AVincentInSpace

My parents loved and cherished me growing up, and still do, which is part of why I was the only kid in sixth grade with a laptop (the other part was I had a disability accommodation with the school that allowed me to type my assignments rather than write them by hand). The fact that they encouraged my programming talent at that age, didn't get mad when I installed a Fedora dual-boot on that laptop, and bought me the book Python for Kids for my 12th birthday, is why I'm a programmer now.

I'm sorry your parents didn't show you the love and support you deserved, but that's not the criterion we should be looking for.

There are a lot of things that Apple just straight up tells you you can't do -- I don't use a Mac often enough to make a list, but I can tell you that running apps made by people who aren't giving Apple $99/yr for code signing was recently added to it -- and using MacOS means being okay with that.

Because it's Unix, and Windows isn't, and they refuse to try Linux because it's ~~not backed by a corporation~~ too much of a headache to use day-to-day

careful, you mentioned linux on 196, that's a hangin' offense

When given due process of law, convicted by a jury of peers, and when it becomes obvious there really is no other way. That's justice. One guy with a gun is just a murderer.

Which is precisely why vigilante justice is so dangerous. Do I need to be worried because I said something that some asshat with a gun who was having a really bad day misinterpreted as transphobic, or in case I happen to look like somebody who raped somebody else's sister?

on the plus side, i now know that if a climate disaster doesn't do me in, the french revolution 2 electric boogaloo will

shooter was trained videogame killer

Oh my god, is it time for the boomer "Call of Duty makes kids violent" discourse again?

Among Us

nvm, this is peak comedy actually

for fuck's sake, chill. they were calling out one specific trans person who was harassing people who weren't using their preferred pronouns.

Draconic_NEO thinks that while trans people are valid, and neopronouns like xe/xer are valid, neoprounouns like "drag" that refer only to a single person cease to function as pronouns. when a word refers exclusively to a single person, that word is a proper noun. Draconic_NEO also thinks that hounding people over failure to use neopronouns is not especially poggers. these are both very reasonable stances.

by your comment history i'm guessing you've just started hormones. you're definitely not the first trans girl who's gone through a major emotional phase. hormones are running high -- it's no surprise you're prone to lashing out. but i'd like to remind you that you're saying that someone hates all trans people based on an opinion in reference to neopronouns, which are an entirely separate issue from the concept of transness and a contentious topic even among nonbinary people -- an opinion, i might add, that that person has demonstrated they do not hold.

personally, I'd advocate against someone being banned from the entire Fediverse if they said being gay should be illegal -- and i am gay. people's opinions can change, and permanent bans from entire platforms do nothing except make them more bitter and more hateful. you can ban assholes from communities, and if you disagree with the mods on whether someone should be banned, lemmy has a block button for a reason.

more to the point, though, the point of the fediverse is, and has been from its inception, uncensorable freedom of speech. the fact that no corporation -- and by extension no individual -- can tell you what you can and can't say, regardless of what that is, is literally the entire point. the fediverse is an unfathomably large place, not limited to the five or six instances you keep hearing about, and it is designed specifically so that it is impossible to completely ban someone. in fact, TruthSocial (Donald Tr*mp's personal Tw*tter clone) is a Mastodon instance. the price we pay for nobody being able to tell us what we can and can't post about here on fedi with regard to queerness is that we have no means to fight back against anti-gay/anti-trans dipshits besides defederation and the block button.

also, pro tip: pinging someone over and over and calling them a hateful bigot, especially when they aren't, doesn't make them change their mind, it just makes them annoyed at you.