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Cake day: October 24th, 2023
  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world•Anon Gets Capitalized
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    2 days ago

    Well, the Mosin, being a bolt-action, was a bit of a meme funny inclusion…

    …but technically the Garand, and any AK/SKS kinda rifle, are (or can be) semi-automatic wherein a pull of a trigger discharges a single round. And yes, Hi-Point also makes rifle models Lol.

    Companies like Kel-Tec also market to the civilian affordability crowd.

    I dunno, was I missing the point of this emphasis maybe? Let me know if something went over my head. :)

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•boot: "you are in emergency mode"
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    2 days ago

    Fellow Tumbleweed lover here for all the same reasons!

    This distro has been fantastic. A few times there’s been some growing pains (8/10 of those directly being Nvidia’s fault by my estimation), but Snapper rollbacks have been ultra reliable in getting to “known working state” until stuff gets sorted out.

    It’s such an unbelievably sane and sturdy rolling release. I also appreciate YAST and how it feels like they put effort into making pro-security choices by default without interfering with the user’s experience too much.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world•Anon Gets Capitalized
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    2 days ago

    There’s also the cost.

    Hi-Point: The hole-puncher for the common folk.

    Or auction house AK variants. Or strike old school fear into fascism with a Mosin Nagant or an M1 Garand (ping!).

    Lol memes aside (and not judging!) there’s hardware to fill the need at all price points. It’s the ammo that’s hard to keep up with! Also, safety (and skill) training could be a lot more universally accessible and applied.

    The time to gain familiarity and proficiency is also a severely limiting factor, and of course the working class have less and less of it.

    I think our general attitude and understanding about firearms (in the U.S/“West”) has been intentionally poisoned into some bizarre right-wing fetish thing specifically to make sure level-headed, educated, reasonable people who weren’t ultra-capitalists wouldn’t be the group statistically holding a stupidly unholy amount of them.

    I guess my point is: Capitalism will sell you whatever you like. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a vetting process for its preferred audience. It simply adjusts the culture to make the very idea revolting to those it would prefer not selling to, and amplifying the signal to stupidly comical degrees to its target audience.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytopics@lemmy.world•We killed a T-Rex today.
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    2 days ago

    These kinda “3d” archery shoots were so much fun.

    One optional /bonus target at the end had a steel plate with a T-Rex painted on it, and a narrow hole in the middle to shoot through… And beside it was a graveyard hay bale full of obliterated arrows of those that tried. (Don’t touch shattered carbon fiber, kids!)

    One required a kneeling shot and through a large PVC tube to hit a turkey target at the end…I kid you not, I used a bent aluminum arrow, it bounced off the wall of the tube, and right into the bullseye. Sadly this was well before reliable pocket video but I did get a picture of the resulting shot with my Palm Zire 71! …I wonder if I still have that picture now somewhere…

    It was really cool seeing people shooting with everything from modern recurves, to compound bows (my flavor), to very fine “primitive” bows.

    Archery though. Love it. Really fun sport. Great people, lots of skill. I was taught by an olympic coach but enjoyed the more practical “simulationist” kind of shoots like these.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world•Graphics are now BANNED
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    5 days ago

    I remember people discussing hardware and one of the best advice comments I’ve ever seen was:

    “Turn off that little FPS counter and just enjoy the damn game.”

    People get so wrapped up in the hardware hobby they forget why they care in the first place, which would be fine if it wasn’t just fuelled by hardware marketing to make everyone else feel like they’re “missing out.”

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world•Is 8GB a lot? Depends on the context.
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    6 days ago

    Something I was able to do with my old OnePlus 3 phone, was use it as a Linux USB. It was a pretty neat trick!

    It was really convenient to just snag a work laptop and boot it into Puppy Linux (which lives entirely in RAM) to browse around and such without my job looking too closely and being creepy about it.

    Disclaimer

    IT departments are various kinds of chill, scrutinizing, lazy, or pathologically psycho, YMMV greatly. Try at your own risk. Lol

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world•Crowd intelligence
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    8 days ago

    I’d argue art is a communication medium. You can communicate minimally, or you can communicate with vast detail, both require skill.

    Art museums are full of work that says nothing, but passed a few gatekeepers with clout keys or shock value.

    Skilled rendering with nothing to say is as unimpressive as deep ideas communicated by random spatter. The viewer isn’t getting anything from it, no matter how trendy their turtleneck is.

    I take a bit of issue with this idea that “the amount of skill involved doesn’t matter”, because that’s the exact logic used to say artists shouldn’t be able to afford a living, or could be replaced by algorithms.

    (And yet we easily spot and mock visually exciting Ai renderings for how soulless and empty they are.)

    Yes, we’ve seen impressive high-skill ultra-real pencil renderings that, in the end could sadly be replaced by a photograph, because there was no interpretation involved.

    And we’ve seen awards presented for sticking bananas on walls as a “critique of modern society.”

    Art is a skill. It’s a hard skill, because it’s not a solitary pursuit solely anchored in visual perfection. If nobody can understand or appreciate your point, it falls apart.