As a non-binary person who is learning German, I've taken to using the nim pronouns, but I do understand the slow adoption of neopronouns. Tbh I'd probably be fine with er pronouns if I didn't want to explain my pronouns every time someone wanted to talk to/about me.
I was using EndeavourOS when I ran into the wall that a lot of stuff didn't have builds on AUR that I needed (and didn't feel like compiling myself or they didn't provide source code)
Companies tend to donate to political candidates so that those candidates, upon being elected, propose and vote in legislation that benefits those companies or vote out legislation that doesn't (e.g. oil companies and climate change policies)
Edit: a detail that was implied but should be noted
“The Good Place” TV show also made this a major plot point. Essentially the argument boils down to that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
Ah yes, I'm familiar with the scene. It's a great scene and a great show.
In fact, I’d say donating at all to one or the other party (bribing) overall is negative.
You do make a good point that I hadn't thought of (and need to think of more often) wrt hardware. I guess the next best thing that I'd look for is something that uses the SDK of Android Auto but isn't made by Google and doesn't send its data however anonymized to Google. And also FOSS is the goal if possible.
Just Spotify at the moment. I might look into trying to stream from Netflix without streaming from Netflix sometime while using friends' passwords for other places. Once my currently roommate but soon to not be roommate (moving back in with parents soon) doesn't renew their Dropout subscription, I'd be willing to sign up for that only because I am willing to support the people over at CollegeHumor.
I've seen a lot of buzz about XMPP lately (well, mostly in relation to P92 and corps killing FOSS projects). Beyond it being a comm protocol, I don't really know much about it. Is it still in use?
This is likely not the thread for it, but I've been wanting to look for some kind of guide to self hosting for someone who's never done it before. Once I get out of my lease that, while it includes internet, prohibits me from running any kind of servers, I want to potentially look into starting something, although that would also involve me getting a dedicated machine for this. I do have a somewhat old Raspberry Pi 3 from like 2016 I want to say (it has built in WiFi and Bluetooth but as I am currently home, I don't have the specs on hand atm). The only other two machines are my desktop, which is way too overpowered to be running a server even some of the time, and my laptop, which I want to be able to take with me if I need to go work on something at a coffee shop.
You missed the stage where you don't want to openly identify as autistic because of the stigma surrounding both autism itself as well as self-diagnosis
While you do have a point that autism can be mitigated by society, in a way, so can ADHD. There isn't just one model of disability. There still is that disconnect from allistics that autistics have, and some autistic people do in fact go to therapy to help mitigate issues with their autism (note here because I feel it's important: a) autism is often comorbid with things like sleep disorders, OCD, depression, anxiety, etc and a lot of therapy for autistic people does revolve around that and b) I am absolutely not referring to ABA which is just conversion therapy).
Also, when I mentioned me being autistic and only using neurodivergent to mean the collective of disabilities mentioned previously, I had also meant that it felt like to me that you were proscribing a meaning and/or an impact of the use of the term neurodivergent (and neurodivergence by proxy) that did not exist, one seated in prescriptivism. I don't particularly see any negative impact to people using the term(s) either online or in real life and I've seen multiple people who are neurodivergent themselves use the term(s) to refer to the collective community of disabled people as just a label. While I can just offer up the "It's just a label that we're using to mean [insert thing here]," you could argue that I can't do that because of the impact, but I have not seen such impact. I and some others on here have compared the term(s) to the word "queer" used for people in the LGBTQ+ community, although it has a trouble history as a slur but the community is reclaiming it and using it for their own despite its problematic past. But unlike the "queer" label (used to mean identities falling under the LGBTQ+ umbrella), the "neurodivergent" label (used to mean the collective of disabilities) doesn't really have such a past. Nor does it have such an impact either.
Because I'm itching to, I'll go further with that queer-neurodivergent comparison. Not only is "queer" used as a catch-all for the LGBTQ+ community, it's also a label itself used to refer to someone who doesn't want to label themselves specifically but rather is just not-straight. Neurodivergent can be used in this way as well referring to some kind of disability along that spectrum but not necessarily identifying it in any way. Perhaps one doesn't need to identify their disability because they know the symptoms and they have coping mechanisms to help them mitigate those symptoms. Perhaps they don't have the resources to go narrow down that label into a more specific one. Or perhaps they don't care.
Really, as a TL;DR to this comment, the label isn't doing any harm and, at least in my perspective, does nothing to belittle or minimize the struggles of the people in the ND community.
The term "neurodivergent" implies that there's nothing wrong with you if you have ADHD--you're just special and different. But my ADHD is an illness that requires treatment.
I think the term is perfectly valid when applied to autism, as autism is not, to the best of my knowledge, a mental illness so much as a difference in processing.
As someone with both ADHD and autism, I want to touch on a perspective I think might be missing here (if others have commented similarly, excuse me for being a parrot). Both definitionally and experientially, autism and ADHD are both disabilities. Both come with strengths; autism makes me really good at learning patterns which helps with language learning, for example, and ADHD helps me have a large amount of focus however controlled on a specific topic. Yet, both are still disabling.
Autistic people constantly are confused by allistic (read: not autistic) people in their communication style as well as the overreliance on things like body language to convey meaning. Autistic people also deal with sensory overload issues.
ADHD people struggle to focus on tasks no matter how much they want to focus on them.
I could include more examples, but that's not the purpose of this comment. This could also be stemming from my autistic perspective where when I, specifically, use the word "neurodivergent," I use it to mean a collection of disabilities such as autism, ADHD, and OCD, and that's it. I simply view it as a label much like what the label of "queer" is today despite its troubled history.
I haven't been able to find any builds of any custom OS for my phone, is it just that it's too new (Motorola Moto G Power 2022)?