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It was federally illegal until 2013 if it's wasn't able to be detected by a metal detector: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undetectable_Firearms_Act

Some folks have tried to reintroduce it again. It's one of the few gun laws that even the NRA approved of.

AFAIK 3d printed guns aren't illegal as long as they're able to be detected by a metal detector, unless a state has passed a law that imposes an additional restriction.

I would need to see it fire for myself before believing that the recoil didn't have an massive effect on the stability of the drone. It also looks like it isn't gimbaled so quick follow up shots will most likely be impossible.

One thing that's always got me about these robotic weapons platforms like armed drones or dogs is that they seem to exist in a fantasy land where guns never malfunction. Part of getting good with your guns is learning how to rapidly troubleshoot any of the unique ways guns can fail to feed. I feel like any approach to this that's just slapping an off the shelf gun on a thing just exists to farm engagement.

Related is that Alexa seems to like to add any HP printers nearby with WiFi direct still on, and relentlessly remind you when the neighbor's printer ink is low. I have ~20 random printers in my Alexa account that I don't own and keep reappearing whenever Alexa scans for new devices.

Are they using like a RAM disk then or are they mapping a network drive for storage while they're running? I've always been curious about setting up netbooting but beyond a failed experiment a long long time ago I haven't really tried.

I am aware of the write endurance problems of sd cards, but I've had numerous cards that are cooked fresh out of the box, even from 'good' manufactures like Samsung. I don't like having to do binning for the manufacturer.

Did you read my comment? :)

I did read that they were going to support M.2., and I have gotten around my issues with SD cards in the past using SSD-grade USB drives and NVMe adapters. My comment was about how crap SD cards are, and how this class of SBCs (including the PI 5) often use them as their default storage (as in, not needing an adapter or special firmware to boot). My final statement was my wish for a high speed durable storage standard that was better than SD cards without having to spend more money than the SBC itself on storage, although looking today on Amazon it seems that NVMe drives have gotten way cheaper, no idea of those are quality though.

TBH the thing I hate most about this category of SBC is the reliance on SD cards. They are both too unreliable to trust and so slow that they often bottleneck the SBC. Buying them is often a crap shoot too, I've purchased cards batches of cards from the supposed reputable manufacturers that were all over the board when benchmarked, and rarely did they hit the claimed speed spec. I would love if there was an alternative that was not as much as a jump as those SSD flash drives or NVME drive. Maybe OS grade eMMC M.2 drives the size of those wifi cards?

^ yep. SSNs are also terrible to collect, as they are hard to verify if the user even gave you a valid number, as there's no self checking system like credit cards, you have to check against some 3rd party database that may know who that person is, but can't be sure, or just may not know who they are. Also, if you fuck up, you screw over a lot of people.

Fun fact, until 2011 SSNs were loosely based on where you were born. If you were a bad actor and wanted to use a fake SSN, just change a couple of numbers at the end and you could get a new number of someone that was born around when you were, in the same hospital as you.

Man, I know why it's a thorny topic but sometimes I really wish we had a single identity system in the states, just one card that had all your licenses on it, driving/boating/hunting/ccw, and one API to pull all that info. Our county is too cheap/lazy to reissue pistol/sar permits if you buy, sell, or transfer a restricted weapon, instead opts to give you a piece of printer paper to go with it. You have to have that paper addendum with you whenever you're handling a restricted weapon, and you're fucked if anything happens to it, and you get caught.

I agree that it's barely used in this day and age but worth noting that Titanfall 1, 2, and Apex Legends are all heavily modified Source

In (western) NY it's unheard of now. Everything is some form of PPO.

How is the water 'consumed'? I see that in the article that they say that they only draw water in on hot days, but what happens to it after? Surely they can't hold onto all of it. Is it just discharged, but a bit warmer? Wouldn't it at worst just be pumped out to a holding pond until it's cooled enough to release it back into the water supply?

I think it's mostly a numbers thing. Willing to bet that most people take owning a gun seriously, but there's a loooooooooot of guns in the US. There's enough in US circulation alone to give a gun to every citizen of the US, Canada, and the UK. That much floating around and there's bound to be some dumb fuck in the news waving around their new bang stick.

Like others have said, you've got a lot of other things in the US to worry about than guns. However, since we're sharing gun incidents, mine is that I had a sheriff's deputy LARPing as a SWAT officer bust in to the bathroom at work and point a rifle at me while I was trying to use the urinal. Lots of yelling until they realized that I was not a part of the drill and had my pants unzipped. Not happy that they didn't inform us that the cops were going to use the building we're in for school shooting training. Dangers of working in a repurposed school I guess?

Genuinely curious, but why desolder the Ethernet port? If you don't want it to connect to the network just don't plug a cable in right?

I think it's automatic highbeams mostly. They either make the driver lazy or unaware of who they're blinding. Sorta like how it's a bit jarring to go back to a car with completely manual lighting after driving one that automatically flips on low beams when it gets dark.

It's because it's on every device we use. Works in the browser so I don't have to install a client as well. Just was the chat tool we both used heavily at the time, and now it's got inertia.

This has been a constant bit of friction between my wife and I. To me, the norms are:

- Unscheduled calls are if it's an emergency or something that you need an answer to right now

- Calling twice in a row is an emergency

- SMS if it's important but not urgent

- Discord chat if it's just casual messaging or pics

This is how my family and everyone else I know communicate, but my wife. My wife will call me repeatedly to tell me that they just got out of work and are going to the store. It really doesn't help that the bluetooth in their car is trash too, so answering the call is rewards you with feedback hell. It gets me in the habit of not dropping everything to answer their calls if it's around when they get out of work, which has bitten us twice when they couldn't get a hold of me for a bit when they had car trouble and needed a rescue.

To me, personal calls operate on a reputation system since you don't know what they will be about until you're already answering them. If you burn that rep on calls that don't matter, all someone will think the next time they see you on caller id is that it can wait.

My point was more towards the 2-in-1s and tablet PCs, not really phone or 'true' tablets. Devices that have been pretty popular over the last decade, like Surface Pros (I had used a Pro 2 and Pro 3 during my experiment) or Lenovo Yogas.

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Didn't really consider postmarketOS. I haven't played with installing mobile operating systems on desktop hardware in a long time.

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Yeah I think what screwed my testing was applications that were using xwayland without me noticing. The stable firefox snap at the time (which is preinstalled on Ubuntu), uses it apparently. I have only used Xorg before, as I've never felt the need or desire to step into the tarpit that's migrating to Wayland.

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Neat workaround for your tablet, glad it works well for you.

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End of the day, I'm sure that I could have puttered on it and eventually got it all working (aside from the hardware on the surface that appears to be completely locked down), but it's a pretty poor showing out of the box. YMMV and all that, and I hope that more investment in the space makes it a better experience in the future.

A bit ago I did a bit of an experiment with an old surface tablet, where I threw some linux distros at it to see what the experience was. I tried Ubuntu, Manjaro, and Fedora, and all were extremely janky to downright broken. On screen keyboard was completely broken with Wayland, with some apps like Firefox just not popping it open, to others ignoring input. X had trouble with screen rotation. Fedora wouldn't let me past the login screen unless I connected a keyboard, which was compounded with a bug that was causing the screen to lock every sixty seconds. Manjaro ended up lasting the longest, but at that point I had just given up trying to fix things and reverted to using the Surface as a laptop with a touch screen.

I don't know how much touch screen only computers are considered during development of desktop environments and display servers, my experience left me with the distinct feeling that I had gone way outside of the bounds of the target user of these applications. Maybe I just had bad luck. Hopefully if this is truly an under-served side of the Linux desktop experience, a successful product like this will help push the ball forward on improving support for this niche. I wonder how much the popularity of the Steam Deck is pushing the KDE team to improve touch screen support as well.

It's the norm for hybrids and electrics. My 2014 volt doesn't have a spot for a spare, just some expired fix-a-flat and a 12v air compressor.

Follow up from Steve about Linus' response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3byz3txpso

Looks like Steve was right to not contact LTT before publishing, as Linus misrepresented his handling of the Billet Labs situation in his statement.

I've been messing around with an nreal air which although not a true VR/AR display it is a pretty good HMD for consuming pancake content. Most of the time I use it with a Steam Deck, which it's perfect for. I have had to use it for work once due to a screw up during a desk move that left me without a workstation for a day. The nreal worked fine, but I had a ton of trouble with software. Even with Dex, Android was still pretty clunky. Using Windows/Linux/Dex all leave me with the same hacky feeling that I get when I use a desktop OS on a large TV. Like the scaling feels all wrong, you know?

I just got the nreal beam, which allows for more flexible placement of display feeds in the glasses. It helps, but I still find the clipping problem with low FOV displays crappy.

Apple is probably the best positioned to nail the software side of this, but I think it'll be a couple years before the hardware fully catches up.

I know that this is yet another article about how an emergency shift to a novel form of education maybe wasn't ideal for a quality education, but when has school ever completely prepared someone for whatever path they take in life? Didn't for me when I graduated. There is so much to learn, so much specific knowledge out there, that it's impossible to cram it all into X years of schooling. Best you can do is teach them the broad, base level stuff, give them some opportunities and connections to get started, and help them build the skills to learn new things efficiently. Learning doesn't stop when school ends.

Unfortunately you don't get to choose the database that the very expensive canned software the company bought years ago runs on.

Wasn't able to read too far due to the paywall, but it seems that the folks who predicted that they were discontinuing the Bolt to upgrade it to Ultium were correct. Don't know why they just didn't announce the upgrade back when they cancelled the old model.

At my high school taking trade classes would take up half your day, as you would have to take a bus to the regional facility that had all the trade classes. It was scheduled almost perfectly to overlap with the classes you would need if you wanted to get into college for a STEM degree.

We had shop classrooms on site all kitted out to teach kids welding, carpentry, and fabrication skills, and even had the old shop teacher still on staff. Admin just didn't want to teach it anymore, and all that equipment sat gathering dust. It would have been sick to offer a beginner's welding class as a study hall alternative.

Of course we can't have anything nice anymore. Soon the only free OTA channels will be the bible thumping happy hour crap. We use OTA to watch the local news, and it feels like this will be another blow to our ability to hear about what's going on in our community.

I had 0 credit history in 2016. Didn't have student loans and had avoided credit cards. Absolutely screwed me when I needed an Auto loan for a used car that I was willing to pay a heaft chunk up front. Couldn't get credit cards either, only one that would offer me one was a $100 secured card from Discover. Took me a year and luck that a loan agent at a credit union took pity on me before I could get that auto loan.

I mean, some will. We have a two button cancel process and we'll have accidental clicks a couple times a year. However, two incidents a year does not justify the lengths that some companies will go to retain your sub.