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    [–] [email protected] 115 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    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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    [–] [email protected] 92 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    What's up with these trans-memes surrounding linux? Are they just a loud minority?

    [–] [email protected] 131 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    People that enjoy customizing their body happen to enjoy customizing their OS too.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 86 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Isn't it obvious? Linux turns people trans.

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Or is it trans people turn their systems to Linux?

    Is it the chicken or the egg?

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Open-minded people can get into linux. You also have to be open-minded to consider being trans. My take is that linux and being trans are not directly influencing each other, but both increase your open-mindedness separately which in turn drives you towards more open topics generally

    [–] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    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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    [–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And the rest are furries or both.

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

    Isn't that only for Arch?

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    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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    [–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    Btw, what is it always with the stickers?

    [–] [email protected] 88 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    When youre using your laptop on the go, it has to be communicated without words that you use arch btw

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Why use lot words when logo do trick?

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    [–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You're in a meeting with 16 people with identical corporate laptops. Easy way to see whose is whose if they're not open.

    [–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

    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!

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

    I sticker my laptops.

    I view it as theft deterrent. It stands out so it's easier to see in someone's hands, and makes an expensive laptop looks kind of shitty.

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    [–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It is advertising for money-less projects.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

    I guess it's feelings of ownership/pride/community.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What is always with the thigh highs?

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

    Programming is easier in comfort

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Old Thinkpads running Arch are basically the new BlΓ₯haj

    And I'm all for it!

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Lenovo Thinkpad t480 with Arch running AwesomeWM. :)

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    [–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Since when programming socks counts as trans rights?

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

    I use Arch btw

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What's the digital clock in your terminal?

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)
    [–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Nothing much, how about you?

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

    Hello, Colin Robinson.

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

    I'm still mourning for my t400 that died last week, and everything makes me remember my old friend :(

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