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Admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone

I can also be found on the microblog fediverse at @ada@blahaj.zone or on matrix at @ada:chat.blahaj.zone

  • Installing EndeavourOS, should I use btrfs or ext4?

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  • I will say, if you're a newbie, then btrfs has one big benefit, especially when combined with Grub or Limine as your boot loader, and that is the ability to just roll back to a previous snapshot when something breaks.

    Playing with things and breaking things as you learn is a lot less of a hassle when you can simply roll back your system to where it was yesterday, instead of having to re-install it from scratch

  • Installing EndeavourOS, should I use btrfs or ext4?

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  • These days there isn't really any reason to avoid btrfs. It's stable, and has a lot of nice features.

  • Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it's Biggest Feature

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  • tbh, I didn't get that far. It could be legit. It just didn't sound legit, and I didn't see a person in the first little bit I watched, so I turned it off before giving it much of a go. When combined with the clickbait headline, I just felt like I wasn't going to get much out of it

  • Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it's Biggest Feature

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  • I clicked, it sounded like an AI generated voice. I turned it off

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  • What they're getting at is they don't ask for people who are trans, they ask for people "navigating gender dysphoria".

    It's like someone using "females" instead of women.

    When you choose that framing, it's often a sign of something deeper at play...

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  • So Littman and Bailey are controversial. Not unethical. (Fyi Lisa Littman is herself a trans woman).

    Incorrect. They are both unethical.

    Littman for example, when doing her study on rapid onset gender dysphoria, targeted only online spaces which were full of parents that were upset and angry at having a transgender child. Her sample was deliberately and knowingly biased towards supporting the hypothesis she invented. Her audience also didn't involve any trans people, only the parents of trans people, and parents who were, as a group, explicitly more likely to be strongly uncomfortable with the idea of having a trans child.

    This wasn't a mistake, or an oversight. It was a deliberate choice she made to bias her results. That's not "controversial", that's outright unethical.

    Similarly, Bailey regularly lies to his participant audience, and loads his studies with questions predisposed to get the results he wants to show.

    The study linked to in this post is a classic example of that. None of the results of this will be designed to help people navigate dysphoria. The study is trying to draw trans people in to think that they're helping, when in fact, the results will be used to actively undermine their ability to seek transition care and support.

    Bailey and Littmans findings make the trans community angry because the research supports that for some trans females, (not all but some) they transition due to a sexual kink. That they can only be sexually excited by being a woman.

    Even that's not true.

    When you look at the definitions Bailey uses for autogynephilia for example, if you apply those same measures to cis women, it turns out, they too more often than not, meet the requirements for autogynephilia. It only becomes a paraphilia when the woman is trans though, and it only becomes an explanation for the woman's identity, when the woman is trans.

    It's taking a real correlation, ignoring the fact that the correlation isn't unique to trans folk, and then using that correlation as an explanation for trans identity.

    He never said it's true for all female trans people.

    He said it's the only way to be a trans woman that is asexual, bisexual or gay.

    The only trans women who don't fit his criteria of transitioning due to a paraphilia, are straight trans women. Who, by the way, he calls "Homosexual transexuals". He can't even recognise their gender... And speaking of that, even though he thinks that trans women who aren't straight should be able to transition, he doesn't think that they're women, and will repeatedly misgender them or talk only about their birth sex when talking about them.

    Take a look at this, from his personal blog...

    In this screenshot, you can see that whilst defending a woman who had nazis at her rally, he refers to trans women as "male" without ever referring to them as women, whilst also showing a diagram that says all trans activists are paraphillic (and thus, not really trans)

    Bailey genuinely believes he is doing good science. But he's not. He's got a lens through which he perceives transgender identity, and he is absolutely not open to challenging that. That's not good science...

    I struggle to understand how you can call anything the man does "ethical"

  • Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details)

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  • These have been our settings pretty much since we set up pbz

  • Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details)

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  • Hi! What's up?

  • Do you backup your docker images?

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  • Nope. Data directories and compose files only.

  • Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine

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  • The only adobe software I used was photo editing, so Lightroom and Photoshop. I have no idea what their other apps do, or how they compare to linux equivalents

  • Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine

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  • Ah, no, I use darktable for all of my editing. But sorting my photos, rating, tagging and flagging them for future editing is all digikam.

  • Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine

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  • Digikam is built from the ground up to be a photo cataloger. Hierarchical tags that you can click on to expand or contract, the ability to jump from a given photo to all photos taken on the same date, or all photos in the same folder, or all photos that share a particular tag. Collapsible folders and tag structures, the ability to toggle child tag/folder recursive view on or off, image grouping (automated by filename/timestamp/burst). They also share metadata perfectly well through EXIF data, so anything I do in one is visible in the other right away.

    This is digikam

    This is the same folder in darktable

  • Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine

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  • My biggest issue with darktable was the masking. It's so different in darktable, but once I understood it, all the barriers fell away

    I can't find something that has a decent workflow. I'm not looking for anything fancy

    I import, sort and tag my photos with Digikam, and then open them with darktable for editing.

  • Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine

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  • I was one of the former. Photography isn't my job, but it's really important to me, and photo editing was a show stopper for me for a long time. Even after I moved to Linux full time, I was using remote desktops, VMs and whatever else I could manage to get Adobe stuff working, without having to switch back to Windows. I endured, because I'd finally hit a threshold where that pain was worth putting up with in preference to Windows and its built in ads and spyware.

    But when I finally gave up on getting Lightroom working on linux, I figured I had no choice but to learn a linux compatible workflow... It was either that, or go back to windows, and that wasn't happening...

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  • In hindsight, I'm so glad I couldn't get them working on linux, because it forced me to get my head around Darktable. I couldn't go back to Lightroom now...

  • [Answered] Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views?

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  • It's also not a fork

  • Big Garmin Public Beta Update Adds 25 New Features to 2025 Watches

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  • The problem is, at this point at least, Garmin is still the best in market, and their path down enshittification hasn't cut away the tools that make that so. The stuff they paywall is stuff that isn't needed, and as long as they keep it that way, I'll be ok with staying with them. I use a Fenix 6S, and they stopped doing anything interesting with it years ago, but it still works and still does everything it did on the day I bought it. I probably won't replace it for another 6 months or so, but even though I'll likely buy Garmin again, this shit has me concerned enough that it probably won't be a Fenix this time, because I feel like enshittification that does impact basic functionality could drop at any moment...

  • DistroWatch - The best open source operating systems of 2025

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  • I've been using CachyOS for a couple of years now, so I suppose that makes it my favourite distro of 2025

  • PhotoStructure vs. PhotoPrism

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  • I used photoprism for a long time, but when I tried immich, I dropped photoprism in an instant.