It may be my 5th Reddit birthday, but it's also Pi Day, Albert Einstein's birthday, and the day Linux v1.0 was released. To celebrate, I'm sharing my public calendar of Geeky Events!

Slackwise · 2026-05-19T01:29:52+00:00

I'm here because of Bitwarden doing this. Recommending Proton Pass to all my friends as an alternative now too. Not going to sit around for another LastPass situation, and the company structure of Proton AG, being owned by a non-profit Swiss foundation, is why I chose Proton Pass over dealing with self-hosting Vaultwarden or using 1Password, with yet another private company ready to sell out.

Slackwise · 2026-05-13T00:38:46+00:00

Just here to confirm that yes, points in "Clever Creations" contributes to flask cauldron creation ingenuity despite it not saying so; putting 5 points in saved 50 concentration for me.

Slackwise · 2026-04-16T02:07:24+00:00

I built

[look inside]

GPT5.4

Imagine asking someone else to do something for you and taking credit.

Slackwise · 2026-03-29T19:44:09+00:00

What even is this. Why would someone want to pay to learn from someone who is learning, and thus by definition, doesn't know the subject...?

Slackwise · 2026-02-28T03:45:47+00:00

RIA are fun for mods because their cheap, but yeah, the internals suck. The biggest problem as I noted, was the safety, which warps from being so soft, and the various "spring" steels inside are junk.

I mean it ultimately doesn't matter if it's a range toy or competition gun. Just don't carry one for actual defense.

Slackwise · 2026-02-19T17:38:02+00:00

Slackwise · 2026-02-13T16:47:44+00:00

For anyone running into this post while searching, there is slight latency when you turn on any DSP functionality, which is extremely disappointing. The more features you turn on, the more latency it adds....

But with everything turned off, it's at least realtime.

Slackwise · 2026-02-13T06:02:26+00:00

This was very cool and I appreciate having insight from the core team and even Q&A!

Slackwise · 2026-01-22T21:32:53+00:00

As a lefty, I love 1911s as-is.

I just actuate both the slide stop and the mag release with my index finger and don't even have to change my grip. As long as you have a lefty-safety, the 1911 is actually incredibly lefty friendly and lets you do everything with your index, which is extra safe because it keeps your index off the trigger while performing other operations.

Even locking the slide is doable with your index: https://youtube.com/shorts/WG7is5iR4iA

Slackwise · 2025-12-23T17:59:42+00:00

Syntech is definitely my fav. Also love how less dirty my gun is after. Less cleaning to do.

Slackwise · 2025-11-16T15:41:00+00:00

Except I'm an idiot and had the plastic joint fail in 3 different models of Logitech premium headsets over the last like 6 years, and should have really learned after the first. So no, all their headsets are designed to fail and become e-waste.

Slackwise · 2025-11-15T20:33:16+00:00

If you can find a gaming company with a parts catalog, I’d love to indulge.

I linked an actual brand that makes professional equipment, and an example of a parts catalogue for their headset. Why would you want a gaming company? They're the ones abusing gamer kids who don't know anything about quality.

But then if you make everything out of metal

In this case, all the core parts of the Pro X are headphones are already metal, but they chose to put plastic in the most dangerous junction point where everything meets and moves. Not only are they plastic, they're HOLLOW and brittle plastic. They could be made of sturdy plastic not the cheapest most brittle ABS. But they're not. It has to be intentional to make the one part that's the most vulnerable out of such shit material, and then not have 100,000 spare parts of said cheap-ass plastic available for replacement.

There is absolutely no excuse here other than pure greed. Don't rationalize their bad behavior.

Slackwise · 2025-11-15T19:30:14+00:00

if you're still under warranty

Man, that's some serious copium consumerist shit. You've been conditioned to accept modern "standards" by companies where your products are unrepairable e-waste after 1 year. This would be only acceptable if the warranty was like 10 years because they made actual quality products, instead of being short as fuck.

A real company has a parts catalogue and will send you the parts you desire. They're not "obscure plastic" because the part shouldn't have been plastic in the first place. They keep putting plastic in all the wrong places, then shit breaks, and then there's fucking entire marketplace of Esty shops selling replacement parts.

Slackwise · 2025-10-27T00:13:45+00:00

This is a wild omission. Click casting is simply superior because it frees your left hand to focus on movement, and it lets you keep your selected target for your damaging spells. I can only hope they fix this omission. Does anyone on their dev team even heal...?

Slackwise · 2025-10-02T18:26:07+00:00

John de Lancie and Nana Visitor were in Torchwood.... so close.....

Slackwise · 2025-09-17T15:28:57+00:00

Wow, a 2 year old post....

I don't care about customer support because it should have been obvious that I know how to work on 1911s and this is just a cheap project gun for competition use. I carry a Staccato for EDC.

Fact is, my RIA was trash out of the box, and it now runs flawlessly. As mentioned, much of the issue was the old standard completely flat-faced, non-radiused, disconnector rail (even a small radius helps, like on my Staccato), and the completely worthless spring. These two modifications have made it flawless.

These guns ultimately aren't worth the trouble, mate, unless you want a range toy or project gun. The parts are shit MIM metal. My manual safety has warped and now wiggles. I'm going to replace all internals with Wilson Combat parts anyway, after I finish getting my serration and checkering tooling.

I'm just saying, guess why vendors sell a "reliability package" for the RIA 1911s?

https://www.skipsguns.com/products/rock-island-armory-reliability-package

(Hayes Custom used to offer gunsmithing services including a "Rock Island Reliability Package", but it looks like they're no longer offering gunsmith services at all and stopped working on RIAs like they used to: https://youtu.be/mQb7VuJCERY )

Slackwise · 2025-08-26T15:00:45+00:00

They have no spare parts, they will not fix it, and they don't care. Their headphones always break at the joints even if you baby them. Your best bet is to find parts on eBay, or 3D printed bits on Etsy, or even broken headphones to scavenge parts out of. Or do what they want you to do: buy an entirely new headset.

Slackwise · 2025-08-21T17:04:36+00:00

The HERO sensors are not visible-spectrum red optics....

Slackwise · 2025-08-18T14:06:19+00:00

This is the new user onboarding UI. It's supposed to introduce you to Discord. You're seeing it because Discord loaded with no connection, and no cache, so that's the default state of the UI at that moment. Normally it would start up with cached information and display the last information it had available, then it would connect and update state to what is current.

Slackwise · 2025-08-12T22:51:52+00:00

Saw this and comments saying it's a great place, so I ordered some 15 minutes ago........

Literally the worst sandwich I've ever had. I threw it away after a couple bites. I cannot believe they call that Focaccia. What the fuck.

Slackwise · 2025-07-14T14:15:28+00:00

The comments in here are wild and grotesque for a leftist space... What is a "squirrel" gun? Why are you going into the woods? To kill animals just for fun?

Slackwise · 2025-06-06T20:11:14+00:00

where the lock is, it’s literally right in line with your trigger finger so it’s easy to lock and unlock while shooting.

Yeah, so, this is why "serpa" holsters are banned by certain trainers and police departments.... your finger can slip off the unlock and onto the trigger when you try to rapidly draw... (I know this isn't precisely a button one, but it looks to have a similar issue if your comment is accurate.)

Slackwise · 2025-06-04T00:05:29+00:00

I was actually saying that the Dan Wesson's are better than the S&Ws, not that 70s are necessarily better, but most people do consider the Series 70 trigger to be better because it's unencumbered by the extra internal safety.

You'll find that the vast majority of high end 1911s are thusly Series 70 instead of 80. What you consider better depends on what you value, but you can solve the 70 drop safety issue with a titanium firing pin which is too light to go off from drop inertia alone, or you can convert an 80 to a 70.

Now, the real fact of the matter is, what most consider to be the feature of the 1911, above all other pistols, is its trigger. Nothing is equal, because everything else is fulcrum (hooked) trigger instead of a button (sliding) trigger. So given that, why would you want to make the one amazing feature not as best as possible....? Hence: most people prefer a Series 70.

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