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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

  • Windows 10 End Of Life - Your Story

  • Mostly, he uses Photoshop for printing, though, and I don’t know if Krita has as powerful a printing dialog.

  • Windows 10 End Of Life - Your Story

  • My grandfather asked me about Linux, but unfortunately, he’s still using Photoshop for now.

  • Borg cube vs travel pod

  • The Borg assimilate buffer time from Scotty; that makes the entire collective several percent more efficient and turns out to be the secret to the Borg taking over the entire galaxy.

  • Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop?

  • If we have another Dot-Com bubble-type situation, I’m hoping for some cheap, good second hand rack mount server kit hitting the market.

  • Upside Down [OC Edit]

  • We're wobbly, spinning, confused little people spinning round and round.

    Thank goodness Neil Cicierga put his first few Lemon Demon albums online DRM free so I don't have to send people to YouTube. They're 256kbps MP3s, meaning for daily listening you'd probably still want to buy the album on Bandcamp for access to 320kbps and FLAC, but for sharing the song, it suffices.

    Could probably do similar with Jonathan Coulton songs, though I have to dig a bit with developer tools to get the link. His songs are mostly under Creative Commons, and he has his site set up to encourage buying the song, but purposely doesn't do any sort of DRM on the listening function of his website.

  • For Linux gaming (including DX12), is there a strong reason to choose NVIDIA over AMD?

  • From what I've heard, ROCm may be finally getting out of its infancy; at the very least, I think by the time we get something useful, local, and ethical, it will be pretty well-developed.

    Honestly, though, I'm in the same boat as you and actively try to avoid most AI stuff on my laptop. The only "AI" thing I use is I occasionally do an image upscale. I find it kind of useless on photos, but it's sometimes helpful when doing vector traces on bitmap graphics with flat colors; Inkscape's results aren't always good with lower resolution images, so putting that specific kind of graphic through "cartoon mode" upscales sometimes improves results dramatically for me.

    Of course, I don't have GPU ML acceleration, so it just runs on the CPU; it's a bit slow, but still less than 10 minutes.

  • Fanhome Line Of XL Model Re-Releases Includes 10 Enterprises, K’Tinga, DS9 + More Iconic Star Trek Ships

  • I don't know why, but I feel cheated that we don't get an Enterprise J model - what else am I going to use as my weirdly-shaped dinner plate?

  • For Linux gaming (including DX12), is there a strong reason to choose NVIDIA over AMD?

  • I feel like most people who use Nvidia on Linux just got their machine before they were Linux users, with a small subset for ML stuff.

    Honestly, I hear ROCm may finally be getting less horrible, is getting wider distro support, and supports more GPUs than it used to, so I really hope AMD will become as livable ML dev platform as it is a desktop GPU.

  • FEX 2510 Brings More Optimizations For x86_64 Binaries On AArch64

  • Is there an old AARCH64 laptop (sub-$100, preferably closer to $50) that can be picked up for a song for playing around with crap like this?

    From what I can tell, there’s a lot of crappy old ARM Chromebooks; I wonder if they perform sufficiently faster than an RPi and work well enough with a Linux distro to mess with them. I do wonder, though, if any Windows-on-ARM ones are old enough to also be cheap used (and not be some sort of Windows RT terror or something).

  • Legendary Star Trek Designer Inspired To Sketch President Archer’s Starship For ‘United’ Pitch

  • Actually looking at it, my impression has softened a bit. I think I just was struggling with the perspective.

    I like the proportions of the earlier concept better - I like big nacelles.

  • Legendary Star Trek Designer Inspired To Sketch President Archer’s Starship For ‘United’ Pitch

  • That… is kind of ugly. It’s unimaginative - feels too much like an airplane or a cheap-as-heck shuttle model. It brings up the worst of late-90s/early 2000s blobject design.

    It would definitely feel more at home as background ship, but this is not the design of a hero ship. It doesn’t even have to be the traditional Roddenberry-type design; something looking more like the Dove from Lower Decks would be better than this.

  • [Politics Warning] Make Armus Great Again

  • Yeh, I feel that. As much as I try to be hippy here, I can't disagree with that.

  • [Politics Warning] Make Armus Great Again

  • I agree with all your points. I don't deny or absolve them of their wrong; they should very much be aware they're hurting people.

    My definition of "demon" is Hitler/Stalin/Mao/Pinoche level, and despite the evil they do and the fact that they collectively enable "demons", I don't think they themselves rise to that level of evil. There are shades of gray.

  • [Politics Warning] Make Armus Great Again

  • "What stuff? Stop that! When I find you, I'm gonna kill you with a flake of my power! I am a skin of evil."

    Lower Decks! Lower Decks!

  • [Politics Warning] Make Armus Great Again

  • I somewhat rebut that notion, but still, that is brutally funny, so I have to upvote. I have known a decent amount of jerk Republicans as well; one of my university classes is in a room next to where the campus Turning Point meeting is held, and it boils my blood a bit.

    Honestly, my response to a comment on the c/risa version of this post pretty much sums up my point, so I won't write it up again: https://startrek.website/post/30091443/19306453

  • My reaction when there's a new Star Trek show for pre-schoolers

  • Reminds me of Mariner jettisoning herself out the holographic airlock saying, "Fail me, fail me, fail me."

  • In this dire time ...

  • You're forgetting Ad Homicide: Just because you killed someone doesn't mean you're right.

    (And of course, its vice versa, just because you (or someone with your views) got killed doesn't mean you're right, which admittedly is less common in history, but nonetheless something to be aware of to evaluate arguments critically.)

  • The Expedition to Pike's Peak

  • You know, I think Paramount+ could increase its rating by one star just by replacing the mountain in its splash screen with Pike’s face and a huge Pike’s peak.

    Of course, another star would come from the app actually working well and allowing you to actually use the resolutions you pay for on all the devices you owned, but the DRM cult continues, punishing paying customers and making pirating a more pleasant experience in some ways.

    Another star or two would come from Paramount actually having the spine to stick up to authoritarians rather than sucking up to them in the name of profits, but that’s not going to happen with the oligopoly the American entertainment industry has become.

  • Cheap Linux tablet?

  • Oh yeh. I heard that, just forgot. Thanks for reminding me.