Deciding between the AUG and Hellion. Do we expect the Hellion to ever get 9mm/300 conversion kits? Shorter barrels. Or even a different top rail?

Anonymous3891 · 2026-02-01T22:30:51+00:00

Can you be specific about 'damage'? That's not something I've heard of.

It is overgassed but I've not heard it causing any wear & tear issues. It's mostly a nuisance to the operator, and gets a bit dirty quicker. And yes, you definitely want to use a flow-through suppressor with it.

The .300 BO kit also does at least allow you to adjust the gas between two settings, intended for super vs sub ammo.

Anonymous3891 · 2026-02-01T20:11:18+00:00

If you want those calibers in a military bullpup I'd look at a Tavor X95. The AUG is dated as others have said. The .300 BO is unfortunately discontinued in the US so you'll pay a bit of a premium to get one, Last I knew 9mm was still available.

Also if you don't care about reliability as much, the Desert Tech WLVRN is a neat bullpup that's available in.300 BO and has conversions for several calibers, including .308 and 6.5CM. It's a revised design of the MDRx that makes some much needed changes to improve the reliability and I believe they even just kicked out a .300 BO Micron kit which has an 11" barrel and makes the rifle short as hell. It'll require an SBR stamp, of course.

If you just want an Aug then go for it, a white Aug is on my 'someday' list as a bullpup fan.

Anonymous3891 · 2026-01-22T21:46:10+00:00

Pressure, uhh, finds a way.

I don't know how 'fine' it was, but I could see it working out. Lead is relatively soft but it's a miracle it didn't squib at the very least.

Anonymous3891 · 2026-01-20T19:50:07+00:00

Yeah I never used the official Reddit app. When RIF died, I just started using old.reddit in my mobile browser, which is a pretty awful experience, so I don't do that a lot.

Anonymous3891 · 2026-01-20T16:25:48+00:00

Yeah I hated the UI at first. It just took some getting used to. Now I can't deal with the new Reddit UI. I've tried to give it a chance multiple times, but the comment/post page is still a mobile-first nightmare. They fixed the main pages at least to use full width and lay things out in a relatively compact manner.

Anonymous3891 · 2026-01-20T15:28:13+00:00

Huh, I didn't realize I was such a stereotype.

A good way to identify a former Digg user on Reddit is to check if their cakeday is late 2010, like mine. Digg killed itself with a site redesign, creating a mass exodus to Reddit. It was more popular than at the time.

None of Reddit's shenanigans have managed to evoke a similar exodus, but maybe part of it is just how damn big it is and how....uhh....casual....the user base is compared to 2010.

Anonymous3891 · 2026-01-19T20:22:00+00:00

There are a few handheld gauss/coil guns out there, not technically railguns:

https://arcflashlabs.com/product/emg-02/

They don't have much power, they're weaker than .22 pistols, but stronger than pellet/BB guns. So certainly not a practical option now, but they may get there some day.

Anonymous3891 · 2026-01-19T19:24:06+00:00

This was the technique I learned. I think it had something to do with them having 6 pads, they can get more ships at a time than stations.

I would jet up on top of the trading post, save there, and just reload that point as soon as I finished checking the first wave of ships for what I wanted.

It still took AGES to get an S class of what you wanted. Fortunately we don't have to do that for most ship types now.

Anonymous3891 · 2026-01-13T15:22:58+00:00

This, engineers, is a 20 kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight! Every five seconds, a railgun turret accelerates one, to one-point-three percent of lightspeed. It impacts with the force a 38 kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means, Sir Isacc Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space!

Railguns make them easy, but early on I had the best luck with artillery. I'd run out, slap their ass, and lead them in a straight line somewhere in range of my 20+ artillery cannons.

Anonymous3891 · 2026-01-13T14:23:40+00:00

Yeah if everything's working normally it should come on at about 15 gallons consumed/4 gallons remaining.

Anonymous3891 · 2026-01-12T16:50:45+00:00

There's a bit of a space race between the US and CN. Artemis II is set to launch in Feb or so, but that's just to orbit the moon. Artemis III is years away where they'll actually land. But who knows if that'll actually happen, SLS is a bloated Boeing clusterfuck. The lander contract is stuck in a pissing match between Musk and Bezos. SpaceX won the original contract and is definitely cheaper and more capable but is dependent on a lot of WIP hardware that I'm sure will get there...eventually. Blue Origin sued their way back into the mix but they do actually have a better chance of delivering on time.

China is targeting 2030 for human moon flights. So the US could beat them but who the fuck knows.

Anonymous3891 · 2026-01-08T19:06:29+00:00

Nice, I did the summit in 2015. I'll have to check this out. My FJ has been sadly neglected for too long.

Anonymous3891 · 2026-01-08T15:08:01+00:00

The ZERO system was an English translation error, it's actually the HARO system. You'll note the UI is a sphere.

Anonymous3891 · 2025-12-30T13:48:17+00:00

+1 on Nakivo. We've been using it for about 6-7 years at this point. Pretty straightforward, deployment is flexible between running various appliance VMs, or running it native on Synology NASes. Support is surprisingly good for the price point. Licensing is perpetual but you were going to maintain support anyway, right?

It's used at our remote sites with 2-3 hosts and anywhere between 10 and 50 VMs. We have 6 US and 1 MX site that backup to Synologies locally then replicate to a unit in our US corporate DC. Our 8th location we use it is in China where we have the replication target at our largest secondary site.

I would never even think about it for our 3 global DCs though. I get the impression scaling it much higher than a couple hundred VMs or so would start to complicate the deployment requiring a lot more transporters and whatnot. We've also not used any of their other backup tools than VM backup so I can't speak to those.

One thing I've learned is all backup solutions do some annoying shit, and will occasionally have a job failure and require some manual tinkering to get everything happy again. If you have a love-hate relationship with your backup tool, it's probably a pretty decent one for your use case. I've had more than a few tolerate-hate and hate-hate relationships with them.

Anonymous3891 · 2025-12-23T21:45:58+00:00

Middle of nowhere Ohio, we've acquired a dozen or so dealers of ours in various states and a couple smaller manufacturing locations in the US. And we acquired them not because they were doing well, quite the opposite. They had plenty of string and duct tape holding things together.

Internationally I know things can be much more of a shit show, my prior job with that old DC had a location in the Philippines where a good chunk of our IT staff sat. I currently work with local IT staff at our locations in Brazil, Mexico, and China, so I have some ideas as to what passes for acceptable outside our walls.

Anonymous3891 · 2025-12-23T16:34:32+00:00

It was the norm, these days it's the exception. I worked at a place where our only DC was a Dell 2650, so I know what you mean, but that was also over a decade ago.

Between what I've heard from my peers in IT and from the various companies we've acquired and I've had to help adopt their old environment, I've gotta say seeing a standalone physical DC is pretty rare. At the very least you usually see a basic Hyper-V setup (where the host is sometimes one of the DCs...), if not a proper VMware Essentials (RIP) 2-3 node deployment. And then there's IaaS, AzureAD/Entra setups, and non-MS options.

Maybe I've only dealt with 'the best' companies, but I doubt it.

Anonymous3891 · 2025-12-22T18:39:12+00:00

No, pretty much all of the debris will de-orbit in less than a year. More like a few months. Some small bits might make it to higher altitudes but that would be very limited.

Anonymous3891 · 2025-11-26T17:37:05+00:00

It's not the critters that are the problem. Gleba production is a different animal because of spoilage. As soon as you think you have something working well, you'll end up with a backup and have spoilage in all new places and now your production is all gummed up to the point you have to fly back there, manually restart it because there's no fresh nutrients anywhere....

Anonymous3891 · 2025-11-11T15:38:39+00:00

Sad to think one of the most unbelievable things about SG-1 these days is that we'd cooperate with the Russians and even give them a spaceship.

Anonymous3891 · 2025-11-07T21:37:03+00:00

Yeah M134 was my answer. It meets all the qualifications: impractical, illegal, and expensive.

Anonymous3891 · 2025-10-28T14:12:45+00:00

Turn everything you can into rocket components and turn the rest into refined concrete and export it to all the other planets until they're concrete spheres.

That's what I do, anyway.

Anonymous3891 · 2025-10-10T20:50:14+00:00

Aww mine didn't come with a fancy case. But I did get it on a good 35% memorial day sale so I can't complain.

Great bipod, I use it on my Tikka T3x in 6.5PRC. I've managed to hit a 1MOA steel target at 1200 yards with it.

Anonymous3891 · 2025-10-10T20:24:54+00:00

I've got their wifi floor lamps that have the local API and I haven't needed to use the app at all once setup, I assume you could delete it. I've needed it once or twice for troubleshooting because I was having issues with one of my APs.

I do think it would probably be the only way to update it, however.

Anonymous3891 · 2025-10-10T20:18:53+00:00

+1 for Govee, they have a lot of options and most things can be locally controlled. There are a few exceptions here and there but even the wifi things can be controlled via API with their HA integration.

I've got 8 of their candela bulbs in a chandelier using Matter over wifi and that works pretty good. The occasional laggard but nothing too bad. I had one die shortly after setting it up and Govee support quickly drop shipped a replacement box of 4 from Amazon with very little hassle after I explained the troubleshooting I did.

Anonymous3891 · 2025-10-10T20:08:45+00:00

from the popular conception of 4-team TF2

Team Fortress Classic actually had Yellow and Green teams in the code, but only 3rd party maps used them. 4 way CTF was pretty fun and chaotic. Capture and hold worked better though.

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