Factory default for me
It’s good enough for my typical use-case so I’ve just stuck with it
Same here. As fun as it might be trying out another gender, it’s far too complicated, and I’d rather mess with NixOS
Same here. I like wearing skirts and being pretty but I’m a cis guy. Due to my exploration of gender expression my friends are occasionally like “Are you sure you’re cis?” And I’m just like “Yep, still a man unfortunately. I’d straight up be something else if I could but nope. Still a dude.”
This energy is excellent and the world needs more of it.
LET GUYS BE PRETTY TOO, DAMNIT!
NGL it’s nice to be pretty sometimes just as it’s nice to look handsome sometimes
Still a dude here as well
Me and some friends used to all share one but then the fucking DRM kicked in and I had to get my own.
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Me and some friends used to all share one but then the fucking DRM kicked in and I had to get my own.
I’ve enloudened it
Oh thanks! Hearing aids are too expensive these days
Incompatibilities between hardware and software caused data corruption. This resulted in hangups and increasingly frequent crashes. It was necessary to download a new gender, which is currently being installed.
one night i was pondering gender stuff because my internet circle became queer enough that out became common to see chosen genders around and i thought that i didn’t want to be a girl, being a guy was fine, but i would like to be a creature.
and now i’m he/they :3so, uh. software update ig
I replaced my old proprietary gender with a free and open source one
This is kind of blursed
It’s factory installed bloat. But a lot of legacy software relies on it, so uninstalling it is a hassle.
Lol uninstalled it was bloat unironically here.
My first exploration of gender fluidity was realizing that on the internet, my bits don’t matter and i don’t experience gender, so why do sites keep asking?
why do sites keep asking?
Collecting and selling your data for “marketing”!
Thats why i just randomize my details these days.
Galaxy brain: gender fluidity to keep the advertisers on their toes
May I respectfully ask you about how it is like being gender fluid?
Almost nothing is different but i feel less restricted.
It also important to note i am an autist and i have always felt like the expectation of society dont match my reality.
When i got together with my partner i did not have much experience and i warned her i might be asexual (i am not but sex remains overrated)
I am still a dad to my kids, a husband to my wife. Because in context to them my gender makes sense. There are definitely some gender stereotypes in our household even. Outside my household i just found i dont need to express gender, it rarely comes up. Very few people know but i am not hiding it.
I am super chill about pronouns though, you can call me whatever, as a teen i got upset when people thought i was a girl for my long hair, now a compliment.
The biggest perk is not caring about how many products are gendered, i just get the stuff i like no matter if its pink with flowers. I refuse to apologize or be embarrassed for my harmless expression of personal taste.
I have always questioned certain things like genders for clothes limiting my expression, i do not identify as a women but i do recognize a feminine part, there are typed of Victorian dresses that i think would look awesome with my long hair and a beard.
I am against alpha male bully attitudes and a much more emotional and softer person then is expected of me.
As an adult I realized i love dancing and i now know i might have even liked ballet but i never got into any of it cause dancing was for my sisters.
My Minecraft skin has always appeared more feminine and i know thats not just the guy plays girl trope. As an austist that game is some sort of sanctum for me to be myself. It may seem small but ut was one of the first clear positive feelings with female expression. I just didn’t know it yet but i already subconsciously understood that in virtual space expressing my biological sex has no point.
My dad has a complex history and was bullied into believing they where gay and was thought not to cry or show emotion. I turned that into the most Powerfull and brave thing you can do as a man (or other) is whatever you feel like and not care about how other people may perceive you as not fitting an expected standard. And emotions are just life, crying is psychological progress. Knowing what is good for you isn’t embarrassing.
I heard Nemo on eurosong, with the power that comes from them you can build twice the man my dad believed he acted like. Their song made me tell my partner about my realization. They took it well.
Thank you for taking time to answer my question, I really appreciate hearing your life story, hope you have an amazing, wonderful day!
As a diligent worker drone living paycheck to paycheck:
Work/Government Issued
I’m whatever you need me to be to achieve orgasm.
Careful, you might turn into a couch when you least expect it
A kind and caring lover? 🥺
Hot
Def just bloat. How am I supposed to carry all these limes while thinking about the metaphysical connotations of gender and society?
You carry these limes on a Limewire, duh
Data corruption/re-write. Installed a bunch of psychedelic programs I bought on the black market and restructured my OS from the kernel level. Worth it because shutdown/sleep signals were being ignored as well as CPU buffer trashing issues (resulting in system crashes, hangups, etc.). Works a lot better now, but handshakes are difficult because my non-conforming configuration isn’t recognized by the majority of the network. Still very much worth it though as I find complete network access isn’t exactly necessary.
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my non-conforming configuration isn’t recognized by the majority of the network
This could be a case of nodes running outdated software, the current standard protocols can handle any unknown configuration just fine. These are a source of a lot of holes and vulnerabilities that can pose a serious risk, they should be updated as soon as possible. If you have to keep outdated systems in your network e.g. running on legacy hardware, or make the ocasional connection, you’ll have to monitor them and isolate them from your critical infrastructure, at least with a good firewall and a strict configuration when possible.
Government issued and it was bloat AND it was proprietary gender. I don’t want any gender without access to the source, and the freedom to use, copy, modify, and redistribute (even charging a price) said gender as I wish.
Excluding copy and redistribute, is there a gender thats proprietary?
If it doesn’t respect the Four Essential Freedoms of Free Gender it is not Free and Open Source Gender.
-The freedom to use the gender as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
-The freedom to study how the gender works, and change it so it does behave as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
-The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
-The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
This is brilliant, I love it. It’s a joke, but it actually captures my experience of my assigned gender at birth perfectly.
I took what came out of the box, very much factory default here. My offspring are figuring it out at the minute, Imma let them cook.
Factory default, but I tweaked it a bit and installed a few add-ons.
Same. I really didn’t feel at home until I went through the gender-crisis config and made the setup my own. At first I was overwhelmed by all the different
distrosgenders, but I was jazzed to discover how much you can customise in the factory default.
Beta testing a system update. Lots of improvements here. This beta has been open for quite a while, and it seems to be catching on. It’s already more or less stable. I expect mass adoption with somewhat regional distribution at the 1.0 release. Of course you’ll have the stragglers insisting the out-dated version was better. In comparison I find it clunky, restrictive, and demanding. Our processing power has increased in orders of magnitude; why we’d want to keep using an archaic way of doing things like this is a head scratcher.
Compatibility reasons with legacy code, and still more simple than the new beta software. Encourages further propagation of the software downstream through easier reproduction and simpler creation of child processes