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The EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, came in clutch this year with a nice intro to cybersecurity and best practices for queer folks online and on our own devices. The article also has links for safety for activists, and other helpful articles about general "surveillance self-defense," as they aptly name it.

Highly recommend sharing this around. Stay safe, folks!

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If you have an iPhone or iPad that uses a lightning charger and you suddenly can't plug the charger into the port, or the device can't charge, check the port very closely before going on to other troubleshooting. You should always make sure your port is clean and use a known-good charger to test, aka a charger you know works on other devices, but I'm going to have you look for one specific thing first:

It's possible a small metal piece came off the tip of the lightning charger and got stuck in the port. It's shaped kind of like an angular U, but flatter, as in the middle flat area is longer than the parts that point up at a 90-degree angle, one on the left and one on the right. If so, a pair of electrostatic-discharge-safe tweezers, aka ESD-safe tweezers, and possibly a magnifying glass will solve your problem

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Quick intro post, so I don't look like a bot account while I draft the first actual tech advice posts! I'm 30 and she/they are my pronouns. I'm bi and married, and we have two cats. I'm an ambulatory wheelchair user with endometriosis who lives on electrolytes, and I'm AuDHD

In any game I can, I play a healer. I really love getting to support my teammates, keep em alive so they can focus on their part, and help us all reach the end

For me, tech support is like getting to do that for people irl, just with their technology--I "heal" their tech by fixing it, and I teach them how to use it. I take great pride in empowering people to make informed choices on how they interact with tech, and teaching them to use it. I call myself a tech priest in training--I still have a LOT to learn, but I'd love to share what I know

I strongly believe in the right to repair and the right to digital privacy. If you want to learn a bit about these things I highly recommend Louis Rossman's YouTube channel, the Electronic Frontier Foundation or EFF, and iFixIt. I also believe tech should be accessible, both in terms of accommodating for disability and various adaptive needs, and in terms of affordability and physical access. The Internet with its wealth of knowledge should be freely accessible, just like clean water, food, housing, and healthcare

TERFs ain't got no friends, and they certainly won't find one here. Same goes for aro/ace exclusionists. Frankly anyone who shits on people using any combo of labels in good faith can fuck off. Queer is QUEER, that means it's hard to put in neat little boxes and categories, and that's wonderful

Welcome to my helpdesk!