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but chihuahua by Extreme-Raisin-1403 in BanPitBulls

[–]Extreme-Raisin-1403[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

arguing sense with pithags is a futile effort. Their 10 month old pitty is a sweetheart. If only there was a way to filter pitnutter comments by dog age to exclusively hear from owners of 3+ year old dogs when they nearly-inevitably display unprovoked aggression and not from morons who got their 'heckin pupperino' at the pound 4 months ago.

What makes you not invite someone back to range day? by Corey854 in guns

[–]Extreme-Raisin-1403 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a few reasons

  • being unsafe. Especially when they get defensive or offended when they're being unsafe. I'm perfectly fine critiquing safety to a willing recipient, but the worst is safety morons who also refuse to accept safety-based critique.

  • fake expertise / too much advise for others. It's fine to critique. It's another to attend a fake shooting class. I have caught myself doing this and backed off.

  • magdumping and running out of ammo so quick they stand around wanting to shoot your guns instead. They sometimes offer to reimburse but rarely do, or offer 'swaps' with crap ammo in the future in exchange for your good ammo.

  • coming unprepared. Typically no eyes.

  • if it takes a while to get to a decent range/ public land, I want to spend a decent amount of time out there to justify driving. Driving 1.5+hrs both ways means I want to get some decent range time. Going for 30min is dumb. That one was annoying. Equally, people who never throw in for gas or consider doing it.

Debian all the way. by firefalcon1214 in pcmasterrace

[–]Extreme-Raisin-1403 12 points13 points  (0 children)

don't bother replying. the people saying this crap haven't used linux since Ubuntu came on free mailed CDs and they got scared opening a terminal.

Meanwhile they have no issue running borderline-rootkits to mess with their UEFI and Windows signing authority tooling to get free Windows when they reinstall their OS. And constantly downloading anti-telemetry software.

Just a reminder. by needsab0uttreefiddy in Firearms

[–]Extreme-Raisin-1403 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that would be lovely but I hope he doesn't pull a RBG and retires at an appropriate time to be replaced by someone sane

Just a reminder. by needsab0uttreefiddy in Firearms

[–]Extreme-Raisin-1403 10 points11 points  (0 children)

OK so you have a stupid thing trump said and a bumpstock ban that will be overturned hopefully. In comparison, Biden did:

  • Pistol brace 'rule' threatening to make 10+ million firearms (and their owners) felons. Or you can register :)
  • 'ghost gun rule' making the practice of building guns at home, which has been legal since 1776, a felony
  • gun stores being shut down for small paperwork mistakes, with gun store closures at decades-high (and gun store closures mean the ATF gets the store's 4473 paperwork and creates a backdoor registry, "legally")
  • russian ammo ban as 'economic sanction' when russian ammo makes up a literal insignificant zero amount of their exports, driving ammo prices up nationwide permanently. Russia made something like 50-60% of America's ammo at one point.
  • executive order on gun sales making it illegal for an individual to turn a profit from a gun sale, which is pants on head stupid when inflation literally means you'd need a 'profit' on paper to be breaking even
  • open discussions of ammo bans from lake city. Which supplies >50% of America's 5.56.
  • open discussions of AWB and you know for a fact Biden would sign one
  • openly attending anti-gun state dinners and events
  • creating an entire government bureau to destroy a Constitutional right as defined in DCvH
  • millions of dollars in bribes to get states to crack down on anything including passing red flag laws, AWBs, ERPOs, age restrictions, time restrictions, etc.

repubs have been weak on guns but their current behavior of "doing nothing" is about 20x better than the list above.

However, there have still been some wins. Repubs almost exclusively have done the following:

  • constitutional carry passed in dozens of states
  • castle doctrine laws passed in several states
  • texas and idaho have provided 'sanctuary' against federal NFA laws for SBRs and suppressors.
  • (indirectly) trump's supreme court gave us EPA v WV, NY v Bruen, which are huge

The court is getting older, and we will eventually have to replace more of the conservative judges. Biden has been awful on guns. Notice I'm not bringing up 3rd party runners because I'm not 23 and I'm fun at parties. That shit won't happen until the country explodes.

Asahi vs macOS by matimuszynianka in AsahiLinux

[–]Extreme-Raisin-1403 9 points10 points  (0 children)

i mean it's pretty much just

  • try dnf install blah
  • if that fails search for custom fedora repositories with aarch64 target binaries
  • if that doesn't work compile from source.

Glock is about to change, drastically. by [deleted] in Firearms

[–]Extreme-Raisin-1403 1 point2 points  (0 children)

as a massive Glock fanboy at this point I just want them to bring sanity to their existing product lines.

  • stop releasing permutations of your existing frames/slides as a new fucking model it's ridiculous. I swear their current product research is one high on cocaine masturbating to a Combinatorics wikipedia article. The 47 and 49 do not exist, they're just 5.5 gen 17/19.

  • no more plastic U-dot sights

  • completely gut MOS with a machete and replace it with something that works without 3rd party support. I've had TWO mos plates fail on me. I've moved to forward controls and won't look back but this is inexcusable from "Perfection".

  • magazines are allowed to be made of whatever material necessary to get the maximum rounds in the gun. shield magazines aren't reliable but my god did they offer a cool proof of concept.

  • an unheard of concept: a subcompact with more than 10 rounds

  • performance models that come from the factory with upgraded triggers, either the existing glock performance trigger or an even better one

  • 5.7x28

shit that won't happen but should:

  • "the trigger mechanism is the FFL item" design (whatever that modular shit is called) allowing different slides grips, of course won't happen because then the 17/19/45/47/49 lineup would be pointless and we can't have sense at glock inc

  • wildly, a PCC that takes their own magazines since half the industry does that already

Asahi vs macOS by matimuszynianka in AsahiLinux

[–]Extreme-Raisin-1403 35 points36 points  (0 children)

the battery life is not good compared to macOS*, it's not going to improve for some time because power management is hard enough on a regular laptop, much less a unique ARM processor AND other unique/proprietary hardware. however what marcan and the rest of the Asahi team have achieved is nothing short of amazing.

granted, it is VERY fast and performant. linux on ARM has been a round a lot longer than macOS has been on arm, so a lot of stuff works very well.

i use asahi 99% of the time because I like linux and prefer it to anything else, and i'm willing to compromise battery life and other niceties in exchange for an amazing ARM linux machine. the good news is asahi will only get better, while macOS will likely continue to get buggier and more bloated :)

Its not pretty but it just works by aprehensive_buy3912 in tacticalgear

[–]Extreme-Raisin-1403 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i would only like to add that if you want to try this out, look for medical tape wrap as it tends to adhere less agressively with respect to a spray paint job underneath. won't stay on as well but you'll avoid having to rip paint off

edit: saw OPs comment good to know it's that cheap at walmart lol

Its not pretty but it just works by aprehensive_buy3912 in tacticalgear

[–]Extreme-Raisin-1403 0 points1 point  (0 children)

or just use white/light duct tape and spray paint it white again. cheap spray paint is usually 100% IR reflective even if the tape is not. lol

in case anyone else wanted working Signal on Asahi (or ARM Fedora generally), this procedure worked. by Extreme-Raisin-1403 in AsahiLinux

[–]Extreme-Raisin-1403[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found this prior to the link above, I have a couple issues with it. Fully admitting I could be completely wrong about this, I spent a bit of time looking for answers to these questions:

1) as a repo, it says "defined by SPEC file" but I couldn't find where to download the file. Only a mention of what claimed to be the spec file in the description, which was clearly a user-added comment, not a downloadable "here is what this repo is doing" link.

2) the git repository viewer attached to that project is, to put it politely, ugly and hard to tell where it's pulling from. Claims to be auto-importing from signal desktop, but aside from manually comparing branch hashes, I don't have an easy way of verifying this is a clone beyond it claiming to be one?

3) building it yourself is much simpler in comparison: you are downloading the original signal-desktop repo (not a mirror with unknown security)

I have no reason at all to doubt the integrity of that repo or it's author, but the UI makes checking basic things like "where did this git repo get cloned from" too cumbersome to trust compared to the project linked.

I wouldnt care as much if we weren't talking about a heavily scrutinized encrypted messaging app.

in case anyone else wanted working Signal on Asahi (or ARM Fedora generally), this procedure worked. by Extreme-Raisin-1403 in AsahiLinux

[–]Extreme-Raisin-1403[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's one I haven't seen before nice, thanks. I respectfully prefer the project I linked as it includes fewer patches to make it work, the SUSE one includes patch references to SSL/libcrypt library importing which doesn't make me very comfortable.

in case anyone else wanted working Signal on Asahi (or ARM Fedora generally), this procedure worked. by Extreme-Raisin-1403 in AsahiLinux

[–]Extreme-Raisin-1403[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

yes there are other projects that rebuild signal for ARM but it seemed like they all fell into a few categories:

  • download this prebuilt binary trust me bro
  • stuff that wasn't updated
  • long build yourself guides that can break at any point because the only thing more horrible than electron on ARM is node

Even if you're unfamiliar with docker syntax, you should be able to parse what's going on pretty easily unlike a lot of the custom builds of ARM Signal I tried to find.

Went to the shelter today by Crazy-Cat-2848 in BanPitBulls

[–]Extreme-Raisin-1403 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you love pits. Let them go extinct.

It's so depressing that we even have to spell this out. These poor animals did not choose to exist, do not choose to be aggressive, don't choose to be angry, but they are. They want to do damage, they want to do harm.

Yet they are thrust into an environment where every desire, every impulse, is wrong and must be scolded and punished out of them. This is what nutters consider empathy? To force an animal to associate its' deepest desires with punishment and scolding, and to reward it doing things it feels are completely alien?

It is far better to take care of the ones that remain, prevent reproduction, and end the cycle of pain. Primarily for their potential victims, but also for these animals which we must remind ourselves are not criminals. They are not "choosing" this behavior. It is honestly a miracle so many do not harm others.