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

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • Life is good

  • At the same time, I can’t imagine how many knives are to Grand Nagus Rom’s throat, so Nog might have it relatively good. I’m sure someone would be bound to try and kidnap him at least once, but he’s an experienced Starfleet officer and can probably make it clear early on how foolish taking him hostage actually is.

    Like, it’s kind of a miracle Rom made it to 2381 without at least ending up exiled from Ferengi society.

    I guess Ishka may have used Zek’s social influence to keep Rom in power.

    Still, I think it would be fascinating to have “autobiograp

  • What was your first distro?

  • 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...

    though luckily not for long.

    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.

  • how come some function keys don't work anymore on debian 13 xfce?

  • 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.

  • Star Trek: Infection VR - Official Release Date Trailer | gamescom 2025 - IGN

  • 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.

  • how come some function keys don't work anymore on debian 13 xfce?

  • What desktop environment are you using?

    And maybe just give device model for good measure.

  • Oh Lawd, she comin!

  • 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.

  • Star Trek: Lower Decks Wins Two Hugo Awards, Celebrating Series Finale and 'Warp Your Own Way' Graphic Novel

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

  • Debian turns 32!

  • The big 25!

  • Kirk eyeing it like he wants it

  • 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

  • Office workers - Has anyone here convinced their boss to let them install a Linux distro on their work desktop?

  • 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.

  • Permanently Deleted

  • 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.)

  • Under the hood (not de's or gui) what REALLY separates linux from windows?

  • 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.

  • "Shut Up, Wesley" [Remastered in HD]

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

  • Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian [LWN]

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

  • FFmpeg 8.0 merges OpenAI "Whisper Filter" for automatic speech recognition, Vulkan AV1 encoding, & VP9 decoding

  • 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.

  • FFmpeg 8.0 merges OpenAI "Whisper Filter" for automatic speech recognition, Vulkan AV1 encoding, & VP9 decoding

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

  • FFmpeg 8.0 merges OpenAI "Whisper Filter" for automatic speech recognition, Vulkan AV1 encoding, & VP9 decoding

  • 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.

  • FFmpeg 8.0 merges OpenAI "Whisper Filter" for automatic speech recognition, Vulkan AV1 encoding, & VP9 decoding

  • 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.

  • About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash

  • 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.