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I do a lot of photography and I share it on my deviant art page.

It’s SFW, don’t worry.

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Depends on how much recoil you get from each shot and how many shots you get before you have to reload

Short bursts towards center of mass is best. You might not hit a head, hitting extremities is basically worthless for dropping a combatant, center of mass is where all the really important stuff is concentrated.

The benefits of growing up around ex military is that you get trained by them as a child

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Oh yeah the pelvis is a good place to hit

You hit that with a high caliber rifle and that person ain't getting up by themselves

Gormadt ,
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And the more they kill the more the reputation grows

Like when stadia was announced my friends and I took bets on how long it would last or if any stadia exclusive games would ever get to launch

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Honestly yeah that probably would have been the case

But if they were open about it then it probably would have gone over poorly with the shareholders and stock value by "openly planning to fail"

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Provided that's even how they work

But what they hell do I know, I drive a forklift for a living not do science things with other science people at the science place

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I can literally build a Jenga tower with standard size Jenga blocks using a forklift (we have little competitions every so often)(unfortunately I can't show pics or videos otherwise it'd be a security incident)

I got that shit on lock

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And of course there's the sheer awesome factor of if it turns out to be the case

Could you imagine being the dude who makes that discovery? Prepare to have shit named after you for centuries

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When the food I made to be good is actually good

Gormadt ,
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One of the really hard habits to break was always looking at my feet when walking

It was primarily because seeing further than that was pretty rough

Though the leaves being back on the trees was pretty great too

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"It jumped right out in front of me, I didn't see it"

Gormadt ,
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I'm more of a cousin Itt in the looks department while being a Gomez at heart

But I feel you friend

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a0/Cousin_Itt.png?20211004115746

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Being able to schedule a doctor's appointment for anytime during a 24 hour period has been such a massive breath of fresh air for me (also neurodivergent)

It's hard enough for normal appointments but scheduling a doctor's appointment is especially difficult

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Both with fog and smoke

It's so eery with fog and a special kind of horrifying with smoke

Story Time

When the fog gets so thick you can't see more than a car length or 2 in front and behind

You continue to slow down trying to find a safe speed

The last car you saw was an hour ago and they were pulled over and walking around

You pull over, turn the car off, and turn the hazard lights on

You step out of the car to listen

There's only silence

A suffocating silence

You scream only for it to sound muffled muted

A car flys past at speed and disappears before you can get a good look

Gormadt ,
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You really shouldn't be raw dogging the Internet

Use protection, use an ad blocker

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Because if you live in an apartment your only option for charging is to go to a charging location. You can't just plug it in overnight.

Which I can see as a big hurdle for a lot of people.

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And I'm not sure about your apartments but at mine (and many others in my area) we can't have anything hanging out of our windows unless it's an AC

If I tried an extension cord it'd be a violation of my lease

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Had the same problem at my apartment, my workaround was putting the blinds back and putting my blackout curtains behind the blinds (because putting them between the blinds and the window made them upset too)

At least my apartment is wired mostly properly. Still have things on breakers that don't make sense though.

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If they're advertising a price lock and not delivering a price lock how are they not being hit with the long arm of a government agency for false advertising?

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Re-Enabling the dislike button would help too

Gormadt ,
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That's not why it was removed

It was removed not long after one of their Rewind vids was disliked to hell.

And it ain't coming back, at least they haven't so much as hinted at it

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Because of it being so closed off I've hopped instances

And honestly I'm probably going to hop again because having down votes disabled isn't very good IMO

Edit: 1 big thing though that I wish existed Lemmy wide would be if you have a comment or post removed (hell even bans) you get a message to your inbox. As it currently stands it just happens and unless you check mod logs you'll never know.

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Sounds like you picked the wrong instance for an alt account

I'd say if you pick one that isn't federated with Hexbear, some specific domains ending in .ml, and some of the other conservative ones you'll have a far better time around the fediverse.

Also don't be afraid to block people

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It's pretty chill in general and is well moderated

It's has the occasional instability day here and there but it gets sorted out pretty quick

They don't federate down votes and you can't give them out which IMO isn't the best

But I'd say it's a nice place overall

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Specific instances are hard to find which is usually why I flex the block tool a lot around here. Blocking them when they start spewing their bullshit.

I can't think of any off the top of my head but I'd check the federated list of instances for some of the instances you see with large queer communities (like the one I'm posting from now) to get a general idea as us queer folk get hella targeted by conservatives online.

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USBs nowadays are a dime a dozen basically for 16GB sticks

They can literally be bought in 10 packs for less than $30.

If they don't give one back nowadays so be it.

Back in the day it was a terrible loss though

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I had to look into it because once you mentioned that I was curious.

So the saying originated sometime before 1930 when it first appeared in print and likely in the 1800s. (Source)

And when I went to an inflation calculator the earliest date I could select was January of 1913. Which I couldn't help but share the results of.

About $3.20.

Source

So yeah, about a dime a dozen... 111 years ago lol.

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Especially stuff that's really important

Edit: or is that just me? Though it has gotten easier since getting a diagnosis and developing strategies to deal with my ADHD.

Gormadt ,
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Getting the diagnosis could open up treatment options for ADHD that could make dealing with other aspects of life easier overall

Gormadt ,
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I've used mine for a lot of stuff really

Weaken adhesive for opening a cell phone (like your picture)

Revive a Nexus 5X long enough to patch it and transfer the data off of it (a really frustrating process BTW)

Heat treat resin prints (place print in box, set box on bed, set bed to 80C, come back in an hour, turn bed off, wait for it to hit ambient, remove box) this process is great for hollowed prints as not only will it cause and trapped alcohol to evaporate out but it will further cure the part and increase the durability of the part as well (CNC Kitchen has a great vid on it)

Keep my coffee warm while I was building and setting up a NAS for a friend

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It was a very long day that started with a nice easy plan that quickly turned into "Which POS part is preventing this thing from working"

Fun fact it was the motherboard. Though it wasn't a consistent issue sometimes it was RAM failing, sometimes it was pcie not working, sometimes it was networking not working, etc. After swapping the motherboard everything worked beautifully.

Yes we tried reseating the CPU, yes we checked for bent pins, yes we made sure the cables were secure. Something was fucky with the motherboard.

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This year I actually found a combination of allergy meds that works for me (yes combination, 1 just doesn't do it for me)

It's straight up bliss not having to wear a face mask for a couple months just to not die

Edit: Yes I consulted my doctor before doing multiple at a time. In fact the 2 I'm taking right now (Allegra and Flonase) were the 2 they recommended I try together.

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It's gotten a lot better over the years

When I first tried it (back in 2010) it was pretty rough all around but after trying it again recently due to the whole TPM requirement for Windows 11 I've found it to be really straight forward

Linux Mint is really user friendly and is what I've even put on my grandma's pc

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It'll probably take a small dip and then rise quite a bit once profits from implementing it start rolling in

Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use...

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I've shucked a few drives in the past but when there was a big sale on hard drives awhile back I finished decking my NAS out with 8TB drives that weren't shucked as they came out to be cheaper than the ones in enclosures at the time.

The main downside is warranty really and some of the drives from enclosures need to have the power blocked on one of the pins to work (can't remember which sorry) due to the type of drive they are.

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The worst is if someone sends me a YouTube short

That shit just digs it's claws in my brain something fierce

Gormadt ,
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I got an extension in my Firefox that does the same, I'm going to have to do that to my YouTube app as well

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Pretty great

Finally upgraded my resin printer to having a flex bed and my only regret is not doing it sooner

I also finished upgrading my printing enclosures to using 8in ducting for ventilation. This combined with the 8in fan I'm using puts the ventilation at cycling the entire air contents of my room every 2 minutes at the highest setting or once every 4 minutes at the fan setting I use.

To do the upgrade required me to print a 8in duct splitter because buying one is prohibitively expensive.

What the adapter looks like (it's a gif)

I started the migration of my NAS to a new system but that's going to finish (hopefully) by Friday. The data has been duplicated I just have to wait a bit as a piece of software I need to install on one of the VMs has its key locked until Friday (can't be activated on a new system) and that piece of software is currently installed on the system that will become my new NAS.

Edit: rendered the clip at a lower res

Edit2: Hopefully the NAS move will be done by next Friday. Schedule got complicated again. Oh well it'll still work for now.

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If the parts that break are either unavailable or incredibly difficult to replace then I agree. (Held in by glue I'm looking at you ya bastard)

But just because it breaks doesn't mean it's planned obsolescence.

Where I work in the freight industry we have little handhelds we're supposed to use that get dropped all the time. Occasionally the screens break or the cameras break. Both of them are held in by screws and are swappable in that event.

Fairphone is a device I'd love to get as they are very easily fixable but they still break when dropped. The parts are readily available for purchase as well. It's just not easy if you're outside of the EU.

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I wouldn't say a drinking glass is a device, a simple tool yes but not a device.

Gormadt ,
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Shorts are the bane of my ADHD ass

I'm going to have to look into Greyjay for sure just for the no shorts part

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It sometimes happens for me as well

Usually I can get to the vid if I go to the channel and try again. Or trying again a little while later.

It's fuckin annoying when it trips

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I said it back then and I'll say it again: Calling your mega corporation "Alphabet" sounds hella distopian

Gormadt ,
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I'm surprised those scores are so high honestly

It's fuckin hard being queer on social media

Gormadt ,
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Lemmy has it's own dens of awful that simp pretty hard for dictators and some pretty shitty regimes

Luckily my instance is defederated from the worst one (IMO)

Lemmy is definitely a lot more accepting of queer people though which I really dig

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At his point for me it's only CAD and Lightroom that keeps a Windows install in my machine

All the games I like run fine on Linux nowadays

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