Kevlar vests like that will reliably stop most pistol rounds, but rifle rounds will zip through.
ProdigalFrog
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I figured I'd recommend the OG since it's easily available from flathub, and even in maintainence mode, was likely feature complete for most needs. But cheers for mentioning TriliumNext as well, which hopefully will come to flathub as well soon!
I think it's okay to not be a fan of religion in general, as while it's possible to cherry-pick the good bits, almost all religions have a lot of bad bits that are often readily taken up by the uneducated portions of society, such as Christians using the bible to demonize LGBTQ+, evolution, science, etc. That's not to say uneducated people can't be tricked into bigotry or suppression of women's rights using other means, but in my experience, religion makes it much easier for those views to spread and take hold, as well as quell critical thinking in general (since doubting the teachings is oftentimes seen as a sin itself).
The context of the article is mostly about how islamaphobia allows for passivity from other nations as Islamic people are slaughtered in genocide, such as in the case of Gaza. This is a pretty indisputable fact, and one I've seen first hand in my own family, where with one member there was ready sympathy for the people of Ukraine, but very little for the people of Palestine, and quick acceptance of the narratives against the Palestinians (though how much of that was due to Islam vs. just plain old xenophopia of middle eastern cultures or racism is difficult to ascertain).
Personally I think it's possible stand up for human rights everywhere while also not being particularly psyched to see religion of any kind growing its influence. Regardless, it shouldn't stop the help and solidarity you give to people of any religion who are being subjugated to an unjust death machine.
It'd be quite nice if the USPS integrated GNU Taler as its banking system, were that to ever happen.
Ah, it's showing up for me now. Must not of federated out yet when I responded.
Good luck with your new community.
If someone attacks you first, and you slip on the brass knuckles before defending yourself, then surely that would be a defensive use?
Quick heads up, your link needs to start with an exclamation mark ! to have it link to your community.
Otherwise browsers will think it's an email.
You could have the accelerator pedal physically move a variac (variable auto transformer) to directly control the voltage going to the motor.
Alternatively, there is likely a way to directly set the PWM using an analog sensor, instead of interpreting the throttle sensor output through a more complex software stack that could introduce potential errors.
Watching that now, super interesting to see! Thanks for sharing it :D
I noticed an interesting thing about Wing Commander 1 that I've never seen mentioned anywhere.
If you pay close attention to the dialog of characters and their talking animations, you'll notice that all dialog has accurate lip syncing, even though they never made a talkie release of that version (the 3DO version has voice acting, but it's essentially a remake with totally different assets).
I figured a clever programmer synced up certain phonetics with an appropriate animation frame, or someone hand animated all the dialog for a potentially planned but never implemented voice over.