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I have heard my fair share of tall tales of how someone went up for their military service and they got noticed as a good shooter and got sent or at least invited to join the marksman course.

My question

But what I would like to know is if someone, let's say in their late twenties to mid thirties was to be forced by some event of their life to pick up shooting as a means of survival, like hunting, would it be possible for that person to become a better than average shooter, admiting they had the time and resources to practice.

I am aware some individuals may have knack for some activity or skill or something alike it but shooting, in my understanding, is more about early introduction and constant practice than just inate skill.

Some clarification first.

I once read an article on a tattooing technique that supposedly kept the actual tattoo invisible unless the person gets flustered or the skin reddens.

From that, it was argued it made possible for people to get tattoos with very intimate placing and allure, as the patterns would only be visible under very specific conditions.

The article stated a specific pigment was used.

So... myth or truth?

Browsing for some hardware to assemble a new system, nn AMD MSI motherboard caught my attention.

Checking the motherboard compatibility list got me really miffed, as updating BIOS is apparently impossible if not on Window$ and all supported CPUs with integrated graphics require later updates.

MSI was the first brand where I ran Linux, on a Megabook. It installed smoothly, ran flawlessly and even improved battery life and hardware output above what the competition achieved.

Looks like those times are past.

I see a worrisome tendency to "diagnose" anything in this space as symptoms of any mental or psychological ailment.

Self diagnose is dangerous, diagnosing others is even more dangerous.

I do not doubt many are well intended but someone can be aloof, forgetful, be tired, messy or lazy without that implying one suffers from some undiagnosed issue.

My country has had a civil war, invasions by the french, by the spanish, more recently a revolution that threw a fascist government, followed by a very colourful period of internal squirmishes between anti-regime forces, but we settled those events and that was that: off to the history books.

What motivates so many people to re-enact battles from the American Civil War?

It sounds cruel. Re-enacting a war where so many died gruesome deaths.

Watching a documentary, there was aremark from the journalist on how, due to how wildly taxation on goods may vary, from area to area, in the US, most retailers do not put the full prices on the shelves and instead just tally it at checkout.

This made no sense to me, a european, as when I go to any regular shop, prices already include all taxes applicable to the product.

There are specialty stores where VAT and other taxes may not be applied on the price on the shelf but those are usually wholesellers, selling for professionals, that already know what additional taxes will be added and at which rates, at checkout.

Not having the full price you'll be paying, on display, seems very underhanded and a bad practice. The client should know how much they are going to pay from the moment they pick an item.

Thumbing through the feed, the news on how this or that organization letting go of commercial options for day to day operations are mounting.

This led me to wonder what would be the impact if FOSS, be it on the OS front, productivity front or whatever, was to become truly a relevant option.

I'm painfully aware of the difficulties I've faced trying to take a few online courses to be faced with borderline desdain for not using Windows/Office/Etc and opting for FOSS solutions.

Paying/supporting a FOSS solution does not offend me. I'm happier when giving money directly to a developer or project than to an opaque company. But I'm just one.

But what could happen if the ones became millions, actively contributing with a few coins per year to projects we use daily?

What could/would happen in the short term (under a year), medium-long (one to three years) and the long term (over ten years)?

I have a GigaByte AB350M-DASH motherboard.

This motherboard has a M2_WIFI socket, M keyed, if I correctly understood what I've been reading on it.

I have already bought a standard PCI card, as buying an M2 card would end being more expensive, but would an E keyed card work on this motherboard too?

I was looking at an AX200 card, and it keyed as such.

Looking at my own digital dependency and comparing it to people I know, although being personally more of a tech geek than most, I find my dependency of technology lower.

Hardware wise, I tend to run everything I buy until it is rendered completely unuseable or it breaks down. This obviously ties with my preference towards FOSS but I think it is more of a tangent.

Services wise, I am a complete outlier. I never subscribed to a streaming service, I was quick to leave mainstream social media behind, I never boarded fads around wearables. Most applications that inhabit my acquaintances smartphones don't find a way to mine (Whatsapp, Amazon, Aliexpress, Uber, UberEats, etc).

This is the most extreme part of my behaviour but I have refused services that do not have a means of contact/interaction besides an application.

And I do not feel inconvinienced in my day to day life by this.

I'm feeling out of touch with how the world, society or whatever is trying to function.

I wanted a cake some time ago. Just a little something to celebrate a special moment. So I decided to stop at a local bakery that makes cakes on order.

Now let me underline the following: I wanted a cake. Something sweet to share.

However...

Once I say what I wanted, they call the "cake designer" to come sit with me to go over the details of the cake.

I wanted a plain old cake, rectangular in shape, light fluffy sponge, double layered, with strawberry jam filling, with vanilla scented cream cover and a single word on it, written in dark chocolate.

I could see the disdain mountain on the "cake designers" eyes as I described what I wanted. Followed by their soul leaving their body as I refused every single alternative or change to what I wanted.

Order settled, I asked to pay in advance, against an invoice. Some hesitation but it did happen.

Then, as I was about to leave, I was asked to add the bakery in Instagram, to which I asked why. It was for them to tag me in the photo of the cake, so I was alerted it was ready for delivery. But I don't have Instagram. Nor FB. Nor Whatsapp.

I literally live 50 meters away from the store. I said I could just stop by the next day and pick up the cake. It was like explaining an alien concept.

I'm going insane. It has to be that.

The cake was fine. But I won't risk going there again.

I'm in need of a CAD program with an easy aproach for someone with zero experience on this type of software.

3D printing is not a concern

I intend to draw the blueprints for my house. The building is old, no blueprints exist for it, and I intend to make renovations to it, so having blueprints to work on to plan the renovations will be a huge help.

A long time ago, when I was more invested into TTRPGs, I grew increasingly frustrated with the system of only distributing advancement/experience points at the end of a session.

This always made me think that certain challenges could be better dealt with if the players could access/develop abilities as the game progressed in real time.

At some point, I started to divise a play system that relied on a split experience atribution system, with players being able to automatically rack experience points from directly using their skills/habilties, while the DM would keep a tally of points from goals/missions achieved, distributable at session end.

A practical example: a burglar would have the lockpick skill. The skill would be tiered, with each tier having 100 points to max it out, and the higher the tier, the less experience would be given by making use of the skill, as the skill would be further and further refined and new breakthroughs in its understanding become harder to achieve. But DM attributed XP could either be spent towards maxing out the skill faster or gain a new or linked one, like disarming booby traps.

I drifted away from TTRPG and simply let my idea sit in a drawer in a notebook. Today I found my notes again as I was rummaging through the junk and the it brought some nostalgia.

To those with more experience in TTRPGs: would this be feaseable? Or enticing? Interesting?