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

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

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  • This is less like buying a bigger car and more like upgrading the stereo in the car - 256GB in 2025 is somewhat akin to having only AM radio, and I've found it gets annoying real fast when doing anything serious.

    I would hesitate to put anything smaller than 1 TB in something that's supposed to be a daily driver.

  • Canon Connections: SNW 3x03 - Shuttle to Kenfori

  • But supposedly, as said in the show, the house could regain their honor by someone in the house assassinating Dak’Rah, so I don’t get how using technicalities to graft M’Benga would violate that rule.

  • You're gonna do what to my matrix?!

  • Relax, Doc. It's just a bit of lin alg!

  • I'm surprised the Federation hasn't outlawed burns this devastating

  • Well, actually, what remains of the council eventually does so in the 30th century after the Grim Reaper made a bit too good of a "Your Mom" joke to a child, if you know what I mean.

  • Canon Connections: SNW 3x03 - Shuttle to Kenfori

  • Did anyone else think, "Why doesn't Bytha just pull a House Quark and marry, then immediately divorce M'Benga?"

    Although I guess M'Benga, unlike Quark, can't pull the "This isn't an honorable combat. This is an execution!"

  • STAR TREK: Starfleet Academy Trailer (2025) Comic-Con

  • Yeh. Really, I hope this takes full advantage of the 31st century setting, because I feel like there's so much to explore, even in existing Star Trek societies.

    While some might see the Klingons here as beating a dead horse, I really have wanted to know how the Klingons handled the burn. I hope it's not something dumb like, "My race turned to civil war."

    I think it would be kind of awesome if instead, we had the homeworld Klingons have a cultural shift where they choose to avoid civil war and instead embrace unprecedented collaboration in the hopes of one day attaining their former glory. Of course, this doesn't mean they quit being warriors; my thought is to keep their teeth sharp, there is a gladiator set up using holodeck and transporter technology where two combatants enter. Then, the computer randomly selects, with the result unknown to the combatants, whether it merely streams the combatant's presence to each other and prevents lethal blows or actually puts the combatants in a duel to the death (about a 1/20 chance).

  • STAR TREK: Starfleet Academy Trailer (2025) Comic-Con

  • Um, actchooally, Descendants predates Disney Plus by a few years.

  • Puppets Explained, Sybok Teased, TAS Episode Scrapped, And More ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ SDCC Reveals

  • I'm sad about the TAS episode not being a thing, I'm sad about the puppets being muppets instead of practical creatures, but also, this episode just seems like fun.

    It almost reminds me of the Christmas episode of Eureka that was really fun, but may have single-handedly brought the series overbudget. That show was fun, with some flaws:

    • Some of the worst autism representation I have seen on television.
    • It could never decide if it was a comedy or a drama, although that wishy-washiness sometimes worked in its favor, such as when they decided to stir up the plot by creating an alternate timeline... twice.

  • STAR TREK: Starfleet Academy Trailer (2025) Comic-Con

  • (Stares in Miranda Class)

  • STAR TREK: Starfleet Academy Trailer (2025) Comic-Con

  • Well, sort of. This series is set in Disco's 31st century, but Tawny Newsome (played Mariner on Lower Decks) is on the writing staff I think, so let's hope she can inject some goodness.

  • Looking for a Desktop Environment recommendation for my Mother's new 2-1 laptop.

  • Assuming she hasn’t bought it yet, please research that Yoga first. It might work fine, but it could also end up being a miserable experience.

    You can check https://linux-hardware.org/ for the model or a similar one.

  • Blender 4.5 LTS Arrives with Major UI Overhaul, Animation Improvements

  • Sounds nice overall, but the UI changes make me worry that we’re on the way to making a bunch of tutorials obsolete yet again.

  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 | SDCC Surprise

  • Oh, I too enjoyed the musical episode. In case I wasn’t clear, I meant was the musical episode was placed AFTER a string of really depressing episodes to lighten the mood a bit, and I bet they’ll do the same with this one.

  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 | SDCC Surprise

  • Fun, but when I first heard my mother utter the words “Jim Henson collaboration”, I was hoping it would be really cool practical effects alien creatures, though I guess Farscape already did that.

    Who bets this will be placed after a new record for most depressing episode in the franchise like they did with the musical?

  • If it's not candid I ain't tryin'

  • Honestly, Avery Brooks deserved more in general.

  • Best os choices and use cases for a netbook with 2ram?

  • No, I mean TinyCore literally would run out of RAM during boot.

  • Best os choices and use cases for a netbook with 2ram?

  • Like others have said, Debian probably isn’t a bad idea.

    I feel like it would be kind of stupid to run a full-on desktop environment even though technically possible, though - I think this is a good use for IceWM.

    Also, at worst, you might have a really low power server.

  • Best os choices and use cases for a netbook with 2ram?

  • I think less than 64MB is difficult these days - a few years ago, I was backing up a laptop with 48MB of RAM, and to get a minimal Linux terminal running on it, I had to create a custom Buildroot image and throw it on a CD. TinyCore was too much for it.

  • Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything

  • The actual transition happened ages ago - 2024 or so. A bunch of transitional packages in Testing and Sid had -t64 appended for a while.

  • Lilac and machine oil

  • I looked at the episode in question, and it looks like his vein is just really big.