. It's of no use to me.
5Mine came with a DRM key I had to use a special card to read, and now I've lost the card so I'm stuck in this gender unless I want to leave it and never get it back.
5I clicked on the little dice image to the right of the drop down field
5Factory Default. It's pretty bloat though.
4I pirated it, default was terrible, nobody was going to give it to me and no way to buy it. I stole it, it's mine and nobody has one just like it.
4Uninstalled (it was bloat)
4My sex is factory default and my gender is self written(in c of course)
3I inherited mine
3If I do DIY is that pirating, or compiling it myself
3Originally Factory Default. But after several surgeries and I'm forced to use the CLI to manually intervene to pee now, it has completely broken and is meaningless.
3Factory Default, but ive been doing a lot of modding with it to make it look like a new one, while keeping the core the same.
3Factory default.
3Pirated it
3I got confused by the different options that are all badly documented, so I uninstalled it and found out that the default wasn't working anyways. I'm now adding new aliases for ease of use and increased compatibility.
It is possible that I have some weird gender somewhere it probably shouldn't be but debugging it is a bit of a hassle. Hopefully when I'm done everything will be quicker.
2Thought it was factory default, but once i started browsing the net i realized it was a bit more complex than that. Maybe i downloaded some malware at some point?
2Malware
My pronouns are Worm/Win32/Stuxnet2Factory default.
2Work or government issued.
I hate my gender, hate my body. Wish I could flip a switch and be anything else but I'm too afraid of the stigma to transition.
But I recognize that society, the government, doctors, my family, see me as a boy. So I use he/him.
In my mind its they/he. Some sort of demiboy or non binary, idk. I don't want gender. I feel trapped.
2Well it was the factory default but I got infected with some malware for a while that lead to data corruption. Eventually I found gender on a random disk in a format I'd never heard of but it worked out so I began searching for pirated copies to try out but I quickly found out that it was all incompatible with my installed proprietary drivers which resulted in a kernel panic. That eventually lead to a big system update which removed strict incompatibilities and malware, and gave me a feature to automatically hotswap gender as needed but at this point I'm sort of writing my own gender to ensure maximum compatibility with the overall system, including my updated antimalware database. It's not ready for full production yet but it's a work in progress and Rome wasn't built in a day. Plus no more kernel panic and god damn does my gender belong in c/unixporn.
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