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The Star Trek IV punk is one of those jokes that’s so unfunny it causes an integer overflow and loops back around to absolutely hilarious.

I feel like it was more than the package manager whining; I think xorg literally wouldn’t start after the update, although it’s been so long now that I could be misremembering.

Honestly, I probably could have salvaged the install if I’d wanted to without too much difficulty, but it was just a VM for testing distro packaging rather than a daily driver device.

Still, what you say is good to know, and perhaps I should hold back on the Pacman slander. I’ve just been using Debian for around 4 years now and had pretty good reliability; then again, Debian (and most distros, with their pitiful documentation) would probably be very hard to use without Archwiki.

Eh, I disagree with you on Pacman. It could be possible I was doing something stupid, but I've had Arch VMs where I didn't open them for three months, and when I tried to update them I got a colossally messed up install.

I just made a new VM, as I really only need it when I need to make sure a package has the correct dependencies on Arch.

Eh; testing doesn't break THAT often. Having used it on many of my devices for almost 4 years, I can count on one hand the number of times it broke in a way I had to chroot in to fix it.

This is very unlikely to be because they are using testing.

Still, using Debian Stable is probably a smarter idea for this user.

I like using this on my desktop, but it's way too easy to trigger this by accident on a laptop, so I disable it on there.

My best guess is that it's not a Flatpak permissions issue as others are claiming; the software is just trying to use your iGPU (which is usually crappy) instead of your dGPU.

Try taking whatever command you use to start the program and tacking DRI_PRIME=1 on the front. This has often worked for me on applications regardless of whether they're native or Flatpak.

The weird thing about that is I feel like whoever are Bashir’s commanding officers during the rest of his career would have had to have hand-picked him despite that, and thus wouldn’t have qualms about promoting him either.

I like to use pythonz in this case; it’s a tool to manage Python installs, and it puts the installs in a directory under your home directory, not affecting anything in the system.

It does build each version from source, which introduces some quirks; I’ve found compilation for some Python versions works better with clang, and sometimes, you need to enable build options.

Still, I think this is a good way to do things; just start whichever Python version you want, and then create a venv with it.

The year of Linux on the desktop was the friends we made along the way…

No, I don’t want to spend weeks to learn GDB inside-out, so I don’t have to search online for 15-30 minutes on an AI infested internet every time I want to use it, for each feature I’m using it for that day.

1. Search “gdb cheatsheet” and bookmark it. This looks good, but you have plenty of choices. When you find one you like, you probably almost never have to go to the internet again.
2. Unfortunately, you can’t avoid a search engine while programming; you’re not going to get very far. All you can do is develop your search skills to avoid the slop.
3. If you’re using a statically typed language (C, C++, Rust, etc.) already, basic GDB is comparatively simple. For these languages, not knowing GDB is a bit like an electrician not knowing how to use a multimeter; it’s a matter of necessity rather than “gatekeeping”.

No, I don’t want to gatekeep Linux from “normies”, by making it as user-unfriendly as possible, so I can keep the Linux community a frat club for slur saying techbros.

For your sake, I must emphasize that insulting the people you want help from is not an effective tactic for obtaining help. There are certainly jerks in the broader Linux community, but effectively accusing anyone in this community unable to give you exactly what you want of being a “slur saying techbro” (unless I misunderstand you) is, no offense, an incredibly entitled view to have.

If you wish to make valuable use of internet forums, I would request you take heed of this: www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Anyhow, I wish you luck in your endeavors.

In practice, Machine Owner Keys are a thing, though it depends on Microsoft still signing shim, I believe.

Having Microsoft in the chain of trust rather than a standards body is rather concerning, though.

Modern hardware absolutely should have an encryption processor; TPM just isn’t great.

Eh, the Pegasus tattoo doesn’t look great; half of it is missing. Must be embedded in the skin or something…

Yep. That's it's standard abbreviation in fandom. Other common ones you might already know:

• TOS: The Original Series
• TNG: The Next Generation
• DS9: Deep Speace 9
• VOY: Voyager
• ENT: Enterprise
• DIS: Discovery
• PIC: Picard
• LD: Lower Decks
• PRO: Prodigy
• SFA: Starfleet Academy

Maybe it’s just I’m a relative noob to build systems, but gosh, do I love Meson.

The documentation’s pretty okay - not perfect, but better than cmake - and it feels like I can actually learn it by example through looking at other projects’ setups.

I can live with using other build systems for other projects, but for personal projects, I’ll always choose Meson. I’ll always push for it if a project I’m working on needs to choose a build system.

I feel a bit insulted that Bashir didn’t even make Lieutenant Commander in his entire life in Starfleet, considering he was very young when we last saw him.

Interestingly, we see an okudagram in PRO that confirms prime Harry hit Lieutenant by 2384. Unfortunately, I can’t post it, as my instance is updating my image storage infrastructure right now.

Actually, it could be a “great filter” situation; mostly only ensign Kims end up in situations where they end up accidentally switching multiverses. Lieutenant Kims are far less likely to end up in such a situation, thus the small sample size.

In the recent IDW comics, I’m pretty sure Harry Kim tries to blow up the Tzenkethi home world while working for Starfleet Intelligence. Tom had left Miral with Harry, not knowing Harry would take the baby on such a crazy mission; Harry has an EMH in his secret hideout on the Tzenkethi homeworld to change diapers.

Edit: He also goes by the code name Kingsnake.

You could do signup through a form and just throw a QR code on a poster.

My university Linux Users Group usually uses Crytpad (which is FOSS and seems federated, and has a flagship instance) to create forms for votes, so that might do the trick for you.

Infinity Train is an animated sci-fi/fantasy anthology series with 4 seasons. It’s set on the eponymous vehicle that runs in a barren Mars-like environment; each car has its own self-contained, often-surreal miniature world.

Each season focuses on a different person (or group of people) who has been transported to the train and their efforts to find a way off, but also usually contains some characters from the previous season. Kate Mulgrew of Star Trek: Voyager fame plays a recurring character throughout the entire series.

Seasons 1 is still quite good but the most tween-oriented, while season 2 gets a bit darker but still maintains some of that focus. Season 3 is a beautiful dark tragedy. Season 4 is okay; it’s a prequel to the other seasons. It got rated TV-MA despite being much tamer than season 3; I’m guessing part of that is season 3 was nuts, but it’s also really suspicious that it got this rating when it is the one season where they vaguely hinted the protagonists were gay.

Unfortunately, it got canceled and disappeared from most places for a while as part of the Warner Bros suicide for tax purposes a few years back; now, S1, S2, and S4 can be bought, but piracy is still the only way to watch season 3. Luckily, the whole series has been on Internet Archive for ages, and no copyright claims have been made against it.