Queer people are at a greater risk of being estranged from their families, if nothing else.

Aren't all homeless people estranged from families?

I assume family would help if it was a possibility.

Someone unable or unwilling to house a family member could be able and willing to pay their phone service. Someone unable to pay their phone service could be willing to talk to them.

Homeless young people are disproportionately LGBT because of family rejection.

If they have a family.

How is my assumption optimistic? I assumed all homeless people are estranged from families. That is a pessimistic assumption. It’s bad for everyone.

What are you meaning here?

I guess the flipside of this is, do we want poor/homeless people from groups our society dubs “overrepresented” to only be able to find help from organizations that specifically serve selected “overrepresented” groups? Are there no obvious bad sides to that?

Because you can’t really have the one without the other.

It wouldn't make sense not to.

The hardest part of IRL play for me has been actually getting 4 people who know how to play the game in a single room lol

It wasn't exactly disappointing. I loved to read The Old New Thing back in the day, Raymond's blog was full of stuff like this.

KDE is SO GOOD.

I've distro hopped and DE hopped a lot before settling, but it's been amazing for me as somoeone who has switched over from Windows. It just doesn't get in the way, is super familiar for me, AND lets me do a lot of things I wish I had in Windows.

I was worried about the "choice fatigue" due to it being super configurable and all, but honestly the defaults are so sensible I haven't really had a reason to tinker with it much if at all.

+1. I switched from Pop OS to Debian + KDE last week, and KDE has been solid. I too read a handful of articles calling out the choice fatigue, and other than a few tweaks (maybe half an hour?) I was ready to go. I run old-ish hardware (circa 2013) without any issues.

Something notable is that the all the hotkeys felt 'just right'. I had to tinker a bunch in Pop OS to get satisfying hotkey combos, and the COSMIC upgrade reset them all.

At least you weren't the guy hitting a wall when trying to get a testing library integrated because it was named Testacular

Back in college we had an old program used to analyse oscilloscope data named ANAL.

I studied analytic combinatorics in grad school. Had to be sure not to abbreviate it to "anal comb".

At school we called our module analsyn for syntactic analyser. Good times.

You might also be interested in Jolla Phone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162368

If you're stateside and want a shipping Linux phone today, [FuriLabs](http://furilabs.com) is another option.

Graphene is in a class of its own compared to both of these though and there's frankly no reason to bother unless you're trying to improve those ecosystems.

> Stateside - being in, going to, coming from, or characteristic of the 48 conterminous states of the U.S.

In case others, like me, weren't aware.

I admit to being shocked that such a common phrase isn’t widely understood, but this site has plenty of international traffic so I can only say thanks for the context comment. :)

Yeah, it's funny how our contexts shapes what we believe to be universal :) I had the same experience with "ground floor" and "first floor", where seemingly every country has a different understanding and way they use those. Or even what "Caravan" actually is seems to differ too. Language is fun :)

Thanks! I had no idea that this existed. Unfortunately, the specs aren't great, especially when compared to Jolla's offering. Oh well.

I'm quite enthusiastic about Graphene's OEM partnership,though.

I share your enthusiasm re: Graphene OEM partnerships. I think it's fantastic what they've managed to pull off so far.

Re: the FuriLabs phone, yeah, it's rough - but it's definitely usable for early adopters who want to contribute and help build.

I locked myself out of Azure after losing 2FA which turned out to be different 2FA than the one tied to my Microsoft Account.

All support channels are now AI and refuse to help and redirect me to self service. There is _no_ self service path for Azure account recovery if you lose your 2FA token.

It's infuriating. I lost access to a bunch of hobby projects I had hosted on DevOps. Microsoft will never see a dime from me.

> All your monitors are combined into a large canvas where every pixel can be written and read by any X11 client.

Heh. I learned this hard way when trying to set up multiple monitors with different refresh rates