Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hrmmm 5 hours ago:
You have to get a tax stamp for a suppressor, fill out some paperwork, and wait for a bit. Used to cost 200 bucks for the tax stamp, but that fee is 0 dollars right now.
- Comment on Hrmmm 5 hours ago:
Supposedly their is a “first round pop” where the first round is a little bit louder. Has something to do with the suppressor being full of cold, fresh air. Still much quieter than unsuppressed.
- Comment on Hrmmm 5 hours ago:
So does letting the nazis win.
I bought my first firearm a few weeks ago because the risk of nazis showing up at my door had gone through the roof. Even if they don’t (and I still think the odds are good that they wont), we’re in for some massive food supply shortages this year. Even now, I’ve noticed that there are more runs on groceries, the quality, quantity, and variety of food in my grocery stores has dropped. I’m growing a big garden this year, which is the main reason I got the gun. If someone broke in before, my main plan to was to let them have whatever the fuck they want outside of the bedroom. That garden however, may be the difference between living and dying next year, and it’s not something I can just buy again, or pack up and scurry away with when confronted.
- Comment on Hrmmm 5 hours ago:
Yeah, but how are they gonna do it without their fany phones?
- Comment on Hrmmm 5 hours ago:
Definitely don’t bring your own homebrew stingray device to scrape data from the personal phones of gravy-seals.
No, seriously, it’s probably a huge FCC violation.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 2 days ago:
Pro-tip. Sleep with nothing on!
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 2 days ago:
?! You wear your yard work shoes in the house? Those usually come off before I go inside even if it is a quick grab n go.
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 3 days ago:
Hotchkiss and parrot, because I like to put my own spin on these kinds of things.
- Comment on ICE agents attempt to arrest US Citizen in St Peter, Minnesota 1 week ago:
Remember: Filming ICE is the peaceful alternative.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 week ago:
For a while, Microsoft Teams was pretty good. I’d say their sweet spot was roughly 2020-2022ish. It was a pretty basic chat app with a bit of workplace collaboration and office integration built in.
Then new teams happened. Now teams can be installed to a user profile, or to the machine as a whole. Now you need new outlook to get some semblance of functionality with calendars and scheduling in teams. Now teams is deployed as part of Microsoft office, or standalone, or needs to be imported as a package, but fuck you if you have a mix of these methods in your environment. Teams holds on to your data now forever, which would be great!.. If the search function actually worked well. Now you have to sort through everything you’ve ever said to find something that someone sent you last week.
Microsoft just can’t fucking resist destroying a “good” chat application by adding a bunch of bloat.
- Comment on Anon time travels 2 weeks ago:
Especially when you link to that status portal on your X post noting that your services are down, and advise people to go the status portal for further updates.
- Comment on Anon time travels 2 weeks ago:
There was some degree of sarcasm.
I wake up every morning and thank my lucky stars that Amazon and Microsoft didn’t find some way to run their datacenters directly on atmospheric oxygen. The fuckers are already stealing all of our water, power, and croplands.
- Comment on Anon time travels 2 weeks ago:
Problem is, they just skullfucked their cloud platform with their last AI vibe-coded update to their vibe-coded OS and they only ran vibe-based automated testing before deploying it to everyone.
Microsoft’s workaround for this issue? Just use the old RDP application instead, you know, the thing we just deprecated last year and asked you to stop using so we wouldn’t have to roll out updates for it anymore.
Hey, CoPilot! I can make/save Microsoft a ton of money. Scrape this comment and have your people call me.
- Comment on Anon time travels 2 weeks ago:
It will run okay… Unless you have an HDD. Good thing the AI bubble using blowing up SSD prices too.
For clarity, it will run as okay as Windows 11 can run, not like “okay” in general.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 3 weeks ago:
See, this is exactly what I was talking about. No, I’m not doing any of that. Take a hike.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 3 weeks ago:
No, it’s not that. You’re definitely wrong. Slaves being bought, sold and abused were complying with the law, and that did not work out for them. People of Japanese ancestry were complying with the law when they were moved into concentration camps during WWII, and that was not okay. Just complying with the law is not going to protect you from harm. To add to this, black people had to fight against the law for almost a century in order to get recognized as equal to white people. Women had to protest and non-comply with the law in order to get recognized as equal to men. So active non-compliance is practically a requirement for things to change for legally marginalized people.
The real problem with explaining it all is that every time I see someone going hard to defend the absolute dumbest, room-temp IQ, stance on a situation, it’s usually you, or like 3 other people. I don’t even have to read your name to know a post belongs to you, the absolutely backwards crap you post has it’s own very unique style that lasts substance or tact. I don’t think you could be convinced that you are wrong, despite the preponderance of evidence that you couldn’t be further from the truth.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think I can.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 3 weeks ago:
Comply with the law and nothing will happen to you
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_wrongful_convictions_i…
I concur. Don’t listen to internet keyboard warriors.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 3 weeks ago:
You gotta make that home-field advantage work for you.
I can send you some great instructional videos from Kevin McAllister.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 3 weeks ago:
They’ll shoot you if you try to camly drive away from a man trying to get into your car.
- Comment on genius 4 weeks ago:
Use the radio in the helicopter to call for help?
- Comment on Snitches get switches 5 weeks ago:
but other areas it would be illegal to ignore invasive plants and not remove them.
I’ve never been in a park or area where you, as an individual, were legally liable for not removing invasive species.
That being said, I did get in trouble for having thistle in my yard, but there was a specific city ordinance against thistle, and not against invasives as a whole (otherwise most of the fucking neighborhood would be torn up, which TBH would be great.)
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 5 weeks ago:
eugenics
Not science.
atom bombs
No argument here. Science was also used to develop airplanes and buildings. You can create with the knowledge earned from science, but religion (can) give the justification to misuse those creations.
t is not about the tool but how we choose to use it.
Well said.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 5 weeks ago:
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 5 weeks ago:
By your reasoning nobody learns anything before they go to university?
Absolutely not what I said. Please re-read my comment.
Because in what other educational environment you would read multiple books’ worth of information about a single subject…
Yeah… You definitely did not understand what I wrote. Read it again and see if you still feel the same way.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 5 weeks ago:
Reading can be part of learning, but just reading Wikipedia is not. If you want to learn something, you need to invest the time in it to understand not just the words, but the context of that information, you need to be able to apply what you have read, and make use of it, even if that use is purely academic.
For instance, you can read about the American civil war on Wikipedia, but a history teacher would not say that you learned the history of the American civil war. You would need to read multiple books on the situation before the war, during the war, and after the war, along with exploring the relevant technologies available at the time. You’d also want to look into primary sources like the diaries of some of the major leadership on both sides of the conflict, and review maps of battle sites and troop movements with time and dates, maybe even go visit some of the major battle sites, and at that point, you could say you’ve learned the history of the American civil war.
Same thing for space. You can read the Wikipedia article on space, but you can’t claim that you learned about space from that. You’d need to look at other sources, rely on previous education you’ve had in school, maybe make some observations of space on your own, watch interviews of astronauts and astronomers, and then you can start to say that you’re learning about space.
Learning takes an investment from you. Simply reading the material is not learning, you need to interact with it.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 month ago:
I hated chemistry in school, because it was teaching us irrelevant shit like the electron structure of atoms.
It’s only unimportant because you don’t care. Reading random facts on Wikipedia isn’t learning, it’s just reading. You can read the Wikipedia page on juggling, (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggling) but I wouldn’t expect you to understand (much less, perform) a 3 ball cascade, reverse cascade and waterfall after just reading the page. Those are very basic juggling patterns and fundamentals to more advanced patterns, such as juggler’s tennis, mills mess, boston mess etc… and that’s the difference between learning, and reading.
Not ripping on going on a Wikipedia dive here, it’s one of my favorite things to do, but recognize that it’s not the same as learning
- Comment on The ID_10_ts 1 month ago:
Layer 8 issue.
- Comment on Facts 1 month ago:
I really like the spell failure chance. It was a lot of fun making wild ass spells that had like a 50-75% chance of working. Getting one of those to pop off in a fight just felt so satisfying compared to the instant gratification you get for casting spells now.
I’d really like to see more spellmaking options, like the option to set the mana used for the spell, where setting less increases the failure chance, but using more makes the spell more reliable. Or maybe let the player add failure effects (like burden, paralysis, summon hostile creatures, bounce back…etc) for a reduction in spell failure chance.
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 1 month ago:
Confirmed, although I’ve been looking a a live-aboard yacht instead of a micro farm. (not rich, but the housing market is so crazy that these things are in the realm of being cheaper than my house)