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It's worth looking into Lutris for non-Steam games as well. Comes preinstalled with Bazzite (heavily gaming-optimized Linux distro), though I don't have any non-Steam games to try it on since Steam works fine for all the games I play.

Well, you could use the wrong finger. After 3 attempts, my GrapheneOS install brings up the password field, but you can go back to the lock screen and try 2 more times until it locks out of fingerprint unlock (so 5 times total). You could always hold the power button down while it's in your pocket or bag, pretending you are searching for the phone or something, and then lock it down as soon as you lift the screen up.

Finished How We Fight For Our Lives yesterday. It's a very powerful memoir from a black gay man that grew up in the Southern US. Very well written, very bug topics, lots of insight into his world, and the struggles he dealt with. Obviously it will deal with racism and homophobia; the book goes through his experiences understanding who he was. It was a good book! I'd recommend a read if that experience is interesting to you.

I'm gonna depart from the last 2 books for now (Stone Butch Blues got canceled bc of stock, so I've gotta buy it from somewhere else), as I bought a bunch of lesbian romances (I couldn't help myself). No clue if you would be interested in any of that, but let me know if you might be and I can review those, too!

Congrats! You've discovered something new about yourself and had fun in the process! 🎉

Yes, it is possible, as per your linked resource, however it would be up to the server maintainers if they feel it is reasonable to do. Note that federation is not supported over Tor, so federation would go over the clearnet via the original instance. This is not an issue, because the only thing that would be useful for Tor is hiding the client connection IP address, which would be handled under this configuration.

I read Suicide Notes. It's an extremely heavy book with about every trigger possible buried in it, just as a warning. I'm not going to say what exactly it covers from the LGBTQ+ spectrum, but it really let me see into a different world. Someone else's world. It's a fiction, but it's not a fantasy; it feels like living someone's real life. It's incredibly moving, but it is very depressing (the name is a good indicator), so keep that in mind before deciding to read it. I learned a lot from it, including things about myself. I'd highly recommend it if you're willing to get really sad about it; I feel it was very cathartic for me, and it's a great portal into the queer experience.

Also, there is a sequel called Every Star That Falls. I'll be reading that at some point, but likely not especially soon.

Just finished Kiss Her Once for Me. I absolutely loved it and would highly recommend it, but only if you're willing to read a lesbian romance. It's very queer in general, it has nonbinary characters, trans characters, bis, lesbians, polygamy and monogomy, and demisexuality. It's a fiction, and it is certainly a romance novel, but if that might be interesting to you, it's a wonderful queer book! It also deals with some of the issues many of us queer folk have with family and acceptance, but those aren't the central points of the story; it's part of being queer, and I think that those aspects add a lot to the story by being only small parts (kind of like acknowledging our problems in a healthy way without focusing on them too much that it becomes depressing). I'll update you with more as I get to them!

If you're looking specifically for trans activism, The Transexual Menace came back and already organized a protest at Stonewall last week or so, and they have plans to organize a lot more across the US. They're US based, so I suppose it may not be helpful if you aren't in the US

I also just got back into reading, and was curious about the same thing!

I HIGHLY recommend Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. That's the book that sparked my trans realization, and it's incredibly well illustrated with a wonderful story of eir life (it's a memoir); I've read it 3 times. I actually just bought 5 other queer books, but I have yet to read them:

• Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun
• How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
• Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
• The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library

I can update this comment when I finish reading a book to give my thoughts on them if you'd like!

Well, the hardening, just as with Tor Browser, does break some sites. It comes preinstalled with NoScript and uBlock Origin, the former of which you will either have to learn how to use or disable, depending on your wants for privacy. While it doesn't include some of the anti-features of base Firefox, it is still based on Firefox so it will have similar performance for similar tasks.

Personally, I use Mullvad for most of my browsing, and Firefox for a few specific things (like staying logged into site long-term and such).

It's available as a flatpak via Flathub for an easy installation, otherwise you can check https://mullvad.net/en/browser/linux for distro-specific installation instructions.

I use Mullvad Browser. It's maintained in coordination with the Tor Project, and is essentially the Tor Browser with Tor itself stripped out. Same browser fingerprinting protections, however, among other things.

EDIT: I'd like to clarify that this has nothing to do with my trust in Mozilla or Firefox itself, especially not concerning recent panics about benign changes. I still use Firefox on the side, it just does not have fingerprinting protections by default, and hardening it manually leads to minor differences between user configurations (even with Arkenfox if that's still around) that is solved by Mullvad Browser for me. I use Mullvad Browser for my main browsing, and Firefox for specific exceptions. Firefox itself is fine, and no, Mozilla is not burning it to the ground.

Yeah, I personally went the DIY route. I started my transition in August of last year, and started HRT January of this year. I had predicted things were going to get bad pretty fast, so I have avoided being 'official' for the time being until I can figure out what to do. I, personally, would like procedures in the future, and the unfortunate reality of that is the fact that my insurance requires a letter from someone actively prescribing and monitoring the progress of HRT for 12 or more months consecutively to cover any of those services, so if I'm gonna have to make a choice in the future of if I'm going to set myself back for years to avoid the potential consequences of being 'official', or go to a provider for a prescription so that I can get the necessary letters. Right now, I'm just biding my time while I see how things go (though that won't stop me from activism).