Had two nice encounters today:
First, I was at the indoor spaces of a playground with my children. After some hours there, a six-year-old asked: "Are you a boy or a girl?", to which I said "neither one really. A little bit more a girl than a boy, but not really either one."
"But then why do you look so much like a woman if you are not a woman?"

(The child has no idea how warm and giddy that made me! My voice is the deepest male voice I know among my social circle, but my clothing and accessory style is that of a woman. Haven't really felt as female as I'd want to, but apparently there's more female to my appearance than I had really thought)

And then I was walking towards home with my children and learned that there's a trans-dar just like there's a gaydar. I'm bi enough to have a largely functioning gaydar and the searching signal and response seem to work in the same manner.

In any case, I was guessing she's probably trans, and let the transdar do its magic to be sure. And after that I read a lovely greeting from her lips, to which I gestured a friendly greeting back. And then we continued our ways, me towards the bus terminal, she away from it.

First I had my first experience of passing, which is nice. Even if on a very easy level. And then, under half an hour later, I learned that I'm a part of a more tight-knit community than I had really understood. It felt meaningful for a random stranger to turn out to be a friend.

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A community for photographs of signs. There are places where you can send images of signs that are meant to be funny, or are accidentally funny.

But maybe there's one that is just... Stupid? ...in an interesting way? Or clever? Or surprising? Or whatever you feel like: If it's a photo of a sign or a sign-like thingummywut, and you feel like it belongs in this comm, then in this comm belong it does!

Somehow my autologin has seized to respect my previous choice for session type. My Tumbleweed autologins me into KDE. I logout, manually choose GNOME and use the computer happily. Next time: I'm back to KDE again. I even tried logging in with Gnome chose, logging out, logging in again (this time it defaulted to Gnome as expected), and then rebooting. And back to KDE I was. Meh.

Currently using SDDM as the DM.

Any idea of how I could tell my otherwise friendly leetle computer that I would please prefer it booting into Gnome?

Even the emo people Sebastian and Ms. I-Eat-Chairs adhere to an extremely strict schedule. They do everything at precisely the same time as they did the previous year in the same day. WHY?!

What will happen to an inhabitant of Pelican Town if they for once fail to adhere to the Pelican Town Cult's special timetable? Will Lewis come and slaughter them with their* own bare hands?

There is clearly something sinister going on... How come does the player character know nothing at all about it?! Why isn't the spooky behaviour brought up even once during all those years of hacking in the mines?

::: spoiler *)
the victim's
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I really love the level design of Need For Speed II. It's at the same time intentionally unrealistic, but still feels "realistic" at the same same - as opposed to the cartoony feeling of the likes of Mario Kart.

So, what more modern games reach that atmosphere? Burnout Paradise to some extent, but even that loses by far to the track scenery design of NFS II. I've seen all tracks on NFS II SE so many times that something more would be good to find!

The current way to add an emoji reaction on Android is the following:

1. Click the three dots' menu button
2. Choose React...
3. Choose Other...
4. Tap the text field saying "Enter an emoji"
5. Press the smiley button next to the space key.
6. Find the desired emoji
7. Tap on the emoji

This is quite a chore, actually!

Firstly, I'd request for at least the top5 emojis used by me to show right after I've tapped React.... Preferably 10.
Secondly, if the "Enter an emoji" text field was active immediately, it would reduce one click from the process even if I'm using some emoji I use less often.

From a post by @[email protected] at https://threadiverse.link/nord.pub/post/27994

Melkoisen merkityksellistä, että mielenosoituksia saa näköjään järjestää vaikka ne ärsyttäisivät jotakuta.

Sorry, cannot reasonably report this in any more proper manner in the hurry.

The character & somehow gets garbled here when viewed through Lemmy:

It started getting a bit difficult posting here because my old username, Tuuktuuk, is based on my official name that is slowly fading away, and the temporary username I invented to get started here, Egghead, no longer properly fit me either. So, I just became unable to post or comment anything at all in the Forumverse because the nicknames didn't feel "mine".

But this one really makes me happy. Before I was born, my mother still knew I'm a girl, and named me Linda, which then was changed to another name right after I was born.

So, I took that given name as a base. It has several concurrent etymologies, but one of them is the linden tree. It symbolizes softness and caring, and those have always been adjectives people have used for describing my personality. Linden in my native language, Finnish, is lehmus. But, in many Indo-European languages -us is a masculine suffix.

But then: added an a to feminize it a bit. Made the u longer to include the word "muusa", which is Finnish for muse, the goddess things from Greek mythology. And then Lehmuusa also sounds like a Finnish dialect reference, and it can be understood as meaning either "linden-y" or also "kinda cow-like" (from lehmä = cow), which is kind of a bonkers way to refer to a fine lady, but I have always had a very absurd sense of humour. Happy to be a little bit of a cow! Also, I'm very good in emulating mooing sounds of a cow, so it fits. Plus, there's also "muu", which is how you write "moo" in Finnish.

Also, an earlier nickname I had used for about two decades had been a reference to me being good in quacking like a duck, so the mooing, also an animal sound, connects to my past.

And then, I studied Latvian philology as my main subject for a long time before I changed professions, and the linden tree has importance in the Latvian folklore, as a symbol of feminity. And Latvian language and culture have become important parts of my identity even though I have no Latvian roots.

Then, I also lived in Germany for some years when I grew adult. My German was good enough that people confused me for a native speaker. And Lehm is German for "clay", and I like clay as a material. And it connects to my past in Germany.

And of course, I just really love trees and forests!

This is by far the best nickname I've ever had anywhere. Feels mine! 🌳💚♀️🐮🇫🇮🇬🇷🇩🇪🇱🇻🫖