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For the record, I rationally hate AI*, and this title already raises suspicion for me.

"AI" is a buzzword, and seeing it in the title or slogan for project or product reeks of some business major jumping on a bandwagon that they don't truly understand, and where there's business majors, there's probably encrapification.

*: Of course, one of the big problems is "AI" is a misnomer - there's no "Intelligence" to it. "ML" is closer to capturing the nature of the technology without ascribing to it some magic power that it doesn't have.

How old are these machines, from oldest CPU model to newest CPU model?

I mean, depending on the budget desktop, it might be much better than a Raspberry Pi 5, which I hear is already occasionally used for such things.

Star Trek: The Search for Ensign Peter

TIL

I wouldn't touch with with an approximately 12 meter pole.

It's kind of hard for me to watch the HP movies these days with all the Rowling stuff, which is unfortunate because Radcliffe and Watson have stood up to Rowling's transphobia. There's also a lot of stuff from reading the books as a kid that is, in retrospect, rather horrible.

Maybe I could see myself one day re-watching them through a means that doesn't directly fund Rowling (or, in the future, her estate, if its activities are malicious) and enjoy the work of the other people who aren't involved with the stuff Rowling is doing, but for me, that day is not today; I just feel too conflicted about it.

For now, though, if I want to enjoy Radcliffe, I throw on 2022's Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

I'm very close to finishing my current TNG rewatch and am looking forward to throwing on Generations to commemorate the season.

I think I have a bit more nuanced feelings on the MIT license. If I actually write something useful, GPL all the way, baby!

However, I don't necessarily think the MIT license is the embodiment of evil; I find GPL a bit overkill for hobby projects. I'm not talking things that have the potential to become critical pieces of infrastructure like a kernel or something; I'm more talking about emoji pickers or hacky little Python scripts that would be pretty useless to a Fortune 500. In the minute chance someone actually cares about my silly little toy to fork it, I see very little point in encumbering it with the full heft of a copyleft license and stopping them from doing whatever the heck they want.

I agree that DS9 probably wins by far on its ability to hold off fleets during the Klingon and Dominion Wars.

However, I’m not sure I would dismiss Voyager so fast as a contender against the Enterprise D - I think Voyager is both well-armed and comparatively agile, with a higher maximum warp speed and likely a higher cruising speed. I think the ship’s unique strengths would at least give the D a significant struggle.

Assuming this is an ATX or ITX PC, there's likely a way to reset UEFI so you can disable fastboot and change your settings, or at least boot from a recovery USB.

There's usually something like a button or 2 pins you can short on your motherboard to reset the settings. If your machine has dual BIOS, there will be a switch you can flip, though you'll probably need to update the UEFI again once you do that.

In the worst case (and this should work on almost any device), remove the CMOS battery, let the device sit for a few minutes, then put that battery in. That should clear all settings, including fastboot, and allow you to do recovery stuff - just make sure you fix the time before going on the internet.

"Move Along Home" is a masterpiece; it's the kind of bad episode that's really fun to watch.

But yeh, I think it's really stupid to dismiss a show based on its first season.

I just dont like any of the characters

Not even Saru? 😢

To be fair, SNW only gets a 10 episode season, so based on ratio, 1 silly episode of SNW is equal to ~2.5 episodes of TNG; it doesn't take a lot of silly episodes to make it seem like a huge amount of silly in SNW.

I know we probably can't go back to 25 episode seasons because those were always very taxing to work on, but I think 15 episodes is a good compromise. I think SNW would have really benefited from a season of about that length; even 12 episodes would be nice.

Heck, as convoluted as Discovery could get, from what I watched of the show (up to a few episodes into S4), it somewhat benefited from a longer season in the sense we had plenty of time for multi-episode plots, which are harder to develop in a 10 episode season balancing episodic and linear storytelling. However, I don't think they used that time the most effectively, as season 3 often felt like death by subplots - the episode would take on so many subplots that, although each of them individually may have been good ideas, none of them ended up being particularly well-executed. It's especially weird because they didn't really need to do that; there was more than enough episodes to, say, have one subplot as an A plot and another as a B plot, then continue the B plot next episode as an A plot and have another B plot.

Honestly, I think what we have yet to truly see in Star Trek is someone in Starfleet who saves the day but ultimately cannot be absolved of their wrongdoing and cannot avoid the consequences if they’re not going to take the necessary steps for redemption - doing one important thing does not give you the moral license to do whatever you want.

They got close in TNG:”Ethics”, but ultimately the only “discipline” Russell gets is getting yelled at by Dr. Crusher - no investigations or anything.

I’d almost want to have an allegory for how we should deal with sexual harassment in the sciences, basically showing the senior staff handling the situation correctly and doing what should have been done with creeps like Richard Feynman, and maybe examining the negative tropes of past Trek. Then again, TNG has so many clumsy sexual harassment episodes that I’m worried it’d be hard to do the issue justice.

Although I’ve never watched Black Mirror, from what I’ve heard of the episode, maybe USS Callister did better than Star Trek ever could on this matter.

And this is how Alexander ended up joining a homicidal cult in the IDW comics... Very Beta canon, but also feels like a thing that would happen.

I think episode 8 is worth a shot. The basic premise is really stupid, but they execute it so darn well with the writing of social interactions. Also, I'm really surprised they pulled off Vulcan Patton Oswald, which initially scared me when the season trailer came out.

To be fair, Burnham's supposed to be a bit immature and make questionable choices, which in itself is really annoying to a lot of people, but a product of the plot, and another episode or two and it might might sense.

Also, like @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website, I am a little confused by the "xenophobic military propaganda" bit. Maybe it's that you haven't watched the 2nd episode yet, but without spoiling much, Burnham's somewhat xenophobic actions go pretty horrifically wrong the next episode and basically cause much of the season's plot. Also, the Klingons aren't entirely villains throughout the season and show.

"MOOOOOOOOVE ALOOOOONG HOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEMMMM!"

I mean, Strange New World's eponymous first episode was pretty good. Otherwise a true observation, though.