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The password thing is pretty based, honestly. What you say is probably not possible, as the NT kernel would have to support LUKS, I'm pretty sure, which it doesn't.

Precisely. I just use probably as a catch all.

Maybe Muppet Orville would be more viable, since they’re both Disney?

And we have Seth McFarlane play the Kermit the Frog plush on his desk. Not a plush of Seth McFarlane, but a full-size Seth McFarlane wearing a Kermit onsie and sitting on the desk. (Although then, it breaks what makes Muppet adaptations good - the humans taking their roles entirely seriously.$

Although Kermit’s too nice to be Ed, and Mrs. Piggy is a really bad fit for Kelly. Okay, maybe a lot of the characters on The Orville would be really hard to map to Muppets.

Me waiting for Star Trek Lower Decks Volume 2, or at least a repressing of volume 1:

It really shouldn't matter. I know what they're talking about and it's true.

It's not malicious or "ransomware", and this is perfectly normal, default behavior for most devices - both macOS and Windows implement full disk encryption in a default install these days, and your key is almost always in your Microsoft Account on the Microsoft website. While Microsoft does a lot of crap wrong, in this case, Windows's failure to decrypt under GRUB is security features actually kind of doing their job. Basically, trying to boot Windows through GRUB confuses the TPM, causing it to not want to give the keys in case the Windows boot partition has been tampered with by bad actors. Thus, you have to boot directly through Windows Boot Manager, not GRUB

Also, secure boot and TPM aren't just some conspiracy by Microsoft to block Linux; they are attempts at implementing legitimately necessary security features. Full disk encryption supported by correctly implemented secure boot and an encryption chip are essential to having modern security. Linux is not blocked by TPM and Secure Boot; it is certainly possible for Linux distributions to take advantage of them to enhance their own security. I have implemented automatic LUKS full disk encryption that similarly fails to unlock if the partition has been tampered with on my Debian install. In theory, they can actually be used to help improve your security.

That is not to say I think TPM and secure boot are good, though. The really obnoxious thing about secure boot is that all the certificates are controlled by Microsoft rather than a standards body or a group of certificate authorities. While so far, Microsoft has kept it relatively open by providing the third party CA and the shim binary in order to avoid having its neck snapped by the FTC, considering the current administration, we don't know how much longer they'll keep it up, and they could actualize the much-feared blocking of Linux.

The other big problem with TPMs and secure boot is that often, there are so many different implementations and frequently major security flaws in their implementations that weaken their protection. A typical petty thief stealing your laptop still probably won't be able to decrypt your drive, but a nation state can probably find a way. It doesn't help that Windows doesn't encrypt communication between the CPU and the TPM (luckily, the Linux kernel does that by default). Despite these issues, I'd say TPM and Secure Boot is better than nothing for most devices; not using them (EDIT: or a non-M$-controlled alternative, like a memorized drive password AND/OR FIDO keys, which may be better) at least in part means your device is more vulnerable to physical access and bootkit attacks than even most Windows laptops, and they are often the only tools at your defense

EDIT: An addendum: Now the really smart thing I've heard people do is to keep the boot partition on a flash drive (possibly with a keypad or biometrics) that you keep with you at all times.

Yes, all 100 years of them, because that's the only thing they can look forward to in their careers.

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Indeed, and where despite supposed to be getting married, Lwaxana spoils Alexander, and in doing so, is a better parent than Worf ever was.

And somehow, it all works out, and Worf, Alexander, Deanna, and Lwaxana all end up in a mud bath in a holodeck program that gives the vibes of the aliens' version of Alice in Wonderland.

Martin Freeman’s 2005 film portrayal, which I admittedly don’t hate, but still think Jones does a better job overall.

Oh. Duh.

Sounds like a Cheekface song... or at least a lyric..

You know, while that badge is mostly non-canonical, I could totally see those Starfleet security guys who wear those dorky helmets also having one of those.

I mean, how else do you explain TNG:"Cost of Living", which I think overall is perhaps the most drug trip episodes of TNG, and that's including "Frame of Mind".

I didn’t even know there was a Quantum Leap reboot, but then again, I’ve never watched Quantum Leap to begin with.

Level 14:

I mean, it’s in “a galaxy far, far away”, and pretty much all of Star Trek takes place in the Milky Way Galaxy - the only time they ever leave is in, true to its name, TNG:”Where No One Has Gone Before”, when the traveller sends them to M-33.

It could be conceivable that anything that happened in Star Wars is just in a very distant part of the universe that would take millions or billions of years for any ship to get from there.

Though honestly, I personally like to imagine that Tom Paris really likes Star Wars, but when he brings it up, everyone thinks it’s just another one of his campy 20th century films.

What about fan gender-non-binary babe nerds?!

On another note, is there any sci-fi series that has a non-binary character who’s just a normal human and not non-binary for reasons of space magic or being an alien? I mean, Adira from DIS sort of fills that box, since all other people we’ve seen joined with symbionts were cis (more or less), but the symbiont means not quite.

It still really drove me nuts when they revealed T’Lir in the IDW comics to be an Organian in disguise, although I guess we don’t know how Organian gender works; maybe there are cis Organians, and that makes it a bit better?

But this is Simon Jones, the original Arthur Dent, who played him both in the original radio series and the 1981 TV adaptation. I don’t think it can get more real.

It would be even more brutal if he remembered to say “Brother of Jeremy Aster”.