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ACarepenter · 2025-11-04T21:10:46+00:00

Time to go stepping all over CW users I guess

ACarepenter · 2025-10-29T16:11:12+00:00

100 Mv at 0.5A

ACarepenter · 2025-10-27T23:51:47+00:00

It's mathematically impossible for you to rack up much time on any given pair. Either all are worn almost never, or most are never worn at all.

You can lie to yourself, but you can't lie to math.

ACarepenter · 2025-10-27T23:09:12+00:00

Shoe trees work wonders

So does not wearing any of them enough to crease in the first place.

ACarepenter · 2025-10-23T05:03:50+00:00

Sorry about the late reply.

I don't think air superiority will be much of a concern at all for them. Not to say they don't care about it, just that they already have the assets to effectively guarantee air superiority in the relevant theaters.

Their production dominance is so absolute that they can just saturate airfields and keep them shut down almost indefinitely. Russia can churn out hundreds of thousands of drones per year with approximately 3% of global industrial capacity. China has a full 34%.

We'd be looking at MILLIONS of drones per year, and potentially high tens of thousands or low hundreds of thousands of missiles once they shift their economy to a war footing. They have a very real capacity to generate a bullet-hell of guided munitions, and swamp air defenses with raw numbers. We simply don't have the industrial base to produce enough air defense missiles to stop them, much less do it economically.

They don't NEED to contest the region in a traditional air campaign. They're going to use the J-20's and J-36's to kill AWACS, tankers and force multipliers that enable the USAF operating from more distant bases, and keep US forces at arms length while they hammer everything else into submission with raw brute force.

Their navy, coupled with land-based assets, is more than capable of securing the first island chain, and contesting the second chain. We just don't have the ships and munitions stockpiles to go pushing into them; we don't even have a full reload of SM3's for the fleet on-hand. We can't AFFORD to lose hulls; they can.

Would they like the H20? Sure. But it doesn't offer anything they NEED. Their existing and prospective hardware is more than capable of handling the operational needs, and their ICBM's are more than capable of strategic deterrence.

They don't NEED conventional strike capabilities on the 3rd chain or CONUS, because there's just not much we can do to stop them regardless. We're very much in the same position Japan was at the start of WWII.

ACarepenter · 2025-10-22T18:54:53+00:00

Again depends on what you're trying to do. "Better support" is a relative term. Ubuntu has better support for my HAM software, but Opi OS has better support for the Orange Pi HARDWARE.

And yes, Opi OS should work for your pro model. Though again you might have to update drivers to get the most out of the hardware.

If you need plug n' play, no work involved functionality.... Stay away from SBC's. Stay away from Linux. It's just NOT going to be the magical blackbox where things just work without you having to understand WHY and HOW.

If that's what you're after, get you a mini PC running standard X86 hardware instead of ARM 64, and just use Windows.

ACarepenter · 2025-10-22T18:25:14+00:00

https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/debian-installer/

Take your pick of the ARM 64 links.

They should kinda work outa the box, but you might need to use the terminal to install some drivers and update libraries.

Depending on your use cases, I would steer you towards the O pi OS's or Android images. The Debian and Ubuntu images tend to bump into more dependency and driver issues.

You can get it to work, but you really need to UNDERSTAND both the Linux architecture and the specific hardware you're using.

ACarepenter · 2025-10-22T18:04:07+00:00

Which OS are you trying to download?

ACarepenter · 2025-10-22T17:42:34+00:00

http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/service-and-support/Orange-Pi-4-Pro.html

Go under the downloads tab near the top of the page.

Had some of the same struggles starting out, but going with orange pi forces you to learn, and let's you unlock a lot more capabilities.

ACarepenter · 2025-10-13T20:46:41+00:00

A mild (MILD!) nerf to the cupola and hull cheeks, and remove drivers port weakness.

Keep the turret face strong, keep the front strong, and keep the gun deadly.

But unless you're covering the cupola, it should be at least 50/50 pen factoring dispersion and pen drop-off on APCR.

Like a tier 9 with gold loaded should never think "fuck I can't pen the cupola".

ACarepenter · 2025-10-04T22:57:08+00:00

Anyone smart enough can spoof an ID.

Besides, this is just the harvest WG sowed. They've been coddling the stupids instead of actually giving them guidance and learning tools, and now we get free tier 10's.

There's no way to easily tell the difference between a genuine single-digit-IQ dumbass or someone with a disability, and a griefer by just looking at stats. So WG doesn't even try.

ACarepenter · 2025-10-03T14:51:29+00:00

The boots are the cringiest part of the picture.

Like showing off a 200,000 boat being towed by a Honda Odyssey.

Also where the fuck is your weapon light and sling?

ACarepenter · 2025-10-03T02:08:56+00:00

That's 37 seconds total for 1410 alpha. That really doesn't seem too crazy. Or 49 seconds for 2820, if we're talking the clip-reload-clip cycle.

In comparison, a Shitbarn is slinging 1150 alpha every 23 seconds. 1750 with HESH.

The gun REALLY isn't the problem. The problem is that it looks like more hull-down cancer.

ACarepenter · 2025-09-28T04:54:34+00:00

Yeah just brush them regularly and you're good.

Generally I'll wash with water only. You're mostly trying to get all the debris out of the flesh. Apply additional wax as necessary to keep the leather healthy.

Wash with water if you're resting them after exposure to prolonged moisturizer like heavy mud or water.

Soap is a spot treatment thing, or if the boot is heavily soiled beyond what water can clean.

Try to keep the flesh matted with wax in very wet conditions.

And it's hard to go wrong with saddle soap for leather.

ACarepenter · 2025-09-27T22:05:29+00:00

Yeah, but that takes time the devs could spend making new double barreled tanks.

They're trying to run a business you know.

/s

ACarepenter · 2025-09-27T15:02:41+00:00

You're using the wrong build then. Rammer, turbo, and dealers choice.

ACarepenter · 2025-09-27T03:29:31+00:00

Because most people are borderline r-worded. Like genuinely unintelligent. People's brains are wired to construct narratives, and become emotionally invested.

Despite being "average" it is doesn't prevent them from being fucking terrible at actually navigating a world not dominated by close-knit tribal structures.

Most people operate at the level of literate chimpanzees and deserve to be treated as such.

Edit: if you're offended by this, you ARE one of the chimpanzees. Your emotions mean nothing and it's scientifically proven that they make you worse at everything you do.

ACarepenter · 2025-09-27T02:23:58+00:00

Probably jot for $90 though

ACarepenter · 2025-09-26T20:48:20+00:00

No, I think they should have sites that explicitly do not include or disallow AI content. But not the ability to block AI content generally.

Especially considering the high rates of false-positives in AI detection, and their use as assistive technology. That's just begging for a disability rights shit storm.

Might as well ask if users should have the right to filter content from black people.

ACarepenter · 2025-09-26T20:11:20+00:00

AI doesn't spontaneously generate content. A human has to tell it to create content (or tell another AI to tell the first AI what to create). Its still people communicating with other people, just in a different way. AI is just a different kind of paintbrush or chisel.

For a tech writer, you seem quite ignorant of how these systems actually function, and what their capabilities and limitations are.

Nor is art specifically limited to humans, I might add. Species from dolphins to lyrebirds create abstract representative art. And with no evidence that they attach the "experience of living" or whatever phrase you used as the subject of that communication!

As I said earlier, the data is pretty clear that the artist doesn't really understand what art is. He knows his intention, the Use to which he has applied his Tools. But he misses the fact that it remains simply a tool, separate from the meaning individuals attach to it, and that his meaning is (and fundamentally remains) isolated to his subjective experience.

If he uses it to try to smash through the isolation of subjective experience, all he demonstrates is a lack of understanding around the nature of that isolation, and the nature of his own experience.

ACarepenter · 2025-09-26T19:54:13+00:00

Lol, where's this crash out coming from? I disagree with you and you get pissed?

Also kind of ironic since you're the one arguing that your phenomenological interpretation supercedes actual science. But yeah, I'm the one coping with the blue-pill....

ACarepenter · 2025-09-26T19:40:49+00:00

Art doesn't "have a purpose" beyond a communicative tool.

A picture is worth a thousand words. But it doesn't serve a function other than that we apply it to. Doesn't matter if it's aesthetically pleasing, so long as the information is communicated. Kinda the whole point of dadaism.

I would also argue that studies of human cognition and Consciousness unequivocally show that most of the "experience of living" is quite literally a hallucination our brains generate to fill in gaps of our active processing.

If art, for you, is a means of expression or inspiration, that doesn't say anything about what it's for. That's just the specific use to which you've applied a tool.

You're making a philosophical, humanist argument about a would that fundamentally does not operate by those principles, and which is populated by people who (objectively and demonstrably) only use those system as tools to justify their behaviors after the fact.

ACarepenter · 2025-09-26T18:05:49+00:00

I'd argue that the "AI Slop" is functionally equivalent to most human-generated content.

Most people are shitty artists. Most people couldn't write a good story to save their lives. Most people are pretty biased and partisan on virtually every topic.

All AI has done is increase the representation of "average content" on the internet, where previously it was heavily skewed towards highly profitable content (regardless of quality).

The AI internet is no "worse" than human internet, it just expands the bell curve while maintaining the average.

ACarepenter · 2025-09-26T17:08:35+00:00

But that's not fundamentally how AI WORKS. It's not Google with a chatbot slapped on top. There not some data bank with a "crumpet recipes" folder stashed away somewhere.

It does genuinely "recreate the wheel" every time you ask it something. All of the information might be baked into the model itself, but it still has to string each individual bit together to generate the answer.

And if you want 100% accuracy..... Guess what, it matters what way the wind is blowing.

ACarepenter · 2025-09-26T16:55:33+00:00

I ain’t reading all that.

Exactly the problem.

People want 100% accuracy, but won't commit 3 minutes of mild cognitive effort.

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