• @[email protected]
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    Fun fact: they’re actually the same person, but he sold it and bought it back when she realized the gross mistake she made

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

      • IninewCrow
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        2710 months ago

        Or is it trans people turn their systems to Linux?

        Is it the chicken or the egg?

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          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

    • @Eheran
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      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.

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        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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        Trans etc. are always a minority, obviously. They would not have to fight for their rights otherwise.

        no one should have to fight for their right, but that doesn’t change the fact that non-trans people enjoy customizing their os as well. so answer to the original question is yes, it is a loud minority.

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      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.

        • @Dashi
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          While funny to meme about not really true. IT is made up of all sorts of people. Furries, trans, lgtbq+, tired oarny old men and everything in-between.

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            There is a disproportionately large number of furries working as network admins though. Whenever you use the internet, there’s a good chance that your data is transiting via a network administered by furries.

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

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

      • @Godnroc
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        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!

      • @rwhitisissle
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        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.

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          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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          Yeah, god forbid anyone have a little fun in a corporate environment. Gotta stay in uniform.

          I put a rainbow peel off sticker next to my camera just so I had something nice to look at during the endless Zoom meetings. No one but I could see it. Still got a bollocksing because some boomer passed too close behind my work station once in four years.

          • @rwhitisissle
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            Extensively. Nobody has stickers on their laptops. Maybe that’s some “fresh out of college” shit.

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              Maybe. Maybe it’s a “We can’t afford to alienate expensive engineers over stickers” thing, or a “We care more about the quality of work than sticks on laptops” thing.

              Must be a fun place you work at. Do you wear a suit to work and work in cubicles?

              • @rwhitisissle
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                I don’t talk about the specific details of my employment on the internet with strangers. Especially with those who are fishing for a fight in which I have little interest.

                • @SuddenlyBlowGreen
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                  Okay, have fun a work tomorrow! Or don’t, as that seems to be your preference. :-)

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

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      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.

  • @uis
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    Since when programming socks counts as trans rights?

  • @[email protected]
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    I’m still mourning for my t400 that died last week, and everything makes me remember my old friend :(

  • @balancedchaos
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    My two recent $90 laptop purchases can confirm this.