Same way you can go a few miles over the limit and not get a ticket - they aren’t being looked at.

Or maybe they are, and they haven’t crossed a line that makes it a “big bust” that prosecutors like to do in order to bolster their political position.

Or some members are cops.

Lots of illegal things happen every day without being prosecuted, doesn’t make it any more legal though.

As has been the case throughout American history.

Georgetown put together fact sheets if you want the state-by-state:

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/our-work/addressing-political-violence-unlawful-paramilitaries-and-threats-to-democracy/state-fact-sheets/

You’re ignoring the majority of the second amendment, as well as it’s history.

It’s also gone through the Supreme Court and confirmed as constitutional - because private paramilitary organizations are not protected by the 2nd amendment, from Presser v. Illinois in 1886 all the way through DC v. Heller in 2008.

Your understanding of the 2nd Amendment seems to be limited to the single line of “keep and bear arms”, ignoring the remainder of the amendment as well as it’s historical basis as part of a desire to not have a standing army.

I recommend learning more about it.

I figure a certain few got bought a fancy lunch and handed a few gift cards.

I’d say that’s more than you need for Clarence Thomas, you can probably drop the ‘fancy’ along with the gift cards and still get what you want.

I think that will depend on how wealthy, white, straight, and male you are. Mostly in that order, but not always.

A hero that shouldn’t have been. At least not like that.

Do you have Bluetooth on your Linux machine?

I’m thinking you could use blueman-manager with it set as an audio gateway, with audio and calls enabled. Then your Linux PC will act as a headset for your phone.

So as long as it’s nearby you can still use it with your phone.

It’s a receiver, not a blaster.

The recievers are flat and dark, to make attaching to the device receiving signals easier. Flat for the sticky bit to work, dark to block more of the visible spectrum of light.

We had VMware, new office I told them we are shifting to Proxmox. The licensing just wasn’t worth it compared, especially with the features we use as a small enterprise client.

This just confirms the decision was the right one for us too.

I have to wonder how many are out there doing the same and now getting a support license, hopefully a good amount to give the team some revenue to keep things moving well on their end.

Yep. Needs to be tied to profit for the action at a minimum, and should be gross not net. Because net can be manipulated too easily.

But instead it’s just a cost of doing (shitty) business.

And to me, that’s more easily addressed with standardizing the approach. But I’m also logic before code, so more often than not I’m designing regardless of language.

Just different strategies towards the same outcome!

Got it. I’ve got a friend running openhab, decent solution though it couldn’t meet my needs.

To my experience, writing reliable code is more about the coding strategy than anything else, the language used doesn’t even make the list. And I’ve developed with pascal back in the day.

Glad you’ve got a solution that works for you!

Considering what I’ve seen written in various languages from C to html, I don’t judge by a language being used.

What are you using?

Home assistant is glorious…

Yes and yes, regularly serviced. And synced smoke alarms, wired with battery backup.

I’ve even got sprinklers.

I downloaded the archive to do a bit of searching for old friends actually.

Hilariously I ran across one here on lemmy I haven’t seen in… 20ish years? On or offline.

Some were.

You’d be surprised how many were not. I spent an awful lot of time on irc in the 90’s…

Lost my dad a few years ago leading into the holidays.

It sucks. But remembering them is nice. I keep an album of my dad that’s part of the rotation of photos that goes on my TV, and those memories are great.

Now at least. 3 years ago they were rough to see. And I should point out - my dad has ALS and we knew it was coming. Doesn’t make it better when it happens.

I hope your days get better soon. Take it one at a time. You’ll get through this.

If it’s explicitly bike insurance, $100-$300 a year.

If you’re adding onto a homeowners policy it’s usually a lot cheaper.

The attorney for the ACLU said it.