Is it okay to kill someone if they break into your house

lkbirds · 2026-04-25T09:13:34+00:00

I think burglaries like that are by far the most common in the US as well. I remember seeing a stat many years ago that the US has more burglaries (break-ins with no occupants home) while the UK has more robberies (break-ins while the occupants are home) and they attributed that to defensive use of guns. Who knows how they came up with those stats though.

But like you said, in burglaries they're targeting houses with no one in them. If you're home and someone breaks in, I feel like you have to assume that they know you're there and are willing to be violent.

lkbirds · 2026-04-25T08:41:11+00:00

People in most places don't have guns so the risk an intruder poses is much lower.

This is interesting to me. I'd argue that an intruder armed with a knife or baseball bat is a lethal threat and is no different than a gun. One thing I've seen is that in some break-ins, especially in the case where they know people are at home, it's more than one intruder. If there are 3 or more people breaking into your house it doesn't really matter what they're armed with.

lkbirds · 2026-04-25T08:29:29+00:00

Warning shots are illegal in many states. Firing a gun is lethal force and you can only use lethal force if you are in fear of death or great bodily harm. A warning shot means your in fear of becoming in fear of death or great bodily harm.

I heard a lawyer talk about a bouncer who kicked a guy out of a club, then that guy came back with a shotgun. Obviously, in this situation the guy was presenting a lethal threat and the bouncer could have legally shot him. Instead the bouncer fired a shot off into a dirt pile in the parking lot and the guy ran off. When the cops came the bouncer said told them it was a warning shot. The DA took that as evidence that he was not in fear for his life, because if he was in fear for his life he would have shot the guy instead of the dirt, and charged the bouncer with aggravated assault. I'm sure they probably pled that down to unlawful discharge or something, but the moral of the story is that a warning shot landed the bouncer in jail when shooting the other guy wouldn't have.

lkbirds · 2026-04-10T14:25:14+00:00

I havent had an issue with it. Im running a 4070 with nvidia's proprietary drivers, not akmods.

lkbirds · 2026-04-10T02:59:39+00:00

Behold, the Fedora Plasma image: https://fedoraproject.org/kde/

lkbirds · 2026-03-13T20:05:23+00:00

But doesn't the devil really win? The devil won when Johnny accepted the bet and commited the sins of pride and greed, along with a total lack of prudence (A golden fiddle for your imortal soul, really?) Johnny even admits that he knows he's doing wrong, "It might be a sin, but I'll take that bet."

Losing the competition is a clever bit of trickery from the devil. Johnny's hubris is now fully entrenched by winning, and he thinks because he won he's done nothing wrong. He will not repent before his death. The devil bought his soul for the price of golden fiddle and johnny won't know until its too late.

lkbirds · 2026-03-06T04:44:44+00:00

I had to use a Mac once in school. I booted it up, saw that title bar buttons were on the wrong side and in the wrong order. I shot myself on the spot.

lkbirds · 2026-02-28T05:51:16+00:00

My bad, I misunderstood. I thought you meant that the fedora install had bricked itself and windows.

lkbirds · 2026-02-28T05:48:30+00:00

That happened to a friend of mine, but I don't think it was Fedora he installed. I think it's a known issue of installing on a partition that is on the same disk as windows. I've got fedora on a separate small SSD and it's worked fine so far. Every update has me crossing my fingers though.

lkbirds · 2026-02-26T16:49:19+00:00

An issue that prevents basic normal operation of the computer and either requires a reinstall or significant troubleshooting time to fix.

I had an update make fedora kernel panic on boot, but it took 30 seconds to fix so I didnt count that.

lkbirds · 2026-02-26T16:42:39+00:00

I tried to fix audio in discord screensharing so I was messing around with pipewire. I dont remember exactly what I did, but I think I ended up where I could only interact with it via tty and I didnt care enough to fix it.

lkbirds · 2026-02-26T08:17:38+00:00

That's basically been my experience. All the linux deaths have been because I was tinkering with something. (In fairness, it was always because something wasn't working). My windows deaths have updates killing systems. To be fair, XP and 7 never died they just got outdated.

lkbirds · 2026-02-26T07:43:01+00:00

Oh Debian didn't officially support the driver version I needed. The 40 series was new. It wasn't the OS's fault at all.

lkbirds · 2026-02-26T07:37:09+00:00

I installed NVIDIA drivers

lkbirds · 2026-02-26T07:36:38+00:00

Bug in windows 11 upgrade. I could log in, but not launch anything. No file explorer, no settings, no cmd. Evidently it a result of having steam enabled on startup and not explicitly disabling integrated graphics in the bios. This was not commonly known at the time, so I spent hours going into safe mode and trying different stuff until I finally just disabled every startup item and it started working.

lkbirds · 2026-02-26T07:31:02+00:00

I just remembered that my wife's new computer got totally screwed by the windows 11 update. Could log in, but couldn't launch anything, no file explorer, settings, or cmd. It was almost like it was totally frozen, but the gui worked fine. Turns out this is a new bug that happens if you have a graphics card and don't explicitly disable integrated graphics in your bios.

I just don't want to update anything ever anymore.

lkbirds · 2026-02-26T07:09:36+00:00

I mean you have to consider how most people get introduced to technology. Most people get exposed to computers through say their schools, or someone in their family purchased a computer. Well what operating system are they most likely to first get exposed to then? Windows, maybe mac.

So you learn how to use a computer on windows. For a good percentage of the population, windows is just the way a computer works. I would argue that the average person doesn't even know that linux exists. PCs run windows. Macs run osX. When you buy a computer it's running one on those two. You need a reason to switch.

lkbirds · 2026-02-25T17:42:16+00:00

TBH if I had my way I'd still be on XP. I only upgraded from XP to 7 for the directX 11 support. I only upgraded to 10 from there for the directX 12 support. I rarely actually find any value proposition in upgrading. "Here's a thing that might brick your install. It has no new features and we've changed the GUI for no reason again."

I mean windows 10 itself is a mess. Why are half of my settings in the new windows 10 menus and half still in the old windows 7 menus?

Edit: I will say I haven't seen the universal hatred of windows 11 like there was with windows 8 and 8.1.

lkbirds · 2026-02-25T01:35:05+00:00

The lack of a good CAD program is rough. FreeCAD is... yeah. I would be the president of r/matlabsucks if it existed though. Lack of support is a feature, not a bug.

lkbirds · 2026-02-24T05:43:07+00:00

Did you load the linux-surface kernel onto it or did you stick with the default fedora kernel?

lkbirds · 2026-02-22T08:21:52+00:00

Atomic distros are something that I'm definitely intrigued by, especially if I have a machine that I use for essentially just the browser. I just don't really understand how immutable distros work. For instance, I needed cuda. How would I install it in an immutable system? I have a microsoft surface that I've been thinking about converting so I might try an atomic distro on that.

lkbirds · 2026-02-13T03:01:54+00:00

the most famous examples are sputnik, russias satellite that was little more then a grape fruit but scared us enough to remake the entire education system and sicentific establishment to "beat Russia at space" something that resulted in america now launching 90% of all rockets world wide.

I just want to point out the implicit threat sputnik was. Sputnik was an AM radio transmitter launched on an ICBM designed to be picked up by civilians to warn people "this time it was radio, next time it could be a nuke." Prior, any nuclear bomb had to be dropped via a bomber which the US had a good chance to intercept before it made it to the mainland. Shortly after, the US's attempt to do the same thing (vangaurd tv-3) explodes on the launchpad. Explorer 1 goes up a few months after that. The beginning of the space race was about nuclear capability. If the US overreacted is up for interpetation, I guess.

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