JillyB

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[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Btw there's a good chance that you're in that 10%

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

Absolutely. I would have loved to take a train that last leg. I also think trains should hook into the same booking system as flights so you can book your whole trip in one go.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've done it as the last leg of a long flight from a major hub to the small town I was going toward. Nobody has a direct flight from Osaka to Greenville, South Carolina, turns out. So I had to fly from Atlanta.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

What other purpose would it serve? It's not like the movies where it just goes pew. It's still loud. It just means that while hunting or at the range you don't need ear plugs. It's very practical on a nightstand gun since a gun fired indoors at night is basically a flashbang. The silencer quiets it and prevents the bright flash so you aren't as disoriented.

And I would never cite the NRA. They are pretty openly fascistic and white supremacist.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Hot take: this isn't a big deal. The main use case for silencers is hearing protection. Short barrelled rifles could already be easily made by anybody willing to not register one. The laws mainly made the people wanting to do things legally jump through a bunch of hoops.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Pete Beachy? Nominative determinism hard at work.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

A strong net wouldn't be burned away that quickly. A regular explosive would still clear it away faster.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do people actually care about collecting these cards? Every time I've sold them, it's been for pennies.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What's 1440p in this naming scheme?

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not that knowledgeable about this stuff but I think meshtastic would have better range due to running over lora. That's the whole reason you need a separate radio for the communication to a node. Also the nodes require very little power. You can set up one with a small solar cell for cheap and just leave it somewhere. Black Flag Civilian and Benn Jordan both have plans to make your own nodes. There are plenty of others out there.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

One of my friends is a software engineer. Her first job out of college was doing a bunch of data stuff to build an LLM. She made the data processing and export take months and obfuscated every attempt to fix the problem until they took her off the project. My hero.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Hamas was also financed by Israel in order to sink the efforts of the PLO. The secular PLO looked like it might actually get some peaceful recognition of statehood and Israel knew a violent Islamist leadership would torpedo that. Israel has been fighting against Palestinian statehood, limiting movement of Palestinians, controlling resources, supporting "settler" bandits that colonize and kill Palestinians, etc.

Israel has been slowly taking over Palestinian land and killing their people for decades. The Palestinians can't vote in Israeli elections. Their statehood has been blocked by Israel so they have limited diplomatic solutions. What peaceful option do you propose they should have done?

The Oct 7 attacks killed about 1200 Israeli civilians and soldiers. In response, Israel has killed 1200 Hamas militants and 82,000 civilians, wounded a further 174,000, blocked humanitarian aid, leveled apartments, hospitals, schools, etc. Acting like both sides are bad when one is fighting for survival, and the other is committing a genocide is just arguing in support of genocide. If you're somehow still ignorant on this topic, I suggest you do some more digging into the history of Israel and Palestine. If you have learned about it and still support Israel then go fuck yourself.

 

A while ago I decided to get an extra m.2 drive and put Linux Mint on it to try and switch off Windows. I unplugged the original drive, plugged in the new one, put Mint on it, then put the old drive back in. This has allowed me to dual-boot. However, Ive since fully committed to the Linux drive and haven't used the Windows drive in a long time. How do I put Linux on both drives?

I would like to fully encrypt both drives since I dont think I did that when I installed Mint. I would also rather have the original drive as the main drive again because I think it's in a faster slot for the motherboard. Is there a way to make this change without a fresh install? I could probably backup most of my important data to a flash drive but I'd rather not. (I'm fully ok with losing everything on the Windows drive though).

 

I'm a tournament organizer for a local Smash tournament. We normally host our brackets on start.gg. However, the site is pretty unreliable. Occasionally, we've had to run the bracket on challonge.com instead. Recently, the venue wifi was having issues and we almost had to run it on our phones which wouldve been brutal. Every alternative I can find is either web-based or is commercial software for big E-sports events. I just need software on my laptop (I'm running Linux Mint, the other TO uses a MacBook) that can generate a double-elinination bracket based on a seeded list of entrants. After that, it should be able to track the bracket progress over the course of the event. This seems like a pretty simple concept but I haven't been able to find anything.

 

I recently switched my desktop to Linux mint. Overall it seems to work well for me. The one exception is that my password manager, Keepass, won't work. I currently use Gdrive to sync the database between devices. It works very well for this purpose. Is there another way I can sync this file as seemlessly as Gdrive? It would to work for an Android phone and Mint PC.

 

This channel normally posts board meetings and short progress updates on specific sections of the project in a pretty dry way. This is the first time I've seen them lean into a more engaging method of getting the word out.

 

I find it disgusting that they feel the need to appeal to their importance for economic activity. Safety should be a worthy enough goal to maintain such a lightweight organization. Trump says he wants to bring industry back to America. With moves like this, it's clear the actual intent is to keep workers subservient and expendable.

 

I want to make the switch but I want to test run first before fully committing. My PC has an M.2 SSD. I was thinking I could buy another one, swap them out and put Linux on that. In an emergency, I can swap the SSD back. Does this seem like a viable/sensible path toward Linux? I don't really have too many files on my PC that I care about. I don't want to dual boot. I did that on a laptop back in the day and it was annoying.

 

Dan Gelbart is a rich Canadian guy who made his millions building machines for other companies. Now he has a money-is-no-object shop to mess around in. I particularly like the video going over his lathe/grinder combo that he designed and built. The spindles and ways are on air bearings and it's incredibly precise. Also check out his video on flexures where he shows off a simple water jet part that allows 25x resolution for you measurements or positioning.

 

Game starts at 4:05. He entirely relies on game audio to play the game. Street Fighter 6 has good accessibility options that he uses to help understand the game state.

 

On the Beehaw local page, it's filled with posts from the Socialism community. On my subscriptions page, it's filled with posts from a 196 community. I'm glad Lemmy is getting communities that are gaining traction, but I don't want my feeds dominated by a few communities. I'm not sure if this is a Lemmy issue, a Beehaw issue, or a Thunder issue. Anybody have any ideas?

 

Pictured is mainly the shoe unit and backing plate for a CNC internal grinding machine. The quill sans wheel is on the right. The single point dresser is mounted to the shoe unit. This is a picture taken before re-fitting this grinder to grind taper inner ring bores. This grinder wasn't meant for that so I took a picture for reference while we discussed what modifications were needed.

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