I feel like that should still count as some sort of grounds to not follow orders and that carrying them out anyway should be considered at least negligence.
One of the basic rules of gun safety is “be sure of your target and what lies beyond it” and I can’t think of any reason that shouldn’t apply if the gun is mounted on an aircraft or drone, or if you’re firing missiles or dropping bombs instead of shooting bullets.
But unfortunately a fair amount of smaller projects do use it as a download site.
And I get it, not everyone has the time or budget to make a website for their own little passion projects, and it’s probably not even worth it for a lot of them given their limited audience. I’m not gonna say that every little tool to make my computer do some goofy thing that only me and about 6 other people care about (and 3 of those people are the people actively developing it) needs to have its own website.
But I feel like a lot of projects could benefit from throwing a “If you’re not here for the code and just want to download and run the program click here” message at the top of their page
Also, this is neither here nor there, but as something of a Linux noob, I’d kind of appreciate it Linux installation instructions included some brief explanations of what the commands they’re having you type into the terminal do. Sure, sometimes it’s as simple as “sudo apt-get install program” and you’re off to the races, but other times it’s a multi-step process of transcribing magic spells into the scary black & white hacker window.
And as someone who’s decent with computers and trying to learn more I don’t mind doing a little research to figure out what I’m actually doing. But for your average computer user who wants things to just work, I think that’s a bigger stumbling block to people giving Linux a fair shake than a lot of programmer types think it is. A tiny bit of handholding can go a long way.
I feel like that’s probably a huge misrepresentation of something legitimate.
Like maybe the found an activities coordinator or recreational therapist or something and asked them what they were doing that day and they answered “well right now I’m unpacking these groceries for a cooking class we’re doing tomorrow, and then I’m gonna go get things ready for game night, and I’m gonna be teaching them how to play mahjong”
Or maybe they just found the kitchen staff playing mahjong on their lunch break after unpacking a bunch of groceries.
Yeah, I probably could have made that a little more clear on that, I did mention jacketed bullets help mitigate your lead exposure, and that it’s not necessary 0 exposure from the projectile, but probably could have given a little more details on that
In my defense though, I don’t think I’ve actually even seen unjacketed ammo in person since I was in boy scouts shooting the cheapest bulk .22 ammo known to man at the summer camp shooting range. I’d almost have to go out of my way to find unjacketed ammo around me these days, even most cheap bulk .22 I see is jacketed now.
It’s definitely out there for some rounds though, and of course reloaders.
Closest I’ve seen in some time is softpoint .45-70 my friend has for his lever gun, and now that I’m thinking about that I’m curious how that stacks up against FMJ as far as lead exposure, since presumably that exposed lead soft point probably shouldn’t really be engaging with the rifling or sides of the barrel.
Well you should be washing your hands, and using lead removal soap for washing probably wouldn’t be a bad idea
But with soldering, unless you’re doing something really wrong, you’re not really going to be spraying lead around the room, to settle on your clothes and such and your soldering iron or even a standard blowtorch torch isn’t anywhere near hot enough to vaporize lead, so inhalation isn’t really a risk (to say nothing about fumes from your flux or whatever else you might end up burning, good ventilation is still a very good idea) and hopefully you’re not soldering on any kind of food prep surfaces.
With shooting, there’s a lot more risk of airborne particles and bullet fragments and such as well as fumes from lead based chemicals in the primers, so lead kind of gets everywhere.
FYI, a significant amount of lead exposure from shooting isn’t really from the bullets but from the primers which contain lead compounds.
The lead in the bullet is going downrange, and is often jacketed in something like copper, you’re not gonna come in contact with a whole lot of lead from handling most ammo, and there’s absolutely some amount of fragmentation and fouling and such happening, but lead from the bullet isn’t exactly getting sprayed all around.
But the primer absolutely does vaporize a bunch of lead compounds and you can inhale those fumes and particles settle on your clothes and such. Lead free primers are out there, but they’re not very common, and a lot of people find them to be more unreliable.
Now lead exposure from the actual projectiles isn’t zero, and there’s no real safe level of lead exposure, so don’t get complacent about that either, but in the grand scheme it’s often not the biggest issue
I’m going to go ahead and assume hegseth can’t grow a decent beard.
Every veteran I know who can grow a full beard did so pretty much immediately after getting out of the service.
And most of the rest are at least rocking a mustache or goatee if they’re able to.
There’s some valid reasons to not allow certain styles of facial hair in the military, like they can effect the seal of a gal mask, if you were to find yourself fighting someone hand-to-hand, a longer beard is one more place they could grab ahold of you, maybe a fire hazard in some conditions, or harder to decontaminate if chemical or bio weapons are used, etc.
But this doesn’t feel like it’s about that, I think he just doesn’t like beards and I think it’s because he’s jealous.
My dad has a '93 Ford Ranger
4 cylinder, 7ft bed, single cab with a bench seat. Gets around 20mpg, which honestly isn’t too shabby even by new truck standards.
Over the years it’s moved a lot of furniture, picked up a lot of bulky lumber and such from the hardware store, picked up a few decent sized loads of firewood, and generally done everything most normal people would need or want a truck for.
The bed is pretty low compared to modern trucks so it’s easy to load and unload, back it up to a curb and you can pretty step right off the sidewalk into the bed with the tailgate down
I have complaints about it, but they’re nothing most people couldn’t live with. It’s 0-60 time is probably best stated as “eventually,” especially if you’re carrying anything significant in the bed. And with no weight over those rear wheels it’s kind of shitty to drive on anything besides dry paved roads so 4wd would be nice. And of course after 30+ years it’s got some quirks and little things that are broken.
But if I could buy basically that exact same truck today, maybe as a hybrid or EV, I’d jump on it. I don’t need more performance, I’m not going to use it to haul a bed full of gravel or anything, we’ve never had to tow with it, and when I’ve towed with my own car it’s never been anything more substantial than a teardrop trailer that a Prius could probably just about handle if they came with a tow hitch.
I really like the maverick, it checks a lot of boxes for me and is overall pretty similar in size to my dad’s ranger but that short bed annoys me, I can’t fit a couch in that.
I mean, Erasmus is a pretty well-known historical figure (and where, I assume, that programme gets its name)
That’s where my mind went first.
Turns out we’re both wrong and it’s just OP’s name like he said in the other comment, but I’m curious how you made that connection? Not passing any judgement on it, just curious since your brain reached a different conclusion than mine and I’m curious how you got there.
I’m a little unclear on how this whole vote by mail process works, I’ve always voted in-person because I haven’t trusted Republicans to not pull shit like this to fuck with my vote.
But how exactly does the postal service have the ability to do this? They’re not the ones tallying the votes, they’re just delivering mail. You put something in the box with correct postage and they take it to the address on the envelope. I don’t really get where they have the discretion to say “no” to doing that.
And hypothetically, let’s say they do refuse to deliver what looks like election mail. What’s to stop you from taking your mail-in ballot envelope, stuffing it into another plain, nondescript envelope addressed to wherever your ballot is supposed to go and mailing it that way? I’m pretty sure they’re not supposed to be opening up mail to see what’s inside.
Genuinely asking and trying to understand.
NileRed on YouTube has done a few interesting things like turning plastic gloves into hot sauce through different chemical processes.
It’s more of a fun science demonstration than anything meant to be even remotely practical to create food from waste, and there are some pretty nasty chemicals involved in some of them that really have no business being anywhere near food
But it does I think drive home the point that everything is basically made out of the same stuff and it’s a matter of figuring out how to break it down and put it back together in the right way to be useful.
You can’t really do it to yourself, but I’ve had really good luck ending other people’s hiccups by offering them $5 if they hiccup again
I’ve read what you’ve linked and plenty of other info about NG911, and like I’ve said multiple times I’m looking forward to the new capabilities it’s going to give us.
I still don’t see how any of it helps with the sorts of things I end up needing to look around on Google maps for.
I am very willing to be proven wrong about that. All you need to do is point out what specific parts of NG911 you think will help, and this conversation will end and I’ll admit I was wrong and you were right and you’re not doing that. Instead you’re just being a miserable asshole while I’m trying to have a conversation with you and understand what you’re trying to say.
So excuse me for matching your energy. I kind of relish the opportunity to be honest, I spend 12 hours a day at work talking to assholes like you who won’t listen to me when I’m trying to tell them how to not fucking die, and needing to be polite and professional to them. It’s pretty damn cathartic to call you out for being a dickhead and I’m not going to apologize for that.
I like my job, I like talking about it so that people understand how it works and how to access the help they need. I can only assume that you hate what you do and that’s why you’re acting this way. Sure, you make more money than me. I don’t give a fuck, my needs are met, I’m happy, and you clearly aren’t. Find a job you want to tell people about and help them understand what it is you do.
So much for
we know what we’re doing because we fucking read.
Guess you don’t actually know what the fuck you’re doing.
And not a damn part of that has anything that would keep me from having to look around on Google maps or something similar trying to match up a vague description of a location that my caller may not even be at to something that I can enter into our system.
For someone so hung up on reading, you’re really fucking bad at comprehend what the issue is that I’m describing.
Sure, I may getter more accurate location info, maybe even good enough to tell what side of the street my caller is on now, but I’m still going to need to figure out what side of the road they were on when an incident actually happened to figure out jurisdiction, because they may have turned around, pulled over 2 blocks away, turned I to a parking lot across the street, or waited 6 hours and went home before calling.
So one way or another I’m going to need to look for landmarks on a map or something like Google street view that my caller will recognize and get them to describe where they were in relation to those landmarks.
And sure they’ll be able send me pictures or video call me to show me where they’re talking about. If it’s live video that combined with location data while they’re still on-scene that would certainly be great, but otherwise I’m still gonna have to be hunting around on a map trying to figure out which of the 6 Sunoco gas stations in town they sent me a picture of.
And they can text me, which is something we’ve had in my county for a while. Great for people who aren’t able to talk for one reason or another, but not exactly a dramatic upgrade over asking the same questions and getting the same answers verbally
PSAP registries, better interoperability with other PSAPs, etc. is nice, but totally besides the issue here. Both sides of the border could be departments we dispatch for and I just need to know which one to send
And better address lists, ALI info, phone records and such are nice, but if they’re not at their home address, they don’t know the name of the business they’re calling about, and all they can give me is that it happened “in the park with a statue that looks like a dick” or “that vacant lot where Bob’s Deli used to be” (Bob’s Deli, as it turns out, burned down in 1983) none of that is particularly helpful.
Again, there are really good use cases for NG911, and I’M not denying that. Every day I find some circumstance where I’d love to have those promised capabilities that are allegedly just around the corner for us.
But none of them solve this problem.
And you’ve been sold on the idea that ng911 is some sort of magical pill that’s going to give every dispatcher $10,000, a pony, and a blowjob while the calls practically handle themselves, and that’s just not the case.
So get your head out of your fucking ass.
You’re a fucking corporation stooge who’s huffing your own farts.
There’s a lot of places where ng911 is going to be very helpful, this isn’t one of them and if you had any actual confidence that it would be helpful I this situation you’d be singing it’s fucking praises explaining how.
Those are the vibes you’re giving now. How about you actually try to explain how NG911 is gonna help with those scenarios I gave, because I don’t see any way the technologies involved that I’ve been told about are going to save me from having to manually look around on Google maps (or similar kind of service) to figure out where I need to enter a call.
Sure, I suppose they’ll be able to send me a picture or a video, instead of trying to describe it to me, but I’m still going to need to match that up to the real world somehow.
And sure, maybe our location data will be a bit better, but if they’re driving 5 minutes before pulling over to call, that location data won’t tell me what side of the road they were on when the accident actually happened.
I really don’t see how NG911 is going to help when all my callers can tell me sometimes is something like that they’re near some trees, a big rock, and a brick wall. That’s not exactly something I can punch into my CAD. Or when it’s a 3rd party caller for their grandmother in a different town who needs help, but all they can give me is that it’s a big yellow house about 2 blocks from the elementary school with a statue of a cow on the front lawn.
There’s a lot of cool things that NG911 can help with, some of it is already implemented in my county, but they’re largely not the things I use Google maps for.
Based on your posts and responses here, I really don’t think you have enough knowledge/experience with Linux to be making this move and call for your parents. I’m not trying to be mean or discourage you in this, I’m just being real. You’re going to end up being tech support for this machine and nothing you’re saying makes me think you’re up to that.
Backups. Now. Loud noises on an aging machine are a bad sign. The hardware might be on its last legs, and you’re not gonna fix that by installing Linux. Get flash drives, get a DVD burner, get stuff onto the cloud somehow, do whatever backup solution makes sense for your situation. That really should be your first priority here whether or not you can get them to switch. Unless you know for an absolute fact that they don’t have anything important on their computer that they wouldn’t want to lose, you should still be making backups of some kind before making a big change to their computer like installing Linux just in case something goes wrong and you lose everything.
Have a plan to repair or replace that computer. Figure out what’s making those loud noises, and fix it if possible. Again, you’re not going to fix a hardware issue with software. Maybe you’re lucky and you just have some fans choked with dust and need to be cleaned out, or maybe the hard drive is failing. Pretty much the only loud noise you’re going to fix with Linux is if the computer is just that bogged down with windows crap that the fans have to be going full speed to keep the computer from cooking itself, but even then you still have to ask whether that machine has enough oomph in it to give them an enjoyable experience on Linux (and it very well might, but at 10 years it’s probably time to start thinking about a replacement, not that I’d want to be shopping for computers right now)
If you’re going to disregard those warnings, make a live USB, set it up their computer to boot from it first. Stick that in their computer and let them play with it for a week or two. Show them how to get to their windows files from there. Show them what programs are alternatives to the ones they use the most in windows. Tell/show them that if they don’t like it they just need to turn the computer off and pull the flash drive out and everything will be just as they left it. This is basically what I did to switch my parents over to Linux mint. For me it helped that their computing needs are basically just office applications and a web browser, so there wasn’t much to teach them. Give them a heads-up that it will probably run a little slower from the USB than it would once it’s actually installed on the computer (on my parents computer it was still faster than windows 11, but was noticeably slow and laggy to me, but is pretty responsive now that I have it installed.)