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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

  • Cheap Linux tablet?

  • At this point, I'd wonder if some of the older Microsoft Surfaces might be suitable for this purpose. Especially if it's just displaying photos, you probably wouldn't even need the Linux-Surface kernel for a lot of things and could just run mainline, avoiding a lot of misery. For instance, a 1st gen Surface Go from 2018 seems to run for ~$70 on eBay these days; I own one and used to daily-drive it on both Windows and Linux, and although there were some annoyances, the display is decent.

    Though honestly, I wonder if you particularly need a Linux tablet at all. There are dedicated digital frame devices out there for displaying photos; a lot of them can just display off a USB drive or SD card in the ballpark of 50 bucks it looks like. I'd probably recommend not getting one that supports Wi-Fi, as I think it's probably a stupid idea to assume some random cheap device you bought online has correctly-implemented network security.

  • Still waiting for the Sons of Picard spinoff

  • You’re forgetting the 4th one.

    Wesley Crusher: Jack Crusher was actually replaced by a surgically-altered Cardassian spy whose goal was to incriminate Picard by secretly impregnating his wife with Picard’s DNA, making it seem like they were cheating on him. Wesley is actually Picard’s child, thus why he’s so weird around Wesley.

    (We love you anyway, Wes!)

  • One never learns how the witch became wicked

  • What always drove me insane about DIS Orions is they all looked the same; same skin tone and same hair color.

    Probably the only reason I could tell Osyraa from other Orions was she was the main woman Orion and usually in contexts where it made sense for the Emerald Chain leader to be there. Pretty much all the other people were barely distinguishable from each other.

    Lower Decks did a better job on that front I feel; part of it is definitely just that it’s animated and so they can use character design to distinguish them. However, they also did so many things to distinguish one Orion from another that could be done with makeup; there were so many skin tone and hair color variations. For instance, in “Hear All, Trust Nothing”, Tendi has more of a lime green skin tone while Mesk has more neon green one.

    To be fair, Discovery was the first series to roll out Orions as a regularly-occurring species. (I consider Enterprise’s use not so regular.) I think Trek has gotten better at it since then. Take SNW’s Remy for example:

    I’m not forgetting that guy’s face any time soon. Granted, I don’t think I would count SNW as having regularly-occurring Orions yet. We’ll see if maybe STA does it better.

  • Hey, when Picard travel time or use the holodeck to meet Leonel Messi?

  • How do we know the whole Star Trek franchise isn’t some Romulan plot to erase the Federation from the timeline via butterfly effect?

  • It's the Truth

  • I think they just had to put something there, so they threw in a joke. They probably never expected it to be visible or readable.

    It’s similar in nature to how the DS9 promenade directory has “Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems” from Buckaroo Bonzai, albeit a more dark-humored example.

    In universe, it doesn’t exist, I’d say. It’s just a part of the aesthetic, similar to how some things on TOS would look less hokey in real life.

  • It's the Truth

  • I think it was TNG Tech Manual?

  • Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?

  • It has its weaknesses, but I think you should watch it if just to form your own opinion.

    I’ve only watched through the middle of season 4, where I got a bit tired of it, though I might pick it back up.

    Season 1 is interesting, season 2 is weird, and season 3 has its flaws but keeps you on the edge of your seat.

    Season 4 I feel like squanders the new setting introduced in season 3; the plot they introduce feels so artificial to me, which is very upsetting because it feels like the new setting has so many stories that would practically write themselves even if you do decide to lean on “Big Bad Villain/Problem” storytelling.

  • Star Trek legend William Shatner, 94, hospitalised after medical emergency

  • I saw the first part (which I have faded) online and added my response.

  • How is Photoshop performance on WinApps?

  • Not great. I even got GPU passthrough working once, but you get weird graphics glitches because it's all being sent over RDP.

    I think Cassowary might be better than WinApps, but honestly, at this point, I just gave up on those and just use the VM directly.

  • Steam Will End Windows 32-bit OS Support Next Year - Hopefully Linux Follows

  • To clarify, what I mean is WebKit continued while Blink became its own thing. Factually, Blink is not WebKit anymore.

    Replace “WebKit” with Linux and Blink with ELKS.

  • Steam Will End Windows 32-bit OS Support Next Year - Hopefully Linux Follows

  • Honestly had better luck with DOSBOX-X.

  • Steam Will End Windows 32-bit OS Support Next Year - Hopefully Linux Follows

  • For one, it explicitly calls itself a “subset”; a subset is not the whole set.

    If we don’t want to go just off the pedantics of language though, then here’s the thing: it was forked a very long time ago, and both have diverged significantly, I think. It’s a bit like saying Blink (the rendering engine of Chromium) is WebKit; sure, Blink is a fork of WebKit, but the two are very different now.

  • Steam Will End Windows 32-bit OS Support Next Year - Hopefully Linux Follows

  • Technically not the Linux kernel.

  • Steam Will End Windows 32-bit OS Support Next Year - Hopefully Linux Follows

  • Just because they existed during the Linux era doesn’t mean they ran Linux; Torvalds was writing for the 386 from the beginning, and Linux has never been written for anything below 32-bit.

    Now, it certainly has RAN on that hardware through emulation, such as on a 4 bit Intel 4004, but only for the heck of it.

  • Looking at you, Super Mario Brothers 3

  • It is Super Mario BROTHERS 3, petaQ! For this, you shall experience much bIj in ghe’tor!

  • Baffled at PC freezing on Linux, but not on Windows for the same workload

  • When it freeze, after you've rebooted it, try running sudo journalctl -p 5 -b -1; you might see something in those logs.

    Maybe also open a task manager before you do anything graphics intensive, just to see if there's a process that rapidly increases its memory usage; while it might not be the cause, I've experienced similar freezes when I use all my memory (on a machine with 32GB of RAM).

  • [SOLVED] my var directory on debian 13.1 has only 500 MiB free space and I cannot update flatpak anymore. How do I solve this?

  • FYI Don’t use this command. I think it was intended as a joke, but I just want to clarify.

  • Klingon rokeg blood pie or Tuvok's sweet leola root tart?

  • Excuse me, but you mean 24th century weed.

    I’m pretty sure 23rd century weed was responsible for the TOS episode “The Alternative Factor” and that one CGI sequence in the one with the whales.

  • My grub theme

  • Fun fact: you didn’t have to reinstall; you can actually boot up a live usb and chroot into your install to fix things.

  • Webp

  • Probably would work well on OpenTTD for similar reasons.

    Honestly, there’s a bit of an “if I had a nickel” meme for open source reverse engineered clones of Chris Sawyer tycoon games, although it would be 3 nickels rather than the traditional 2 due to OpenLocomotion.