8mo ago

least paranoid arch user

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Well, it's Mental Outlaw. He's a contender for one of the most paranoid tech YouTubers out there.
- But its great that people like this exist imo. The average person might not need it but if someone does actually have a real reason for this level of security then its nice to have sources or at least entrypoints into the topic.
- Yeah I like his videos though
  
  he has good linux videos, he seemed kinda right wing tho
- If you are paranoid it doesn't mean you are not spied on.
  
  That's true. But paranoid people often mistake how much of a shit others give about being spied upon
- "Tech youtuber"? this guy just regurgitates whatever is already trending and then adds in his own right wing idiocracy. He's "tech's" reaction video guy.
  
  A person who uploads videos discussing technology to YouTube is a tech YouTuber, notwithstanding the originality of those videos.

"Check out my gun! By the way I use Arch."
- Wait, is that a real gun? That looked like a toy to my non-American eyes
  
  That’s just a sand colored SIG, very real gun.
  Edit: Accidentally thought it was a Glock at first, my bad.
  
  If you were an American cop, you would've unloaded over a 100 rounds on this guy's back.
  
  That looked like a toy to my non-American eyes
  And that's why they ban guns.
  
  What about it makes it look like a toy?
  
  Yes, that's a gun. Maybe its time for you to brush up on guns.
- Core 2 Duo
  wow

This reminds me of that copy pasta about having an old printer and a gun in case it does something unexpected; can't remember the exact words though.
- sorry for low resolution image

Tell me you're American without telling me you're American
- I mean it's MentalOutlaw
  
  Oh I remember that guy, I watched like 2 videos and then removed them from my watch history hoping that YouTube wouldn’t recommend him again lol

I wish he didn't ramble as much as he does. Most of his videos could be a quarter of the length.
- He's kind of like that crazy prepper/survivalist uncle who lives in the ass end of nowhere, has a homemade fallout shelter stocked to the ceiling with canned chicken and peach, sleeps with a combat knife under his pillow, and rants about the government and agencies whenever he gets the chance. The family still keeps him around because he sometimes does something useful.
  Luke Smith, on the other hand, is already out in the desert building a shrine to Old Man Atom.
  
  Luke Smith would be the second least paranoid Arch user

There is no software solution that protects from a crowbar, you have to go to the hardware side.
- Intellect is undoubtably a good thing,
  But a lot of things are solved with your solid body
  https://youtu.be/81T4uI0k7p4
  
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  That quote goes hard for no reason

Average Mental Outlaw video

Mental Outlaw is a Gentoo user, BTW
- Chad
- That explains why he is still compiling

Security
- this is why I always laugh when people use biometrics. best case scenario, they use whatever it's locked behind with you under duress. Worst case? they take whatever.
  
  "I laugh at people who use security that is possible -- unlikely -- but possible, to defeat"
  -Internet Chode #577645086
  
  I dont get it. In that cenario, using Biometrics is not less secure as that wrench would convince you of telling the password.
  Btw biometrics dont work on first boot on android, or after you used the wrong finger a few times on GrapheneOS. They will also implement a duress long-powerbutton-press feature in some future, to reboot the phone.
  
  The random person the receptionist let into the main office is not likely to chop my finger off to access my phone or computer. I don't use biometrics because I don't want Samsung and Microsoft having my fingerprints for their eventual reconstruction of humanity into Tleilaxu gholas in service to the shareholders.
- Lol, he used this comic in the video as an example of what to do against a Wrench Attack (CVE-1800-4096), to shoot them before they beat you with the wrench.

Protecting your self is important not to mention shooting guns is fun.
- Lol for protection you should have like... public healthcare and stuff
  
  Also true
  
  "Hello Mr. Deadly Attacker, you're going to kill me with that knife? Well watch out because I'm going to defend myself with this universal healthcare!"
  Stab stab
  "Oh no! It seems that concepts, lacking physical properties of any kind, are inadequate defenses against a knife which contains actual matter! At least my family won't be charged by the coroner if that counts as 'healthcare,' so that works out I guess!"
- Did you consider using condoms, instead of shooting it?
- Shooting guns is meh. I still prefer shooting just airsoft guns
  
  I like both, airsoft does happen to be a whole lot cheaper though

not enough guns, needs a rifle and a shotgun at least.
- Not just bikes, but with a twist
  
  "How intensive gun usage solved my commute problems!"

That is the most cartoony/toy looking handgun I've seen in a good while
- don't let the US military know that you don't like desert camos. they'll get real mad
- Just because of the color?
  It's real enough
- That's the M-18

hey uh, open source guns when?
- we already have them. It's not hard to make a firearm, and the 3d printed weapons scene has taken off quite well. all of the good ones still need metal parts ofc, but they are pretty easy to get your hands on in many cases.
  
  You can watch videos of people shooting them, many seem to work quite well.
  
  ok but i still want my GNU approved gun. Give me my GNU gun goddamnit!
  
  It's not hard to make a firearm, but it's pretty hard to make a good one. I could maybe make something about ten times worse than that thing that one Aussie kid made during WWI in his garage.
  
  Are the metal parts gun specific or multipurpose?
- now.

arch security
the decades long joke still keeps paying dividends. well done to trolls that kick-started the whole thing.

Kenny is based

Hell yeah he’s the least. What is that, a 7 round mag? What a joke.
- Sig p320, looks to be the M17/M18 version with a manual safety, not the extended 21rnd mag though, probably the 17rnd mag; unless CA, NJ, CT, IL, NY, MA, WA, (fuck I know I'm missing one or two), who restrict their citizens to 10rnds arbitrarily. That's a double stack 9mm magazine, def more than 7rnds.
  In theory it could be a .40sw, but afaik they don't make them in that caliber and you'd need at least to rebarrel it if not need a new slide too, and new mags and such ofc. That isn't impossible, because they do make those parts for the regular p320, but afaik they only make the 9mm version of the slide with the manual safety, more likely that it is stock.
  You're right though, the more rnds the better, but also concealability is a factor. Tbh, we don't know if he has an AR with 100 surefire 60s stacked up right off camera, either, but we know that wouldn't fit in his pants lol.
  
  Looks like the [320-M18] model, which comes with a [15] round flush magazine. But mechanically it can take a longer magazine and we can't see the bottom of it in the picture.
  
  Found the American
- I believe that the gun he has is the sig Sauer p320 m18 or m17 which both have either 17 or 21 round magazines.
  
  You guys are seeing something I’m not. Both that barrel length and the mag look way smaller to be what you guys are claiming. I’ve got a FN 509 that’s close what you guys are describing and it’s much bigger than that (although the angle of the pic could just be messing with my eyes)
  
  Looks like the [320-M18] model, which comes default with a [15] round flush magazine. Then again we can't see the bottom in the picture and nothing is stopping him from putting an extended magazine in.

Oh shit someone turned the widowmaker into a pistol, we all fucked bois!

Where's the rocket launcher? Rockie thumbnail

Sig
Security
Day of the negative 30 degree drop angle soon.

Coward is the word you're looking for, not paranoid
- Huh?
  
  Gun owners/cowards. Same thing. Look it up in the thesaurus
- “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary” —-Karl Marx
  
  Citing some random dead person, wow
  
  Ha ha I see how your worker's rights ended up even with guns, you fucking coward 😂
- I know you're just trolling or whatever, but I'd love to have some reasonable answer to what a non-cowardly response is supposed to be if there is some armed person trying to hurt me or my family. The police response time where I live is 30-45 minutes. I don't want to shoot someone, I hope I never have to, but if it's either me or them? Well that's what makes having guns practical.
- not coward but maybe having a victim complex

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