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

  • That sounds more like something weird about the card itself than with the driver; "power saving feature" makes me think a faulty hardware ACPI implementation by the card vendor is to blame. I've had a similar thing happen with my Wi-Fi modem where it would completely crash and only a reboot would fix it; I too have to do special kernel options to get it working.

  • Annoying characters

  • I usually hate it when studios wipe something off the face of the earth for a bunch of tax BS or whatever, but please do this to Star Trek: Scouts.

    What pains me is it is certainly possible to make a good Star Trek kids show that isn’t just iPad baby slop. Like, just have a show about a bunch of kids having fun around Starbase 170 or something, with hints of what the often-exhausted Starfleet and civilian parents are going through.

    But no, most of the brainless executives have long since decided kids (and almost everyone, honestly) don’t need quality of any sort.

  • The Quark Who Subsidized Christmas

  • QuillOS: Alpine-based Linux distribution optimised for Kobo e-readers

  • Honestly, I’ve been tempted by a Kobo lately; I have a lot of Star Trek RPG and comic book PDFs/ePUBs that I got through Humble Bundle over the past couple years.

    Kobo seems like the least horrible brand I can get for a reasonable price with a reasonable screen quality; as pleasantly simple and reliable as they seem, and as nice as electronics re-use is, I’m not sure that one Sony e-reader that’s as old as my younger sibling fulfills my use case.

    Though honestly, if you have other recommendations for a Linux-friendly color e-reader, I’d be glad to hear them.

  • Debusine Repositories Enter Beta: Ubuntu PPA-Like User Archives For Debian Linux

  • Honestly, I have mixed feelings about this.

    I’m very squeamish about adding more than the bare minimum external repos, though less so about extrepo stuff. I’m honestly worried this is just going to make it very easy for people to find new ways to break their systems; then again, that may be less likely to happen for the user demographic of Debian, and in the end, that’s no reason not to add a feature this convenient.

  • Debusine Repositories Enter Beta: Ubuntu PPA-Like User Archives For Debian Linux

  • https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianNet

    It’s an official Debian address, and the main page redirects to .org. I think it has more broad use now, but I think it’s often been used for stuff like media codecs they can’t include in the main distro. Often used for side projects.

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

  • What GPU model is it? And what distro are you using?

    Did you install separate AMD drivers? You’re generally not supposed to do that; it’s just plug-and-play in the kernel and MESA (assuming the version is new enough), and you usually don’t need to download separate drivers.

    Also, what kernel flags did you have to use?

    It’s just that I’m a bit skeptical any of this is actually the fault of the AMD Linux kernel driver, and I would guess there’s some underlying software or hardware issue like a faulty ACPI implementation on the motherboard. I’m not saying AMD can do no wrong, but in this case, making blanket statements about the quality of AMD GPU drivers may be premature.

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

  • As others have said, “stable” and “unstable” have a different connotation in the FOSS world.

    Rolling releases probably don’t have more software crashes than their stable counterparts, which is what you meant.

    However, some use cases prefer that they are able to use the same config for a long time, and when software updates frequently, system administration can become a cat-and-mouse game of “What config broke this time?” That’s not to say rolling release is bad, but sometimes it’s like using a power drill instead of a screw driver.

    Also, I definitely feel like a stable distro is more likely to survive a software update after not using the computer for a few months to a year. Granted, I’ve had a Debian Testing (rolling release) install that did survive an upgrade after a year of non-use, but I’ve also seen Arch VMs that broke after just a couple months of non-use, forcing me to reinstall.

  • Linux Patches Begin Adapting RAID Code To Use Folios

  • I went into this Phoronix article half-expecting someone to come up with a venomous, nasty comment over even something this mundane.

  • The Quark Who Subsidized Christmas

  • We are all at his mercy.

  • Heck, if random Ensign Jo is at the helm and waits for the right moment, they could probably warp the ship into a star before anyone can realize what’s going on.

    Though I think one probably one of the most potentially deadly characters in the franchise by sheer skill might be D’Vana Tendi, considering how she went through all those Romulan guards in Veritas, her ability to take over a ship, her ability to switch between an completely unintimidating and absolutely terrifying demeanor, etcetera.

  • So close yet so far. Why must hardware support be so weird?

  • USB Wi-Fi adapters are usually fine. I do have a PCI-E Wi-Fi card in my desktop from my Hackintosh days, though, which has gone unused since my home now has lots of ethernet connections.

  • The Sisko was not amused to find out Buddy was the new Federation ambassador to the space elves.

  • Of course, it was really just Santa pulling some Jason Vigo-type bullcrap, doing anything he could to offload him to someone else.

  • Fat chance of convincing them to switch to Linux

  • It's not the concept of updating that's the problem; it's that Windows's process gets in the way of your work and doesn't make its status clear. You can be stuck on 90% for thirty minutes, and all you can do is wait with fingers crosses.

    When updating on Linux, it's usually dead clear what it's updating and very forthcoming about any errors that have come up. Also, I can usually still at least check my e-mail while updating my Linux packages, if not most of what I usually do, and just restart when it's convenient.

  • Fat chance of convincing them to switch to Linux

  • As someone who works at a help desk, the main "blue screen" I see these days is the computer asking for a Bitlocker key after an update, upon which I have to direct them through their Microsoft account.

    I've also seen my fair share of crapped out installs that just needed a reinstall, as well as the occasional issue with Realtek 8852.

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  • I used Linux in a VM and WSL for several years, and I occasionally used it on an old laptop. It was in 2022 on the week I installed Cygwin that I thought, “I do more Linux stuff than Windows stuff. Why don’t I just straight up use Linux?”

    I created a test install on a secondary drive, which has now been my main install for years and has been moved to a bigger drive twice.

    I got very used to Linux, and Windows gave me no reason to come back.

  • What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands?

  • for file in *.WAV; do ffmpeg -i “$file” -i cover.png -disposition:v attached_art “$(basename “$file” .wav).flac”

    (I’m doing this from memory, so I may have messed something up, but that’s the gist of it for taking a bunch of WAV files and turning them into FLACs with cover art. I also do a similar setup for combining the metadata of an MP3 and audio data of a WAV, since They Might Be Giants seems to have forgotten FLAC was invented.)

  • Follow Captain Gomez on social media for more life pro tips

  • I guess it worked, too; she went from ensign to captain in no more than 16 years… in a gold uniform.

    Heck, depending on when she got the Archimedes, she may have beaten Riker to captain.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    There are sane people with this many VMs on a personal machine, right? RIGHT?

  • This Might Be Lemmy: They Might Be Giants (tmbg) Community @lemmy.world
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    Inverse TMBG Song/Album names

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    What is the best closing scene in the entire Star Trek Franchise, and why is it Kirk, Spock, and Bones singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"?

  • This Might Be Lemmy: They Might Be Giants (tmbg) Community @lemmy.world
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    A Good Fanvid of "I Lost Thurdsay"

  • Daystrom Institute @startrek.website
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    What would Borg Vau N'Akat be like? (And in general, what the heck is up with the Vau N'Akat?)

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    Got bored and created my attempt at Mirror Badgey in Inkscape

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    Artificial Life Forms of the Quadrants Unite!

  • This Might Be Lemmy: They Might Be Giants (tmbg) Community @lemmy.world
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    They Might Be Giants - Certain People I Could Name(demo)

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    Prisencolinensinainciusol

  • Daystrom Institute @startrek.website
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    Is the Mirror Universe Timeline seen in PRO: Cracked Mirror the prime mirror universe?

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    Bonzai Plant Headcanon

  • Daystrom Institute @startrek.website
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    The Psychological and Physical Impacts of Being a Former Borg Drone on Seven of Nine

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    A Casual Mathematical Analysis of the Creepiness of Various Male Character on Voyager

    www.desmos.com /calculator/pfeszpip6n
  • This Might Be Lemmy: They Might Be Giants (tmbg) Community @lemmy.world
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    Thoughts on the (Petrojvic) Blasting Company

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    A Common Genre of Trek Episode

  • Daystrom Institute @startrek.website
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    Does/can the Doctor hold rank?

  • This Might Be Lemmy: They Might Be Giants (tmbg) Community @lemmy.world
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    🎶 Here comes birthday. Beware of the birthday. 🎶

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    A Rehash of a Classic

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Solution to my Thinkpad E16 Wi-Fi Woes

    bugs.launchpad.net /ubuntu/+source/linux-oem-6.1/+bug/2017277
  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    A Gamble: What will be the plot of Lower Decks's Finale?