[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I don't see the point you're trying to make here. You sound like you're trying to disprove my point that more velocity won't necessarily equate to overpenetration and "penciling through" with minimal damage but you all you did is explain that overpenetration means unused kinetic energy. Which is usually true depending on the situation but doesn't disprove what I said.

The rest is just unrelated edgy statements. But yeah, downvote me. What the fuck do I know, I've only worked for 15 years in weapons and ballistics.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 43 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

That is simply not true. All you have to do is design your projectile in shape, construction and materials so the kinetic energy gets properly used to have the desired effect on the target.

A tiny 40 grain .204 Ruger bullet with the insane muzzle velocity of 4100 fps will absolutely explode a watermelon if you use a rapidly expanding projectile such as a ballistic tipped varmint round. If you use the same against a reactive steel target that was only rated for rimfire, it will melt a clean hole through it without even noticeably moving it. And if you use it against a bull moose, it will absolutely destroy a large amount of surface tissue but not achieve enough penetration to reach the internal organs for a clean kill.

It isn't a simple problem, the are many different types of dynamics that you can encounter depending on the nature of the projectile, velocity and target.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I just bought a fancy mechanical keyboard from China. When I did my checkout the price went down when I changed my country from USA to Canada.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

Macrodroid has been a favourite of mine for automating things on my phone. This is no longer the case.

It has been silently updated at some point to become a data mining and leaking nightmare. At the time of writing these lines, this app contains 30 trackers from various third party telemetry services according to the latest Exodus report. This is an extremely high number of trackers and there definitely weren’t that many a few years back. Even most junk free mobile games can’t manage to contain this many. It appears that the owner of the app has sold out and turned it into spyware to sell your data to as many companies as possible.

This is particularly worrying considering the level of access and permissions the app requires to function. If you are using the app still, I’m urging you to reconsider.

Spread the word.

Exodus report

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world

Macrodroid has been a favourite of mine for automating things on my phone. This is no longer the case.

It has been silently updated at some point to become a data mining and leaking nightmare. At the time of writing these lines, this app contains 30 trackers from various third party telemetry services according to the latest Exodus report. This is an extremely high number of trackers and there definitely weren't that many a few years back. Even most junk free mobile games can’t manage to contain this many. It appears that the owner of the app has sold out and turned it into spyware to sell your data to as many companies as possible.

This is particularly worrying considering the level of access and permissions the app requires to function. If you are using the app still, I’m urging you to reconsider.

Spread the word.

Exodus report

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

In many RPG games, when you level up, it feels good. You see your stats increase, your damage output and damage resistance go up, all the numbers get bigger. It gives you a sense of accomplishment. But then, you are made to face tougher enemies which completely cancel out the progress you've made. As a player you're locked into a gameplay loop that acts like a treadmill that keeps you struggling all the time while providing an illusion of progress.

Inflation and "pay raises" are doing exactly the same thing. When you get a pay raise, you feel like you've progressed because you make more money than you used to when you first started. But if you take inflation into account, you've never really progressed at all. For most, their struggle only got even harder even.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world

I have an old Laptop (MSI MS1721) that I want to repurpose as a media player on my TV. I have installed an old SSD on with Linux Mint XFCE.

Almost everything works well, with only one exception. The laptop's graphics card (ATI HD3850) requires proprietary drivers that haven't been supported since Kernel 3.4. The replacement open-source drivers cause stuttering while playing videos, which makes it useless for my purposes.

Are there Linux distribution options out there that would fit my needs?

Edit After trying a wide array of distros including Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Lite, Linux MX, Bohdi, Linux Mint Debian Edition, Nobara, Debian XFCE and CachyOS, I was pleasantly surprised to see that CachyOS performed very well and still feels like a modern OS and runs surprisingly smoothly with KDE. It looks like the open source drivers do work decently after all depending on the distro you're running and how well optimized they are for your CPU.

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submitted 4 months ago by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world
[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 246 points 5 months ago

He fired the whole bullet. That's 30 percent more bullet per bullet!

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 295 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is standard procedure for him. Something gives him an idea, he assumes that it is pure genius and he immediately runs with it without even thinking it through or at least educating himself on the subject first to see if it is actually a good idea or not.

This is him just moments before he famously suggested on a national press conference that shining UV light or injecting disinfectant into people's bodies could be a treatment to COVID:

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

What if Trump was really into this kind of stuff and everything he has been doing is a secret genius plan to make sure people will pee on his grave for decades, if not centuries to come?

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 245 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That reminds me of back when I was in high school. The IT guy was a big gamer and had installed RainbowSix on all the machines in the computer lab so we could play against each other during lunch time including himself.

One stuck up, self-righteous teacher heard about the game and tried to have the IT guy delete it from all the computers because they were "violent games that had no business being in school". He refused and the school's administration seemed to have his back on it. So during a computer class she instructed the entire class to delete the game folder from their computer and empty the recycle bin and then leave the file explorer open so she could walk around and see that it has been done.

While everyone else were deleting theirs I copied the game folder on my machine elsewhere, then deleted the original to show her that it wasn't there anymore. After she was gone I moved the folder back where it belonged and shared it on the network so everyone else could copy it back into their computer. The following lunch break it took less than 5 minutes to get the game back on everyone's computer and we kept playing like nothing happened. Get fucked, hag.

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submitted 9 months ago by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world

Explaining in good detail why people should care about how modern cars have become a privacy nightmare. From Regular Car Reviews.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world

The next logical step of the current GPU development

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 250 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They removed the star system a long time ago. They removed the down votes again a few years back.

They want their algorithm to be the only thing that decides whether you watch a video or not.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 502 points 1 year ago

No shit. Now do Amazon, apple, meta, Microsoft, Disney and all the food conglomerates. Then it will have been a good start.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 257 points 1 year ago

He can't stop talking about Biden even though he's not his opponent anymore.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 245 points 1 year ago

Make it so felons cannot run for president and resign immediately after.

If he did that Biden would be remembered as one of the greatest presidents ever.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 338 points 1 year ago

Actually strong people don't need to belittle others around them to feel stronger.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 236 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've seen this movie before. They will make it enabled by default and make it difficult to disable. Then a few years later someone will figure out that this data that was supposed to be "private and encrypted" was being sent out to Microsoft, who will get a slap on the wrist, half assedly apologize and immediately move on to even more anti consumer ways to squeeze more income out of its users for "growth".

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