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  • With the exception of Barclay, everyone is pretty much extremely capable at all times

    No

  • I thought I was doing pretty well at watching through all the popular old sci-fi shows, but literally none of these are familiar to me...

  • Any time I see a lifetime subscription, I think to myself "Is that supposed to last for my lifetime, or your lifetime?"

    • Panel 1: The engine room of a starship, with giant cans of baked beans piped directly to the mouths of some heads poking out of the wall.
    • Panel 2: An outside view of the rear of the starship, showing an array of butts protruding from the starship, implied to be the butts of the people in the wall in Panel 1.
    • Panel 3: The starship captain issuing the command "fart".
    • Panel 4: The starship is now being propelled through space via the thrust generated by the array of farting butts from Panel 2.

    This is more-or-less the same as the experimental drive introduced in Star Trek Discovery.

  • I remember before the Steam Deck was released, and people were discussing all the potential capabilities of the upcoming device, it was often asked if this might be a feature. Of course, there would be the usual "It's a PC, so yes" answers, but the more accurate answers along the lines of "If it's not, someone will make it work" are finally coming true.

  • I can do this with Amaze File Manager, just not with any of the various Firefox forks that I have installed, no matter which option I choose under "Open As". Vanadium (a Chrome fork) was an option when I tried to open as a text file. Using a file named test.html that is saved in my Download directory, this was the URL in Vanadium:

    content://com.amaze.filemanager/storage_root/storage/emulated/0/Download/test.html

  • Bye, dummies. I do hope to see this community migrate to another instance or something.

    What does this mean in terms of this community being archived or whatever? This is probably more of a question about how Lemmy/ActivityPub work, but after Dubvee is shut down, will I still be able to see my old posts by visiting https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/30rock@dubvee.org or something? Will I be able to crosspost those old posts to a new 30 Rock community, or will I have to post them from scratch?

  • Where are you seeing mention that the coma contributed to the choice to discontinue? I see in the !30rock@dubvee.org post that the community will be shut down despite the fact that the only mod is not able to even protest that decision or anything, but no other mention.

  • Never transport a hippie to your location.

  • Why don't they call it Planet Trek? You never go to a star. Not one episode.

  • How would a web browser achieve that? The only thing I can think of is for the browser to choose what sort of web content should be filtered out and what should actually be displayed to the user, which I think we all agree is not what you would want your browser to choose.

  • How are you doing the transcripts? Just pulling from the extracted .srt files?

    Almost. My Blu-ray rips are subtitled with PGS/SUP, which apparently uses an image for subtitles instead of simple plain text like SRT. So I found a program called sup2srt which uses an OCR engine to convert the subtitle images to SRT, which I can then load into the database that this site uses. But, there are some issues with that:

    • Obviously, OCR is imperfect. It did a great job overall, but there were still a lot of things that need to be fixed
    • Most seasons, the subtitles are ALL CAPS.
    • There are a few scenes with hardcoded subtitles (such as the scene in Queen of Jordan in which Jack/Liz are whispering). These lines are not part of the subtitle file

    I made some quick Python scripts that go through all the script files to fix common mistakes, but I am also slowly going through each script individually to manually revise them.