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

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • Reading "Q-Squared" and trying to follow the track changes has me like...

  • The main thing that personally drives me nuts about DRM is as a Linux user, many streaming services will only give you 480p or even 360p video even though you're paying for more. With that bullcrap, combined with buggy streaming services, the high seas is sometimes literally a better experience than streaming. Then the hippy moral stuff gets involved:

    Although of course, if I can buy it used on Blu-Ray at a local business (Zia and Bookmans are probably the two best places to do it in my area), I'll do that instead, and just rip the Blu-Rays; it funds places I like while still being (more) legal (than just straight up pirating).

    (Granted, I'm a bit of a hypocrite, as I don't pirate that much. I'm still on Paramount+ for now because my parents still pay for it, but we're so focused on Star Trek that my idea to just get the Blu-Rays and DVDs is tempting them to get off.)

  • unbalanced ram. duel channel soldered memory

  • Wait... It's a used stick? For future reference, that's a key piece of information. I'm guessing it had a life before it was a server, making it older than 3 years. Depending on the history of the old laptop, I'd guess there's a solid chance that stick is just worn out.

  • unbalanced ram. duel channel soldered memory

  • I'd disagree on the 16GB part. It's nice to have, but I think 8GB is perfectly fine for most non-gaming use cases. Heck, a couple years ago, I used a laptop from 2010 with 4GB quite comfortably.

    I mean, get at least 16GB if you can, especially in a dev setup, but 8 GB hasn't murdered that many people yet.

  • Debian’s git transition plan

  • I mean, that's true, but that doesn't mean that's why Debian's doing it.

    If they were solving just that, then they would have just pushed for something like a reproducible tarball where you can point to a commit, branch, tag, etcetera from which that tarball can be reproduced and not bother migrating their package format.

    Debian has a serious ease-of-packaging issue that I've witnessed first-hand, and I think they've made it clear that it's moreso the ease factor they're focused on that the security factor.

  • Debian’s git transition plan

  • Not really. If xz were the issue, Debian would have just switched to a different tarball format like lz4.

    This is more about Debian packaging conventions being very archaic and requiring a lot of futzing with upstream tarballs and patches.

  • unbalanced ram. duel channel soldered memory

  • I have an E16 gen 1 AMD that I run in a similar configuration- 8 GB soldered + 16 GB SODIMM. I’ve had no problems.

    I’d recommend what others have suggested - try reseating the RAM and run a memory test. Also, what distro are you using, not that it’ll necessarily help.

  • Reading "Q-Squared" and trying to follow the track changes has me like...

  • I'm usually not big on ebooks, as I tend to read in the evening and haven't had a good e-reader for a long time, and I just don't enjoy blue light at night.

    However, I got a bunch of Star Trek comic eBooks in a Humble Bundle recently, and I need a good way to read those; I'm thinking I'll pick up one of the Kobo Colors. I've seen their limitations, and while it's enough to annoy a lot of comic readers, I'm personally fine so long as I can distinguish the division colors and think it would still be a good purchase for my use case. It might also be nice for my many Star Trek Adventures RPG PDFs; it'd be one less window on my laptop when I (occasionally) GM.

  • Reading "Q-Squared" and trying to follow the track changes has me like...

  • I’ve also been jumping into the novelverse recently; my grandfather had a friend who was trying to offload his late wife’s Trek collection, and I ended up the recipient.

    I started with the second Department of Temporal Investigations book, then used this chart to decide where to properly begin. Even though I heard some grievances about it, I chose the DS9: Avatar books; it all made fun enough reading for before bed.

    Unfortunately, my collection has a bunch of weird gaps, so now that I’ve finished those, I have to look for the next book, Section 31: Abyss (Little relation to the now-infamous film), at a used book store in my area.

  • "It is the year 2000. But where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars. Why? Why?"

  • I just realized that this may be better than Frakes asking you questions. That is an epiphany.

  • Believe it or not but the only being to have more temporal violations than Janeway was Pelia.

  • “Is this really necessary? The wormhole aliens already put me through this kind of crap.”

  • I wouldn't take any chances

  • I wouldn’t take any chances either… I’d put the bullet through his heart before he causes any more suffering for anyone else, personal consequences be darned.

  • What 3D printing-related software runs on Linux?

  • Most software on that front works. I usually just use Cura for slicing.

  • What Have I Learned From Daily Driving Arch Linux For Three Years?

  • Weird. Guess it’s a crazy fluke.

  • debian 13.2 with yt-dlp 2025.12.08 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp. What command do I need to download the newest format available, not exceeding 1080p and up to VP9?

  • Honestly, AV1 software decode isn’t that bad on most recent hardware. My desktop with 2018 hardware does it just fine, and so does my 2023 laptop.

  • What happened to the Linux Kernel Archive at lkml.iu.edu (Indiana University)?

  • Try e-mailing them. I don’t know about that specific mirror, but I use the University of Arizona mirror, and when issues came up, they got back to me pretty quick about what was going on.

  • Mr. Popular over here

  • With that said, if you were forced to choose between them, who would you live under?

    On one hand, under the Borg you at least wouldn’t be aware of your loss of civil rights and wouldn’t suffer being hit by chemical weapons or something, but on the other hand… my goodness what is the Borg queen doing with Data?! You know what, I live to serve the Founders now.

  • Mr. Popular over here

  • No. The Dominion is from Gamma.

  • Mr. Popular over here

  • “Order to chaos”? Aren’t you forgetting someone?

  • Annoying characters

  • All I’m saying is age is weird in space. I mean, don’t do anything stupid, but the Neelix thing isn’t that weird.

    Now if you want REALLY MESSED UP stuff, try that one timeline where Harry Kim married Tom Paris and Kes’s daughter.

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    CONTAINS LD 5x05 STARBASE 80 SPOILERS

    The most distressing scene in the entire Star Trek franchise

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    SHUT UP EDDINGTON! NOBODY LIKES YOU!

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    More Secure Handling of Transporter Clones

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    Bradward Boimler is actually a deceased USS Pegasus Ensign. Prove me wrong!

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    What is your top TMBG Halloween song?

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    Where Do You Guys Throw Your Local Git Repos?

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    This Ramones Song Kind of Reminds Me of "No One Knows My Plan"

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    Confusion on Trek Eras

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    SPOILERS A Dos Cerritos Fan Theory

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    Anyone know anything about this particular Okudagram?

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    Take your cybersecurity seriously, ensigns

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    Why is Boimler so pale even though he grew up on a vineyard?

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    Anyone here play the Super Star Trek terminal game?

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    There are only two types of Bad Star Trek Episodes

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    Favorite Songs off Factory Showroom

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    Anniversary of that time the stage collapsed during "Famous Polka", apparently

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    Happy Birthday, Dan Miller!

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    For the two Over the Garden Wall fans here

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    You're not the boss of me now!

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    Let's Give Prodigy a Little More Meme Love