Daily Logs of a Practicing Tech-Priest

[kitto-paint]

zoom-in pictures of all the ladies

[datamodel-of-disaster]

One of my friends got me an Admech censer 😭

[attilathehuntsman]

So, I'm slowly dipping my toes into Warhammer lore to see what the fuss is about, and I just read about the Cult Mechanicus on the wiki and...I think it and the Church of the Broken God are compatible religious systems?

Like, I'm not trying to start anything, but just call the Machine God Mekhane or Wan and recognize that Machine Spirits are practically already part of especially Maxwellianist doctrine (and the Motive Force is close to that as well)...

And that the Omnissiah is not the Emperor of Mankind but instead Mekhane's broken avatar and she needs your help rebuilding it. In the meantime, let's all continue to put off our flesh in favor of metal closer to the perfect forms of divinity, and join in the Quest for Knowledge to better comprehend the grand structure of the universe.

Okay, well, I guess I'm just pitching a new schism on both sides, but come on guys. These will syncretize so well let's just plug them into each other.

[maggotknight]

He came to me in a dream-- begging to be made manifest.

[kuroitsukyo]

It occured to me that... my toaster is red. Consequently:

[kitto-paint]

Happy USA explosion day

[jabberding0]

A Crane assembling another crane

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[theoutcastrogue]

You can dowbload an old version of utorrent (2.2.1 is the last good one iirc), before they added bloatware and spyware and nonsense. It works perfectly and is more lightweight / universally compatible than most programmes. Though you may need a torrent client to download it.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I'd try one now, if it comes in pink.

[tiny-toys-are-better-toys]

Corrupted Guard Raticus, part of the Corrupted Guard line by Stationforge. Check out their STLs here. https://www.myminifactory.com/users/StationForge

Spiky evil ratmen! Just perfect for your chaos army, or maybe some real techy stormvermin! I love the one who's helmet covers their eyes as they brandish a massive spiky club. He is all manner of accident's waiting to happen.

Back on my Lost and the Damned propaganda. You could totally run these units as a Traitor Guardsmen Squad. They'd look great in black, red, and brass. Hell, if you run with Red and Black, they would work as traitor Guardsmen and soldiery of Clan Mors simultaneously. I mean, assuming Clan Mors is still a thing.

Geek Villain retails the models at 34 USD for all ten. This is a Stationforge sculpt though, so many other retailers are available!

[peterturbosfavorite]

The Toaster touchers are at it again!

[beardedmrbean]

they used to let kids have real fun

[probablysomethingtm]

Type shit

[hanon-akulai]

Drawing AdMech is hard but actually really fun, so here are Seth's twin Mechanicus associates, Vladimus and Lavínia. ( ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈) Also trying some different brushes and stuff.

[charlesoberonn]

Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

but only once.

[bfleuter]

"We 'ave killa kans at 'ome."

Scratch-bashed minis for the warhams.

[skulandcrossbones]

[allyourfearsarecomingtrue]

Note how she states that it was more difficult to get permits to do this shit than actually coordinate the drones.

Companies will want to do more of this, but environmental/wildlife laws make it difficult. So, they'll lobby to weaken them. Be vigilant. This woman accidentally said the quiet part loud. They won't let that happen again - this is our only warning

[acekoral]

Also tire iron is effective

[trickstertime]

A tire iron is ineffective.

Look, if someone was very irresponsible they'd look up drone parts and buy a set of 2.4GHz and 5GHz directional antennas (yagi or, not patch) and then get a set of 2.4GHz and 5Ghz noise generators (illigal almost everywhere) or look up how to make them (weirdly easy to do apparently) and then they would wait for the display to start and turn on their contraption with the antennas point towards the display. Because the drones would be communicated to from the main computer on either 2.4GHz or 5Ghz, a contraption like this would cause anything from a section, to all, of the drones losing communication and automatically landing. The fact that they waited until the display was in progress means that all that set up time would have been waisted so the rest of the show can't go ahead and they'll have to spend a few days checking everyone over.

Don't do this. it's very illigal to make a jamming device. Even though you'd be using a long range antenna so youd be safely far away and almost totally undetectable even to people beside you, especially if you hid it in a bag or small box. It's very illigal. Don't.

[practicingtechpriest]

So fun fact microwave transformers are incredibly dangerous and run at 2.4GHz