you might have another 9+ months before you can’t boy-mode anymore

This is pretty much exactly what I did, started HRT, let it cook for about 8 months, and them was able to transition socially in a much more ‘flip the switch kind of way’.

Most of my dysphoria was hormonal though, I did not like the way T made me feel at all. The social aspect was less immediately urgent for me personally, but that may not be true for everyone.

Bonus info: Calvin Klein sells a no-show sports bra that does a very good job of hiding breast development for a while under even a fitted T-shirt. It has enough padding to hide pokies and protect from bumping against stuff early on, saving a lot of pain and trouble.

I use a Philips Norelco 2000-series electric foil shaver for face, chest, forearms, calves, and tummy, which combined is like 80% of my shaving activities. It works really well for me in those broad and relatively taut-skin areas, but very poorly on insides of joints like armpit where it tends to pinch. Blades last forever and it is quickly more cost effective over disposable or cartridge razors and is also quick easy, and causes a lot less razor burn for face shaving for me than anything else.

For the rest I use a mix of cheap disposable 2-blade razors on areas where I really want a new clean blade every time for hygiene purposes and a multiblade cartridge/“cartridge razor”. I was using the gillette proglide 5-blade cartridges which work well but cost a lot, but eventually got a 3-blade leaf razor (safety razor in the form factor of a cartridge razor) which I have liked tremendously for thighs, armpits, and other areas the foikd shaver doesn’t work well for.

If that is the threat model then Signal is not and never was fit for purpose at all.

Because every time I’ve complained about not wanting to give my phone number to sign up for Signal I’ve been lectured about how Signal is “all about privacy, not anonymity and those are not the same thing” and how that is good for the average Joe even if it isn’t useful for journalists and activists, and what you’re saying goes completely against that by suggesting that the police are somehow unable to get the phone number out of the thing that uses the phone number as the user id.

You’re describing how a real privacy-focused app like Briar functions, but definitely not how Signal does.

OpenWRT, because it has a nice interface, runs on half a toaster, and I’ve yet to find something that I need it do that it couldn’t do but OPNSense could.

I did try PFSense many years back and it just seemed overly complicated and generally flaky. I had trouble setting it up as tinc vpn client despite that being a trivial task in OpenWRT, so I switched back.

That’s a pretty silly headline for an article that quite clearly states that the issue was with the router’s data usage reporting capabilities.

Basically the same here, albeit with some slight tweaking to the fem name to avoid having to constantly correct pronounciation like my version 1 name.