eye roll Get it that this isn’t the right place for a nuanced discussion on this, or probably even the right platform, but I’ll say it anyways.

Congress is complicit in the grand theft of IP by not stopping it in its tracks. So is every employee that did the theft itself, every lawyer that helped arrange the financial details, etc. All the big data collection companies that sold your info are complicit in the rape of your privacy.

But the fact is that there are real technological innovations with the advent of modern machine learning, and it’s dumb to lump the march of innovation in with all the worst parts of whatever “AI” is.

OP isn’t complicit in the obsolescence of the actual work he does - that’s falsely assigning judgement and negative connotation to a plain fact: the industry he works in is changing. Eventually there will be many fewer machinists that do the work he does, and AI will do a lot of the work that used to be done by human machinists. That in and of itself isn’t a good or bad thing (it just IS), even if there’s TONS of negative externalities (environmental, economic control, loss of jobs, whatever). So no, OP isn’t complicit in some downfall of his industry if he sells his knowledge to train AI models.

Now, if he stole this data from employees in a company or something and sold it, he would be complicit in the theft of that information. But not necessarily the industry change that is coming.

It’s going to happen anyways. You’re not complicit in what’s happening if you take advantage of this opportunity that’s presented itself to you.

This is a new industrial revolution, and it’s going to displace jobs like yours. It sucks, but it’s happening.

There’s a shit load of theft and awful stuff happening right now and that’s abhorrent, but paying you for data is 100% legit and how every author and artist etc should have been compensated for the training data that’s gone into the machine learning black hole.

At the end of the day it’s up to you, but I wouldn’t worry about this one. They’re paying you for legitimate use. Eventually folks like yourself will be much rarer/specialized.

I shoot an average of 4000 rounds a month. I would bet a whole lot of money that I’m far more familiar with “pistols” in all types than you are.

Revolvers are pistols.

Their recoil is often less than a semi auto. It depends on so many factors that saying they have more or less recoil is a nonsense claim; it depends on your ammo and the mass of the gun, primarily.

Accuracy is the same. Sights matter. Build quality matters. Length of your barrel matters. It all matters.

You can throw a Ruger GP100 in the mud and I’d trust it any day over a Glock covered in mud. It’s foolish to claim otherwise.

Glocks are great handguns. But they have malfunctions just the same, especially when you have mags with worn out springs like a lot of daily carry guns do because people pack the mags full and then leave them that way for years on end.

I’m not saying revolvers are better, I’m saying they have pros and cons and it’s personal preference. Many people who obviously know more than you do think they’re the best guns to carry when you need them most. I won’t say I agree or disagree, just that I acknowledge the points, and I’m sharing them here because firearm knowledge is generally abysmal, even in countries where they’re readily available.

What? Revolvers are really common. They’re incredibly reliable, in a way that a semi auto mag fed pistol isn’t.

A revolver rotates the cylinder and the hammer falls on each individual round. If the ammo is bad (incredibly rare but it happens) then nothing happens, but just pull the trigger again and you’re not jammed or anything.

A mag-fed semi auto, while higher capacity, has WAY more complicated moving parts. There’s tons of ways it can jam up or malfunction, and since all the ammo is stacked in the same spring-tensioned magazine, if there’s a problem you have to clear the jam in order to fire anything else.

If you’re in a position where you are actually pulling the trigger your fine motor skills are gone because of adrenaline. Clearing a jam like that isn’t something you’ll be able to do effectively without a ton of training, and most people don’t have that kind of training.

So a lot of people prefer a revolver. It’s only 6 shots instead of 11, 17, whatever, but you KNOW you’ll get six shots, and the thinking is if that’s not enough then 17 probably isn’t either. It’s personal preference.

But yeah, they’re not just “grandfather” guns.

As a CCTV enthusiast, I do not generally recommend ubiquiti cameras unless the person wants to wholly live in the unifi ecosystem.

They’re very pricey for what you get, even though they are pretty good. They’re most often not even near the best in class despite their price, though (looking at you, doorbell camera)

They also don’t play nice with open/self hosted NVRs. It’s getting better due to consistent demand, but the reality is that they’re at their best when you use unifi protect, on unifi devices. So IMO it’s all or nothing, and since there’s a lot better value in other brands, I choose not to use them anymore.

They’re pretty user friendly, though

I’m struggling to think of a situation where you’d be trying to get to that level of granularity of how a single packet is flowing end-end. Can you give an example of why you want to do that?

In all my years I’ve never needed to do that, which is probably pretty common, which I’d guess is why there isn’t an available solution for that.

Crazy I had to scroll down this far for the reason it’s actually called a gateway drug.