[–] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

the vertex shader can actually remove vertices, i've seen it used in the wild as a way to perform fine-grained geometry culling without access to mesh shaders or the performance hit of geometry shaders. the trick is basically to set any of the vertex output coordinates to NaN. all decent hardware will discard any primitives with NaN coordinates early on during primitive assembly. in fact, this is even officially recommended by AMD in the RDNA performance guide

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    My bf even dropped it from our apartment on the fourth floor

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    girl you can't just say that and then not elaborate


    honestly this is making me want to give epilation a shot. i've stopped shaving my legs due to constant ingrown hairs, have tried waxing strips but those were even worse. currently i just shave trim every few days using a Philips OneBlade, which results in fewer ingrown hairs (only 2-3 per shave), but that doesn't result in a very close cut and my legs stop feeling smooth after only a few hours :(

    do you do any disinfecting or anything other than just applying aftershave? when i tried waxing my legs were covered in red bumps and pimples for like 2 weeks, even in pores which didn't get ingrown. would like to avoid that if i ever give epilation a shot

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago

    uh... my forehead and nose and jaw are shaped all wrong, and look obviously masculine unless i'm wearing an uncomfortable amount of makeup? sure that's "reversible" if i had 50 grand lying around to spend on surgeries (and months of time to recover from said surgeries), but i don't and neither do most other people.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

    testosterone puberty permanently fucked up the shape of my face, shoulders, hips and waist, lowered my voice, grew a bunch of gross hair everywhere (which is slow, painful and expensive to remove), and made me lose a whole bunch of hair from my head, to name some of the most obvious things. none of those effects are reversible from taking estrogen.

    and that's not to mention the mental damage resulting from basically being an emotionally dead zombie for a decade until i started HRT.

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    quick heads up: your doctor will probably warn you that one of the reported side effects of DHT blockers is "depression". i say that in quotes because these medications are generally given to men, and from what i've pieced together, the "depressive symptoms" seem to basically be symptoms of biochemical dysphoria. in other words, if feminizing HRT is something you wish to pursue in the future anyway, you probably won't be getting any depression dysphoria from taking a DHT blocker :)

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  • [–] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    you only need to have it done on the hair follicles which actually still have hair growing out. the normal approach (for dark hair on light skin) is getting laser done to remove all the darker hair quickly and cheaply, then go in for electrolysis to clean up the remaining stragglers (mostly lighter hairs).

    a hair follicle which has already been killed by laser would have nothing to electrolysize :)

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    yeah well it finally happened, i got lazy. if my nails are painted, the first thing i do when getting home is clean em off... but last night i was tired and figured i could just do it in the morning. well, of course that backfired immediately - first thing that happens when i leave my room this morning is my dad seeing me heading into the bathroom with bright blue sparkly nails and a bag of cosmetics. he didn't say anything immediately, but has been weirdly sigh-y all day, and just now stuck his head in my room saying he "wants to chat" later today (extremely out-of-character) while being extremely cryptic and evasive about what exactly he wants to talk about.

    (for context, although i live in switzerland, my parents are hardcore USA-an tradcaths (the kind who hate the "woke" pope). my dad has voted for trump the last 3 consecutive US elections and will do so again, has trump merch proudly on display in his room, immediately started voting for the far-right immigrant party as soon as he got his swiss citizenship, regularly goes on unprovoked angry diatribes about how much gay people disgust him, etc. you get the picture; he's pretty much the stereotype of the "far right religious nutjob". my mom is almost aggressively unopinionated about most things, and certainly doesn't make any effort to rein my dad ever)

    anyway, i'm looking forward to talking with him this evening, i'm sure it'll be great fun! ಠ_ಠ

    update: have managed to defer talk until "later"; we'll see where this goes (but i am prepping for a quick exit if necessary). will update again if anything interesting happens

    submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by to c/mtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
     

    i've noticed a number of accounts which were fairly active in this community suddenly go dark recently:

    1. @kivihiili@lemmy.blahaj.zone deleted their account about 6 days ago
    2. @katiecakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone deleted her account about 7 hours ago (less than a day after a friendly back-and-forth comment chain with me)
    3. @applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone deleted pretty much her entire post/comment history from the past six months at some point within the last 24 hours, consisting mostly of posts and comments here and on !trans_joy@lemmy.blahaj.zone.
    4. @erinmeow@piefed.blahaj.zone seems to have also wiped most of her comments and posts at some point in the last 6 days
    5. @NerdyNeko90@lemmy.blahaj.zone deleted all her posts and comments

    these are only the ones i've noticed, perhaps there are even more?

    i was willing to accept a possible coincidence with the first two, but three fairly active accounts going dark in a week, two of which on the same day, is setting off alarm bells. does anyone know if these people are alright, and what the heck is going on?

    (if you'd rather not disclose it publicly, please shoot me a DM on lemmy, @daporkchop:daporkchop.net on matrix, daporkchop_ on discord or daporkchop_.42 on signal)

    UPDATE (2026.10.16 06:30 UTC): @applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone has confirmed that she's going through some shit but is still with us, her account purge appears to be unrelated to the others
    UPDATE (2026.10.16 09:52 UTC): added #4 (@erinmeow@piefed.blahaj.zone)
    UPDATE (2026.10.17 14:06 UTC): @kivihiili@lemmy.blahaj.zone have confirmed that they're safe, and have essentially decided to move on from lemmy to go touch grass. honestly? good for them :3
    UPDATE (2026.10.20 20:59 UTC): added #5 (@NerdyNeko90@lemmy.blahaj.zone)
    UPDATE (2026.10.20 21:00 UTC): @NerdyNeko90@lemmy.blahaj.zone has confirmed that she deleted her posts/comments intentionally and appears to be doing okay now

    previous versioni was redacting applebusch's account because it was still up, but in retrospect that only really makes it harder to know what's going on, especially now that there are multiple accounts which appear to have done that. for posterity, here is the old version of this post:

    i've noticed a number of accounts which were fairly active in this community suddenly go dark recently:

    1. @kivihiili@lemmy.blahaj.zone deleted their account about 6 days ago
    2. @katiecakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone deleted her account about 7 hours ago (less than a day after a friendly back-and-forth comment chain with me)
    3. at some point in the last 24 hours, another formerly very active user deleted pretty much her entire post/comment history from the past six months, which was mostly posts and comments here and on !trans_joy@lemmy.blahaj.zone . (not tagging here because her account is still up, even if mostly blank, and i don't know her reason for quietly deleting everything)
      EDIT: to be clear, i am NOT referring to Miisha, who has apparently also deleted her account within the past hour or so.
      EDIT: the account in question is @applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone, she has revealed herself in the comments.

    these are only the ones i've noticed, perhaps there are even more?

    i was willing to accept a possible coincidence with the first two, but three fairly active accounts going dark in a week, two of which on the same day, is setting off alarm bells. does anyone know if these people are alright, and what the heck is going on?

    (if you'd rather not disclose it publicly, please shoot me a DM on lemmy or at @daporkchop:daporkchop.net on matrix)

    UPDATE (2026.10.16 06:30 UTC): @applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone has confirmed that she's going through some shit but is still with us, her account purge appears to be unrelated to the others

    i use debian btw (thelemmy.club)
    submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by to c/unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone
     

    the GNU/Linux distribution for lesbiansâ„¢

    the computer itself is on my rack, which is on the other side of the wall. i ended up drilling a hole through the wall and running 20m long USB and DisplayPort cables through it, then there's a DisplayPort MST hub which splits it up to drive the three separate monitors and a whole bunch of USB hubs for all the peripherals. adds a bit of complexity, but it's worth it because the fans are so damn loud, and it's also more fun :3

    the huge tree of USB hubs

    John S. Rackhe is under construction and also a very good boy :3

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