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What advertising slogan would you give for Linux?
  • lol I was going to suggest "it just works"

    I would not have suggested that before this year but it's definitely true now, or at least truer than for Windows/Apple.

  • AI predicts that most of the world will see temperatures rise to 3°C much faster than previously expected
  • I hate to be that guy, but "they" (the people with power to change course) have absolutely listened and understood. They don't care.

  • Force windows games to recognize playstation controller?
  • Some more popular games will have mods to make the Xbox buttons look like a DS4s buttons, buuuut if the game studio devs didn't create the assets then they didn't create them.

  • The Official Trailer and Poster for Star Trek: Section 31 Are Here
  • From the first time I'd heard about this I could not believe this was ever going to get as far as it has, and after watching the trailer I still can't believe it.

  • Star Trek + Design - Documenting commercially-available props and set pieces from the franchise
  • This is amazing! Thanks for sharing I love resources like this.

  • When discussing the plural name for the group of beings with different faces that are The Doctor, is it proper to say "The Doctors", "Doctors Who" or...?
  • Exactly my conundrum! In canon the Doctor changes faces and personalities (and Tardises) periodically. What is (or what should be) the collective term for these manifestations?

  • TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal
  • I'm with you. Tiktok is about as "healthy" as vaping. There are other just as bad (if not worse) apps out there, and the reasoning is stupid and has some first amendment concerns. But I won't die on the protecting Tiktok hill.

  • When discussing the plural name for the group of beings with different faces that are The Doctor, is it proper to say "The Doctors", "Doctors Who" or...?
  • I was doing a web search and "The Doctors Who" is what popped into my head first and prompted this post 😅

  • Christmas Special Trailer | Joy to the World | Doctor Who
  • Not a complaint but dang fifteen cries more readily than Micheal Burhnam

  • I wonder why. 😉
  • A legitimately good soundtrack if you like musicals!

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  • The Fediverse offers a superior experience and it doesn't even have profit motive!

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  • My point was that the Fediverse works just fine without a subscription, the people upset about a subscription are not upset about the cost, but about what it represents (or more specifically, what it doesn't).

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  • Uh, are you paying a subscription for Lemmy?

  • What is your happiest Trek related memory/ies?
  • So jealous you got to see The Experience! These are great photos thanks for sharing.

  • Tell one thing that you miss after switching from another OS to Linux.
  • I loved the constant pop-ups with offers for things I could purchase. If I don't purchase something frequently enough I get sad so it's nice to have an OS that cares about my well being.

  • www.mcsweeneys.net The Starfleet Gazette Will Not Be Endorsing a Candidate for President of the United Federation of Planets

    “After the Washington Post announced it would not endorse a presidential candidate in this year’s election or in the future, its billionaire owner ...

    The Starfleet Gazette Will Not Be Endorsing a Candidate for President of the United Federation of Planets

    "Sure, The Borg have been a bit of a problem. Their tendency toward mass assimilation and the stripping of individuality and personal freedom doesn’t exactly jibe with our idea of what makes a great leader. But let’s be honest. Kathryn Janeway hasn’t been perfect."

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    www.theverge.com Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

    It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.

    Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

    I quit as the top mod of /r/StarTrek in 2021 in protest against Reddit's platforming of vaccine disinformation subreddits. Then in 2023 during the API protest, myself and several of the remaining mods (including mods from /r/Risa and /r/DaystromInstitute) started StarTrek.website.

    The consensus I've seen on Lemmy has been largely "we don't need to spread the word about our open platforms because Reddit will do something stupid again and there will be another protest and Lemmy will be promoted there". So I hope we can take this as a lesson that we can't rely on platforms being shitty in order to switch society over to open standards. We need to do our best to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed good as well as known.

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    Can anyone help explain "Dot and Bubble" to me? (spoilers obv)

    For most of this episode I thought it was a good (if a bit on-the-nose) commentary about our societal distraction sickness and everyone living literally in a bubble. The hero was someone who literally able to walk on his own two legs, etc. But once they went underground everything kind of went loopy?

    Where did the slug monsters come from? The idea that they came from "outside the (city's) bubble" kind of reinforced the idea that it's dangerous to hide from what's scary. But then we see the homeworld was also eaten destroyed by the same slug-monsters? If the slugs are controlled or created by the dots, are we meant to understand that the people of the home world are similarly walking around in bubbles? If so, then why does Finetime exist? The whole premise of an off-world "perfect" colony seemed to imply they were providing some service to the home-worlders beyond their 2 hours of "work". Why would a society of people living in bubbles send their youth to a faraway planet?

    Then we see that the dots are capable of quickly killing the inhabitants. So where did the slug monsters come from? Why did the dots not just kill zippoty zop? Were the slugs obeying the dots alphabetical order parameters? Were they created by the dots?

    At this point I was like "whatever it's Doctor Who, the plots are never as consistent as the vibes!" But then the vibes changed completely when it's revealed everyone is racist?!

    My best guess is that this is some bungled way of comparing the people of Finetime to our modern social problem with radicalization on social media, like "look beyond yourself man" but that feels a bit of a stretch. I feel like I'm missing something big here!

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    Theory: The EMH in "Academy" is going to be the copy from "Living Witness"

    Until Disco S3, "Living witness" was the furthest future we had seen in Star Trek. But Academy takes place after Discovery. At the end of "Living Witness" the Doctor is described as heading towards Earth.

    Assuming the burn didn't get them, it's entirely possible two EMHs are surviving in Discovery's time. I think it would be a fun twist if it wasn't the EMH we expect!

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    The "Friendship is Universal" poster from SDCC

    This was mentioned elsewhere but I thought it was cool enough to deserve it's own post. The artist is Dusty Abell and they are selling copies on their website here: https://www.dustyabell.com/products/star-trek-doctor-who-friendship-is-universal-print

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    Help us finish the Canvas!

    Link to location: https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=114&y=101&zoom=7

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    Corgana Corgana @startrek.website

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