Limerance

Do you know how to do that in windows? How did learn?

I‘ve gotten a library card last year and that a fantastic decision.

For new Linux users it’s best to stick with well established and supported distributions. Then it’s easier to find solutions for common problems.

It’s good practice to look up what the commands do, you enter when you find a solution. Read the man page or other documentation of the command you’re entering. It doesn’t need to be everything, just enough to get an idea what it does.

Also: take notes when you find a problem and how you fixed it. You can go back to them later.

sound and screen dimming

You can’t give a general answer to this. There are several different software stacks for sound on Linux. A typical one goes like this, but can look different.

Kernel - driver - ALSA - PipeWire - desktop environment - application - user

There might be an error at each of these levels.

In the simplest case, it’s a bad configuration, where the volume is set to 0 or mute somewhere in this stack. So try different applications first to play sound, also try playing sound from the terminal. Change volume sliders in different places.

Then go down the stack. Try playing sound with ALSA directly using aplay and speaker-test.

Finally go down to the driver and see if the hardware is detected. Depending if the soundcard is connected via USB or PCI use lsusb or lspci.

Find out the type snd chipset of your soundcard and then search if there’s a driver for Linux already. If you have new or unpopular hardware, it can take a while (a year or two) for a driver to be written, tested, and accepted into the kernel. Then it has to go downstream to the distributions until you get it. So for new hardware you might have to do some additional steps like finding a driver and compiling a kernel yourself.

It’s also worth checking the log files of the audio stack (ALSA, pipewire, or whatever your distro uses).

screen dimming

The stack looks like this:

Kernel - driver - X11/XOrg or Wayland - compositor - Desktop Environment (KDE, Gnome, etc.)

The error might be the keystroke not registering, the desktop not sending the right command, the display driver not supporting dimming, a bad or missing configuration. Again work through the stack. Find out what your distro uses.

Try setting the brightness through the terminal for example.

The US is awash with guns. 3D printing a gun is more expensive and time consuming than just buying one illegally.

A 3D printer can mainly make things like frames. The one part that’s actually hard to make is the barrel. That one isn’t made in a 3D printer.

Lots of 3D printers have open source firmware. There are several designs you can build yourself from easily available parts. So it would be easy to patch out the detection.

Even if this was implemented, it would have negligible impact on gun related crime in the USA. It also would make 3D printing guns only marginally more difficult.

This is just attention seeking populism and might even get enough attention so lawmakers will try and implement it.

Watch this fear mongering video by wired on it and read the comments.

If you see this, a blessing is bestowed upon you.

Developers need to eat, pay rent, etc.

That’s textbook trolling.

You have to do it yourself.

2019. Venezuela already had a decade of severe decline before that. Things got bad way before sanctions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Venezuela

Economic conditions continued to deteriorate in 2016 when consumer prices rose 800% and the gross domestic product contracted by 18.6%,^[39] causing hunger to escalate to the point that the “Venezuela’s Living Conditions Survey” (ENCOVI) found nearly 75 percent of the population had lost an average of at least 19 pounds in 2016 due to a lack of proper nutrition.^[40] Luis Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States(OAS) stated, “I have never seen a country going down so fast, at every level: politically, economically, socially”.

On 1 May 2017 following a month of protests that resulted in at least 29 dead, Maduro called for a Constituent Assembly that would draft a new constitution that would replace the 1999 Venezuela Constitution.^[42] He invoked Article 347, and stated that his call for a new constitution was necessary to counter the actions of the opposition. The members of the Constituent Assembly were not to be elected in open elections, but selected from social organizations loyal to Maduro.^[42] It would also allow him to stay in power during the interregnum and skip the 2018 presidential elections, as the process would take at least two years

Found the link you got this from https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

It doesn’t mention Sway.

The reaction to this incident were a new code of conduct, new mods, apologies, and more. https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandCommunityChanges

Was this an isolated incident? Did it have consequences later on? Was the mod removed from the Discord?

Could you provide a link to the source you copied this from?

The Sway website only links to an IRC chat, not Discord. https://swaywm.org/

Same in the official subreddit. https://old.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/1fk968u/sway_discord_or_matrix_or_irc_server/ Only IRC, no Discord.

The biggest far right group in Germany are the Turkish grey wolves.

What sanctions do you mean, specifically? The US had barely any sanctions against Venezuela. Most sanctions were against members of the regime, not the country. The US remained the biggest customer for Venezuelan oil long after Chavez gained power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_during_the_Venezuelan_crisis

Early sanctions came in response to repression during the 2014 and the 2017 Venezuelan protests, and activities both during the 2017 Constituent Assembly election and the 2018 presidential election. Sanctions were placed on current and former government officials, including members of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice(TSJ) and the 2017 Constituent National Assembly (ANC), members of the military and security forces, and private individuals accused of being involved in human rights abuses, degradation in the rule of law, repression of democracy, and corruption. Canada and the E.U. began applying sanctions in 2017.

Chavez took power in 1999. More than a decade before these sanctions started.

The utter mismanagement by the Chavistas in power are the main reason Venezuela has been doing badly for years leading to a fucked economy, rising crime, lacking healthcare and food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Chávez

The high oil profits coinciding with the start of Chavez’s presidency^[15]resulted in temporary improvements in areas such as poverty, literacy, income equality and quality of life between primarily 2003 and 2007,^[16][15][17] though extensive changes in structural inequalities did not occur.^[18] On 2 June 2010, Chávez declared an “economic war” on Venezuela’s upper classes due to shortages, arguably beginning the crisis in Venezuela.^[19] By Chávez’s death in 2013, economic actions performed by his government during the preceding decade, such as deficit spending^[20][21][22] and price controls,^[23][24] proved to be unsustainable, with Venezuela’s economy faltering. At the same time, poverty,^[15][25] inflation^[26] and shortages increased.

Give that poor lady a straw.

It’s not about invalidation. It’s about the case of lost and mentally unwell people finding out about transgender, then find a welcoming community, that accepts them. They get presented a simple explanation on why they don’t feel like themselves and a path through that. If other people (like the parents) shed doubt on this, they can be called transphobic and face social consequences. So if someone grabs onto this, they get treatment in the form of hormone pills pretty much immediately under informed consent.

Differential diagnosis for mental health issues is never easy. One mental health issue can easily cause others. The major difference is that gender and being trans can become a big part of one’s identity. You don’t get that to that extent with other disorders.

Especially the overlap with autism is interesting and not obviouS. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/crossing-boundaries-unraveling-the-link-between-gender-dysphoria-and-autism/DB33E9208EF32A46C4AE83D9B673F498

Preliminary findings indicate that individuals with ASD may experience higher rates of gender dysphoria compared to the general population. Factors such as social communication difficulties, rigid thinking patterns, and heightened sensitivity to social norms appear to influence the experience of gender identity. Qualitative data reveal that many individuals navigate significant challenges in accessing appropriate support and validation, often feeling marginalized within both the autistic and gender-diverse communities.

I invite you to seek out interviews with detransitioners and people who used to work in gender affirming care, if you want to learn about Trans issues from someone besides activists.

That said trans people are real and some benefit from transitioning. The very charged political climate around this health care issue, creates problems for trans and non trans folk alike.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2147/AHMT.S135432

Evidence from the 10 available

prospective follow-up studies from childhood to adolescence

(reviewed in the study by Ristori and Steensma28) indicates

that for ~80% of children who meet the criteria for GDC,

the GD recedes with puberty

Puberty blockers are a strong change in your life and a severe intrusion into the natural development of a body. Instead of going through puberty like most other kids, the child will be behind in their physical development by years. That can lead to social and psychological problems of course.

There’s generally not much quality research into the long term effects, as you can read repeatedly in [the Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty_blocker#Research).

As for transitioning not resolving the psychological issues, those choosing to detransition are the best proof. https://segm.org/first_large_study_of_detransitioners

The participants’ decision to detransition was most often tied to the realization that their gender dysphoria was related to other issues (70%), health concerns (62%), and the fact that transition did not alleviate their dysphoria (50%). Interestingly, over 4 in 10 (43%) participants endorsed a change in political views as a reason for detransition.

Most participants reported significant difficulties finding the help that they needed during their detransition process from medical, mental health, or LGBT communities. Only 13% of the respondents received help from LGBT organizations when detransitioning, compared to 51% when transitioning. A number of participants reported negative reactions from LGBT and medical communities, and 51% of the sample expressed that they did not feel supported during their detransition.

Most detransitioners reported ongoing needs related to managing comorbid mental health conditions (65%), finding alternatives to medical transition (65%), and coping with regret (60%). Half of the sample reported the need for medical information on stopping or changing hormone regimens. A great majority of participants also expressed the need to hear about others’ detransition experiences (87%) and getting in contact with other detransitioners (76%). The study highlights the urgency of providing appropriate medical, psychological, legal, and social support to detransitioners.

I haven’t bothered to look for data concerning the long term mental health of those who transition. I only have lots of anecdotes from conversations with trans folk over the years. That’s of course not representative.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36151828/

Our findings coincide with existing research, which indicates TG individuals do experience a higher prevalence of mental health disorders than that of the general population or cisgender individuals

Watch the video.

Probably your client‘s fault.

State has the monopoly on violence.

The popular front of course!