• Hedlosa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    As a trans woman using Linux, imo it’s using something beyond it’s original design. Similar to how we ‘hack’ our bodies to go beyond our AGAB, a lot of us run Linux (on machines that come with windows) or hack consoles such as a 3ds we take machines with inferior software and make them better.

    Or a may just be reaching and it’s just that security concious and nerdy communities are also largely queer ¯_(ツ)__/¯

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      It’s natural as a queer person to seek to protect yourself, because the world is more dangerous for us.

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        Isn’t there something also about expressing oneself in here? With the limited freedoms society gives our bodies and behaviours, hacking our hardware to get it to do as we please is a form of liberty, and of self-expression. With a healthy dose of show-them-the-middle-finger to everything oligarchic, capitalistic and conservative that dominates the world around us.

        That, of course, with the desperately needed privacy on top.

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      This sounds a lot like how one of my friends describes it. She’s a riot — she jokes that she came out as trans because as a chronic tech nerd, she reached a fork in the road where it was either “libertarian tech bro” or “anarchist cat girl”.

      Unrelated to that anecdote, as a queer cis woman, certainly a lot of the joy and catharsis I get from tinkering with tech feels like the same fulfillment I derive from queer community. I think there’s a lot to be said for how a person’s perspective influences how they approach problems. Like, as a scientist, there are definitely areas where I feel like being a queer, autistic woman affects how I approach a problem.

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        As a Marxist cat (?) girl, the barricades will be stormed by people in thigh highs and cat ears.

        E: took me a while but I finally found a photo I was thinking of lol