hardware dongles were the worst. god forbid you wanted to run 3ds and lightwave on the same box, sentinel didn’t like other dongles goddamnit

that’s funny af

in personal experience, I’ve seen ungrounded equipment ground itself through people. not a pleasant experience but fortunately no cooked colleagues - but not fun at all.

Additionally, without any ground wire to pull the housings of devices to ground, the potential for a short to energize the case and then electrocute you is also high.

this will also cause resets and instability. have seen it first hand.

also recommend this. it’ll handle the in-design and pdf stuff handily. I cancelled my CC subscription in May, got an offer for two free months, then still cancelled it last week lol. Affinity is running a sale on their suite too, $80ish for all three programs - equivalent to illustrator, photoshop and in-design.

Adobe keeps shooting itself in the face. They had CC figured out about 3 years ago, all they needed to do was keep adding capabilities and keep the cost under $50ish/mo.

Then they started acquiring other companies but making those charges ON TOP of creative cloud, while increasing CC’s monthly cost.

Substance was a great suite, but it’s not worth $1200 a year on top of CC. Bye adobe!

to be fair - core 2 duo computer with 3 gigs of ram - you’re using the desktop I had in 2009. At some point, do you think that it’s time to upgrade? no, wait, I think I had a core 2 quad actually…

One particular model won’t scan on Windows

aaaah multifunction devices are the real satan.

run a mixed network - have never had a single problem with my brother color laser from any device - win10, 11, mac, a bunch of different distros of linux… android and ios phones.

what kind of problems have you had on windows?

none of this - gun safety, sane gun policy - is a political issue. Mr 9mm doesn’t stop to ask your political affiliation before it blows through your cranium.

Do you think 5.56 or .223 give a flying fuck if the rifle shooting them was wielded for political gain?

“ooh boo hoo I think you’re making it political” yeah well get fucked, no matter your affiliation, if you think more dead kids is a political issue. sick.

sigh… go through the thread to the top buddy. I ask how many firearms does it take, you say… sigh, I have better things to do with my day, you know what, just gonna block you now, this isn’t worth my time.

your answer was shit though - add more firearms to the firearms problem is the dumbest fucking take since isolationism in ww2.

it was a shit premise.

posturing, and more about the underlying fundamental reasons.

this is why we fail: you assume it’s posturing. it’s not fucking posturing.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/gun-violence-claimed-lives-5000-people-2024/story?id=107262776

Bzzzt, nope, I am not a republican.

why are you so afraid to address the issue?

so you got nothing to defend your premise but shit talk. loud and clear champ.

well your answer is nutbags if you live in the USA. sorry I had a retort to your uninformed / wildly delusional idea of an even more armed US being desirable. sorry if the points I presented prompted some kind of difficulty in your reasoning chum.

Probably closer to 10:1 or 15:1

yeah that’s gonna help things. https://abcnews.go.com/US/gun-violence-claimed-lives-5000-people-2024/story?id=107262776 sure man.

Probably at least 3

ok so extrapolate the rise in gun violence with YET MORE FIREARMS.

Man, I love the art and science of firearms and learning to use a new system. I thoroughly enjoyed the range while I was in the military and though I wasn’t infantry, took it seriously and appreciated the skill it takes to employ weapons of war to make war on our enemies.

Let’s look at the 2a: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

2a nutbags will tell you none of the first dozen words count. Look at the situation we have today. Help me make ‘more guns are the answer’ make sense man.

Reagan and the NRA were all about gun control when it was Black Panthers.

I just want sane controls preventing nutbags from acquiring arsenals. I’m not anti-gun, I’m a prior service gun loving person who’s watching the idiots ruin it for the rest of us.

it has fuck all to do with " people they don’t like owning guns." it has fucking everything to do with people unqualified and unsafe to own guns being able to obtain guns - whether through gun show loopholes, straw buyers, no yellow/red flag laws, etc.

fuck outa here with liberals getting antsy bullshit. if you weren’t paying attention, there’s a fucking gun violence epidemic going on, every fucking week there’s another mass shooting.

if that’s liberals getting antsy, maybe you should fucking wake up and realize this bullshit only happens here. bellend.

we already have far more guns that people in the US. How many guns does it take to reach the levels you’re talking about? 5 guns per person?