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Trans Megathread for the Week of December 30th, 2024 to January 5, 2025 - The Summer Hikaru Died

Here's to a new year! Here's my first mega try (also first time posting in a while due to reasons) but heya! Admittedly struggled a fair bit with self doubt and anxiety on this one as put it off for a while/other things caught up with me but I figure I'll be glad I did it once I've done it. It's kinda being done last minute though, so admittedly there's that...

I'd been intending to make the mega about something else originally when I signed up, but that would require more time on my part (and I just binge read this recently, so it all works out). Anyways, my subject of the week is The Summer Hikaru Died; it's a queer (BL) horror manga which is currently also scheduled for anime release next year (2025).

Content warnings naturally follow and further details will be spoilered.

Anyways, I should cut myself short at this (and make sure to have something properly written beforehand for next time). But anyways, thus far it's a strong recommend (if you feel alright with the content warnings) from me.

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I'm thinking about getting a MacBook when tax time comes around. I've not used a Mac since high school and I'm curious to see how their UI and how comfortable their OS's user experience has become. If I don't like it, I can resell it pretty quickly and easily for a minor loss, so I'm not too terribly concerned about it. Also consumer therapy is a thing >w>
That said, my ThinkPad is just not performing as well as I need it to and I need to replace it. I never expected to be doing so much on it and I need more power from its GPU. Shouldn't expect so much from a 5 year old AMD APU. Also my fault for expecting so much from a $200 eBay laptop.
- Idk when you went to high school but I have a MacBook for work and their OS has definitely gotten better in the last 20ish years.
  If you’re not running Linux on your thinkpad already, you might try that. I’ve gotten many more years of life out of an old refurbished thinkpad that way!
  
  Running Debian 12 on it. I need it for 3D applications and some more processor heavy uses such as compiling personal projects. It's a 5 year-old, mid-range laptop APU, so it's not going to be pushing much power regardless.
  I haven't used a Mac in 23 years actually. 2002 with those giant see-through CRTs. Learned to type on them.
  
  Ah, yeah, sounds like more firepower is necessary for sure then!
  lol I remember those. The newer stuff is definitely less clunky than that OS. I also learned to type on a Mac (Apple IIe)! Prior to this laptop, the last Mac I had used was one of the flat screen iMacs when they were still pretty new (2004/5ish I think). Anyway, good luck!
  Edit: have you checked out framework? Those have got me feeling some kind of way.
  
  I don't think I've ever heard of framework until this very moment. I checked them out and they seem pretty nice. Might go that direction instead so I don't get locked into Apple's ecosystem. It's pretty cool building laptops too as I used to repair them all those years ago. Probably will bring me back. We'll see. Depends on how I feel in a month's time.
  
  Yeah the ability to upgrade and repair them is a real draw for me. I wish more stuff (electronics in particular) was built with that in mind. Plus no vendor lock-in, like you said. Although it might be fun to play with asahi…

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