Saoirse [she/her, comrade/them]

A distant voice from a terminal at the edge of the world, overlooking the rough sea. Transfem, out and on HRT for over 10 years, with work experience in healthcare. Here to help my trans comrades in any way I can.

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Cake day: October 21st, 2023

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  • It should be kept in mind that nobody has to do a lot of deep checking to find out you’re trans and decide they don’t like you because of that. A lot of times they can just look at your face and see it, and if not, your ID may not match what they see. And then you have to try to find a job there, because even if you’re moving somewhere that your dollars have relatively strong buying power, you aren’t going to live on that for more than a year at best. Hard enough to get a job as a trans person as a born citizen who speaks the language, I wouldn’t like my chances trying to get one as a foreigner speaking a second language.











  • Manjaro here. It’s essentially Arch with a pleasant installer, reasonable defaults, and a nice desktop theme. I recently had to switch from the KDE build to the Gnome build because KDE does NOT seem to get along with Nvidia GPU drivers right now. Now it’s butter. Use Lutris to manage your windows games in their own little sandboxes, 9/10 games you’d swear they’re native software. Some actually run better under linux than under Windows 11. Cities Skylines 2 was the most dramatic example. Like 20 extra fps.




  • It’s AI yeah. Look at all the tech on the table in the middle, it all just dissolves into sludge. Also, it’s hard to articulate, but there’s something about the way current image generation models generate transparent materials, such as that squat little water bottle in the foreground, that always jumps out to me. I suspect because it’s primarily learned what drink container should look like from overlit advertisements.