Thanks so much for all the additional info. The inclusion of donation based platforms and some products that are just degrees of removal from big corps rather than totally free of them were some my primary concerns. Thanks for all the details!

Also how can you have a section on books and library access without mentioning Libby is a shame. The apps carries so much weight as far as bridging the gap between public libraries and primarily digital customers.

While this seems like a decent starting point I’ve got a few issues with this list. As others have mentioned there is little in the way of justification for these suggestions, and while I happen to agree with plenty of them, I’d personally like to see more reasoning, if not to appease people that already have opinions then to help newer users understand their options.

On the topic of newer users I think an aggregate list like this should include a basic rundown on what adoption/migration/onboarding looks like for these services. Demystifying that process can lift a lot of the perceived weight non-“power users” might feel when faced with the leap from corporate platforms.

Overall I think this is a good resource, and at least gives people some starting points, but it’s not without its flaws.

Also some other language like “woman attracted to other men” just shows you aren’t conceptualizing this person as a woman. Like grammatical parallelism be damned. She was a woman attracted to men. That’s it.

I’m also getting the “you are not invited to this room” message.

Apple Pencil clone 👀

Any chance you could elaborate on that?

Do you use it to draw at all? How does it compare to the pressure and tilt that the official one has?

Ah, I was thinking once it was empty, but then the moment you put one in it locks back up. I see I see.

Presumably you can spin it more the 360 degrees so the opening could be repositioned over already empty slots, but that doesn’t really count as “refillable” given how slow of a process that would be.

Yes? I believe so, but I also take two different shaped pills, both twice a day. I’d be happy with a disk for each or a disk that only does 1 week and has an opening that provides pills in pairs. Or something similar.

Give me a bit to go dig out my calipers and I’ll get you some dimensions!

Yeah the person who recommended it to me for the clicking is (I’m fairly sure) from Germany.

👀 I would absolutely be interested should such a product be made!

Damn, makes sense now looking at it. Unless the clear top had an easy way of coming off, it would totally be a pain to refill.

I’m in this picture, and it’s the vertical line dividing them. Slowing getting my life in order has been feeling great!!

Yes absolutely. Back in the day I used Hamachi for Minecraft servers, now I run a server with offline mode enabled through Tailscale with zero fear of anyone but my friends accessing it.

It’s the first one I encountered, so I’m not sure. The 2 times I’ve rebooted since I’ve gotten the simple hyprland glowing logo one. Kinda bummed I’m not getting the cute ones anymore :(

Loool, that’s hardware level. Comes with the monitor. I keep it on when drawing mostly and just general awareness of the middle of my screen is nice. In most games it honestly isn’t that great because it’s pretty big. Covers up the reticle’s of a lot of games.

trans fem, currently they/them but leaning she/they. Maybe by the end of the install it’ll just be she/her

There is actually a little collection of chairs on my art wall. They are various Eames chairs. Designed by a somewhat famous couple, Ray and Charles Eames.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eames_Lounge_Chair

Wow yeah, now you say that I’m not sure if it’s just in the camera or I’ve truly never noticed. It’s quite bad.

I’ve maybe felt what you’ve felt in the past. Still feel it a bit now, but much less so. Finding community you feel very confident supports you is hard. It’s tough to have faith it can be found when you’ve only ever ended up let down by the people you’ve surrounded yourself with.

It’s kind of random, but rock climbing helped me so much with that. If you’ve got a local gym and you’re in the US, there’s a decent chance it has an LGBTQ+ meetup. Queer climbers are, in my experience, some of the most accepting, diverse, helpful, inclusive people on the planet. Cheering for anyone of any shape, size, and climbing ability just because they are on the wall challenging themselves. Some climbing gyms definitely can have some bad (particularly toxic masculine) vibes, but if you pick your day/time right you can often dodge the gym bros. Most gyms have youth and adult classes and generally the hardcore members avoid these times, so honestly it can be worth going at those times, plus you can conveniently “overhear” instructors to pick up some advice.

My gym is my chosen family at this point. I now coach there and I’m helping foster a space a bunch of baby gays come climb in and they get to see real life queer people having lives past the age of 20.

It’s seriously a beautiful place.

It sure is!! I wasn’t sure how prolific the HP reclaiming was, so I only included Minecraft, but I’m glad she’s been given the credit she deserves for her writing.