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[–] [email protected] 109 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Factory default for me

It's good enough for my typical use-case so I've just stuck with it

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 months ago

Boooooring!

Yeah, me too.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Too much work to learn how a new system works inside and out, but I can focus on interoperability

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you run HRT you can choose to keep the same hardware and interoperability and also have the benefit of a free and open choice of gender. It will require a little research to get started, but there is great documentation on the lgbtqia wiki (mtf btw)*.

*(not actually mtf, just referencing "arch btw")

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

hey neat, I found the cisgender sub-thread! me too.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Same here. As fun as it might be trying out another gender, it’s far too complicated, and I’d rather mess with NixOS

[–] Hexarei 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Same here. I like wearing skirts and being pretty but I'm a cis guy. Due to my exploration of gender expression my friends are occasionally like "Are you sure you're cis?" And I'm just like "Yep, still a man unfortunately. I'd straight up be something else if I could but nope. Still a dude."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This energy is excellent and the world needs more of it.

LET GUYS BE PRETTY TOO, DAMNIT!

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Me and some friends used to all share one but then the fucking DRM kicked in and I had to get my own.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They said

Me and some friends used to all share one but then the fucking DRM kicked in and I had to get my own.

I've enloudened it

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago

Oh thanks! Hearing aids are too expensive these days

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

probably something healthcare (US) related

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The "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.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mine came from a floppy disk that I can't read anymore.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

You just go booting up random genderware like that?

You'll get Stuxnetted.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Uninstalled (it was bloat)

Ah, so that's why so many Linux users are nonbinary.

I myself am running stock options.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as nonbinary, is in fact, UNG/nonbinary, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, UNG plus nonbinary. Nonbinary is not an operating gender unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning UNG system made useful by the UNG corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full gender as defined by POSIX.

*UNG -> UNG's Not (a) Gender

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I like the idea of pirating my gender. Sounds like I pilfered someone's penis. Which is just an objectively fun sentence to say.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I replaced my old proprietary gender with a free and open source one

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's factory installed bloat. But a lot of legacy software relies on it, so uninstalling it is a hassle.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago

one 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 :3

so, uh. software update ig

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You wouldn't download a gender

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Hey I found this dick fair and square! It fits perfectly. But I'm still looking for a bigger one.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago

Incompatibilities 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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As a diligent worker drone living paycheck to paycheck:

Work/Government Issued

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Lol uninstalled it was bloat unironically here.

My first exploration of gender fluidity was realizing that on the internet, my bits don't matter and i don’t experience gender, so why do sites keep asking?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

why do sites keep asking?

Collecting and selling your data for "marketing"!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Thats why i just randomize my details these days.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Def just bloat. How am I supposed to carry all these limes while thinking about the metaphysical connotations of gender and society?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Data 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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Government issued and it was bloat AND it was proprietary gender. I don't want any gender without access to the source, and the freedom to use, copy, modify, and redistribute (even charging a price) said gender as I wish.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Found it on a usb stick in a parking lot

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

hmm. I was assigned m but I think I prefer she/her but being female isn't actually something I want to be. Tbh my online friends calling me Toad makes me happier than either gender. So in short my gender is me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I'm whatever you need me to be to achieve orgasm.

[–] ICastFist 12 points 3 months ago

Careful, you might turn into a couch when you least expect it

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

I 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Beta 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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Boobs are awesome.

End of story

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

I have a little wheel that I spin every morning

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Factory default, but I tweaked it a bit and installed a few add-ons.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Uninstalled so I could enable expert mode

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Uninstalled. Bloatware. The only pronoun this cognitive substrate requires is "it" :3

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

There’s no option for “found an old glass syringe with some greenish/purple liquid and an odd metallic smell, was drunk and bored so I gave it a go”?

Fine, whatever.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Factory 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."

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