That’s why I suggested a higher power rating than 1 watt, if you get a laser with a decent power output it won’t take minutes, it will take seconds, the higher the output the faster the camera dies. If you get something fairly high power you could essentially take a camera out instantly, a quick flick on and off directly at the sensor with a beam that has a low consistent spread of maybe 1 cm per 100m or so with high output would fry the entire optical sensor at once, or alternatively a beam with high output and very small focus with minimal spread could simply slice through the camera entirely, focus it well enough and you could cut cameras off poles at their mounting points and wires at a distance and just walk away with the whole camera, some of the new ones have solar panels too which are actually useful and also incur more cost to replace while being useful for cutting down your electricity bill assuming you prevent them from breaking when they fall, in theory you could make back the money you spend on the laser that way too whether by using the panels or selling them. Though selling has its own risks.

you joke but just wait, poe’s fucking law will have us by the throat with this one

I wouldn’t say more discreet or efficient, but cheaper yes, at least in the short run but there will always be systems that are hard to hit with a balloon due to their height and if all they need is some solvent in a backpack sprayer to undo your work then in the long run you’ll need to buy a lot of paint and balloons. Efficient to me is carrying something that fits in a backpack and can be charged on a home outlet and take out hundreds

It does have a much lower upfront cost though which is a consideration

I am pretty sure that at that wattage it would not be able to significantly destroy them, you could burn out pixels in the camera but unless you want to stand there for 10+ minutes shining it on the lens I don’t think you’re going to significantly hamper the vision system.

It needs to be more powerful than a class 4 consumer grade device.

Not that you can’t do it, but if you want to do it more effectively I am pretty sure something stronger would be required than a 1 watt device, Ideally you would want something that can just melt the photoreceptor entirely.

To further your efficacy you might want to use something in a wavelength range that is invisible to most cameras since any footage prior to melting is probably still saved somewhere and available to police. No visible beam means it’s significantly harder to pin it on you.Be warned however lasers in that intensity are very dangerous to eyesight and even incidental beam reflections off surfaces can cause damage to eyesight almost immediately, compounding that by making it a wavelength invisible to cameras you are also making it invisible to human eyes making it even easier to accidentally blind yourself without the right eye protection. Though it would be more difficult to aim if you can’t see it (there are ways around this as well such as buying a small camera that can see that wavelength and hooking it up to a video feed you use to aim it, potentially an in glasses screen (these are becoming much cheaper and readily available these days) as now you can order glasses to protect from that wavelength and put the lenses over your screen glasses and see exactly where you are pointing it without any risk of eye damage and very minimal risk of being caught.

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Hmm, there is a similarity but it doesn’t quite rhyme, could still be contributing to the feel of the word though for sure.

Maybe but it doesn’t feel like one when you say it and never really has

More like bigoted kids from the 90s wouldn’t survive in some schools today. They’d get punched in the face like that one who was supporting ice.

Frankly I prefer bigot checks over gay checks

Journalistic integrity in this day and age? Hasn’t that been outlawed yet?

yeah you’re right, the account changed names at some point and I mis-remembered the old name but it should still come up in searches either way

How long have they been selling devices that use graphene?

This is art from that “Steven Simpsons artist xoxo” person

Type that whole thing into a search engine and you’ll find them

Lol, lmao even

A massive mix of things:

reddit algorithm sucks now

all the big subreddits are run by right wing trolls or actual reddit employees and the ones that aren’t are forced to comply with shitty moderation rules that nobody likes or agrees with except right wingers

general enshittification

more bots then ever before and it noticeably changes the experience because bots don’t act like real people and even when they do/when you actually are talking to a real person it’s always in the back of your head that this interaction could be completely meaningless

more ads

lower quality content than before

made a lemmy account a while beforehand but the final nail in the coffin was when of all things I was banned from reddit as a whole for criticizing pixel art subreddit mods for being puritanical because they deleted a popular artist’s post for being sexual For reference this is the offending image

My criticism wasn’t even particularly harsh, didn’t make any threats, just said that mods of an art sub probably shouldn’t be puritans since that’s in conflict with freedom of expression and got banned, it’s good though, this place is much better

What show/movie is this from?

Bruh what fucking journalistic values? Are the journalistic values in the fucking room with us?