10 mo. ago • 85%

Repurposing your laptop trans rights style 😎🏳️‍⚧️

196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone Rule

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Fun fact: they're actually the same person, but he sold it and bought it back when she realized the gross mistake she made

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- Damn, you assumed pronouns like 4 times. Get ready to go to trans jail (jk)
  
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  Wait, I thought I implied the gender change correctly?
  
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What's up with these trans-memes surrounding linux? Are they just a loud minority?

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- People that enjoy customizing their body happen to enjoy customizing their OS too.
  
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  That would be medics and genetical engieneers
  
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- Permanently Deleted
  
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  Or is it trans people turn their systems to Linux?
  
  Is it the chicken or the egg?
  
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- Trans etc. are always a minority, obviously. They would not have to fight for their rights otherwise.
  
  No idea why they are so highly visible here. Probably highly concentrated in Lemmy.
  
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  It's IT wages and being able to take a break and think about oneself. When Twitter was called Twitter and I've been there, the core population of trans, lgbt+, kink, furry, whatever communities were those who could afford a brief moment to think about themselves, these later magnfied other folks who aren't as well-off. Being gay or trans is natural as our science says, but understanding you are gay or trans means you have enough time, resources, safety to even discover you are one, not to say about presenting as one in public. Tech persons have a natural advantage here over a doordash delivery guy, but as they show it's possible, many poorer persons show up too. And it's not a coincidence Lemmy is popular in these communities, as it's not only a tech-gated space, it's also a promising safe space where they can be whoever they want without social pressure.
  
  ed: if not for us being that fucked by capitalism, the distribution would be more even
  
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  Trans etc. are always a minority, obviously. They would not have to fight for their rights otherwise.
  
  no one should have to fight for their right, but that doesn't change the fact that non-trans people enjoy customizing their os as well. so answer to the original question is yes, it is a loud minority.
  
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- A lot of gender-floaty people work in IT, because they feel at home with the other socially-inept people like me.
  
  And a lot of people who work in IT use Linux.
  
  So there is a ton of overlap.
  
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  And the rest are furries or both.
  
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  Am transbian furry can confirm meow meow
  
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- it's just a meme. although there is perhaps a higher percentage of trans people using linux, perhaps due to the correlation with autism or because they're attracted to less opressive alternative safe spaces in general
  
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  Now I'm curious if are there studies on the demographics of linux users
  
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- Isn't that only for Arch?
  
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Btw, what is it always with the stickers?

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- When youre using your laptop on the go, it has to be communicated without words that you use arch btw
  
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  Why use lot words when logo do trick?
  
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- You're in a meeting with 16 people with identical corporate laptops. Easy way to see whose is whose if they're not open.
  
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  Pfft, that's what the asset tags are for. Clearly my laptop is the one with the number 2760754 on a... sticker... son of a bitch!
  
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  I've never been in a corporate environment where stickers on laptops that weren't branded for the company itself was considered acceptable or professional.
  
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- It is advertising for money-less projects.
  
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  Never thought of that.
  
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  I recently happily purchased some metal Debian stickers for my work laptops. If you know, then you know. And if you want to know, I'm more than happy to explain.
  
  The Arch metal sticker for my home gaming rig? That was for me.
  
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  That don't exist anymore
  
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- I guess it's feelings of ownership/pride/community.
  
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- What is always with the thigh highs?
  
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  Programming socks?
  
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  Programming is easier in comfort
  
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- I have to get up early in the morning and go to a job and pay rent and bills now and it sucks...just let me keep the stickers please.
  
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- Quick and easy personalization of an otherwise generic product.
  
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Old Thinkpads running Arch are basically the new Blåhaj

And I'm all for it!

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- Lenovo Thinkpad t480 with Arch running AwesomeWM. :)
  
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  OMG! Same. Well, almost. I'm running AwesomeWM, my gf has t480 and I have heard of Arch.
  
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Since when programming socks counts as trans rights?

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- 1337 AD
  
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  69 BC
  
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I use Arch btw

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Congrats on exorcising that proprietary bitch out of the laptop's body!

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What's the digital clock in your terminal?

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- Most likely uptime
  
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  What's uptime?
  
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- tty-clock
  
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- looks like either tty-clock or tmux clock-mode (prefix + t)
  
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I have done this

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- As a ThinkPad aesthetics enthusiast, I squint.
  
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I'm still mourning for my t400 that died last week, and everything makes me remember my old friend :(

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My two recent $90 laptop purchases can confirm this.

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Mandatory programming socks

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Ew ew to uwu >.<

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This is the same body

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As a transmasc demiboy I'm getting gender envy from the first guy.

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- Is demiboy some kind of boss from dark souls?
  
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  Roll for Arcana...
  
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I use Arch Linux btw

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Why are the stickers upside down

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- As a matter of fact, they're not.
  
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