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jackoneill ,

I ran an Apple TV in the living room for a long time to access my Plex server and whatever subscription my wife has this month. As time went on it got more and more glitchy until it came to the point where I had to power cycle the thing every few days. Replaced it with a cheap fire stick, annoyed the crap out of me. Replaced that with a cheap Roku, it was only slightly better than the shitty firestick.

My wife got me the NVIDIA shield pro for Christmas this year, and I picked up the p2920 controller for it. My god this thing is awesome - not only is it the best tv box I’ve ever used, I can use moonlight to play games on my rig or GeForce now to stream games. I highly recommend this thing

Appeals court allows California law to go into effect, restricting concealed carry in public places (www.cnn.com)

A US appeals court Saturday paved the way for a California law banning the concealed carry of firearms in “sensitive places” to go into effect January 1, despite a federal judge’s ruling that it is “repugnant to the Second Amendment.”...

jackoneill ,

That’s simply untrue. On several different occasions I’ve avoided getting mugged/carjacked/robbed because I saw someone who looked like they were coming my way with intent and their hand in their pocket or just starting to draw it out, so I pulled out my own and in each case they turned around and walked away, presumably to find an easier target. Same with the multiple times armed junkies broke into my house - they see my gun, and they run rather than proceeding to do whatever the fuck they were going to do. I am a cripple, so I’m not gonna be able to fight - it’s this or nothing. Not just me, but my wife and son as well.

Yes, guns are bad. Yes, less guns is good! Total agreement. Unfortunately, life is not so black and white. In the US we have SO MANY GUNS, and so many available illegally, and cheaply, that any of these gun laws are only stopping law abiding citizens like myself from having a tool to defend ourselves with, as a criminal is going to be carrying wether it’s legal or not for him to as it’s readily available.

Australia and the UK, shit even Canada, are so different in this respect (guns per capita and availability and cheapness of black market guns specifically) that you really can’t compare policy - what works there isn’t necessarily going to work here.

So what’s the answer, you say? Lots of things!

We have a lot of gun laws on the books in regards to background checks/greymarket/gunshow sales/etc that are simply not enforced, or not enforced well. Enforce them! Make the checks more strict, stop letting folks with mental issues buy guns, etc.

Want a gun? You should have to take a mandatory safety course for that specific type of gun (shotgun, revolver, semi auto pistol, etc - just like classes on your drivers license). You should have to pass a test and renew it regularly, similar to CCW permits on most states. Let’s make it so that if you ARE a law abiding citizen carrying a gun, you know how to safely use the kind of gun you carry, can shoot reasonably accurately with it, have been taught your local self defense laws, have been taught trigger discipline, and have been taught how to check your fucking backdrop before you pull the trigger so you don’t put other innocents at risk when defending yourself.

Do something to limit the number of new guns brought into the system. The ones we got are here, can’t really do much about that without people losing their collective shit. But we ought to be able to slow down the numbers of new ones made available to the public, via extra taxes, limits on how many guns a person can purchase in a time period, I don’t know really, this is a hard one, but I think it’s the way we need to do it so we don’t just fuck over the average citizen - gradually.

jackoneill ,

That sounds like an SD card with extra steps

Police fatally shoot Black woman who called 911 for domestic violence (www.theguardian.com)

A Los Angeles county sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a 27-year-old woman who had called 911 to report that she was under attack by a former boyfriend, police officials and lawyers for the victim’s family said on Thursday. Records show the deputy had killed another person in similar circumstances three years ago....

jackoneill ,

Shoot him

jackoneill ,

How about every citizen gets single payer funded health care like all of the other civilized countries. You can think of the children and the adults all at once. Radical thought

Minor who died in poultry plant accident got the job with the identity of a 32-year-old (www.nbcnews.com)

A 16-year-old employee who died after getting sucked into equipment at a Mississippi poultry plant got the job using the identity of a 32-year-old man, a new revelation that highlights the ease with which migrant children are finding work in a dangerous industry, and the challenges companies face in trying to evaluate their true...

jackoneill ,

Right?!? Let’s solve the actual problem not criminalize the symptoms further when already criminalizing the symptoms doesn’t work

jackoneill ,

Electricity likes the path of least resistance to ground. If you are only touching with one hand, most likely the current well run down that side of your body to ground more or less. If both hands are touching it makes it more likely for the current to cross your heart which greatly increases the risk of death

jackoneill ,

Vlans

jackoneill ,

It’s a feature on mine

That’s why my security has multiple layers

jackoneill ,

I have a group of friends, half in same town as me, half on the other side of the country, that get together once a week ion discord and play dnd via a self hosted foundry virtual tabletop docker. We used to play 5e but we decided to try out pathfinder 2e to see if we liked it and we haven’t gone back, pathfinder is fantastic. The flexibility with the actions makes it feel like you always get a chance to do something and you aren’t just wasting your turn when you are getting into position or whatever. Feels close enough to 5e that most of your intuition will be pretty close, just use a different website to look shit up. Highly recommend pathfinder!

jackoneill ,

But there’s that one really rich Native American dude with the casino so it’s ok

jackoneill ,

Nowhere, not rich enough to be able to donate when we can barely cover our own expenses

jackoneill ,

Too crippled to get on the ground. Doctor’s note and everything.

jackoneill ,

lol of you think it’s bad now wait until you join the work force

jackoneill ,

For real fuck Ubisoft Pirate the game and enjoy it don’t give them a dollar

jackoneill ,

He’s probably religious

jackoneill ,

That’s O’Brien at work. His work is mostly suffering

jackoneill ,

Yeah not the intern’s fault, the fault of the system that allowed the intern to be able to do it at all

jackoneill ,

My main issue with Discovery was that it never felt like Star Trek. I always called it BBC’s Trek through the Stars because to me it felt like a BBC drama set in a vaguely Trek like universe. It was a good show, just didn’t FEEL like Trek. Strange New Worlds though? Feels just like the Trek I miss

jackoneill ,

Unless you have a smuggled device you aren’t getting access to gmail or any other email in prison. They have their own monitored communication systems that charge the inmate absurd amounts of money to use.

jackoneill ,

You’re part of the problem

jackoneill ,

That’s a completely different issue though - there are loads of minimum wage jobs that aren’t tipped. The issue here is that tipped positions can be paid LESS THAN minimum wage, and while legally if their tips and hourly come out to less than minimum wage they should be given minimum wage, this often does not happen.

But then when you argue this point with servers they’ll say “but I make more with tips” and that’s the point where I say ok then if you prefer it that way cool but I’m not tipping and then they get all shocked pikachu face and start trying to argue why I have to tip because of the wage issue I WAS JUST DESCRIBING at which point I say get fucked your are part of the problem.

jackoneill ,

Then get a job that isn’t tip based. Folks take those jobs because “I usually make more in tips” but that’s literally the gamble you sign up for with that mentality. I don’t want to take that gamble, so I work a job that isn’t reliant on tips. I don’t have good days where some rich dude gives me 100 bucks for no reason, but I also don’t have bad days where I make less than I expect and don’t know how to pay my bills. Tipping culture is bullshit and it’s the owning class exploiting us all, but workers who sign up to work for tipped based jobs know what they are getting into and don’t get my sympathy any more than some dude working at Best Buy hating his life does

jackoneill ,

But I’m not an asshole and I want society to improve, so I’ll shit all over tipping culture every chance I get and only tip when I actually get good service, as it should be

jackoneill ,

Bruh…… on an average 8 hour workday I log 10-12 billable hours in tickets, or projects, or whatever I happen to be working on. That’s from overlap/multitasking as I’m constantly interrupted in my tasks to help others with theirs. I’m lucky to get 2 minutes to catch my breath

jackoneill ,

They 100% need to hire 2 more guys and pick what role they actually want me to do.

jackoneill ,

Yeah you can have YouTube premium and also use an ad blocker…. Being mad at YouTube is just the hot thing right now

jackoneill ,

I was thinking of the Star Gate episode where they raid Seth’s compound

jackoneill ,

It’s backwards lol. We want windows stuff to work in Linux so we have a stable system that can do everything we need, instead they gave us Linux on top the unstable pile of shit we all hate

tired of everything being about america

people online assume that you live in america, people always that you are talking about america. whenever there are news or discussions and the language that is used is english, everything is about america. I’m tired of it. stop rubbing this stuff into my face. I don’t care about your stupid country

jackoneill ,

You should probably make your own community then

Are there any applications that can turn an old smart phone into a wildlife/security camera?

Have been thinking about this for a couple years. I have old phones kicking around. Battery shot, hardware dated, but the camera(s) and mic and antennas still work. Would be cool if there were a way to set them up (powered) to stream audio/video or even take stills at intervals (or motion-activated) and then sync the content to...

jackoneill ,

I use old iPhones as video baby monitors in much the same way with an app called AlfredCamera, works pretty good for a free app on scrap hardware

jackoneill ,

Having a wife and kid

jackoneill ,

Check out this link

www.gamespot.com/articles/…/1100-6503402/

Looks like you can stream it from the Xbox service for free via edge, and you can install a flapak version of edge, if your distro can do flapaks

I just did a quick Google, I haven’t actually tried this so good luck! But it sounds like streaming it is the only way given the form of anti cheat used. Don’t think you can do it natively

jackoneill ,

It is for me

jackoneill ,

Oh no, capitalism hurts itself in its confusion

jackoneill ,

I have a pihole, I love it. My wife hates it so much I made her her own Wi-Fi network on her own vlan that’s isolated from the rest of the network and uses Google dns. My wife likes to click ads and watch TikTok and all that shit is blocked on my network

jackoneill ,

But then TikTok would be on my vlan….no….

Israel tells UN to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours (www.axios.com)

The Israeli Ministry of Defense and the IDF notified the UN just before midnight local time that Palestinians living north of Wadi Gaza should evacuate to the southern part of the Gaza Strip in the next 24 hours, according to UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric and another source with direct knowledge....

jackoneill ,

We read the article too bro. The thing is it’s an impossible request and they know it. They are just saying it to look good to absolute morons like you

jackoneill ,

This is retarded

jackoneill ,

Holy crap I read that in his voice

jackoneill ,

Exactly

jackoneill ,

Just like I’m sick of seeing jUst gET riD Of aLl tHe guNs itS sUPer siMpLe

jackoneill ,

Yeah nothing but irritation for you folks in this thread

jackoneill ,

Look harder

jackoneill ,

Thank god.

jackoneill ,

I came here to have a reasonable discussion, but just got standard Reddit bullshit. Thanks for being part of the problem

jackoneill ,

I pasted that because my inbox kept filling up with obnoxious comments that all needed a similar reply, and I don’t care enough to personalize the message a dozen times for folks that aren’t giving r the same courtesy.

Fuck me for coming here expecting to have an actual conversation. In the beginning you could actually chat on lemmy, it was nice. This thread is just like the toxic Reddit I left.

Last time I try to have a conversation here.

jackoneill ,

Yes sir, liberal gun owner here! Nice to see another in the wild

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