Fair enough

Something about stabbings and kidnappings was mentioned earlier? Guns aren’t only to protect against guns, in fact the only time I’ve ever had to “use” a gun for self defense it was because a guy pulled a knife on me. “Use” because I only had to show it, not shoot it, thankfully.

But they can come in handy, even for us lesser people, the poors, even though I don’t make meth, it’s all made in the surrounding rural towns and trafficked here.

Well, since you can’t get rid of them, and since “guns for everybody all the time” is a strawman that actually means “guns for people who haven’t proved themselves to be a danger to themselves or others yet,” I’m gonna say I prefer the “innocent until proven guilty” model.

That still isn’t “everybody,” all felonies, DV misdemeanors, adjudicated IVCs, children, and drug addicts (admittedly self reported on that one, but still), all bar you from gun ownership even in the land of 600,000,000 guns (not an exaggeration). Actually I even think for nonviolent felons there should be a path back to gun ownership and voting (they also lose that right, as fucked up as it is), and some violent misdemeanors should be added to the list (something like simple assault can be the result of just a fight, but robbery or aggravated battery otoh should probably be on there even in places where it isn’t a felony, and it should probably just be a felony in those places too but what can ya do.)

And yes, criminals gonna criminal, but I’d prefer that if they can just get them anyway, so can I. If even in Aus the criminals can still get them, then the US has no hope that we can stop it either. You’re an island with 90% unusable territory that only has to control the ports and you still have smugglers, we can’t even control our ports either much less the two big ass land borders and we never will, we will always have smugglers.

So only the good people can’t get them but the bad people still can? Poor people can’t protect themselves but rich people can because of course they’re better than us? Sounds like a good plan I guess.

But I was led to believe that was impossible, that if you make them illegal nobody but the police (who we all trust, right?) will have them.

I don’t think Meshtastic would work for that with a 200char limit.

Usenet and torrents otoh, already can’t stop that. Not to mention lying is still a thing. I’m 136 years old so I should know.

Wait, so instead of me telling every website I’m 90, I’ll tell my OS I’m 90 and the sites will query that, and this somehow works better? I’m not 90 btw, so all I’m doing is just changing who I’m lying to from zyn.com to Fedora? Great plan.

Drive by shootings? In Australia?! How is that possible, didn’t you guys ban guns 30yr ago?

“No, I have 3 4tb drives and 5 1tb drives. I mean I do have 15 sticks around but most of those have a linux distro on them and the others are for general use.”

Or do, what are they gonna do about it if I don’t really live there? Fuck 'em.

Doesn’t that depend on google play services? If so, “probably not, but then again it works currently if you install play services on a separate user profile (or on your main, defeating the purpose of grapheneOS to begin with but more power to you).”

Tell google/banks to stop requiring the spyware, they won’t but at least it’s better then telling the secure OS to install just a little spyware just so you don’t need to carry a wallet.

I started with Fedora myself and moved to FedoraKDE, also good.

including a rocket launcher, grenades and mortar rounds

Ok so none of those are legal for civilians in the US to own. Either they were stolen by a military guy with the ability to pull that off, or they were sold like Operation Fast and Furious or the other ATF gunwalking scandals, or corrupt Mexican military officials as previously has happened, or from Asia as previous reports have mentioned specifically South Korean manufactured grenades. Or some Iran Contra ass shit is going on, which IMO is most likely.

ARs, sure. AKs, sure. The sole Barrett mentioned, absolutely. But grenades and shit aren’t “because 'merica gun laws permissive.” But then again those guns are bought by people who on paper have the right to buy them, citizens without a record yadda yadda, they just illegally sell them to the cartel (straw purchasers) and haven’t been caught by ATF because ATF is too busy giving problems to regular civilians and FFLs. The ATF should get to fucking work on that tbh. 'Nother problem though is you know all that would happen is racial profiling people of Mexican descent making it harder for them to buy guns, not actual police work that’s too hard.

A system of organization would be invented. Idk maybe a wooden stepped board with USB sized holes that you store/display your collection in, just to use the first idea I pull directly from ass. Actually make it silicone for the grippy, already improving it, then sell the wood as a fancier looking one, and inlay a few with idk brass or something for a “pro” version, boom, marketing.

Don’t worry, I have my NCR Rangin’ permit!

This edit as a response is just unreasonably funny. Hands free and everything, perfection.

Tbh I don’t even mind cameras that much if they were entirely controlled by the individuals themselves. I have a much bigger issue with it when you’re streaming my facial recognition data to Evil Megacorp 2™ servers that also feed directly to the “Not Spying… Again” agency, though.

How do you customize it yourself? Every time I try to find info online I just find “use themes,” but I’m not looking for whole themes, I want to kinda sorta slowly theme it myself like “oh I want this to be that color” and stuff, I just don’t know what .conf files or whatever I need to edit.

Counterpoint: I’m fuckin’ chillin dude.

“Because like 10hr of that is background usage while we harvest your data.”

Woah, just now learning of this legendary third Olsen sister. She uhh… she goddamn cute. The twins always kinda creeped me out, this was an unforseen twist.