This is a great explanation, I wish I could’ve got you to explain a bunch of other network stuff to me back when I was learning

From one odd girl to another, I think both can be true

Do you know if there’s a place where image transcribers on Lemmy are congregating, or are you just doing this independently?

I was using vim for the first time the other day and I was running through the built in vimtutor. I got a call from a friend and they asked what I was up to, and I said I was doing a tutorial for a text editor. At that moment, I felt simultaneously very silly and very smart.

I’m bi, but my appearance is pretty queer coded such that cis-het people tend to read me as “unclear gay or just tech-nerd punk”. I’ve found that when I use the word partner, it can throw people off because they’re clearly fishing for my partner’s gender in a “I can’t tell whether this person is straight or gay” way. Most of the people I’ve dated have been men, but I do like the chaos energy of the confusion

I find it interesting to hear you say this, to me, partner feels like quite a warm term. I think probably because for me, I associate the word partner with a sort of “levelling up” of a relationship, where you’re not just two people dating, but two people in a partnership to help each other be the best they can be.

I do agree that it feels clunky sometimes though. I was catching up with a friend recently who paused just before the word “partner” every time. I pointed it out and we laughed at the relatable awkwardness of not feeling like you have a correct word when “girlfriend” doesn’t fit. He said that partner didn’t feel right either, but it was the closest he could find.

I don’t recall ever hearing significant other irl, though I do sometimes see it online as SO. To me, that feels more clunky than partner.

That certainly was a blog with many emotions. Coming at this with no context, it looks like the kind of content that would be beautiful satire, except it’s probably not.