This is happened twice now. What an utterly stupid country.
Twice recently.
The other time was not the first time
Anything that happens or is done more than once is tradition.
But was the GPU OK? That’s gold right there.
They shot his ram… In this economy? Fuck man
I’d rather need new ram than a new rib, lung, kidney etc
Why how much is a new kidney?
About 30 rams
I would hope 30 rams have about 60 kidneys between them.
They’re gonna have to sure that idiot neighbor for the $10,000 that RAM costs.
Well yea, the motherboard clearly says “military grade”
Where I live, anyone who owns a firearm is required to keep it in a locked gun safe when not in use, and there are strict rules around transporting a firearm as well.
They cannot be left unattended in a vehicle, and they absolutely cannot, under any circumstances, be left loaded.
The fact that Americans have loaded firearms just kicking around in their house is utterly insane.
But it was in use. By the dog.
Where I live, walls are not made of cardboard and would prbably have stopped (at least) anything up to and including a 5.56 mm round.
Are you suggesting the dog couldn’t have accessed the gun in the safe and shot through the wall? Why would you assume a gun owner is capable of being irresponsible? You must be that fake news I hear so much about.
All my guns are unloaded and in a safe, and my ammo is in a separate safe. Some people are complete idiots though and in a country with such liberal gun policies, this is the result. I am all for sensible gun control, and I hope this dumbass never gets their hands on another one, but knowing this country she still won’t fail a background check.
We used to keep the bolts from our guns in a completely seperate second safe. Living in the USA seems harrowing
I mean, not especially as far as guns go. It’s not like gun violence/negligence impacts my life constantly. The only reason I even own any guns beyond a few heirlooms is because of the rise of fascism and the fact that most gun nuts are right there with them. In my opinion and experience, there are larger issues with the US that feed gun violence and suicides, like the lack of social safety nets, public transit, rugged individualism, and the lack of representation in government. I’m not defending the absurd amount of guns in this country, and if there ever is a thoughtful approach to reducing the amount of guns in personal possession, I am all for it. I enjoy target practice, mostly with a 22 rifle, and would be perfectly fine with visiting a properly regulated range to rent a rifle and plink some targets.
Anyone who is picking up their pitch forks at the offender needs to read this thread first. Before you unload your rage, consider taking what the victim did as a learning opportunity.
It was 3:30am in the morning when the shot happened. The neighbor who discharged the firearms rushed downstairs to check on the woman who’s PC was shot, thankfully finding that she was not hurt. She was distraught, frantic, and told the PC owner that she will never own a firearm again and pay for all damages. They talked, and the PC owner learned that her daughter just passed away. A police report was still filed, but the PC owner isn’t pressing charges. They’re getting margaritas later together.
Let me be clear that this absolutely does not excuse what this woman did. However, what the PC owner did likely saved her neighbor’s life. You see, at 3:30am in morning, there is only typically one thing people would do with a fire arm, to themselves.
Anyone would be in their right to be angry at this woman after what she did. But the PC owner extended her compassion and became this woman’s friend at a time when she had every reason not to.
What the headline could have been was ‘woman commits suicide after negligent discharge’, but it was not. Imagine if the PC owner was the last person who spoke to her in anger, and imagine if she had to live with that for the rest of their life knowing that she could have done something about it.
A fucking learning experience?
She’s lucky she didn’t murder someone.
I’m trying to work out exactly how this is supposed to have happened. If the bullet was shot through the floor above then there’s no path the bullet could have taken that would intersect the PC before it would hit somebody sleeping in a bed, unless the computer is in some way suspended above the bed, which not only doesn’t really sound realistic, you can also see from the photo that it clearly is on the floor.
In order to be able to hit a PC on the floor, it would have to be horizontal through a wall.
Also the word neighbour would almost always be used to refer to someone next door.
This sounds super sus. I couldn’t find the comment where OP said the neighbor was upstairs, but the damage in the photos, to me, looks like the bullet came from the side. And it doesn’t jive with OPs comment in the in the original post.
The police said that the PC changed the trajectory of the bullet, and it would have hit me while I was sleeping if the PC hadn’t been there.
If the shot came from upstairs, where would the PC case need to be to change the trajectory to keep it from hitting you in bed? Hypothetically it could be possible, but those are some weird ass angles to make that work. Unlikely.
With the photo of the bullet mostly intact (I would expect it to be more deformed than that), that was supposedly found underneath the OPs pillow?? That they were supposedly dead asleep on? I don’t think this actually happened. This is a work of fiction.
The amount of people here who seem to think the dog actually shot the gun is insane.
I don’t think anyone thinks the dog actually shot the gun. She was clearly weaving it around for some reason and accidentally pulled the trigger.
Even if the gun was loaded, and it had an incredibly light hair trigger (I don’t think the actual type of gun is ever mentioned) I can’t imagine a dog picking the gun up in its mouth would trigger it.
It’s verifiably happened enough other times to be plausible herw.
Shot through the RAM and you’re to blame Darling…
All those dog open-carry advocates got some splainin’ to do now.
Alpha energy.
Seriously though, jfc, please stop heaping your insecurities on your four-legged friend. They were wolves once, and this makes them contemplate where their ancestors went wrong teaming up with the rock-chucking apes.
… the much more pleasant problem of shopping for a replacement PC with a $3,500 budget.
Uhhhh how much PC does that get a person these days? 2 Gigs of ddr3 ram?
I feel like that’s not a valid thing to say. “My dog shot the gun”.
I’m sure it won’t hold up in court, but it also doesn’t hold up anywhere else. Don’t keep your guns loaded with the safety off where they are accessible.
You might as well just shoot your family and neighbors yourself if you’re doing that shit.
America is fucking broken when it comes to guns. Like I get that they are emotional support toys for some people, but keeping it locked and loaded is absolute idiocy that way too many people defend.
This person obviously relied heavily on the “my dog ate my homework” excuse to get them through school and thought it might work here too.
Well, to be fair, it was ChatGPT that told the dog it was ok to shoot.
Might as well add another layer of unaccountability.
Nooo, not the RAM! You know how expensive that is today? Should have just shot me, would be cheaper.
RIP, random battlestation, you served the prime directive:
For a gamer to game, they must actually be alive, above all else.
o7
May Theseus grant you new life.
May Theseus grant you new life.
Well said.
Oh my. I never thought of it that way. Decades of random component upgrades. New ram here. Upgraded (ram compatible, other compatible part) motherboard there. Changed video card. Replaced burnt harddrive/ssd… Its always been the same PC, while being a completely replaced one.
Mine has tended to spawn descendants along the way, random bits and parts being assembled for others in and out of the household.
Always bring something over, power supply, case, RAM, hard drive, in a pinch, data, it’s good luck. Think of it as changing the flag. Pretty sure mine is over 30…
just be cautious with power supply, a failure could crater the whole system.
Valid, always over-engineer the power supply, it should be mostly in the middle of its rating. Worth it for general longevity.
Look at the manual and spec sheets of your supply. It should provide a load chart that has its efficiency at various points. You want your system wattage at full load to sit at the same number as the supplies highest efficiency. The percentage of power lost to conversion comes out as heat, and heat is what kills components.
A few percent at something like 500w can be the difference of 10-15w of extra heat for the supply to deal with. 75% efficiency from a cheaper 850w supply run at the same 500w would leave you with ~125w of power to cool, most of it concentrated on a few components in the supply.
A modern upgrade to the ancient metaphor/philosophical quandary.
Still as apt, but probably more broadly relatable, at least to us veteran navigators that sail the digital seas.
… Maybe a good name for a repair shop or right to repair advocacy org, something with Theseus in it somewhere.
Some people got phrases
Here’s an attempt at another one.
If you have a short sentence that tells a tale, but has been through a few rounds of ‘telephone’…
… perhaps what you have is a quip of Theseus.
Gold. I love it
If one is said to ‘wax lyrical’, would this not carry forward to ‘wane gibbous’, meaning to gibber as an ape?
I think the inverse of waxing lyrical would be to wane prosaic.
According to your user name, you mainly got vibes
Vibes and diatribes.
My neighbor would be upgrading my computer for me if this happened
OMG!
I hope it missed the RAM, Graphics Card and SSDs.
PS: Update - judging by the pictures somebody posted, the bullet hit a DIMM module. TRAGEDY!!!
Looks like it got a ram bar. Also what would deflect the bullet if it missed everything?
Have you seen the price of DIMM modules nowadays?!
Jumping in front of the bullet would’ve hurt less!
insurance is paying it out regardless, and the gun owner said if it doesnt, theyd pay it off.
the cost between the gun owner and insuance will probably cover it.
That’s assuming it’s DDR4.
For DDR5 you probably need the extended insurance that also covers Jewellery and Luxury Goods.
insurance is paying it out regardless, and the gun owner said if it doesnt, theyd pay it off.
grave mistake saying that publicly
PSU, PSUs are still affordable, for now
I wonder if they’ll have to pay for the single module or the set
Unless you can buy a single stick insurance will have to pay out for all the purchase of a new kit because you can’t go into a store and say I want part of the kit here is part of the money.
