But I’m not allowed to add caffeine powder to my yogurt anymore because one idiot died 🙄

Won’t someone think of BYU’s endowment!!

Ok so hide it behind a mature content wall. Oh wait it already is.

Ok don’t watch it then

Twitch users: how dare you force me to watch thirst trap content. I am completely in control of myself.

By the time you get your gas chainsaw started in spring, I’ll be six trees ahead of you.

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They are fine for anything which doesn’t require precision. I have a Ryobi bench sander and it’s a complete waste of time. Same with the chop saw I unused to have. It was basically impossible to get flush miters from it no matter how much you adjusted it - the tolerances were just too low. My DeWalt table saw and Chop saw don’t have the same issues. They cut sub-mm precision on day one and still do years later. The table saw in particular is technically a worksite saw, buy you can use it to build cabinets with the right blade.

Is this canonical?

Ryobi is a distant fourth tbh. It’s basically harbor freight tools but, Home depot.

There are many ways of seeing if a host is running a VPN, and then sniffing out VPN handshakes. China does an automated scan of basically every unfamiliar host on the internet when someone inside China connects to it, specifically to check for VPNs and the like.

It is possible to set up tunnels which are difficult to detect by using pre-shared secrets and obfuscated transport, but right now this is uncommon and takes significant effort and still isn’t legally or technologically bulletproof.

Remember, my doomsday scenario here is that a Republican gets elected president and can leverage the NSA to assist states in “enforcing their laws.”

So normal radar is like a lightbulb. You can tell where it is from any direction. The right kind of AESA is like a laser. You have to more or less be right in the path to detect it, and you have to detect it to locate it.

They will see you connecting to the VPN and use it as an excuse to seize your computer if they want to. It likely won’t be a thing they do to everyone. Just like in China, that will enforce the laws primarily against people who don’t toe the party line.

The purpose is not to ban porn. They don’t actually care about that morality. The purpose is to create a framework to suppress dissent.

For some radar. This is actually the biggest gap between western capabilities and Russian - Russia does not make proper digital AESAs, which are very critical for LPD operation. If you only transmit in scanning pencil beams, it is extremely difficult to locate you.

Voting red, not voting, or voting third party.

They don’t need to make VPNs illegal. They will just force liability onto these VPNs if they don’t abide by the state laws. And then they will pass laws saying you have liability if you use offshore VPNs. So you can’t go to red states, and if a Republican ever controls the executive branch, you might legitimately be extradited to states where you’ve broken these laws.

You know how they are doing this trans treatment shit with Seattle? This is the framework they will expand to everything else. They will do abortions next, subpoenaing hospital record to prosecute state crimes. If that works, they will do the same for VPNs. Before you know it, Texas’s insanity will cross state borders, and the feds will enforce it if a Republican ever gets the white house again.

This shit is as serious as nuclear war. Vote Blue. Donate Blue. Act Blue. Or this will happen.

VPNs will be their next target. This isn’t an accident. They are setting up the framework for China like internet censorship laws, but they are going to take this way fucking farther than China ever has. They are building a system for state laws to establish interstate autocracy on the foundation of abortion and trans panic.

But I bet you think it is fascist to pass laws which stop kids from getting shot at school?

At least with labview there’s all sorts of NI proprietary shit which makes instrumenting labview equipment slightly less torturous. Matlab is literally just expensive Python inside the world’s worst GUI and one indexing so it’s annoying to port algorithms out of it