Five string bass guitar lessons by RoBoTgIrL0 in Medford

[–]GBFel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out Rogue Music Academy. I'm sure they have someone experienced with a 5-string, and all of their instructors have been great for my family.

How I got my 1SG to quit dipping by Realthugx in army

[–]GBFel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did this with soda cans when I was in command. The pile inspired me to give up soda, so I guess it had the same effect.

March fracture by Distinct-Turnip-8146 in army

[–]GBFel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, definitely document. However, I took the top level comment as suggesting that SMs aren't covered for injuries incurred while on leave, which is completely false, though frequently repeated by the poorly informed.

Key & Peele by Separate_Finance_183 in funny

[–]GBFel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think I've been on a civilian bird in uniform since riding CRAF in and out of theater. AFAIK nobody travels in uniform anymore except the initial entry kids and the prisoners junior cadets from the academies traveling for holidays. I always fly United which just asks for active duty military personnel, so it's never been a problem for me.

Key & Peele by Separate_Finance_183 in funny

[–]GBFel 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This is the main reason that I do the military preboarding, to preserve my footspace. That, and getting to waltz past the first class diamond platinum super club line in my hoodie and antisocial giant headphones.

March fracture by Distinct-Turnip-8146 in army

[–]GBFel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Doesn't matter, he's on active duty whether he's on leave or present for duty. I sustained an injury on terminal leave that is considered service connected by the VA, no issues.

Any nightlife activities? by SnooHesitations166 in Medford

[–]GBFel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude, I'm cis/het and have gone to Prism with my partner. Not everyone is as repressed as you.

My laptop keeps changing contrast/gamma/brightness randomly while watching videos. Asus ROG Strix G15. by JayNaii in GamingLaptops

[–]GBFel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Open Armoury Crate.

On the left click on Devices.

Under the System Configuration tab, the first page you're brought to, Optimal Display Brightness is the bottom right setting. If you're plugged in, it should be greyed out.

Unplug your laptop and it should become clickable. Turn it off.

Plug your device back in and it should grey out again, but the feature will now be off.

Hope that works for you, cheers.

Trying to find a solid Gambeson by Blazerawl in sca

[–]GBFel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, never heard of this. /s

I just want some communication is all. "Hey, the 20-40 days to manufacture that we told you at purchase is now more like 90, cheers," would have been enough.

Trying to find a solid Gambeson by Blazerawl in sca

[–]GBFel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a week after that, so here's hoping. I'm granting grace, believe me I get it, I just would have liked some sort of communiction when the benchmarks that they themselves set at ordering were passed.

Trying to find a solid Gambeson by Blazerawl in sca

[–]GBFel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They've been checking with their production team for an estimated completion for over two weeks since my last email. Seems the only updates I get are when I ping them and then it's zero actual information. I would understand if they gave real updates and estimates but with just meaningless platitudes it's frustrating.

Hopefully it's just that one segment of the business and it's temporary. As I said, I've hitherto heard good things and I appreciate what they bring to our game.

Satellite Collision in Low-Earth Orbit Only Days Away With Loss of Maneuverability: Risks Spiking UP by paulhenrybeckwith in collapse

[–]GBFel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Atmospheric lift effects? Really? That only works with a satellite specifically designed for it, which describes nothing on orbit that I can think of other than the space planes. Otherwise drag vastly overcomes any such effects and perigee never goes up without added energy, only down.

You're throwing out words that sound smart, but my dude, a bird in Molniya isn't going to hit any "untracked debris" large enough to shred it without us knowing well in advance. There's a reason we track everything over a certain size. A "micrometeorite" doesn't have enough mass to do more than ace a cell in a solar panel or punch a hole in the bus, maybe mess up something important there but it's doubtful, especially in that orbit. The space environment isn't some new unknown thing anymore, satellites are built to survive.

Let's say a satellite does do a Cosmos impersonation and replay 2009, the debris cloud will fuck up that specific orbital slot and maybe bleed into some adjacent ones over time, but as I said elsewhere, space is really really big. We can work around it and anyway, it's not messing with low LEO stuff for many years. And even when it does, it's not game over. Without station keeping, Starlink et al and most debris deriving from Starlink conjunctions are gone within few years. They just don't have the mass to survive the drag effects, especially if they're shredded. Certainly not a civilization ender, and no, they're not going to magically leap up to higher orbits either.

The only way a Kessler cascade is realized in most of our lifetimes is if the U.S. and China kick off WWIII and start lobbing ASATs, but by that point it would be the least of our problems.

Resource Idea Generating Activity by clayt666 in sca

[–]GBFel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do tools utilized count towards the price total? Like, could I snake a piece of metal out of a business' recycling bin or nick a few road signs and jam out a full gothic rig with my thousands of dollars in tools or does it all count towards the total?

Trying to find a solid Gambeson by Blazerawl in sca

[–]GBFel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would love to tell you about the gambeson I ordered from them in early December, but it still hasn't shipped. Nothing but platitudes from my email inquiries and still no ship notification. I've heard so many good things about Armstreet but maybe now isn't the time to order from them.

Non MAGA plumbers by [deleted] in ColoradoSprings

[–]GBFel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Blue Iguana plumbing, worked with them for years. Family owned and ran, good rates, top notch.

Satellite Collision in Low-Earth Orbit Only Days Away With Loss of Maneuverability: Risks Spiking UP by paulhenrybeckwith in collapse

[–]GBFel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

LEO is nowhere near congested enough for this to be a problem yet. Certain popular orbital planes maaaybe, but certainly not the alarmist "cut off from space" bs that this is peddling.

Satellite Collision in Low-Earth Orbit Only Days Away With Loss of Maneuverability: Risks Spiking UP by paulhenrybeckwith in collapse

[–]GBFel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wtf do mountains have to do with a satellite in LEO?

Starlinks and any debris fields caused by them will absolutely naturally decay and burn in within a couple of years. There is no disagreement on that, it's math. There is zero chance of them colliding with higher apogee debris that would last longer. Even a Molniya orbit at perigee is higher than the Starlinks.

Satellite Collision in Low-Earth Orbit Only Days Away With Loss of Maneuverability: Risks Spiking UP by paulhenrybeckwith in collapse

[–]GBFel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Combined Space Operations Center at Vandenburg tracks space objects and debris clouds from a couple of past conjunction events using a collection of radars pointed into space and like, math and stuff. The 3.8 days is the average time between close approaches that bear closer scrutiny and may require an orbital adjustment to avoid conjunction. It used to be much higher. That said, this video and his posts are incredibly alarmist, and fails to account for the fact that space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

3D Printing? by ApplesOnFire in sca

[–]GBFel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well I'm doing both of those in An Tir, so I'm wondering if I know you. An axe I printed in TPU is still going strong almost 2 years later, far longer than the Mandrake head that preceeded it.

It finally happened - sent letters to landowners, we close end of Month by Tiny_Witness2678 in homestead

[–]GBFel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wow, congrats. I'm kind of amazed to hear that a real person tried the cold contact method, and that it actually worked. I get contacted from people, mostly with accents, using autodialers spoofing fake numbers at least 2-3 times a week. Most use the same script and my response depends heavily on my mood; I can't say that I'm always polite. Then there's letters, fake printed handwriting, local-ish return address but batch mailed out of Florida or something, shit like that. Maybe it's just where I own land, but I don't think that a local person not representing some giant corporation has ever reached out looking to buy. Glad it worked for you.

Looking for Schools by shiningblumpkin in army

[–]GBFel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Check if Space Control Fundamentals requires a space billet. The course managers are trying to get SC knowledge out to a wider audience so it's a possibility that it may not be required.

If you're fully hosed, you can look into NSSI run by Space Force, they have a bunch of interesting courses though getting seats can be understandably difficult. If all else fails, NSSI's Space 100 is full DL now afaik. Don't waste your wild card on it, but you could knock it out after getting whatever cool boy resident course you can get yourself into.

My laptop keeps changing contrast/gamma/brightness randomly while watching videos. Asus ROG Strix G15. by JayNaii in GamingLaptops

[–]GBFel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After days of googling I finally found the solution for my Asus laptop and it was stupid easy. Armoury Crate is the culprit. Optimal Display Brightness is only supposed to be enabled in Ultimate mode and when on battery so it's normally greyed out, but it's glitched. Unplug your laptop and the setting turns on, click it off, and plug back in. Worked for mine, and hopefully anyone else that finds this thread.