Onomatopoeia

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

It's the difficulty, Plain and simple.

I knew in the late 90's what was coming, and have tried to minimize my own exposure, but family and friends just want the convenience.

I have a friend who specializes in network and data security and he uses all the privacy-invading garbage like Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, etc, because "it's convenient". 🤦🏼

We need a simple, seamless solution to provide the features people want.

We have some of these things in Freedombox, CasaOS, and some OSS solutions, etc, but these are all beyond the skills of the average user. They're even a big challenge for me, because I'm busy.

Though I'm working on a single-box solution for my family, and which provides backup to each other, media server, phone backup (mostly photos and videos), etc.

It's pretty hard to do when phones are resistant to third party solutions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Right?

$450 and a toaster to use something like the external batteries I've used for a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Nope.

Just watched them all a few weeks ago, still very funny, see nothing wrong with any of it. The movies are all about absurdity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Ah, yes, hahaha, I was so confused!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Yea, I just blow on it in the shower. Problem solved.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Wait, egg washing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Have you seen the books?

I know someone in a place like this, and to move there they essentially sell any property they have to buy their space in the facility.

It's not cheap, but these places also provide on-site medical facilities with trained staff so someone 65 having a stroke has a decent chance of being OK.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

62 is first year of social security eligibility.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Since I haven't seen it mentioned, Still Game. Scottish characters in a retirement community. brutally funny, actual laugh out loud.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Exactly.

Someone older than a teen understands we have a responsibility to bring people together, create a trusting environment, focused on the job at hand.

So even when someone brings up politics, I simply don't respond, or just ask a work question. Because I know most people doing this want to have their viewpoint validated, and I probably don't agree in some way. This situation helps no one, and just promotes divisiveness.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Work is for work, not for political bullshit.

Political bullshit is alway divisive, and we all work too damn hard to build cohesive teams.

I've seen it many times - if you're one of those that is compelled to bring outside bullshit to work, where we have enough actual related issues to contend with, you'll be left behind. People won't want to work with you, I because you're not a team player and more interested in discussing political crap (or reality TV crap, or whatever) than discussing the very real issues in front of us.

We already don't have enough time for the tasks at hand, last thing we need is such juvenile nonsense.

You want to talk politics, do it on your break, away from me.

And your freedom of speech bullshit argument is nothing more than a sophistry tactic known as a strawman. This reveals you to be a sophist, not interested in discovering truth, but rather in winning an argument.

You even led with castigating me, and continued on with denigrating.

You should probably revisit your intentions and ethics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Giving him shit about it

Are you one of my siblings?

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/guns
 

Totally off the wall question, which I realize probably isn't very meaningful, but I was watching a movie where a character was using a suppressed rifle. Looked like an AR/.223 (I assume).

Well it got me thinking - how much can a given gun be suppressed (decibel reduction) before performance is significantly reduced (I assume it must impact performance, even if just a little since it's attenuating sound waves, which are energy, but what do I know?).

I'm sure it varies by round/load, barrel length, etc, so let's assume a subsonic .223 round in a 14" barrel (is that a common lenth?). Or if you know a specific case that's fine too.

Surely there are reasons why a given suppressor is chosen for a specific use case, and I don't know enough to see that (diminishing returns for length/weight?)

I tried asking chatgpt, but it just returned generic suppressor info.

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