u/TwistedSwd

I'm trying to log into my wifi, but I have to use a secondary authenticator (Duo) to log in. However, the moment I push the notification, the login screen goes away (since it's in a different app than Settings), making it impossible to log in.

Is there a way to force the wifi landing page to open in my default browser instead of the Settings app? It'd really help to get an answer on this.

At first, when I saw Ep9 during TLA, I thought the trans reveal was executed poorly, due to reasons such as lack of significant foreshadowing (for those not tracking it already), no "in your face" reveal until the bowtie scene, inconsistent pronouns use, etc. Mainly, I thought it was just too obfuscated, creating a mixed message between implicit and explicit interpretation and making it feel like a shallow shoe-in rather than something meant to be compelling...

...until I realized that that's the whole point. It's the coming-out arc that never happened.

Jax never said a real word of it during the main story timeframe because he was intentionally obfuscating it, both from the other characters and from us. The only things we got were a few subjective-at-best hints (e.g. the maid dress, skin tearing) and in-jokes (egg cracking), most of which he likely let slip on accident while under duress.

The only real glimpse of it was during a flashback scene that happened before the story even started for us, and could only be seen by us after he had already abstracted. Because of this, it was too late for him to say anything, too late for anyone else to react to it, and worst of all, too late to make it right.

After he blushed at the bowtie, essentially confirming who he was, he immediately and fiercely regretted it. From that day forward, he sought to hide it behind every veil he could conjure, the foremost being a malicious personality. He pushed everyone away and made them despise him, not because he actually hated them, but because he was afraid they'd pry enough to see the truth. He never wanted a coming-out arc to happen to him, and so it didn't happen, and he paid the price for that with his life.

The way I see it, the lesson to be drawn from the cautionary tale is that it's your job to speak out about the things eating at you. This fact doesn't just go for dysphoria specifically (though given Goose’s direct connection to it it'd make sense she'd use it as the example). It goes for anything.

You can't expect people to "clock" who you really are and somehow guess correctly with what little evidence you present to them. (Besides, you shouldn't do that to others at all, because assumptions like that, especially if they're false, can backfire and only make things worse). It's on you to take the first step.

That isn't to say there aren't risks to doing so. If you reach out to the wrong people and in the wrong way, they can turn their backs on you and attack you for it, or give you bad advice and make things even worse. It's a damn shame, and if that happens, you are right to blame them for your wanting to hide it.

However, if you let that fear control you and hide it until the bell tolls, and especially if you use it as an excuse to push away the world, you'll have nobody to blame but yourself when it eats you alive.

That is what I believe the lesson of Jax's arc (that never happened) to be: It is solely on you to start the story. Leeroy did and got his life back, while Jax didn't and lost his life for it.

At first, when I saw Ep9 during TLA, I thought the trans reveal was executed poorly, due to reasons such as lack of significant foreshadowing (for those not tracking it already), no "in your face" reveal until the bowtie scene, inconsistent pronouns use, etc. Mainly, I thought it was just too obfuscated, creating a mixed message between implicit and explicit interpretation and making it feel like a shallow shoehorn rather than something meant to be compelling...

...until I realized that that's the whole point. It's the coming-out arc that never happened.

Jax never said a real word of it during the main story timeframe because he was intentionally obfuscating it, both from the other characters and from us. The only things we got were a few subjective-at-best hints (e.g. the maid dress, skin tearing) and in-jokes (egg cracking), most of which he likely let slip on accident while under duress.

The only real glimpse of it was during a flashback scene that happened before the story even started for us, and could only be seen by us after he had already abstracted. Because of this, it was too late for him to say anything, too late for anyone else to react to it, and worst of all, too late to make it right.

After he blushed at the bowtie, essentially confirming who he was, he immediately and fiercely regretted it. From that day forward, he sought to hide it behind every veil he could conjure, the foremost being a malicious personality. He pushed everyone away and made them despise him, not because he actually hated them, but because he was afraid they'd pry enough to see the truth. He never wanted a coming-out arc to happen to him, and so it didn't happen, and he paid the price for that with his life.

The way I see it, the lesson to be drawn from the cautionary tale is that it's your job to speak out about the things eating at you. This fact doesn't just go for dysphoria specifically (though given Goose’s direct connection to it it'd make sense she'd use it as the example). It goes for anything.

You can't expect people to "clock" who you really are and somehow guess correctly with what little evidence you present to them. (Besides, you shouldn't do that to others at all, because assumptions like that, especially if they're false, can backfire and only make things worse). It's on you to take the first step.

That isn't to say it's easy or that there aren't risks to doing so. If you reach out to the wrong people and in the wrong way, they can turn their backs on you and attack you for it, or give you bad advice and make things even worse. It's a damn shame, and if that happens, you are right to blame them for your wanting to hide it.

However, if you let that fear control you and hide it until the bell tolls, and especially if you use it as an excuse to push away the world, you'll have nobody to blame but yourself when it eats you alive.

That is what I believe the lesson of Jax's arc (that never happened) to be: It is solely on you to start the story. Leeroy did and got his life back, while Jax didn't and lost his life for it.