Bonus: My laptop.
I actually went with this because it's the same PC I grew up with. Well, actually this is a more powerful model, but it's similar enough that it induces relentless nostalgia every time I turn it on.
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Mostly play old games. Lutris runs oddly well and I have an XP partition for anything it won't run. I've also tried light web browsing, but somehow loading a modern web page takes more CPU power than the games I run and it's a terrible experience lol
To the phone I'm using to take the picture. I had it set up for tethering because I've got an XP partition that I don't want connected to the internet in any way (for reasons) so I'm not shoving a WiFi adapter in until I've bothered to block all internet access to the windows partition.
Indeed, though it did take a few upgrades before it ran smooth enough for my tastes. Ironically I'm using mint over a more lightweight distro because it's the only one that ran correctly. All the lightweight ones I tried refused to recognize the GPU I shoved in it (which is reasonable, it's a very bizarre PCI version that wouldn't even run on XP without hacking the driver.)
It even runs a few old games via Lutris. Got Starseige: Tribes running on it smoothly. My goal is to use an XP partition on it to run most offline games, and use the linux partition to play any online games since it's more secure than XP.
That's definitely what it's like for me. I often have to check the ingredients to make sure I rinsed the dish properly or if it's just cilantro (or oregano, which also tastes like soap to me, and smells strongly like it.)
I had no idea the term wasn't used in other places. That's interesting. I'll have to keep that in mind in the future.
On the subject of other things that taste like soap, oregano also tastes like soap to me. I can't tell if I'm blessed or even more cursed for liking that taste.
Honest question. I'm terrified of failure ;-;
Anyway, I know I'm not the only one who's wished hand soap was edible.
As a trans woman who came out the other side... well there's no modest way to put it- pretty damn attractive I'm told, I never understood why women just assume guys are hitting on them until I lived it.
I don't even do it on purpose. It's just that the vast, vast majority of the time, guys are trying to hit on me, and my brain has connected the "guy talking to me" neuron and the "guy hitting on me" neuron so tightly that it doesn't even occur to me that they might not be unless they prove it through extended interactions, usually over years, of never showing any interest.
And yeah, I've definitely fallen for people largely because they simply hadn't shown any signs of being into me. You're right that there is an immense sense of safety in knowing they've never tried to get in my pants. Unfortunately, that also means, 99% of the time, that they're gonna say no if I ask them out (I generally prefer to make the first move because it feels safer.)
For the sake of example and because it's relevant to the thread, I asked a dude out who'd shown no interest, and it turned out he was actually attracted to me, but wasn't interested because he'd been heavily abused in a past relationship and he wasn't ever willing to give it another shot.
And on that subject, having life experience as both a man and a woman really does open your mind to how differently abuse is treated between men and women. I was heavily abused as a kid, both by men and women, and telling the story before I transitioned, people always desperately searched for a reason it was my fault (even though I was a kid at the time it happened) and when they couldn't find one, spouted lines like "at least you're stronger for it."
As a woman, people, not having knowledge that I wasn't always a woman, immediately recognize how horrible my abuse was, zero attempts to justify it, and hell, even direct me to support groups (albiet I've attended said groups before and they're fucking useless trauma feedback circles in my experience.)
Well, that turned into a half irrelevant rant, but it's nice to have some of that off my chest.
The only worse answer than "no" is "I'd love you more."
I don't know what creates the better vibrations tbh, I just know from my own personal experience there isn't enough difference for me to notice at max (while plugged in I mean, the thing's very noticeably weaker running purely on battery.)
Not that I own a wired one personally for full disclosure (and therefore don't have that much experience with it) but I'm talking from the minimal experience I do have combined with the numbers.
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I just wanna say I appreciate that you went into such detail to explain this. As somebody who's honestly a little dumb, this has always been something I struggled to understand but could tell I was missing something. It's nice to finally hear it in a way that makes sense to me.