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Technically Raspbian Jessie, I think- I was gifted a Pi 3 in ~2016 and fiddled around with it for a while. I also made some cursed choices, at one point running Windows 10 IoT Core on that thing...

In 2017 or so, I started toying around with Ubuntu in VMs. It wasn’t really until 2020 or so that I started trying other distros; Debian Buster was probably the first non-Ubuntu distro I’d tried (excluding RPi stuff), and I mostly stucked to Debian besides one Arch install.

At a certain point in 2022, I found myself using Unix tools so much I was starting to wonder if I should just use Linux instead of Windows. It was at this time that I tried NixOS in a VM for the first time and thought, “Wow, this is cool… I’m sticking with Debian, though.”

Around that time, I threw Debian Testing (then Bookworm) on a second 256GB drive, ostensibly as a “test run” for daily driving Linux, and by “test run”, I mean I de facto quit using Windows; a few months later, I opted to use dd and copy that “test install” over my Windows install on my bigger 1TB drive (of course with sufficient backups so I could copy my Windows files over). That install is still the one I use on my desktop today and has just transitioned into Debian Testing/Forky*

*A name I quite honestly hate, mostly due to the fact that Forky represents everything wrong with America today the Forky Asks a Question shorts beat out Steven Universe Future for an animation Emmy, though honestly, I don’t know else what I was expecting to happen.

I also use XFCE. My desktop’s currently on Forky and went through all of Trixie, and the emdia keys have worked fine.

I’ll have to fiddle around and see what’s going on, though it may take a few days to get back because I’m starting school again soon, so I’m quite busy.

For reference, what programs do you tend to use with media keys? For instance, VLC, Firefox, etcetera.

Honestly, I don’t think I’ve met more than 2 or 3 people in my life who even had a headset.

In fact, whenever I see a VR headset in a TV show or film meant to depict the present day, it makes it abundantly clear that the writers are well off older people who are going to whine about the youth and are out of touch with how the majority of Americans live their life (or they’re being forced to make these choices by geezer executives that fit my description).

It’s kind of similar to how the 1980s-2000s sitcom archetype of weird hyper best friend has been replaced by the “my whole personality is social media” archetype that is frequent in lower quality media these days.

What desktop environment are you using?

And maybe just give device model for good measure.

Reminds me of the time I made a tier list of all the canon alternate reality Janeway variants at the time… though that was made before I watched Prodigy S2, which added another alternate version of Hologram Janeway due to all the time shenanigans.

I know. It seriously just felt like a top tier episode out of the series - the ending is such a tear jerker.

The big 2⁵!

Oh, yeh! In the CD pregap that’s really hard to rip and didn’t make streaming!

It was supposed to be on a compilation, but it got scrapped after he left Prophet Records for Pah Wraith Entertainment, unfortunately.

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Jaresh-Inyo, Sylvia Ront, Cardassian Union, Vic Fontaine
Gamma Quadrant, Jake Sisko, Buck Bokai
Norah Satie, Benny Maxwell, Miranda class, Holoprograms
The Maquis, the Federation, Deanna Troi

T’Pel, Photons, Chakotay, Deep Space Nine
Kullnark, “Frame of Mind”, and “Something for Breakfast”
Chancellor Gowron, Voyager, Bajor’s got a new Kai
Ben Sisko, Sonny Clemmons, Sarek of Vulcan, goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, like the Bajoran Fire Caves
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

  

To be fair to macOS, it’s still Unix-based, which at least makes it less miserable for development than Windows.

I would still go for Linux any time, though.

Well, except his parents, courtesy of Emperor Kodos.

Also, why do I kind of feel like we need to see Ensign Kevin Riley in SNW at least once? (For reference, Riley is a Lieutenant in TOS, which suggests he’s been in Starfleet a few years.)

You’re right in some ways; Windows is closer to a microkernel than Linux, though it doesn’t perfectly adhere to the philosophy of - there’s supposedly weird things like drawing calls in the Windows kernel that should be in microservice, I’ve heard

However, I wouldn’t necessarily call microkernels a detriment; in fact, Linux is a bit of an odd duck for going monolithic - modern Apple operating systems also run on a microkernel. Monolithic is an older architecture, and there are worries about the separation between components and system resilience e.g the webcam driver can’t crash the whole kernel.

In practice, it’s less of an issue, and there really aren’t any open source microkernel operating systems that are practical for production desktop and server use, which has a microkernel though there are certainly solutions for embedded systems.

QubesOS is built on Xen hypervisor, which uses a microkernel design, but Linux is then run in multiple VMs on top of it, which makes it more of a technicality in my eyes. RedoxOS also runs on a microkernel and is certainly intended as a desktop operating system, but its hardware support is limited; GNU Hurd is even more limited in that respect and not really usable.

Huh. Maybe I can look into it and see if it’s possible for Trek.

Neat. I love Debian, but its documentation is crap! I hope this works out and I can see an improvement.

I mostly agree with you. However, I think there are some caveats to upscaling; there are so many lazy "4K AI UPSCALE BEST QUALITY" videos online that just don't look good and were clearly put there just to get views.

However, I've also found they have their uses; for instance, I wanted to laser cut a TMBG Flood logo once, but there were very few good images online that traced well in Inkscape. I ended up doing an AI upscale of the least terrible one with a white background, and that traced pretty well in Inkscape.

I was messing around with HomeAssistant the other day, which uses the same speech recognition engine, and I found it to be decent.

I think including the word "OpenAI" in the post name is somewhat a misnomer that implies an encrapification not really happening to the FFMPEG project.

Yes, it is true OpenAI originally developed the Whisper model, and I hate OpenAI; however:

• Whisper is actually open source, unlike most OpenAI crap.
• FFmpeg isn't even directly using the OpenAI version, written in Python - they're using a port to C++ called Whisper.cpp
• We've been able to use speech recognition for decades, so unlike other AI models, I don't think a speech recognition model that does it better is problem.
• You don't even necessarily have to compile FFmpeg with Whisper support.

I get the dislike of AI, but the idea of association with OpenAI is overblown and not really reflective of reality. Now I can get not wanting to use open source projects whose developers don't reflect your principles; however, I think this ethical issue is more indirect than may initially appear and is not a strong reason to quit using what is still the most effective media conversion tool.

No need to panic in this case. While I hate OpenAI, there's two things to note here:

• Whisper is an open source library for speech recognition rather than generative AI, run entirely locally. It's just using ML to do something we could already do with computers (speech recognition), but better.
• They aren't even directly using the OpenAI version - they're using whisper.cpp, a port of the model.

I was hardly the target audience for Lower Decks; in fact, I was a little mad they had made an adult animated Star Trek comedy. However, after watching it, it has become a favorite. Season 1 is a bit difficult to get through, but once you get through that, overall, it's a show that's very sincere to what Star Trek is while still being a comedy. And it should have gotten 2 more seasons.

Same with Star Trek: Prodigy: it takes a second, and it's still technically a kids show, but when it gets there, it's worth it.

Honestly, I'm half hopeful for the show just because it's a "We're going for the {X} demographic" kind of show that sounds a little like a stupid idea that will actually turn out unexpectedly good but get cancelled before its time.

You know what would be really awesome, though? A Cali class MSD!

Maybe it’s because I only use stable on my laptop with Flatpaks, but honestly, Bookworm never got that crusty to me until recently - it feels like new software versions didn’t introduce a lot of must have features in the past two years. Only hiccup was I had to install the backports kernel to get Wi-Fi working.