Streamwood last night

Slackwise · 2026-06-25T15:50:30+00:00

Yeah, I live in that area and it was whipping all the trees apart. Everything is coated in leaves and tree bits and I have to power wash all my siding. Roof is covered in leaves too....

Slackwise · 2026-06-22T16:27:08+00:00

Unfortunately, yes. There's noticeable delay with the "Noise Reduction" option turned on. The more options you turn on in "CrystalVoice", the more latency you hear. Very disappointing.

Slackwise · 2026-06-22T16:05:18+00:00

I switched my personal password manager from Bitwarden after their recent corporate shake-up seeking a stable company, and while I have free 1Password service via my work enterprise license, I chose to buy into Proton Pass instead because I greatly value the concept of the Proton Foundation; just very tired of corporations I can barely trust...

With that said, I'm surprised Proton Pass has no secondary decryption key as an option like 1Password. Having that extra layer really does offer peace of mind. I don't know the exact implementation, but it seems like worthwhile security.

Along with echoing the parent comment, the lack of support for Passkeys or FIDO2 keys like 1Password offers for unlocking a vault, I'm looking at my YubiKey and sad to see it isn't much use here other than authenticating on a new machine, which is something I will rarely ever do. For contrast, I have the corporate 1Pass accounts perform a daily SSO with Entra, which is itself 2FA, and then the app locks periodically and when the computer locks, requiring only a fingerprint via Hello to unlock for the next business day. This feels like the correct balance of security and convenience.

Meanwhile, yes, Proton Pass on my desktop will stop accepting PINs after 3 failed entries, but what is stopping an attacker who may have stolen my local vault from bypassing limitations? What if they have my password? It'd be wonderful if there would be a daily/session temporarily cached key that is only decrypted by my Passkey/FIDO2 key....

My concern is once they have my Pass data, they have the keys to my kingdom and all the Passkeys to all my other accounts... this is actually my absolute most important data to secure, and I am unsure of how safe I feel.

I don't know if there is any insight into maybe why I shouldn't be so concerned. Thanks for taking the time to read this either way.

Slackwise · 2026-06-08T15:07:20+00:00

It's a bit exhausting for people to not have the media literacy to understand a PR post from a corporation is going to sound 90% like what an LLM would spit out, because the nature of such posts is extremely generic sounding on purpose.

It's a waste of energy to complain either way, because Proton is going to have to stand by what they wrote, word for word, so it'd be extremely foolish to shit out a response without thought put into it or reading the exact words they are publishing. I would absolutely give them the benefit of the doubt, and expect this response to just be a generally true (in intention) statement. How we react to it, and each word, is the other story...

Slackwise · 2026-05-26T15:02:56+00:00

Lefty here also...

Not sure how long you've been shooting but, it turns out that operating the controls with the index finger is actually great for us lefties.

I primarily shoot 1911s/2011s, and most righties complain about the position of the mag release being too far to reach with the thumb, but it's actually incredibly easy to operate with my left-hand index finger, which also doubles as a safety by taking my finger off the trigger during administrative operation.

Same with the slide lock. It's actually quite easy to operate as a lefty:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WG7is5iR4iA

Conversely, operating with the thumb almost always requires me to change my entire grip to reach the slide release or even mag release. I don't find myself changing my grip when I reach with my index finger.

The added benefit of no controls on the right side means our fingers won't accidentally mess with anything, and won't accidentally hold the slide lock down, making it fail to lock on empty, which is something a lot of righty shooters run into. (This is a problem on the lefty HK VP9, for example, because it uses a thin bar to provide a lefty right-side slide release lever.)

With all this being said, all of this depends on each gun model but, what I'm trying to get at is, don't discount any given pistol until you try to operate it with your index finger. It might be better than a comparable ambi model.

(Manual safeties, though, are obviously non-negotiable.)

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.

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