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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

  • Skydance-Paramount Merger Clears FCC At Last, With Deal Set To Close And Changes Coming

  • I mean, the Stalin administration was basically bribed into letting this go through, so I imagine whoever ends up in power is going to be someone who was complicit in the recent crap.

  • Wayback 0.1 Released As First Preview Release For X11 Compatibility Layer

  • A more apt comparison would be using the Windows guest to remote into the Linux host via xorg piping, waypipe, VNC, RDP, etcetera, which conveys your feeling of weirdness while being a closer approximation of what this really does.

  • Skydance-Paramount Merger Clears FCC At Last, With Deal Set To Close And Changes Coming

  • It’s posts like this that make me wish more social media applications had a button so you could dislike the news without shooting the messenger.

  • Canon Connections: SNW 3x02 -Wedding Bell Blues

  • Has anyone else ever seen the resemblance:

  • Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media

  • Besides the corrections others have said, I really can’t think of any reason people would intentionally use legacy BIOS on a machine with UEFI for a new install.

    Like, I could get doing it for an old install - I know someone who installed Windows 7 in 2015 on their then-new desktop build and later upgraded to 10 but is stuck on legacy BIOS for now with that machine because 7 only ran on that.

    I could see something similarly jank happening to someone in the Linux world and then decide not to address it for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it reasons”, but certainly not for no reason.

  • Deleting Windows from dual boot Linux/Windows computer

  • Do you have data on the Windows partition?

    Either way, a good way to do it might be to use dd (or a different disk image tool) to copy your Linux installation partitions to a portable hard drive, and make sure the image works. Then wipe the drive and copy the Linux partitions back to it via dd or another imaging tool.

  • aaa

  • As others have said, you should probably replace your CPU fan ASAP.

    A computer in usable condition does not shut down without user input.

  • Let's say you and I go toe-to-toe on bird of prey law and see who comes out the victor.

  • Just watched this episode for the first time…

  • It's the best franchise!

  • I think there’s a mistake with 71 down - you need to add a few spaces and change it to “FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE”.

  • Annotations for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x02: “Wedding Bell Blues”:

  • As said on the Daystrom crosspost, the bartender is the first live action appearance of an Edosian, dirst introduced in TAS.

  • Annotations for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x02: “Wedding Bell Blues”

  • Also, I’m pretty sure this episode contains the first live action appearance of an Edosian, first introduced in TAS and appearing in ever animated Trek series since.

  • How Star Trek: Voyager Failed In The Face Of Easy Success

  • You’re right that the attempt wasn’t necessarily malicious. I feel it can be possible to have good intentions and still end up doing something wrong, whether that be sexist, racist, or otherwise hurtful.

    Inaccurate cultural depictions can take away control of a people’s story and misrepresent them in such a way that distracts from the fact that they are a present-day people living their own everyday lives.

    Of course, I think the failures in Chakotay’s character development that you mention are also very real and are a major factor in the failure of his character.

    Overall, though, I still quite enjoy Voyager.

  • Looks Who's Talking: Trek edition

  • How far did you watch into Prodigy? Let’s just say it gradually gets less forgettable - I think it really picks up mid-season 1.

    I do love Lower Decks, though.

  • The best Star Trek Crew. Wrong answers only

  • Another good one:

    If you don’t get it:

  • The best Star Trek Crew. Wrong answers only

  • I know someone who read the book, and they said the show stayed mostly true to it plotwise; it tended not to skip things and actually added details.

  • The best Star Trek Crew. Wrong answers only

  • Finally! Someone else recognizes the premium quality entertainment that is Murderbot!

    I seriously recommend this show to any Trekkie.

  • Scotty, when the walls fell

  • Or, my fan theory is that since Picard demonstrates the Q may not be totally linear, Trelane is just Q2. At the very least, we know they can play around with time.

  • Archcraft install, Lenovo Chromebook.

  • Reminds me of when I threw Debian Trixie on my freshly decommissioned high school Chromebook - with Bcachefs. Luckily, it wasn’t a daily driver, just a toy; the thing had an AMD Stoney Ridge APU that you had to use special compiler flags on to get working.

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

  • Part of me wants to buy/borrow the Lower Decks DVDs just so I can get better screen rips on Memory Alpha.

    Then again, I also kind of want to fork Memory Alpha because at this point, you basically can’t use Fandom without an ad blocked.

    But that’s such a huge undertaking because I’d have to find hosting, import the large database dump (getting it, or at least a version from late May, isn’t so hard - just check Special:Statistics), delete what I don’t need, fix/rebuild templates, replace images, check tens of thousands of pages, remove Memory Alpha administrative pages) get the word out, etcetera.

    It’d almost be awesome if it were a .website project, but even if it ever got off the ground, I’d worry the traffic might be unsustainable.