Comment on Comfy cozy
cobysev@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I live in America. It’s 2 AM and I just awoke from a nightmare wherein I was running from the govt. My wife, dog, and I were in hiding at my home, with friends occupying the place to help us stay hidden. But a drone spotted me. I shot it down, but we had 10 minutes to pack what I could into a short yellow schoolbus (which quickly became a British double-decker) and take off before agents showed up to capture or kill us.
By the way, I’m a white male, married to a white woman, and by all outside appearances, cis and “normal”. Probably one of the most protected classes in America right now. And even I’m having nightmares about where our country is headed and when it’ll be “my turn.”
I woke up, picked up my tablet, and this was the top post in my feed. 😣
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Small, probably stupid tip, but what the hell. There is an almost surefire way to kill drones without needing a firearm. Buy a high-powered laser (>5W). It obviously won’t be enough to take the drone down, but just a fraction of a second of that beam is enough to permanently destroy the camera. The downside is that the beam is very visible so you’d also be giving away your location. Also works on static cameras like traffic cams, number plate readers, …
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
This would be a trash way to take down a drone. You would have to now where the camera is exactly on the drone and then manage to shine the laser directly into that camera long enough to damage it. As distance grows between you and the drone, that time to damage the lenses will grow longer.
The currently most common drone takedown methods implemented are radio signal jammers, counterattack drones with nets, and shotguns filled with an intermediate shot size between bird shot and buck shot. The first two are fairly expensive options which take know-how to create, where as the latter is a shotgun, which are abundant and fairly cheap in comparison to the other two.
The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
But the trick is you have to manage to point it directly into the camera lense. May the odds be ever in your favor.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 day ago
High-powered lasers have a very wide beam ;)
Mac@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Yeah and this way if you’re imperfect in aiming the FBI will show up at your door for lasering any aircraft in the background.