Also from my own experience, public visibility and education matters so much. Growing up in Hungary, I only knew that trans people “lived as the other gender”, but I never heard about HRT or even surgeries (aside from tabloid coverage of MtF bottom surgery 🙄). I knew that the way my body looked, I would never be seen as anything else than female, so I didn’t even acknowledge to myself that I would be much happier as a guy. It just wasn’t a possibility, so being a practical person, I never really considered the idea.

I was in my early twenties by the time I randomly heard of the existence FtM top surgery and HRT, and in a moment my world turned upside down. I still spent like a month with tons of introspection and educating myself, but when I was sure of myself, I started my my transition and never regretted it.

I never went looking for extreme violence, but in my teens I sometimes visited the “extreme/bizarre” shock blogs of my country, so saw quite a few disgusting sexual videos that are burned into my mind forever, like cock-and-ball torture (up to self-amputation) and various bestiality types 😬

my middle school classmates were browsing rotten.com on the school computers in the breaks, so I’ve seen at least one drowned corpse when passing by 🤢

Lawnchair worked out pretty well for me, might be worth a try for you too? I just had to ignore that their promotional screenshots are all boring monochrome, turns out the launcher itself doesn’t force any colours :)

Allergic? No. Need certain features for my work that FLOSS software either doesn’t have or takes a lot more hassle to achieve? Yes.

Not paying for Adobe, but tried out Inkscape as an Illustrator alternative and damn its UI just felt so unintuitive - many tools and menus were laid out by a different logic than the one I’m used to. Also it still doesn’t properly support CMYK colours from what I can see on their website.

ew… it is my favourite launcher but I disabled updates once it got acquired 😭

Does anyone know of a launcher with similar customisability? All the active launchers I found focus on minimalism and no or monochrome icons, while Nova lets me arrange my colourful icons in whatever way I want, reskin them, etc 😐

Edit: Lawnchair’s Nova backup import feature in their newest beta release pushed me to try it out, let’s see 👀

Edit 2: ok it seems to only have lost my home-pinned website bookmarks, so this could be a workable solution 😊

nice timing, I heard of it literally today from this Smashing Magazine article :D

Sunless Sea. Neat setting and writing. I don’t like the gameplay — simple combat, not very interesting choices, hunt-the-item stuff.

Oh I forgot about Sunless Sea. I played the hell out of Fallen London, but the switch to real-time gameplay was stressful enough that not even the worldbuilding and writing could make up for it.

BioShock and any other narrative-heavy games with a shooter/action gameplay. I love lore and worldbuilding, but I really hate shooter gameplay, even more so in first person. If they were, say, turn-based RPGs, I would absolutely play them.

Anyone else here from Scotland? 😅🌫️

I’m using the cracked versions released by m0nkrus, and they have worked reliably over the years.

Predictably Adobe’s apps are now full of genAI crap, but sadly(?) they still release useful new features as well, so I keep them up to date.

Thanks, I’ll check out Where Winds Meet! :)

(Edit: according to their Steam page they use genAI dialogue and art, so that’s a pass :/ )

Dunno about current adobes, but don’t they also run fine via wine? Have only one single tool so far that makes a bit trouble (mediamonkey).

From the reports I see on WineHQ, they are all various levels of broken, though the last versions tested were from 2024.

You could vote with your wallet and just not play those specific ones.

Oh I’m not paying for them, but still one of my main daily drivers is Genshin, and I haven’t found such an enjoyable open world exploration in any other game I’ve tried. (I’m PC-only so haven’t tried Breath of the Wild.)

Regarding Adobe suite in a professional manner, I’m pretty sure they work on MacOS.

I would never touch a Mac, it’s way more of a walled garden than Windows.

Also I was talking about Adobe alternatives like Inkscape for Illustrator or Scribus for InDesign. From what I’ve read they are really not there yet. (Tried Inkscape a few times, but the UI is so unintuitive for my brain used to Adobe’s UI/workflow 😭)

Gives 6 more years for Adobe and my online games to start supporting Linux D: (or the Adobe alternatives to become more suitable for professional use)