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Me too. I feel like an entire generation of trans girls found hope in her success. I hope they keep her site up.

8zah6q7on Fairbuds: In-ear with replaceable batteries

The Apple USB-C to 3.5 mm TRS adapter in particular is a great value. https://www.audioreviews.org/apple-audio-adapter-review/

8zah6q7on Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years

Unfortunately, many smart TVs use 100 Mbps RJ45 ports, so WiFi is usually faster. Some TVs allow you to plug in a USB to RJ45 adapter, but most of the USB ports are only USB 2 speed, so the practical limit is 300 Mbps. Some nice ones have USB 3 ports enabling 1 Gbps through an RJ45 adapter. I wish the manufacturers put at least gigabit (if not 2.5 Gbps) RJ45 ports on TVs.

8zah6q7on Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness

Settings > Digital Wellbeing> Bedtime mode > Screen options at bedtime > Keep the screen dark

8zah6q7on EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals

The green bubbles break Apple's accessibility guidelines - making it more difficult to read (especially for visually impaired users). The better option is switching to Signal, but some people have strange hangups.

8zah6q7on All of the vehicle license plates available in America

It is practically impossible unless one is in prison or something. In the future it could be enforced with biometrics authentication interlocks.

8zah6q7on Android 14 introduces cellular connectivity security features

Graphene OS

8zah6q7on Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API

iOS/Mac? Apple sells advertising too. They're just as evil if not more than any other megacorp.

8zah6q7on ASUS Chromebox 5

That's probably there so that users don't plug their phones into the PCs. Also saves desk space.

8zah6q7on T95 Allwinner T616 Malware Analysis

Only the original Pixel gets unlimited.

8zah6q7on Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electronic music pioneer

Transphobes don't want trans women to be masculine, androgynous, or feminine. When they're honest, they just don't want trans women to be.

8zah6q7on Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electronic music pioneer

> This is unfortunately yet another gendered imposition, with women feeling like they have to adhere to a beauty standard that comes from the male gaze.

Women who are trans feel this pressure enforced against them with public humiliation, overt misogyny, and violence.

> It doesn't help either when males who opt-in to this beauty standard for their own pleasure get praised as if they are being good women.

Trans women aren't males and don't opt-in to the male gaze. Are you referring to drag queens? There's a more nuanced conversation to be had there, but not in the current climate of terroristic acts against transgender people. Drag is often a critique of gender roles.

There is nothing grotesque about femininity or a trans woman expressing it.