“Little to no” gender-affirming surgeries are being performed on minors in the United States, and those that are performed are overwhelmingly on cisgender minors.

Out of the 151 breast reductions that were performed in 2019 on American minors, 146 (97 percent) were performed on cisgender males, according to a new study published in JAMA. Out of the 636 breast reductions performed on adults, 507 (80 percent) were performed on cisgender males.

The study used data from 47,437,919 adults and 22,827,194 minors who were insured that year, finding that chest-related operations accounted for 1,591 out of 2,664 (59.7 percent) of surgical procedures performed on adults, and 82 of 85 (96.4 percent) of surgical procedures performed on minors.

I’d bet that you were one of those cis kids that got his breasts reduced, and like a closeted priest you are publicly shaming what you privately do. But there is no shame in it. It is a non-issue, used by the ultra-wealthy to distract from their hubris.

I’m an electrical engineer that has become a proprietary cloud-tool admin. I occasionally use an LLM (chatGPT web) to write VBA code to do various API calls and transform excel/Jason/XML/CSV data from one format to another for various import/export tasks that would otherwise eat up my time.

I just use the chat, and copy/paste the code.

I spend an hour to meticulously describe the process I need the code to do, and then another hour or two testing, debugging and polishing, and get a result that would take me days to produce by myself. I then document the code (I try to use lots of sub-modules that can be reused) so that I can use the LLM less in the future.

I don’t feel great about the environment impact, which is why I try to limit the usage, and do debugging and improvements by myself. I’m also trying to push management to invest in a lean LLM that runs on the companies servers. I’m also looking into getting a better PC privately, which I could also run a local LLM on and use for work.

I get it, it’s frustrating and it doesn’t feel like your needs are being met.

It’s just important to see the larger picture. Windows and iOS suck more every day. Linux gains more and more traction, more and more users as the competition becomes less and less attractive.

I hope that the next time you try, that it just works.

Sounds like it is working pretty well to me.

I understand the frustration, but Linux only works because the community works on it together. You sound like someone who has some technical knowledge, maybe you can help the kubuntu team make the calibration a feature?

I hope this holds. There have been several such migrations in the past, and they didn’t last. Seeing as it is just email and not the entire OS/software landscape, it will probably hold.

That depends on what that other stuff is. Bazzite is a desktop OS first, gaming second. But it us atomic, so installing apps that aren’t available as a flatpak is somewhat more complicated.

Mint is a great start though, I seriously doubt that you will have problems. Just don’t be afraid to experiment.

The horror stories often come from years ago, when Linux wasn’t as under-friendly as it is now. You shouldn’t have any problems with this.

And if Mint does give you problems (which I doubt), consider trying a plug-and-play gaming distro like bazzite. It supports nvidia GPUs right away.

https://bazzite.gg/

I think this comic is more about the feeling of it. I certainly feel like my work-issued iphone gets more and more bogged-down with every major update, with less and less room for apps and media. It certainly feels like the only reason for the bloat is to goad me into buying cloud storage and/or a new model.

And just to be clear, I’m not hating on apple. Given the predatory nature of late-stage capitalism, apple is probably the least-shitty of the IT megacorps.

I think you are mixing up several issues here. I too am worried about the increasing surveillance of various governments, and the rise of authoritarianism. But UBI doesn’t have anything to do with that. There was no pilot program that I’m aware of where participants didn’t get to keep the money. There was also no restrictions on internet usage or other restrictions put on them.

Of course UBI could be used by a government as a tool of oppression. But that doesn’t make it inherently evil. I can use a hammer to kill someone, but I can also use it to help them. It is not the tool, but the use, that makes something good or evil.

I encourage you to read more about the various programs that have been done, many of them show great benefit for the people and the economy. The only ones that don’t benefit from it are the billionaires and oligarchs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_pilots

Great idea. I’m going to consider the same.

Postmarket OS isn’t? Oh whoa, I just checked for myself, I had no idea, thought it was aosp too!

Cool, thanks for the correction.

eOS works great for me on my fairphone 5, I suspect the model 6 is similar. Just be VERY careful about the anti-rollback protection, read the install instructions carefully and follow them exactly. And don’t use the easy installer, it can brick your phone.

https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP6/install

For everyone else, here are the supported devices:

https://doc.e.foundation/devices

I have a Fairphone 5 with eOS, and I’m happy. Their service is painfully slow, but otherwise professional and reliable. You can run into headaches when flashing eOS if you are not super-cautious (dm mefor details if you like), but the instructions are good, and you can also buy various phones direct from Murena with eOS already installed.

Bazzite rocks, especially for gaming. I started with Ubuntu, did arch for a while (which was a great learning experience), and have been on bazzite for years now.

Pop and mint seem like great choices too if plug-and-play gaming isn’t your main focus.

Ich würde sagen ja. Es steht nirgendwo schwarz auf weiß, das eine Mitarbeiter der Betriebsrats-Mitglied aussuchen darf für ein solches Gespräch, aber der Betriebsrat hat den Pflicht in Sinne der Mitarbeiter zu handeln, und macht sich sogar strafbar wenn die dies nicht tun. Hier einen Beispiel für ein mögliches Pflichtverletzung:

Verhandlungen mit dem Arbeitgeber zum Nachteil der Mitarbeiter

Gnommen von hier:

https://rechtsanwalt-tillmann.de/betriebsrat-mitarbeiter-rechte/

Und hier sind die Rechten und Pflichten gut zusammengefasst:

https://www.rae-schreiner.de/teilnahmerecht-des-betriebsrats-bei-mitarbeitergespraechen/

Der Arbeitgeber darf einen Mitglied des Betriebsrats hinzuziehen nur unter bestimmte Bedingungen. Der Arbeitnehmer dagegen darf immer hinzuziehen.

Ich bin kein Anwalt, und auch nicht der super-profi hier, aber die Dokumente im Netz helfen hier viel weiter. Ich empfehle die langsam und wachsam durchzulesen, und ggf. einen Gespräch mit einen Anwalt zu suchen.