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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

  • I could use some troubleshooting help for a Linux laptop

  • You're right that it was power-related - one of the options was an ASPM modification - but the issue seemed to be common to this chipset accross laptop brands.

    The fix I used came from this post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=286109

    My machine was a Thinkpad, but this article was also talking about problems on HP, Asus, etcetera. I think the 8852BE might just be cursed

    To be fair, I was using an E series Thinkpad, but in my defense, the E series seems to have improved a lot in the past few years - this was luckily the only issue I've had. I've had much more difficult times with Linux on other laptops. Heck, even my desktop had more setup than this when I was first starting out, though it was because I was using a Broadcom Wi-Fi card, as I also dual-booted with a Hackintosh and macOS only supports Broadcom Wi-Fi chipsets.

  • I could use some troubleshooting help for a Linux laptop

  • Otherwise agree, but I did run into pain with Realtek on my Thinkpad - the module would sometimes crash and disconnect entirely (on a PCI-e level) from the system.

    I did manage to find a fix, but I would not recommend Realtek to someone.

  • Share a script/alias you use a lot

  • I once experimented with something similar, except it was supported to trigger my smart speaker and drop into another part of the house to tell me.

    Honestly, I really need to replace my proprietary smart speaker system with something self-hosted; it’s just I only recently have had the time to start cinsidering.

  • Share a script/alias you use a lot

  • I use Clevis to auto-unlock my encrypted root partition with my TPM; this means when my boot partition is updated (E.G a kernel update), I have to update the PCR register values in my TPM. I do it with my little script /usr/bin/update_pcr:

     
        
#!/bin/bash
clevis luks regen -d /dev/nvme1n1p3 -s 1 tpm2

    I run it with sudo and this handles it for me. The only issue is I can't regenerate the binding immediately after the update; I have to reboot, manually enter my password to decrypt the drive, and then do it.

    Now, if I were really fancy and could get it to correctly update the TPM binding immediately after the update, I would have something like an apt package shim with a hook that does it seamlessly. Honestly, I'm surprised that distributions haven't developed robust support for this; the technology is clearly available (I'm using it), but no one seems to have made a user-friendly way for the common user to have TPM encryption in the installer.

  • Meme potential?

  • Haven't purchased it yet. I need to read it, but I've had a difficult time tracking down issue 30 in comic book stores - I got behind and have everything else in the other spin off series.

  • "Put that thing back where it came from, or so help me!"

  • No! Why did you make me aware of this one?! Now I have to acquire it!

    Honestly, this might be the best one they’ve ever made; before, I was quite partial to the Janeway one, which I gifted to my mother.

  • libvirt VM not getting IP

  • I’m pretty sure by default, virtual networks are not enabled automatically if you’re not using virt-manager GUI.

    To make it run automatically, run the following: virsh net-autostart default

    If it’s not that, just to make it easier to find information, what’s your host distro? I’m guessing by mention of Kickstart files that it’s something Red Hat related, possibly Rocky 9 based on your choice of guest.

  • Federation be like...

  • The bridge crew of the Dauntless/Voyager A would like a word.

    (Just pretend Ascensia’s not there)

  • What else to run on a RPi?

  • Weird. It must be that my taste is very indie/alternative. You can always also check if the artist has their own shop.

    That’s how Jonathan Coulton does it. They Might Be Giants does it as well (in addition to a Bandcamp), but most of their stuff from 1990-1996 is stuck on their former label, so they can’t sell DRM-free audio, only vinyl and/or cassette.

  • Captain Kirk Is Back from the Dead in New Star Trek Comic ‘The Last Starship’

  • I got midway through season 4 of Disco, though I plan on finishing eventually. I think season 3 had its ups and downs, but the setting it introduced could have been really interesting. I was just underwhelmed by what they were doing in season 4 instead of the natural plot threads the 32nd century opened.

    I agree on SNW, and LD and PRO have earned a special place in my heart.

  • "With great mustache comes great responsibility"

  • Let’s transporter clone, Genesis planet, Black Mountain etcetera George Samuel so he can live past 2267.

  • Star Trek and Profanity

  • Though typically partially bleeped, but yes.

  • Pipewire improved its accessibility, allowing for screenreaders to start much earlier

  • Do you have FluidSynth installed? I had similar issues recently - I just have a script that restarts pipewire automatically on login.

  • Captain Kirk Is Back from the Dead in New Star Trek Comic ‘The Last Starship’

  • You must be quite behind on Trek. They sort of just gave up on Kelvin and returned to the prime timeline with Star Trek: Discovery back in 2017. They eventually canonized that the Kelvin timeline is just an alternate reality existing in parallel to the main timeline.

  • The Riker Maneuver vs. The Picard Maneuver

  • I recently found hidden in my CD collection a copy of the soundtrack to The Tune.

  • Gamepad desktop controls

  • PS5 controller also works.

  • Shh shh, this is the good part...

  • And then there’s an entire universe of memes just from the episode where Dal and Janeway bodyswap - already seen several.

  • My brother just sent this to me

  • An xkcd classic - didn’t even need to look at it. That’s a good reminder.

  • Shh shh, this is the good part...

  • Yes! Finally! Someone else doing some Prodigy memes, especially crazy Wesley ones. Here’s some of mine (previously exclusive to c/risa):

    (Note that last panel is meant to convey my excitement at Wesley’s reappearance.)

    And another Prodigy meme, conveying what I love about Trek: