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data1701d (He/Him)

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"Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?"

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • "I don't want my pain taken away, I need my pain!" - Kirk (Star Trek V)

  • puts on a fourth, solar-system scale tin-foil hat The Taelons from Earth: Final Conflict are actually using their skrill to puppeteer Talosiankind into puppeteering Vulcankind into puppeteering humankind to remotely fulfill their agendum, as of 3 years ago when they came. Among this pupeteering chaos, William Boone is searching for the truth... until he gets killed off, upon which weird half-human alien baby who instantly grows into an adult, who I think then searches for the truth? I don't know much after that - masochism can only get you so far in that series before you turn it off.

  • An underappreciated hero of his time

  • (This is how we say "Same" on the This Might Be a Wiki Discord server, since the artist of this album is on that server and we have an emote in his honor.)

  • Picard is definitely the most memed captain.

  • 52 year old data tape could contain Unix history

  • [NSFW] So I have a few questions about Data

  • Thanks for the warning, but to make the the warning, can edit this and put "[NSFW]" in the post title, please?

  • LEGO Star Trek Enterprise REVIEW

  • Heck, if you want the stickers, you can easily print them on a good inkjet.

  • Linux MacBooks & the cursed Broadcom module

  • I just looked it up, and it seems a lot of the pre-Apple Silicon MacBook had swappable airport cards that used a completely standard mini PCIE slot. From a cursory google search, it looks completely possible to swap in something like an Intel Wi-Fi card that is supported natively by the kernel.

    A mini-PCIE Wi-Fi modem can be had for not too expensive, around the $30 range; in fact, if you have a good stack of old Wintel laptops, one of those might have a card that works well. In fact, I did that with my sister‘s laptop (although she was using Windowd) – her Realtek Wi-Fi card was causing endless misery, so I ripped the Intel modem out of an ultra book from circa 2016 and put it in her laptop. No more issues.

  • Photons be free!

  • The 2023 IDW Star Trek Annual's plot was basically all the holodeck programs on the USS Theseus read "Photons Be Free". Luckily, Tom Paris happened to be there and understood what the phrase meant, and Captain Sisko dropped off holographic Spock, Janeway, Stamets, HMS Enterprise Picard and Riker, Sato, etcetera with their holographic equipment to settle on a planet.

  • Baby got PADDs

  • Don't you mean that that you like PADDs with 3.7% deeper bevels?

  • swww renamed to awww, due to the author's guilt from obliviously naming it "final solution"

  • Exactly. Luckily, back in high school, my IB History class spent a good couple months just learning about authoritarian rulers and their tactics.

    I especially like pulling out Pinochet because he’s a clear and relatively recent example of right wing authoritarianism, manipulation of existing religious structures, and US government support of authoritarian regimes that help contextualize its trend towards authoritarianism.

  • Creation Entertainment have announced ENT cast members for STLV 2026

  • I think the biggest issue with ENT is probably the sexualization of T’Pol, the culmination of a nasty habit in Berman Trek.

    I could tune out 7’s catsuit because she was otherwise well-written and the good plotlines outnumbered the bad, but it feels like at least 75% of all T’Pol stories were of the horny Berman type, to the detriment of her character.

  • STAR TREK 4 Has Finally Been Scrapped As Paramount "Moves On" From Chris Pine-Led Franchise

  • While we're at it, let's just pull in Chris Pine (multiverse crap) and William Shatner (Nexus crap) and have one of those nutty SNW episodes that sounds like a horrible idea but is surprisingly one of the better episodes that season:

  • MIPS64EL & ARMEL Architectures Dropped In Debian Unstable/Experimental

  • True. I just think it's a few years too early; armel is dying, but I don't think it's 32-bit x86 level dead. I feel like 2030 would have been a better year. If they really found the user base was that small, though, then I guess that's less for Debian to maintain.

  • A little on the nose

  • A little on the nose

  • I like to imagine some weird historian who insisted on pen accidentally flipped the '9' in '2191', and that error just happened to end up in the Enterprise D's historical database; the holodeck just went along with the error, and Riker was none the wiser, having gotten a C- in Early Federation History at the Academy and having frequently gone to the bathroom "for legitimate reasons" during his high school Earth history class. It was only in mid-2380 that he finally discovered his misconception.

    Although it'd still be a bit dismal that trip only lived to 70.

  • MIPS64EL & ARMEL Architectures Dropped In Debian Unstable/Experimental

  • MIPS I get, but armel feels a little weird; I’d wager there’s more production users of Debian on armel than RV64 - not a huge use case, but one that merits a bit more consideration.

    I think ~2030 would have been a more realistic date, since most of the last devices with ARMv6 would be about 20 years old by then.

  • For love of the game

  • I love the Jake Nog shenanigans episodes.

  • Terror on the holodeck

  • Remind me of the babe.

  • Terror on the holodeck

  • You do.

  • Terror on the holodeck

  • What power?