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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • Have you considered ripping the band-aid off?

    What I mean is that since you're out already to everyone on that chat, and have tried to address the situation with them individually, there's no secret about who you are and how you feel about the way they're treating you. You don't say how many people are involved, but let's say it's six. By letting this stay as individual conversations, you wind up with six times the burden of dealing with the pressure while it's no stress for all of them to keep the pressure up.

    One way to deal with that disparity could be to lightly edit (replace relationships with names, them -> you, optionally remove expletives) this post and send it to the people that need to hear it - that group chat. Let them be shamed in public and see you not going as the result of their own behavior. (Consider giving the supportive brother a heads up beforehand.)

    A couple possible outcomes here:

    1. Being named and shamed in front of the rest of the family is uncomfortable enough that they change their behavior. Possibly with some backup from the supportive brother. Maybe you go on a future trip once you've seen that change play out.

    2. They gang up on you. Well, they're already doing that. Throw up another message that you're dropping out of the chat for X days/weeks, that your position is not up for discussion or debate, and that you will hang up, walk away, stop reading the e-mail, etc. if anyone tries to bring it up to you during that time. Follow through, and if they gang up again at the end of that time, rinse and repeat.

    3. Most likely - a little of column A and a little of column B. At least one person "gets it" and improves, and at least one digs in. You wind up applying the steps in 2, improve relationship with the ones that listen, and learn who isn't going to change. At some point you decide whether to put up with that or cut them off on a case-by-case basis.

    I know that both people who are brought up femme or transition feel a lot of pressure to avoid conflict, so this may be uncomfortable or not even a possible approach for you. I'm not saying "This is the only way you should handle the situation," but rather to weigh the discomfort of this approach and ask yourself if it's actually worse than the continuing pain and stress you're already feeling.

    If it is (and I've seen people and family dynamics where it could be), ignore the advice. I won't be offended.

    If it's a no brainer and feels like a relief, go with it.

    If it sounds less bad but still incredibly stressful or painful, line up support in advance. When you're ready to pull the trigger, send the message, turn off your phone, and turn to the partner or friend sitting next to you for the pre-promised hug, start the comfort movie, or whatever it is that distracts you, comforts you, or makes you feel safe. In fact, you can do that regardless of how you wind up handling this. Family shit's rough.




  • As a professional sysadmin for a (not just web) hosting provider, any time I've run into Fedora on a server it has been an indication that:

    1. The client was running something obsolete and unmaintained that would not survive an update. This would generally be a version of Fedora 2-12 versions behind current
    2. Overtime was in my future as rolling updates broke their business a critical application
    3. The system was set up by a client's family, friend, or other nonprofessional sysadmin who would (or could) no longer support the rickety framework they had built on top of it, or
    4. Some combination of the above

    I could imagine it working in a devops environment at a company with a real development team that also happens to understand what sysadmins are for, but haven't run into that in practice.

    Seriously though, for a server you need something where security updates don't end the day a newer version is released. LTS releases and security backports matter for stability, and you don't get that with Fedora.

    Edit: To be clear, I saw all of those things on other distros as well. I just can't remember a single Fedora instance where I didn't see one or more of them.





  • I can't really answer the question of why, but the sample set of people I know who switch to vegetarianism and veganism bears out that the ones who rely in fake meats much more frequently switch back than those who focus on learning to cook foods that don't imitate meat.

    On the counterargument, I did miss cheese quite a bit, and learning to culture my own vegan cheeses hasn't led to buying animal milk cheeses again, so ymmv