abfarid

Frankly, I don't understand most of what you said, I must be lacking some context. But I do want to clarify one point, which will help me understand a lot of things better. You said:

Saying I “was a woman” would imply that I chose to do so freely, which I did not.

How does one actually identify if they are a "man" or a "woman"? What list of criteria makes one of a certain gender?

I don't think I follow that logic. If I was shown a photo of a baby (that eventually grows up to become a pilot) and asked if it was a photo of a pilot, I would say "no, it's a photo of a baby, babies can't be pilots". Sure, it's a photo of a baby that will become a pilot, but at that point, it's just a baby, even though they are the same person.

"Back when they identified as a woman" is the same thing as "back when they were a woman", because being a woman is merely an act of identifying as one, consciously or otherwise. There's no universal truth for "being a woman", gender is a human construct and therefore subjective, which means identifying as a woman is being a woman and vice-versa.

That's what being a woman means, no?

The photo is of a woman because at the time of taking it the character (and the actor) was a woman. Transition shouldn't retroactively change reality.

Carcinization.

I run both Plex and Jellyfin. I always watch my videos with subtitles and for that reason Jellyfin is still unusable for me. Subtitles are too big on one platform but too small on another. Size adjustment is broken. No Subtitle delay adjustment. Downloading subtitles is an external process.
I still use it for an occasional video that needs transcoding, but it really needs to fix subtitles before I can ditch Plex. There are other minor issues with JF over Plex, but they are not dealbreakers.

I see so many variations on this meme, but I still don't know what he originally said. ~~And at this point, I'm too afraid to ask.~~ What's the original?

I think their point is that people don't actually buy Apple products for privacy and therefore it's not "the main selling point".

I mean, if you log in to Facebook at all, whatever MacOS collects is a drop in a bucket in comparison.

I didn't say it's perfect, but it's not terrible. And I think that page is mostly about Apple services, like iCloud and stuff, not MacOS specifically. It's not necessary to use the services.

Ubuntu has Snap and ads and stuff, but I thought Manjaro was considered good. What's wrong with it? It's supposed to be Arch based.

Privacy and data collection-wise MacOS is fine. It's their main selling point. Doesn't even force updates on you. I know it's a low bar, but damn Windows bar is at the floor at this point.