I might be missing something, but it reads like he's saying "Israeli hostages" as in "hostages taken by Israel" based on how he mentions families returning to rubble in Gaza.
I can't read all of the article because it's behind a paywall or whatever, but I would suggest reading some stuff by Erin Reed (Erin in the Morning), specifically this piece which is relevant to your claim. (Note the article was written by a guest and not Erin herself, if you want to)
As with anything that loud transphobes like to scream about, it's wildly exaggerated. Unfortunately, because they're so loud, most people see the exaggeration as truth.
I would also look into this study/literature review. It's been a while since I've read it, and it's late here, so I can't attest to how good of a study it is. However, the authors do conclude that there's no real evidence of trans women having any considerable advantage over cis women.
iirc, spotdl let's you "log in" by storing a specific cookie in a file or getting a token or something. It's probably somewhere in the docs, but I don't remember exactly off the top of my head
I believe there's a setting either in Discover (the KDE "app store") in the main plasma settings (somewhere in the "updates" section? That might be somewhere else, I don't remember) that will automatically install updates without you needing to approve them.
And there's also a setting that will wait to install them until the next boot. When I had that setting on, it only added maybe 10 seconds to my startup time when I needed to apply something like a kernel update.
The dark mode quick settings background will be the same as light mode, just with a slightly darker gray. It's somewhere on the android authority website if you really want to see it
NixOS configuration is done entirely through code, so all of your packages are in a list (although that list can be spread across multiple files; it's a bit to explain)
I've found it can be easier to manage what you have installed, since you can just look at that list and go "oh, why do I still have xyz installed, idek what that does anymore"
I appreciate the way things are configured a lot, but I would not recommend it unless you really like coding and you have time to tinker. It's not too hard to get simple config setup, but I spiraled down a deep rabbit hole really quickly.
EDIT: If my comment for some reason persuaded you to use NixOS, I recommend you get a basic config setup before installing it. I'd also recommend you look at how annoying it can be to run dynamically-linked applications (i.e. you download a random executable off the Internet and try to run it, or you try to run something you downloaded with npm)
I might be missing something, but it reads like he's saying "Israeli hostages" as in "hostages taken by Israel" based on how he mentions families returning to rubble in Gaza.