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Vivaldi Browser | Source Available

Last I’d checked, Vivaldi isn’t open source, so do you have any way to verify their privacy claims? Don’t trust black boxes.

Like, if you like it as a browser, that makes sense, it’s ui is well designed and customizable. But every company tries to claim to be privacy respecting, and it’s rarely true.

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does anyone else switch between different aesthetics every 2 weeks because they can't decide

What’s with the negative reactions here, people? The post highlights one of the fun aspects of reinventing/discovering yourself, the art style is a common one and doesn’t detract from the message.

/rant over

lol I’m still trying to figure out my style after living as myself for six years already, though for me I’m torn between cottage dresses vs giant hoodies

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Vim > VSCode

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The big one (imo) is extensions. Outside of the vscode/atom/vim/emacs ecosystems sublime has probably the largest library of extensions, and they’re readily installable. So if you want an extensible text editor that’s not based around electron or the terminal it’s the obvious answer.

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Btw, I'm..

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The only class I ever had bring it up was my optional college level philosophy class, and even then I’m pretty sure it was more from the professor than the school. I freaking love that man for it, he changed my life. If you want to learn how animals are treated here, most of the time you gotta do the research yourself. Regrettably, very few people care enough to do so…

mtf

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Hey girls! Baby trans here with some questions about body hair

Either a safety razor or Phillips one blade are excellent investments. The former is a smoother very economical shave, the latter is very fast and convenient (can’t cut yourself, and don’t need water). They don’t last as long as an epilator, but it’s a worthwhile trade off for the convenience.

As others have said, lasers are supposed to be great if you have dark hair, but I’m sharing what I’ve settled on as a person with nothing but light blonde.

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Which Linux tool or command is surprisingly simple, powerful, and yet underrated?"

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Helix is a terminal based text editor. It’s much like vim / neovim, but unlike those editors it’s good to go right out of the box, no configuration or plugins needed to make it work well.

Topgrade is one I haven’t used, but it looks like its intended purpose is to let you upgrade your apps with one command, even if you use multiple different package managers (I.e. if you were on Ubuntu, you could use it to upgrade your apt packages, at the same time as your snap packages, as well as flatpak, nix, and homebrew if you’ve added those.)