Grow your hair out and (if you’re looking for things to buy) bleach/dye it.

I’ve been in femboy mode for the past 6 months, and it has not delivered results. Unless you count some negativity from an old lady on a bus. I’ve only been using nail polish for a couple weeks, and I did get a positive comment on that. Unfortunately, I’m tall and have stress lines on my face, so it’s hard for me to feel cute, and I get into a negative feedback loop because of that.

so that everyone knows i’m still cis tho

I’m still figuring out what a femboy is, and to me it seems to be just a new term for a male or enby-identifying transvestite or girly boy. In my experience as a half-slavic 31-year-old in the rural northwest, when I crossdress nobody knows my gender but everyone assumes I have a dick. I could be trans, it could be performance art, it could be laundry day. (Why the short shorts and mascara? Must be a fag.) All queers are the same to folks outside of this community, so to them your choice of gender matters less than how good you look overall.

I shave with specific brands of disposable twin-blade safety razor (Dorco, BIC, whatever gets you closest without cutting the skin) and shave gel. Gel seems to work a lot better than Barbasol cream.

You can also use hair removal cream for touch-ups, though my facial hair is unfortunately a lot tougher than hair removal cream alone can handle.

I hear that epilators (basically like an electric razor that goes a little deeper) work well, at least for body hair, though I haven’t tried one yet.

I hear that an epigenetic medication (not HRT) reduces the thickness of non-scalp hair to the genetic level you would have without androgens, but other factors like a history of shaving and your specific ethnicity may reduce the de-hairing effect. Many cis women shave.

The sad reality is that when you look at the files being requested, it’s usually scrapers looking for exploits.

When you bring threads into it, these exotic features make more sense. I have been doing single-threaded stuff for the most part.

I just never learned smart pointers and write C++ code like it’s C for aesthetic reasons.

I’ve been using C++ almost daily for the past 7 years and I haven’t found a use for shared_ptr, unique_ptr, etc. At what point does one stop being a noob?

Nope!

I’m sorta male-nb (not especially cis but not quite trans at this point) so my experiences aren’t the same as a trans person. Much of the queer community seems to be on the softer side, but I’m hoping to find something harder at one of these events or something. There isn’t much in my area, but hopefully for a month the gays will be loud and proud enough for me to strike up conversations.

Thanks. In my experience, Wine and Proton don’t work as well as native for one of the apps I’m building, so I will need to either build in a container or say “use X Ubuntu version”.

I do, but Linux should be a first-class platform alongside Windows.

Mainly getting builds onto platforms catering to Windows users and gamers. The consensus here seems to be using containerized build environments.

Thanks for the info! If I’m doing container builds anyways, this looks tasty.

Nice! UwU