Kira Herdman

HRT Update It’s been almost 2 months since I started HRT now and nothing has changed from the last update. This is to be expected as generally you don’t feel anything for between 3-6 months being on HRT.  The Labour Government Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few months, we had a general election where the Labour Party are now in government with a big majority. That means they can push anything they want through parliament. What does this mean for LGBT+ people and Transgender people in particular? It’s a mixed bag. Ill break it down into the positives and negatives Positives During the Kings speech yesterday they did mention, as promised in the Labour Manifesto, that they will be banning Conversion Therapy for everyone, including Transgender people. The post for running the EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) is coming up in November. This is currently occupied by Baroness Falkner, who is in some people’s eyes (including my own) leaning on the gender crit

I have a total of 4 computers in my house. 2 servers and 2 client PC’s, along with my phone and tablet. So lets go through what I have, why I have it and what it does, starting with my servers first. SERVERS  As stated above I have 2 servers, one that is basically a NAS (Network Attached Storage) that stores all my media and acts as a backup for my main server, which runs all my applications. I wanted my storage and applications separate for security and in case of hardware failure. TrueNAS The NAS runs on TrueNAS, a free dedicated NAS server software. The specs of the server is as follows :- Intel Core i5 4440S CPU (iGPU) 16Gb DDR3 Ram (2 x 8Gb) 2 x 500Gb Seacate 2.5” HDD (OS/Mirrored) 2 x 2Tb WD Red (Mirrored, mainly used for all my data apart from Plex) 2 x 3Tb WD Red (Mirrored, used for my Plex Media Server) The TrueNAS software doesn’t take that much HDD, the 500Gb hard drives are an overkill for it. As you can also see, all the hard drives are mirrored, this means if