Oof on that Walther lol, go Glock or CZ! But yeah a new mag ain’t the fix for any of those.

Avg civilian encounter is 3s no reloads, but yeah it never hurts to be prepared!

Depends, if we’re in the jungles of vietnam? Sure, suppressive fire, still need to retain ammo yourself though.

In a self defense situation in an American city? Bad idea, you’re responsible for every round that leaves your barrel, if you hit a bystander while wildly winging shots at an attacker you’re fucked and will be going to prison. Unless you’re a cop, it would seem.

“Tap rack bang” (below copied from wikipedia, and I’m just as surprised as you are that they have an article on this.)

Tap, rack, bang (TRB) or tap, rack, and go (TRG) is jargon for the response to a failure to fire in a firearm with a removable magazine.[1] This is designated as an "Immediate Action" and involves no investigation of the cause (due to being under fire in a combat or defensive situation), but is effective for common failures, such as defective or improperly seated ammunition magazines.[2][3]

Tap – to tap the magazine. This is to ensure that the magazine is properly/completely inserted in the firearm so that it feeds properly. As typically taught in tactical firearms courses, the "tap" is applying pressure on the floor plate of the magazine to lock it into place. It does not constitute 'smacking' the magazine, as this can irreversibly damage the magazine's lip.[4]

Rack – pull back sharply and then quickly release the ~~cocking~~ charging handle/slide of the firearm.[5] This will eject a misfired round, which could be a possible cause of the stoppage, and to chamber the next round.

Bang/Go – aiming and firing the firearm again.[5] If the firearm again does not fire or fails to extract the spent round, it may indicate a more serious problem with the firearm, requiring maintenance. For instance, if the firing pin is too lightly striking the primer on a cartridge, it may indicate a worn-out spring or firing pin.
Some failures, such as a "stovepipe", require more complicated maintenance that requires investigation of the underlying problem, or remedial action.[2] With issues such as a squib load or hang fire, the "tap, rack, bang" procedure should not be used.[6][7]

And of course

if the firing pin is too lightly striking the primer on a cartridge, it may indicate a worn-out spring or firing pin. Some failures, such as a “stovepipe”, require more complicated maintenance that requires investigation of the underlying problem, or remedial action.[2] With issues such as a squib load or hang fire, the “tap, rack, bang” procedure should not be used.[6][7]

A second mag wouldn’t fix any of that, either, so adding one wouldn’t be a solution.

Finally if the problem is the mag (feed lips or worn spring), a tactical reload (removing the mag, retaining it, and swapping to a full one) would be the move if you can, or just lose the mag and insert a new one if you can’t.

The real solution to OP’s question though is “train reloads,” before you get into a gun fight. In a situation with high stress you want to have practiced it enough that it becomes muscle memory and you can do it without really thinking about it. You can train it in your bedroom without ammo no less, no excuse not to train reloads. If you’re really bad you can add an aftermarket magwell to many guns that make it easier to reload (at the cost of concealability).

Thanks for the links and the help!

Can you do infinite subaddrs or does that mean my wallet has to change every so often?

And if I’m understanding correctly, if I’m buying ETH or LTC kyc and then exchanging without kyc to XMR at a diff subaddr every time, and then sending it another hop as XMR to myself, I wouldn’t need to worry about varying the subaddrs on that one since those two XMR transactions are already obfuscated with 16² decoys, so I can rotate basically a new shell wallet every so often and keep my main?

Oh that’d (ATM) be perfect! Looking it up it seems the non-kyc exchanges these days (I remember hearing about Kraken back in the day, but) are Best Wallet and GhostSwap? Would you recommend one of those or another one idk about?

As for not reusing the subaddress, do you mean use a brand spanking new subaddr for GhostSwap every single time I exchange and never reuse it, but I can keep my second internal swapper addr and the third one I give to “customers” for transactions static?

Or do you mean use one for the exchange every time and ONLY for that, then swap it to an internal only I know, and have a third on my Mastodon for donations (ok I won’t actually be doing that prob, but I mean the one I send people for transactions) keeping them all consistent but separated?

Thanks for all the help!

Thanks! That link definitely helped a lot! Do you know if it matters what the wallets are named? Say I use my randomized one to exchange the ETH to first and then the second one is ArcaneSlimeXMR that I spend out of, can anyone see that name or is it just the receive address that anyone can see? It’d help me keep it organized instead of having to remember which wallet is which.

It also appears I can send it to another subkey within the same wallet (I think lol) according to the post you linked above, which might be easier.

“Well perfect! Get the new one just so you have a safety net, I’ll istall Linux on the old one and you can play around with it, and when you decide that Linux is actually the best, you can install it on your main machine! If Linux ends up not being for you, I’ll prob buy the old laptop for cheap if you want a few extra bucks.”

But my two kicker 12"s, kenwood head unit, and JL audio speakers are better than the broken tape deck that used to be in my 2002. And it wasn’t that hard to just install myself, bro.

And linux was better on my 2015 Toshiba Satellite with 8gb DDR(was it even 3?) that outright refused to run windows 10 because it was so bloated, because Linux ran. By the time I got to upgrading the PC, why would I have gone back to windows after tasting true freedom?

Can they still not tell the screen’s size if you never fullsize your window? I 'member that advice from back in the day using Tor.

Oh then I must, because I can run those two at least. Still gonna check when I get home though, thanks!

Good to know, thanks!

Huh, neat! Never seen this, how is it?

Wait, I’ve been on fedora for a few years now and never noticed any ffmpeg problems, am I missing something? Maybe I ran the command at install and forgot, but I don’t remember that being one of the things I did on set-up.

I:

A) Try Wine. No? Ok…

B) Hello windows using friend or relative, can I borrow your PC for 30 min? No? Ok…

C) Hey work IT man, so, I know this is dumb but I need to run a program called pkhex. Yeah it’s a hex editor specifically for pokemon hex files. Yeah I can get you anything on your cart. I can get you a legit Mew, even change your OT name from whatever you thought was cool in 1998. Ok so I need admin to download that real fast because I run Fedora, you bring your cart tomorrow and we can do this on lunch.

Typically option B is enough lol.

Whine with your dollars, the companies that make the decision don’t give a fuck about shit else.

First guy on the list:

Matvei Petrovich Bronstein was the son of a doctor and was of Jewish descent…

In August 1937, while he was living in his apartment at 38 Rubinstein Street, St. Petersburg, Bronstein was arrested after having had his legs broken by his captors as part of the Great Purge.

He was convicted by a list trial in February 1938 and, executed the same day in the basement of the Leningrad NKVD prison. The exact reason for his arrest remains unknown, and contrary to some claims, he was not related to Leon Trotsky.

Yeeeeeaaaaah I can see the “nazi” part but it’s the NKVD not the Jewish theoretical physicist.

and every now and then they find another way to fuck half the internet.

Like literally today lol, it has been giving me shit all morning.

Is it Mothman? Cause he’s not evil, he warns people of coming doom but does not make the doom. He’s nice!

Don’t shoot the Mothmessenger!

Too bad Tuta makes it difficult to maintain an email through them by signing you out when not using the app and not allowing IMAP, removing accts for inactivity, flagging you for review when you try to make a replacement, and then telling you to reach out to tuta support using the address that they also won’t let you send/receive mail from yet telling them “why you want this email address” which beyond being patently ridiculous (oh yeah that’ll stop spammers, ask if they’re spammers, great job), of course you cannot even do it because the account can’t send mail.

Been there done that, now on Disroot, if that becomes a problem I’ll move to posteo or mailbox or mailfence I guess. Good on them for blogging and I agree google sucks balls but they’re not exactly a good replacement.

So, I’m gonna be a bit of a contrarian here, but my main advice is to abandon requirements 1 and 3.

As to 2, you’d be looking for an immutable or atomic distro, those are harder to fuck up.

BUT I urge you not to be afraid of the terminal, it isn’t as scary as it looks! Try watching/following along with a couple “linux terminal for beginners” or “bash for beginners” videos on youtube like they’re a class. They’ll teach you the basics you need to be a LOT more comfortable within like an hour, and you’ll be a lot better off for it. I did the same and now a few years in I prefer the terminal for many things and cringe when I have to use the windows GUI at work for something that would take seconds on linux by typing one command that amounts to a sentence. It’s a very powerful and convenient tool and I reccomend not shutting yourself off from it.

No matter the distro, you’re likely not going to fuck it up so bad it can’t be fixed, but do be careful when using sudo in the terminal as that is when it’s more likely. That said, no matter what (even if you stayed on windows), you should keep offsite backups of your most important files, things you couldn’t just redownload again. That way if you do fuck up, you can always just reinstall and replace your files no problem, it’s free! Sure nobody wants to take like an hour to do that, but still nothing gets lost which is the most important part.

As for not requiring a password, no. You want the password checks. Security is important, and what’s more the password checks themselves can act as a “be careful this could fuck your shit up” warning. As annoying as they are, it can be a good thing!

I’m sure you’ll get plenty “try this distro” responses so I’m not even going to go there, but my advice honestly applies to all distros equally.

Tl;dr: Passwords safe, terminal good actually.