That I am a girl now. Seems to be a common pattern şn the comment section 💀
As a kid I loved reading. Huge book eorm, in my teenage years I could find less and less time for it and eventually stopled reading regularly. Nowadays I am an avid webnovel reader.
To me it is opposite. Morre successfull the transfem youtube rthat I am watching bwtter it makes me feel because I think "If she could do it, than I can too!" Of course it isn't like there is no envy at all because there is. but a more hopeful outlook makes me feel better
I always played and play beast races if games have them any humanoid race feels rather alien to me and among them women less alien and men sre the most alien.
too bad that I am altering my body and face with hormones that my body doesn't normalky produce
Update: Yeah I just took the bluepill btw. Why wait when I can buy HRT over the counter. Me from the future will have to worry about hiding effects
yeah. Many homophobic people are only okay with queer people if they're invisible. They don't care that they're gay unless they conform in public, as long as they don't show affection towards their partners in public. They don't care about trans people as long as they pass and look indistinguishable from cis people. We don't wanna be shunned for being different and pride parade's that you mentioned are a great way to give the mesage "we are here, we exist". I grew up in a very conservative country but when I traveled to germany in june and got caught in pride celebrations with pride flags everywhere etc. I never felt more accepted, I felt that I wasn't alone. So this "we're here we exist" message that pride spreads is not just helpful to get the non-lgbtq folks aquainted with the idea of us existing but also tell the other lgbtq people that they're not alone. I also don't wanna be invisible for anyone's convenience.
first pride was a riot. In my country it still is. We have to fight for our rights
Oki. It is also cheaper if you get from here. 17 something dollars for 2 boxes of estrofem is what I paid. Which truat me isn't cheap for us when our economy sucks but is pretty cheap for visitors from other countries ig.
it used to work with age restricted videos though and their newest update allows more that 1080p.
or you can order it online. Many providers supply it from turkey I think. That's how I found out that I could buy hrt over the counter in my own country
HRT advice: When to start?
I have recently learned that you can get hrt medicine off the counter in my country. I am an 18 year old and I am at the last year of high school. My plan since I learbed this was to wait till my finiahing exams are done (May) and start after that which puts half a year between that and till I can move out aboard for university. What worries me is having to hide the effects especially with the summer in between and swimming that comes with it. How much does it take for breast growth to become noticable and what would you do in my place?
My Online Privacy Guide for PC
The amount of questions that I got on my last post here made me want to create a full on guide for internet privacy based on my experience, so let's begin:
Browser -
yeah it's gotta be firefox or a fork that you deem trustworthy
These are my settings:
- first go to about:config and set "privacy.fingerprintingProtection" and "privacy.resistFingerprinting" to "true"
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- go to firefox settings "privacy and security" tab and set "enhanced privacy protection" to "strict"
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right under that there is "website privacy preferences" and "Cookies and site data" under privacy preferences turn on these two options: "Tell websites not to sell or share my data", "Send websites a “Do Not Track” request"
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Under "Cookies and site data" check "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed". Don't worry you can set exceptions for the websites that on you want to stay logged in
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- Under History tab turn on "Clear history when Firefox closes"
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Under Permissions enable: "Block pop-up windows" and "Warn you when websites try to install add-ons"
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Disable all telemetry under "Firefox Data Collection and Use"
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Under "Deceptive Content and Dangerous Software Protection" enable all three options
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Under Certificates enable: "Query OCSP responder servers to confirm the current validity of certificates"
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enable "https only mode"
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- under "Dns over https" enable maximum protection and pick a hostname suitable to your needs from here: "https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls" I use "https://base.dns.mullvad.net/dns-query"
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- in the search tab disable search suggestions
Addons:
Important Notice: addons make your fingerprint more unique so try to be conservative about using too many addons
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My essentials are "ublock origin, noscript and libredirect" optionally "skip redirect"
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My Noscript settings are pretty simple: in it's settings page I have it's default preset set to only allow "noscript" and "other"
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For ublock origin things get a little more complicated. My ublock origin blocking mode is set to "medium" which means it blocks all 3rd party scripts aswell as adds. More on that here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode
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I have also enabled every single filter minus the country spesific ones enabled on the filters tab of the ublock origin settings plus two custom lists, that are: "https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/discussions/163", "https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances"
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Search Engine:
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The one I am using is called "Startpage" it scrapes results from google and it respects your privacy. I avoid DuckDuckGO because I remember it getting involved with cencorship in results at some point and I don't like it's results.
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Startpage's majority shareholder is an Adtech company but I trust it due to this quote from privacy guides:
"Startpage's majority shareholder is System1 who is an adtech company. We don't believe that to be an issue as they have a distinctly separate privacy policy. The Privacy Guides team reached out to Startpage back in 2020 to clear up any concerns with System1's sizeable investment into the service, and we were satisfied with the answers we received."
- find the right privaccy search engine for you here: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/
VPN: -
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To quote privacy guides once again: "Using a VPN will not keep your browsing habits anonymous, nor will it add additional security to non-secure (HTTP) traffic."
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I use and reccomend "Proton VPN" as an always connected vpn with a killswitch. I have heard good things about "Mullvad" though and have some friends that swear by it
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Interview with the Proton CEO: https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=Dp7ght2fMR4
Privacy Friendly Frontends: -
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I like spesifically Freetube and Libreddit which the Libredirect extention can redirect to
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https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
OS: -
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Let's face it, propertiary operating systems like Windows and MacOS collect your data and invade your privacy just by you using your computer, so swapping them out for alternatives is very helpfull in terms of protecting your privacy
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Main players in the game are "Linux" and "FreeBSD". I find "Linux" to be MUCH more usable than freebsd though. Seriously just stick with linux unless you want to deal with a lot of issues.
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Reccomened distros: I am a big fan of Fedora and KDE so I am gonna reccomend "Fedora KDE spin" to the regular user. "Mint" is well liked among beginners but I tend to find it's old ubuntu LTS base infruiating. For gaming I reccomend "Nobara" which is what I use. It is based on fedora and uses KDE as it's DE and has optimizations for the gaming usecase. PopOS is also a great option for gaming but I belive it is based on ubuntu LTS aswell which I do not like. Finally "EndavourOS" is based Arch but installation is made simple and I belive is actually beginner friendly
Disclaimer about the EFF "Cover your tracks test": - https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
- the test will not load with Mullvad DNS due to it blocking tracker domains so switch to nextdns instead while running the test
Sources: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/, https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends, https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions
EFF "cover your tracks" browser privacy test
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ Wanted to share this awesome tool to test your browser, also please do share your results in the comments.
New KDE version, new customization opportunities!
it messed with my icons at first so I had to fix that manually. Now it looks pretty good tho!
Paid proton and discord compatiblity?
Usage of an always on vpn has become essential for me, since my country is blocking even mail.proton.me now, but I have found that discord blocks proton vpn connections what I am wondering is if this is also the case for the paid servers. My other option is to somehow exclude discord from vpn which I have read is complicated especially on linux. My country has long crossed to line and I don't wanna connect to the internet without a vpn at all anymore.
The Distro Wars are good actually.?
If all the seemingly pointless discussions about which distro is better comes from attachment to a spesific distro and if a distro is just a way to interract with linux than all the discussion about witch distro is better etc. fundementally comes from a a place of love and appreciation for Linux as an OS.
(I use HannahMontanaLinux btw)
Thank you Thunder devs!
I think the last feature I was missing was the ability to see saved comments. With the latest update I would say the app is feature complete. Thank you so much for this.