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I've also been meaning to experiment more with capacitive touch in-pcb design, and haptic feedback for those

could be a cool application here

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like what good is all this uni "this is how you design products" if I can't use it to better my own life! (and others :))

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youtube music, long-ish 

@Anarkat@hackers.town it's one of the reasons I like YouTube Music so much, it just works in my browser with a nice interface and no DRM (oh and firefox got mpris integration recently so you can do system play/pause/skip and song info)

it uses the same collection as normal youtube but with extra artist/album tagging and prefering music over music videos

it's also gratis, especially when just combined with your normal adblocker

as a cloudy googly based thing it still has drawbacks of course, but I personally much prefer streaming music and recommendations over just keeping flacs somewhere..

hmmmm maybe I should design a better alarm clock so I don't have to use my phone for that

I like having some kind of interface that shows me how much sleep I'd be getting while setting the alarm

@nia@catgirl.science i mean same, but our neighbours chickens aren't loud and I can sleep with sun just fine..

also the issue is actually getting out of bed too lmao, perhaps I should leave my phone at my desk

tom scott is a cryptid

i will not be taking questions at this time

*codes like pure chaos, remembering to fix things at random*

adhd, what's that?

"yeah ill wake up to do some stuff before class"
*sits around bed doing nothing, 11am rapidly approaches*

gods i need my coffee or you get associative posting like that

@schratze @anarchiv yeah but afaik it doesn't actually have anything to do with it, just an "edgy" name

whereas the anarchism package actually gets a bunch of good literature from the anarchist library on your computer :)

stuff about transphobia, cis people read, :boost_ok: 

Something that cis people need to understand, being trans is like going through water torture.

Almost all transphobia is indirect, it's noticable if you're the target, and it's not something you think twice about otherwise. No single instance of transphobia is enough to make someone beat up a trans woman, or to push someone to kill themselves, but... it adds up. All of these building up an implicit assumption that trans women are pretending, or are sex fetishists. That trans men are just confused women.

From going outside and people openly guessing your genitals as you walk past, to every instance someone calls you "Sir" or uses the wrong name or pronouns, stuff like, cheap jokes about transgender strippers that didn't even need to be in the source material for the joke to work, or trans women being played by men/vice versa.

All of it reinforces the harmful ideas that lead to that one man getting angry and grabbing a baseball bat. All of it gradually wears you down. Each drip becomes more harmful than the last, even though no physical or large damage is happening. And the extent to which this pervades society means it is *impossible to ignore*. You can't even turn on the tv and retreat into a show, because tv -- especially comedies (of which most have a "trans episode" if not a running gag about trans people throughout the show), are terrible with this shit. Hell, you can't even open up a presumably ok thread on the internet without encountering people continuing this shit.

So part of a community being a comfortable place for trans people, means actual *effort* from cis people to:

a) understand that when trans people get angry, it's out of years, decades, of frustration at having to point this shit out, of having these conversations over and over and over

and, b) try not go on the defensive, understand not to take it personally, just take what you can from the message, and work on it. And that effort cannot come /close/ to what trans people expend regularly just having to deal with all of this with /little to no/ help from cis people, with nobody else picking up the slack of dealing with this. With having to educate every single cis person we come across, even though statistically trans people occur at a higher rate than people with red hair, or people with albinism.

I don't blame other trans people for being angry, from snapping at cis people. I don't think it's a good way to get people to engage, but I can't fault then becuase I very intimately know where that frustration comes from

If you're afraid of not supporting content creators, remember that the revenue they get from ads is absolutely minimal and if you were to donate three cents to their patreon per month you'd probably be giving them more money than your views' worth on YouTube

Donating directly to projects you like is much better than subjecting yourself to ads, both for them and for your mental health

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Reminder to install ublock origin on your browser :)

Install SponsorBlock if you watch a lot of YouTube!

Install AdAway if you have a rooted android phone

Blocking ads is self care and helps give your brain a break <3

cant tell my girlfriend anything, once i told her ł in polish makes a w sound and now shes always saying "hełło" at me

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