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[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same here. Fuck the naysayers who say cold turkey or nothing. Do what works for you.

For OP: One caveat to the vape plan is you'll likely need to get a vape that's refillable so you can customize the nicotine level. Juul/vuse/disposables typically only come in one, or at best, 2 nicotine levels, which prevents effective tapering.

Also, don't fall into the trap of vaping places you wouldn't have smoked (e.g. in your house/car). That can increase your nicotine dependency.

Good luck!

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Here's the list of devices supported by fprint

For non -standalone readers, you'll have to look up the actual fingerprint reader embedded within it.

Edit: it looks like this is a Bluetooth keyboard. My guess is it's highly unlikely to work with Linux as a fingerprint reader.

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 3 months ago

Transphobes: You can't change your gender from what was assigned at birth. Facts don't care about your feelings.

Also transphobes: a person who was assigned female at birth, was born with a vagina, and raised as a woman in a country that is in no way supportive of its queer population... is not a woman.

If only mental gymnastics were an Olympic event.

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Aside from driving being an activity that, in my opinion, will require something approaching AGI, there are other issues to consider. Self driving cars will be completely unable to make difficult decisions reliably. How, for example, do they deal with a robbery where you just have someone stand in front of the car to immobilize it and then have the folks inside the car at your mercy? I have to imagine that either you're producing pedestrian murder machines or serving up passengers on a silver platter.

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Reason number 5,378 to date/marry someone who's bi. 😂

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Oh makeup. I was a wreck early in my transition. My wife helped me pick out some makeup and taught me some basics. She then tolerated my inevitable crying and delays each morning when I would make a mistake and feel like I had to start over. Between trying to learn everything and going through Puberty 2 : Estrogenic Boogaloo, it was kind of rough.

Pretty great on the other side though. Few things have felt as good as my wife asking me for makeup tips!

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to say first off that this is kind of depressing. That said, after my initial knee-jerk reaction of "fuck you, Duolingo," it occurs to me that is might be a better outcome than them pulling out of Russia altogether.

Providing Russian citizens easy access to language learning provides them access to non-Russian media and non-Russian discourse on queer issues.

In my own experience, learning a language as an adult has taken place in ~3 stages: 1. learn from instructional material exclusively, 2. consume foreign language material with native-language support/tools, 3. learn more of the language via context. If having an app available to folks in an oppressive country helps them get through stage 1 and into 2/3, it gives them a chance to escape the hateful discourse of the regime... In theory.

On the other hand, maybe it's just capitalists being capitalists.

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago

Same here. There's plenty I might like to change here and there in life, but absolutely nothing on this front. Celebrating 11 years in a few weeks, best decision I ever made.

Now, the first time... Well, second time's the charm, it would seem.

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 months ago

Hey! Sorry you're feeling shitty. I just finished Cassette Beasts while I was down with COVID. It's a fun, different take on the Pokemon formula with a cool aesthetic. Perhaps not the absolute coziest, but still cozy in my book.

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

In addition to all the other reasons offered re: functional analogy, many of the aviation terms themselves come from naval / boating / sea-faring. Pilot is a good example, previously having been used in the sense of "riverboat pilot," etc.

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 9 months ago

To me, this reads like "Giant-ATV-Based Taxi Service Couldn't Exist If Operators were Required to Pay Homeowners for Driving over their Houses."

If a business can't exist without externalizing its costs, that business should either a. not exist, or b. be forced to internalize those costs through licensing or fees. See also, major polluters.

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