I think if Linux becomes something for the masses it will no longer be for me. So I’m hoping that won’t happen.

End users just want their hand to be held by some kind of corporation. Happy to give up their information and privacy. To have no choices in interface etc.

Basically, Linux for the masses will look exactly like ChromeOS. Completely unusable for a power user with a need for privacy and control.

Yes true, I saw the actual pics after. It looks less like a real crossdresser to me and rather like a sophomoric joke that leaked.

I made that point elsewhere in the thread but I hadn’t seen the pic when I made the above comment.

No that’s clear. Most of us on lemmy.world don’t, that’s why I hang out here and not on X or Gab

Ah ok the whole Lewandowski thing was news to me so I understand yeah. Maybe she’s trying to make a case for a favourable divorce settlement also.

Background checks are more to find actual wrongdoing like criminal activity.

It’s more a problem of current American society that this is considered blackmail material at all.

That’s true, there are several reasons for men to crossdress. There’s the people who genuinely like to look female (like trans people and drag queens), there’s also those who feel it is ‘dirty’ or degrading and view it as a kink (sissification as it’s usually called). There’s also some who do it for other reasons without much gender/kink connotations (like for stag parties, initiation rites, carnival etc).

Not all of these imply LGBTQ, only the first one really.

In fact most of the people from the first group tend to be really elaborate about it and make themselves pretty, and not do a half-assed job like he did in that pic. So I would think he is probably not part of the LGBTQ community, at least not based on that pic (not that that would be a bad thing of course!). This looks more like a drunk weekend joke thing got out of hand.

He might not share his wife’s values though.

Why would she do that I wonder?

No not really. They’re two separate issues.

This is the problem with conservatives, they’re all about loyalty so you must follow the company line or you’re out. If someone is marked bad there can’t be anything not bad about them. We progressives don’t have that.

I can totally accept this kink and still hate Noem. I just can’t use it as mud to sling at her but I don’t have to because there’s plenty of much more relevant wrongdoing she’s guilty of. This doesn’t even have much to do with her at all.

Nothing wrong with crossdressing. Though it sounds like he sent some of the pictures to others without consent which is much more of a problem of course (harassment)

But if he wants to dress up as a girl, why not.

It’s not though. The people benefiting are not the ones paying…

“Hey I wanna start a shooting fight in your neighborhood and turn the whole area into a warzone. Can you pay me for doing it please?”

Somehow makes sense to some people I guess???

No on the contrary. I was just joking about her former field of acting. I wish it was viewed as more normal. And that she would have make to get a foothold in regular movies 🫶

I didn’t know she did twitch now. I’ve never watched that. I game a lot but I have no patience for watching streams.

Oh someone once told me it was because some states didn’t issue licenses for strip clubs so this was the best thing they could get away with and it just took off (even without taking it off 🫣). But it was probably a made up story then.

Or when onlyfans wanted to have us pay for ‘engaging family friendly content’ 🤭. Sure the original idea was for regular movie celebs to monetize their fans. But at this point none of those will ever want to be found on onlyfans. Except Sasha Grey maybe 😅. Onlyfans has become a caricature. You don’t pivot away from that. Just like hooters won’t be for the wings or McDonald’s for the salads even if they happen to be really good.

Yes I’ve been worried about exactly this. I’m sure it’s very much within the realm of possibility these days.

They can probably tell from satellite repositioning and data volumes coming from the sat. Even for spy satellites orbital data is available in public tracking databases.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0

Daniel strcat the top dev is unfortunately super paranoid. He really thinks everyone is out to get him and he goes on long crusades on the net that drag on and on and that’s why he gets banned. People just get tired of it. There’s long videos of all his persecution claims being debunked.

Last year he took a step back when it got too much but he seems to be back in full swing lately. He’s a good developer and technically very strong but he really needs to chill. Even his strongest supporters like Louis Rossman had to drop him.

I think what caused it was his partner swindling him during the time of CopperheadOS but really this is not cool.

Having said that, grapheneos is the strongest on security and privacy by far. It’s just sad to see all the unnecessary drama around it and yes it does put people off.