Considering you can turn off telemetry and never need to connect it to the internet after activation, I’m assuming that - like how Adobe uses cheap education licenses to on-ramp people onto their platform - this is largely intended to drive professionals towards Canva and their various other products. They take a loss on this product to become the de-facto standard image/vector/publishing application.

Still no Linux support. As someone who purchased the Affinity Suite, I’m not sure I like this shift in model. If they keep to just fencing off AI in premium and keep investing in the whole app, fine, but I don’t have my hopes up.

Oh yep sorry I should have added units, you’re right I was using nmol/L.

Should be able to do it at <your instance>/create_community

The first thing I’ll say is this: it’s worth it. If you want HRT, it’s worth the awkwardness. Besides that for me personally, there were a couple notable things. For a couple years at the start of my transition, I had essentially no libedo (having previously had a high one) because my testosterone levels dropped too low. Mine was below detectable levels, whereas about 0.8-0.9 was a more reasonable target for me. That is to say, watch out for low energy and libedo, women need testosterone too.

Aside from that, I wouldn’t say I’ve had to “relearn” anything, but it has changed my relationship with my body. I like my body more than ever, and certain areas are more sensitive to stimulation than they were before. It’s great, I have whole new areas of my body I can enjoy in bed. On the other hand, as the dysphoria around the rest of my body has improved, my dysphoria around genitals has become more pronounced. It’s manageable, it’s something I had to learn to navigate and communicate to partners. HRT also commonly causes ED, but that’s nothing some Viagra can’t fix.

It also didn’t change my interests (although they continued to develop), but it did change the quality of my attraction. Before it was aggressive when I was turned on, now it has a more slow burning desire to it. I want a build up and some foreplay leading in to it. It’s not a change in interest or skill, but you could call it a shift if you like.

Also I look way hotter as a woman than I ever did as a man, so jot that down.

It’s still makeup

Yeah, someone has looked at the spreadsheet and realised that basically no one uses the desktop app I’ll bet

I’m personally of the belief that you are largely the sum of your experiences, so yeah a total loss of memories would mean I am by some definition “dead”. That said, you could easily argue by that same logic that the “me” of a year, month, or even minute ago is also “dead”, since she lacks the experiences that makes me who I am now. I don’t even dispute that that much tbh.

Usually when they start ranking IQ, especially across broad groups

Fair enough. I might be a little hesitant to date someone really early in their transition, just because I would need to seriously consider whether I was able to take on the somewhat implied responsibility that comes with that to guide them through such a scary and vulnerable period.

Beyond that I’m functionally t4t, it’s just really nice to date someone who gets you, and all the baggage that entails, and with whom you already have such a strong shared connection.

I’d be a bit of a hypocrite if I had a problem with that

What is your skin and hair colour? My hair is dark brown and I’m white, so laser got nearly all of my facial hair save for some more orange ones. On the other hand my partner is ginger and it did almost nothing.

I would recommend getting a reasonable number of sessions to clear whatever you can (you should be able to see progress after 5 or so sessions) before even considering electrolysis. I paid about AUD$50 or so for each laser session, compared to AUD$300 for electrolysis (which works out to about $4 per hair removed), so it is far more cost effective to keep throwing laser at your hair until you’ve just got the most stubborn ones left.

Same here. I have my down days where everything just feels like to much but, for the first time in my life, I feel happy with who I am. I love the shape and feel of my body, I love my friends, and I’m not crushed by the chronic depression and anxiety that they told me might never improve.

This is awful. One of my favorite differences between Android and iOS, as both a user AND developer is sideloading.

I mean yeah, but people also regularly steal things despite it being against the rules. Like those, wiki rules are enforced (theoretically) as a best effort.

You can’t edit Wikipedia pages on a topic to which you have a close connection/conflict of interest.

Also WP:Notability

In my experience, an LLM can write small, basic scripts or equally small and isolated bits of logic. It can also do some basic boilerplate work and write nearly functional unit tests. Anything else and it’s hopeless.

Oh yeah no fair enough, thanks for hearing me out. Those kinds people are exhausting

I agree, it feels like we’ve been arguing over semantics. When I (and I’m assuming the person you originally responded to) say “real”, I don’t mean to claim that it doesn’t have material effects, I mean that it has no biological basis - i.e. it is socially constructed.

You do not need to believe race is a biological reality to acknowledge that the perception of others as you (+ your ancestors) being a member of a race has materially affected your identity