[–] 6 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

sweet mary mother of GOALS

you look soo pretty, and congratulations on reaching the big anniversary! always cool seeing new faces show up here, hope you stick around :3

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  • [–] 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 child)

    I guess that’s good 😄

    It sounds good to me :D

    [...] the wrong hormones in one’s body make them (temporarily) age way faster…

    Quite possible, but my analysis would be more like this:

    1. A lot of traits which we (in the West, anyway) associate with "youth" are the opposite of what testosterone causes, (e.g. smooth+soft+clear skin, full cheeks), and conversely a lot of things which testosterone emphasizes are associated with aging into adulthood (e.g. visible facial hair, more prominent brow- or jawline, etc.). Since most of the facial changes caused by estrogen are the opposite of that, they're more strongly connected to the concept of "youth", and therefore the changes brought about by feminizing HRT (in particular: after having gone through male puberty) causes people to "regress" along the spectrum and be perceived as younger.
      There's probably something to be said about how this ties in to become yet another tool used by the patriarchy to infantilize women; I'm not getting into that now :P
    2. Testosterone accelerates your metabolism, which literally causes you to age faster, whether it's the "right" hormone or not.

    My very limited sample size of only one transmasc I've known since before he started HRT tells me that this is at least somewhat true, because he definitely seemed to get quite a bit older in not that long of a time frame.

    I won’t stand for this 😭

    I appreciate the sentiment, but when I'm going around dressed like this I can't exactly blame people for assuming I'm a dude (and normally don't mind all that much, gender is weird like that sometimes). At this point, unless I'm clearly dressed fem I look sorta androgynous at best, and my hair is clearly doing most of the heavy lifting (pretty obvious because every morning, until I've gone through my routine of adding a metric fuckton of curling cream to force it to stay down, it tends to levitate and my face looks a lot less fem than it otherwise does).

    That said I am absolutely not denying that there've been changes, compared to photos from like two years ago (and even this past January or Feburary) I look WAY more fem now :)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    In that case you can use --log-driver=syslog. There are quite a few other options to choose from :)

    Out of interest, why is overlayfs out of the question? If it's because you're running rootless and you're running an older kernel which doesn't allow non-root users to create overlayfs mounts, there's always the fuse-overlayfs driver, which is functionally the same but emulates it in userspace using a FUSE driver. Finally, the vfs driver should ALWAYS work, although it comes at the cost of not being able to share storage between image layers. Also if you're on ZFS there's a zfs driver for that which uses ZFS volumes (same idea as the subvolume approach on btrfs). There's more information on the docs if you're interested, and I'm pretty sure podman has a similar suite of options.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I think a lot of depictions of trans people is that they have some innate sense of who they are, how they want their body to look and how they want to be perceived. While this is certainly true for some trans people, it's definitely not all of them, and I'd go so far as to say it's probably the minority.

    I certainly didn't have a clear image of what I wanted out of transition before starting, only a very specific list of traits I most certainly didn't like (being sweaty, smelly, emotionless, covered in thick body hair, having my whole body be either pointy bone or hard muscle, eventually going bald, ...), and started HRT cause it would kill pretty much all those birds with one stone (or at least had the potential to, and certainly wouldn't make anything worse). Literally every other aspect of my transition, be it clothing or name/pronouns, has been me basically going "hey if I'm already doing the HRT thing I might as well give every other way I could transition a try and see if I like anything", so I've just been throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. I've been through like 5 different names and have more or less concluded that I'm happy with my original name. I've tried quite a few different pronouns and so far I still don't know if I prefer any of them over being called "he". Feminine clothing turned out to be pretty fun and I like wearing it, but I'm also not throwing out my old wardrobe because sometimes the dorky graphic tee with a bad science pun is exactly how I'm feeling. Nail polish is a yes, facial makeup a hard no.

    Not sure where I'm going with this, I guess I just wanted to make it clear that transition isn't necessarily a linear journey where you already know exactly where you're going before you set out, it's more of a wandering exploration as you come out of your shell and gradually figure out what makes you happy, and there might be many changes of direction throughout.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

    Ironically, I hardly have any pre-transition photos where I'm not smiling. When taking photos people always tell you to smile, so I always did, whether I was feeling it or not. I have more non-smiling photos from the past 8 months than the entire rest of my photo library combined because now I've started to just take random selfies sometimes and don't always feel the need to force a fake smile on.

    Also YES nobody talks about the looking younger part, I don't think my face looks all that much different but it 100% looks dramatically younger and it's absolutely crazy. I've de-aged by multiple years, on multiple occasions in the past months I've been introduced to strangers alongside my brother (4 years younger than me) and they've assumed I'm the younger brother. Feels really weird, but I don't dislike it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (3 children)

    uh... yes, you can? docker doesn't even log to journald by default, and you can also just do docker run --log-driver=none ... if you want to completely disable saving any logs.

    edit: there are also a bunch of alternate storage systems, i have docker set up to use btrfs subvolumes

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  • submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by to c/mtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
     

    so a few minutes ago i was entering the bathroom, glanced in the mirror, and for just a split second i was like "huh, why's there a girl in the mirror?" before realizing "HOLY SHIT ITS ME"! the illusion broke the second i moved my head, but this is the first time that's happened to me and i put absolutely zero effort into presenting fem today, so i'd say it felt pretty damn good :3

    bonus: my best attempt at a recreationokay, i'll be honest: i had a really hard time recreating it because my head angle would've had me sideeyeing the camera, and it quickly devolved into me just taking photos in front of the mirror. i don't think i'd classify this one as "girl", but i do like how it turned out

     

    Many lessons were learned today:

    • Scotch tape can only be separated from partly-dry nail polish with great difficulty
    • Masking tape will not stick reliably to partly-dry nail polish
    • Waiting 2-3 hours between each coat is both annoying and extremely inconvenient, and also not long enough
    • Ballpoint pen ink is very hard to remove from a cuticle while keeping the polish intact

    That said, I'm pretty happy with the results even though I don't think I'd do this regularly :3

     

    While trying to update my display name, I've realized that any display name longer than 20 characters gets rejected (specifically: https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/user/save_user_settings returns 400 with {"error":"invalid_display_name"}). Some digging through the code seems to explain why: Lemmy 0.19.20 (the version running on lemmy.ml) uses the same config option for limiting display name length as it does for usernames, which defaults to 20 (and .ml hasn't changed it from the default value)¹.

    I would be satisfied with that explanation, except there are clearly other users on my instance whose display names exceed 20 characters (example: https://lemmy.ml/u/Trying2KnowMyself). So, my question is: how the heck are people able to set these longer display names?

    ¹ In the 1.0 betas the config option seems to have been replaced with hardcoded limits which are separate for user- and display names, but I don't think that'd be relevant since that's not the code which .ml is actually running

    EDIT: I figured it out! Importing user settings from a json backup bypasses display name validation. Most likely the user I referenced as an example had imported their profile from their Hexbear alt, so it ended up just copying their display name over as well.

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