u/CriesOfTheMoon

hi, i'm clueless about online privacy so eli5 please.

my estranged family is trying to reconnect. however the culture where i'm from is fairly severe and in the craziest most extreme cases abducting a wayward runaway child to restore the family's honor is not off the table, so i want to be extra careful.

if i were to message my sister with a signal username, no phone number, data and location turned off, public wifi, with proton vpn, can i be impossible to locate?

if not, what could i do to be untraceable? i'm willing to put in the effort and spend money if necessary.

thanks!

hi,

i just ordered a xiaomi pad 7 for everyday use, and i also want it to be my main emulation machine but it has no sd card slot. i was thinking of buying a usb-c flash drive to fill it up with roms (from snes up to ps2, maybe one or two switch and wii u titles max) and using the internal storage for native android apps. has anyone done this? is it feasible or are there any issues (especially with higher end emulation) when running games off external storage?

for those of you who went on oral min with long hair/still some amount of density. how was the shedding phase? did it fall out in clumps in the shower? or did the miniaturized hairs that were already shedding just accelerate? how was your density during the shed? any details or experiences would help

i lost my sides and temples and my hairline receded (aga). but i still have the rest of my hair as of now and i actually did a good job bringing it back go its old density and texture. im really not happy with topical 5%, minimal to no dread shed, but not enough regrowth where i want it and too much where i don't. also clashes with my routine and my love for animals. but i'm afraid of going on oral and losing so much density that i won't be able to hide my bald spots...thoughts?

so, i developed noticeable AGA two years AFTER starting hrt for still unknown reasons.three years in, i lost some density, and my temples, but much of my hair remains long and thick. i'm really not happy with topical because it went systemic for me anyway and i'm getting unwanted growth elsewhere. i also have more lasering to do anyway. so i wanted to switch to oral, but i'm worried it'll make me shed too much of what i got left of my healthy hair.

what are your experiences with oral min? specifically how did it affect your existing hair? if you were already growing it out, how bad was the dread shed? was it mostly the miniaturized hairs shedding faster, or was the whole thing falling out in clumps?

hi,

i'm not really familiar with tablet chipsets and so i don't really understand what i'm looking at when i see the specs. if anyone knows, what's the emulation performance of the tab S10 lite? can it run things like Wii U or at least ps2/gc/original wii at a full 60fps?

i'm looking to get a tablet for no more than 300€ for other purposes but after i'm done using it for serious things it would just become a retro handheld to play jrpgs in bed.

thanks

Hi.

I've been through some turbulent times recently and was very strongly reminded of my own mortality. I live in Germany and I'm probably going to stay permanently or at least for several decades. Non-EU in case it's relevant. I want to make sure that in the event that I pass away, my remains are disposed of in Germany, in a completely secular manner, and without my family or home country being involved. The reason being that if they got their hands on my remains they would desecrate my memory and bury me in the rites of a religion I left and spent my life denouncing and opposing.

I literally never gave this sort of gloomy stuff any thought before so I have NO idea who the competent person/authority to talk to is, and how any of this works legally. I'm completely clueless so i just want to very candidly ask: who do I talk to about this?

so ive been using topical 5% specifically on my temples as that's where i lost hair and ive ended up growing MORE hair everywhere else than the place i actually used it on. my entire forehead is covered in little hairs and my eyebrows are connecting and growing downwards making a weird semi circle underneath my eyes. i didn't expect it to go this far and since i have jet black hair it's becoming noticeable and frankly unsightly.

so my question is, if i were to quit using topical min until i shed the unwanted hairs and then get on oral instead, do you reckon they would all come back?

my thinking is that a spot like the *very middle of my goddamn forehead* isn't somewhere that hair naturally grows, so it only sprouted there because liquid minoxidil touched it. and maybe oral min would only target the *usual* places my body grows hair and not try to colonize new territories. but im not sure.

thoughts?

hi

i'm wondering if any transfem has experiences trying to get dutasteride/finasteride here?

i managed to get my old hausarzt to prescribe it to me ONCE only because he was also using it but i can't see him anymore and my new doctor isn't convinced when i ask.

i know you can get it online but it's apparently a war crime to prescribe these meds to women so like sonshaar demand to know "the name of the male patient" or they refuse to send you the medication, and dokteronline prescribes dut only after a "consultation for the prostate". i'm afraid it causes issues if you have a female name/legal gender change

hi everyone. im usually not comfortable revealing personal info on the internet but im going to be completely candid.

27 years old trans woman. i suffered a lot of abuse in the asylum system and even though it was almost a year ago now, i'm still dealing with the consequences and i haven't been able to move on at all. and as im sure everyone knows these days it's practically impossible to see a therapist or a psychiatrist.

i dropped out of my integrationskurs, started isolating more and more, and now that the weather is nice and everyone is going outside with their loved ones im noticing myself becoming agoraphobic and paranoid in public. i shy away from making friends because nobody needs the extra negativity in their life from talking to an abused person in crisis.

i'm really not heading in a healthy direction and i want to start working on getting better. i feel like i need some sort of genuine social contact to keep my mental health. so, im asking for recommendations for safe social spaces in Darmstadt and the surroundings, preferably trans* only, ND/AuDHD friendly. i know about vielbunt, the oetinger villa and the meeting there, i went once but i felt very out of place, and like i was coming from a very different place in life and wouldn't be understood. maybe it was just my bad headspace making me feel that way, but still, i'm open to any and all other suggestions as well.

thank you