Natanox

Personally I see this rift in the trans community rather often (although not as much right now anymore, there isn't much room for controversial arguments when being threatened from 'outside'). On one hand the absolute majority will tell you that they "wished to be born in the right body". On the other hand many dislike or even reject science into how being trans happens (like this study) out of the very reasonable fear that it will be used to, again, pathologize our existence or outright eradicate us. I've heard similar hard questions and controversial discussions from other communities over the years as well. They usually somewhat reach academic circles at best but are never really discussed in public.

In the end it boils down to what the ulterior motive behind the science or technology is; care for- or eradication of humans (or their natural expression). And of course where we out the line between the definition of diversity and illness, something society has a really bad track record for.

Bad people instead suffer eternal tinnitus I guess.

Your argumentation doesn't make much sense; indeed your last sentence even reinforces my argument that, hopefully, the process is as clean as possible. Also don't you think you're a little bit quick in assessing my priorities based on a single comment? 😉

I think 3D printing, as many things, is a net positive if used responsibly. It's so easy to repair or upycle stuff with it. I'm also really interested in that pure PHA filament (which is actually compostable, unlike PLA), haven't gotten around to trying it. Of course also using PETG; got two huge bins for PLA and PETG to collect and send it to Recyclingfabrik (getting cheaper rPLA & rPETG in their shop in return). It's awesome how easy it is with 3D printing to have a full recyling circle. I think awareness for both environmental impact as well as basic safety concerns are really falling short in the community though. The amount of people sanding their prints without any particle extraction system, printing ABS and stuff without air filtration or even work with resin without proper respirator is concerning. And so many people just clean their sanded pieces under water, unaware of the consequences (it's impossible for huge filtration plants to fully filter them out). On the other side it isn't too hard for any 3D printing hobbyist to run their dirtwater through something like a coffee filter.

So yeah, I like 3D printing and the environment and am optimistic we can have a cake and eat it too. 🥧

[…] Polymaker’s HT-PLA-GF, a glass fiber high temp PLA that can be annealed in boiling water without deformation to withstand temps like 150º.

That sounds like a microplastic water risk. I hope Polymaker did at least give a little shit about the environmental aspect and made sure the material doesn't leak into the water during the process. Probably still advisable to pour the waste water through a filter afterwards, just like after sanding & cleaning.

More rare than an i5-8600 and probably becomes rather rare as time moves on.

If it was this easy we wouldn't have so many problems. Or, you know, discussions about assisted suicide in cases of untreatable and unavoidable suffering in order to respect human dignity.

Sometimes the pain is here to stay. We all get old, health is a precious privilege and the power doctor's are wielding is unfortunately limited.

I'd rather have awesome music from healthy artists than legendary music from suffering artists.

Damn, now I have to think about Chester… ;__;

I'd still keep it. Even though it doesn't appear to be a more rare CPU (like, a 5950X or similar). Might become worth a little bit in a few years.

Pretty much any distro can do any of the things Windows/Mac users are hoping a computer can do.

Without knowledge and at least an hour of your time for configuration, CLI-first distros like Arch can't even play a video - or show a GUI for that matter.

[…] Nvidia GPU […] It’s not super complicated to set up, but it’s definitely going to feel like a foreign experience the first time.

If you're lucky that means. If you happen to pick a distro / device combo that doesn't harmonize and the distro didn't took care of the driver from the start you'll have a really, really bad time. Especially if it's a hybrid GPU system. You're right about picking a distro that comes with it. Options like Pop!_OS, TuxedoOS or Bazzite come to mind.

Windows Vista.

Oh, oups. That's a remnance from a meme I made a few minutes earlier. However now Tux is looking towards the text, therefore this was all planned.

I thought you said healthy.