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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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  • 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.

  • Been Very Recently Watching ‘Star Trek: The Animated Series’; What Do Rest of You, Who have Watched At Least 3-Episodes, Think of The Series?

  • 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.

  • ‘Star Trek’ Character I Wish I Could Be More Like, in This My Time of Emotionally Preparing for The Worse Thing We All Known- Putting A Love One Down.

  • I feel for you, having had to put down a dog in 2022 and having one who might be getting close.

    I feel the need to point something out, however; as the meme goes, “Sir, this is a Wendy’s c/Risa.” In other words, you’re making a lot of serious posts in a community primarily meant for memes and crapposting, where we come to relax. For general Trek-related discussion, c/startrek is probably a better idea.

    Anyhow, sorry for your pain, and here’s a belated welcome to the fediverse.

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  • Maybe ask around and request to put up posters in a local library?

    Also, see if your local university has a group already, and maybe if the age difference isn’t creepy, see if you can hang with them.

  • Been Very Recently Watching ‘Star Trek: The Animated Series’; What Do Rest of You, Who have Watched At Least 3-Episodes, Think of The Series?

  • Love it. Pleasurably campy, occasionally actually quite good despite its comically bad animation.

    But honestly, what animation have you actually watched? Infinity Train is a solid piece of television, with season 3 being one of the best pieces of media I’ve ever experienced. I find it weird to broadly dismiss animation as a general storytelling medium; there are some things you can do with animation that just doesn’t look good in live action.

  • No contest

  • Mutually assured destruction!

  • No contest

  • But the Enterprise can probably beam Han and Chewy into the void of space if they so desired.

  • MRW I'm trying to slack off for the rest of the year and someone tries assigning me a new task

  • Funny, but to be fair, electricity probably still has its uses in Trek. For instance, does it really make sense to power a toothbrush directly from EPS conduits? (And yes, they seem to still have toothbrushes in the 24th century according to MA; a bit different, but probably still electric.)

    Also, according to MA article on EPS:

    From the EPS taps, the energy was distributed through conventional electricity; however, this conversion often occurred deep inside the components of a subsystem.

  • MRW I'm trying to slack off for the rest of the year and someone tries assigning me a new task

  • Alternatively, it could be possible the Starfleet voice protocol is similar to UDP, and the system simulates static to fill in the gaps when there is packet loss.

  • MRW I'm trying to slack off for the rest of the year and someone tries assigning me a new task

  • No. “Digital” refers to the logic used to implement a system, which is usually boolean and probably still is in Star Trek.

    Things can be digital regardless of implementation; tapes and spinning hard drives, can still store digital binary data.

  • For the Horde!

  • The whole time, I was thinking, "Why doesn't Pike just pull a Quark (or more correctly, make Quark pull a Pike), and marry, then almost immediately divorce her?"

  • Goodbye, and thanks for all the Space Whales

  • “Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so.”

  • The Linux kernel is just a program

  • Zaphod’s just zis guy, you know?

  • Confused Space Savior Sounds

  • The difference is it was Federation citizens doing it to rogue Federation citizens, who had actually committed a similar crime of forced relocation by making a Cardassian colony uninhabitable to Cardassians.

    That doesn’t make the situation totally right, that’s just to say it’s morally gray.

    It’s a little like calling the Alamo a genocide.

  • unbalanced ram. duel channel soldered memory

  • It gets less essential the more memory you have, though I have 32GB of RAM on my desktop and still have 32GB swap space, which is probably way overkill, but I can afford it for now become I have a 2TB SSD that still has several hundred gigabytes left and could probably have a bit freed. With the memory shortage caused by "artificial intelligence" companies, I may have to go less crazy on the storage now, though.

  • scx_horoscope: Astrological CPU scheduler

  • If I had any close friends who used Linux, I would install this for April fools.

  • All he wants is an official Red Ryder, phase-adjusted, two-hundred shot, range model phaser rifle!

  • To be fair, it’s a BB gun, which are tiny metal pellets that, while possibly painful, usually aren’t super lethal and are not a useful instrument in a “good ol’ traditional” American mass shooting. They’re more often used on tin cans than flesh. A few sociopathic kids might use them to torture birds, though.

    Maybe they contribute to our dangerous gun culture by getting kids involved early, but getting an older kid a BB gun isn’t as weird or comically American as it sounds in and of itself.

  • All he wants is an official Red Ryder, phase-adjusted, two-hundred shot, range model phaser rifle!

  • Eh. I mean Christmas Story’s kind of fun, but fair warning, it has a scene that’s rather racist to Chinese people.

  • unbalanced ram. duel channel soldered memory

  • That just sounds like insufficient swap space, honestly. For part of the summer of 2024, I used a laptop from 2016 with 8 GB of RAM as my man portable devicr. The swap partition size I used was fine for most things but a but small; however, I’d occasionally run Spleeter and run out of memory, leading to the issues you experienced, which were alleviated by just adding a temporary swap file. Before that, I used a gen 1 Surface Go, also with 8 GB RAM.

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    How would the Trill Symbiosis Commission handle duplicate symbionts?

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    Change my mind: SNW, SFA should fire their music departments and replace them with Chris Westlake!!! 😉

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    If I Get to Kill Him, Take My Latinum!

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    Is The Dog from “Much Ado About Boimler” legal?

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    Merp Naming

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    Lower Decks Eulogizing

  • This Might Be Lemmy: They Might Be Giants (tmbg) Community @lemmy.world
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    John Linnell’s Tele-Tele-Phone Cover

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    **SPOILERS FOR LD 5x07 Fully Dialated**

    Look at Lower Decks gettings all authentic...

  • This Might Be Lemmy: They Might Be Giants (tmbg) Community @lemmy.world
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    Which “Another First Kiss” variant?

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    If I had a slip of latinum for every time a DS9 character went to an alien afterlife...

  • This Might Be Lemmy: They Might Be Giants (tmbg) Community @lemmy.world
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    I Just Go Nuts that this song has never seen a proper lease

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    Hypothetical Pips

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    Debian 13 Is Quickly Approaching - Desktop Artwork Voting Now Underway

    www.phoronix.com /news/Debian-13-Trixie-Artwork-Survey
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    Why? - Weird Pi 5 RAM upgrade

    www.xda-developers.com /raspberry-pi-5-ram-8gb-works-great/
  • Quark's @startrek.website
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    Federating Issues with Lemmy.world?

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    The Life of Cetacean Ops Officers

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    This Moment is Canon Now: O'Brien Suffers More

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    It's been a while. Here's a meme for your troubles.

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    Best (or least terrible) Flag Officer

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    This happened to me while getting a refresher on Memory Alpha