I agree with pretty much everything you said. I will say I don’t get too bothered by cis people asking me my AGAB, like of course I’d much rather they not but that question is pretty low on the “silly cis bullshit” scale. Like at least they’re somewhat acknowledging that I am not a man.
What does bother me is non-binary people in queer spaces who bring it up when the info isn’t relevant. The number of posts I saw on queer Reddit which started with “I identify as non-binary (AGAB)”, and it’s just like, why?
As someone who is 23 years old, my assigned sex at birth is an event that happened 23 years ago and has no bearing on any inherent part of who I am in the present moment.
This is the only thing I disagree with, really. Obviously your AGAB shouldn’t be a defining factor of your personality (whether you’re trans or cis, tbh), but to discount it wholly seems a bit much. The toys I played with as a kid. Which kids were allowed for sleepovers, and which ones I was “supposed” to develop crushes on. Which types of expression were socially acceptable. The kinds of trauma I’ve had. My journey to discovering my gender. All of these would have been pretty different if I had been assigned another gender at birth, and they all play a role in the person I have become. Ultimately I agree that’s it’s simply an event, but it’s one which regrettably still has a vast influence on how society treats you during your developmental years.
In addition to being too thick like other commenters have said, I feel like you might be pouring too close to the edge of the cup. Even for thick foam, that milk distribution seems pretty wonky to me, and reminiscent of a pour being too close to the edge of the cup.
I would link to the same Lance Hendrick video as everyone but I think you’re already covered :P
Yeah that’s kinda the only conclusion I could come to, this post is really a last-ditch effort to see if anyone more knowledgeable than me could figure anything out before I spend money on new hardware. Like if something I did in the BIOS while figuring out my dual-boot could have messed up any firmware settings for the disc drive or some other sort of issue.
Her current setup already can read files from a USB, she still insists on DVDs. I don’t really think she can wrap her mind around how files are as permanent as DVDs. Any technology is basically magic in her eyes, and I think having a physical disc that plays a movie is much less overwhelming to her.
But I adore that woman so I want to get her her movies, obsolete technology be damned.
It’s done this with multiple files, even ones which previously worked. The blanks are from the same spindle, and I’ve also tested with another batch. My PC can’t read them either.
I work as a barista in a coffee shop. I’m decently techy if you compare me to the average population. I can’t code or anything actually technical, but I’m a decent tech support for friends and family (and by that I mean I am able to find and follow instructions written by people smarter than me using search engines).
Part of me would love to go to school and learn how to code, or get a better understanding of computing and land an IT or sysadmin type of role, since I love tinkering around computers (I semi-regularly install and setup a new operating system on my computer just out of boredom) but it seems like too much effort.
I have the same dilemma as you, except with French rather than German. I tried AnySoftKeyboard, which was the best FOSS keyboard I’ve tried, but the autocorrect basically defaulted to English even when I was trying to type French sentences.
I ended up just setting up SwiftKey and revoking network permissions after downloading the French dictionnary. My dependence on autocorrect slightly outweighs my FOSS values.
I’m surprised I had to scroll down this far to see someone else mention TF2. I clock in at around 2019 hours, although probably around 500-600 of those are from idling (remember idling?!)
Last time I played was in 2019, and last time I played before that was also a couple of years. But for a while, Team Fortress 2 was my life. I eventually got into surfing, and poured SO many hours into that across TF2 and later CS:S.
If anyone who used to frequent Omega Arcade’s surf server on TF2 ends up reading this, Mr. Asplundh says hi! ☺️
As someone also near the border between Gen Z and Millennial, I relate a lot to this comment. I was also the family tech kid, and since like middle school I’ve always told people “I’m not good with computers, I just know how to use a search engine”
My “computer literacy” is literally just basic research skills; knowing how to formulate a web search and how to identify bad sources.