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[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago

We could have a convoluted retcon about Trip Tucker surviving somehow, but I kind of just want them to pull a Shaxs; someone brings it up and Tucker says, “We don’t talk about that.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The early decon scenes are comparatively mild, which is saying something... don't Google Vulcan Neuropressure; I wouldn't wish such horrors upon my worst enemy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I also enjoyed Prodigy, although I will warn the first half of season one is a little difficult to get through, but the rest of the series welds you to your seat!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I second this. It’s basically just an extra TNG-era spinoff that fits really well after Voyager.

The first season is a bit rough (though you’ve got to watch it at least once - important info for the rest of the show’s plot) but then the show starts doing its characters really well and has a sincerity to it you wouldn’t expect from its genre.

When I first heard of the idea of an adult animated Star Trek comedy, I thought it was a terrible idea, but they executed it so darn well, and it’s my second favorite series behind DS9.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Watching Enterprise (currently on season 3), I’m not sure I can blame you, despite the plot getting interesting.

Each 90s series has their fair share of “I want to put Rick Berman in my trunk and [redacted]” moments, but Enterprise takes it to a bit of a disgusting level.

Like, with 7 in Voyager, you learn to tune out the unnecessary catsuit after a while and just enjoy an otherwise good character, but they take the sexualization of T’Pol’s character to such extremes that it interferes with her just being a person on the show.

I’m watching ENT because I’m a sucker for canon, but I totally don’t blame you if you skip it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I use this image, which mostly just works (other than the need to throw model info and a made-up serial into a config.plist.

https://github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Opencore

I can’t say for 15.6, but mine is currently running 15.2 just fine; I usually fall a bit behind on updates since these days, I only really use it to upload They Might Ne Giants rarities to my cloud library via Apple Music.

The only annoyance with the VM is iPhones can’t connect over USB easily.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I don’t use Proxmox, but since it’s all libvirt anyway, I’ve frequently found someone doing something on it that helps me with my VMs.

For instance, my GPU passthrough Hackintosh VM is part based on some dude who made a tutorial for Proxmox that applies elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I mean, that’s at least a grounded Anglicization that I could see someone in-universe coming up with. Pronunciation-wise, ”Fek’lhr” isn’t so bad either, but still incredibly stupid spelling-wise. Laugh

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Who the heck came up with “Fek’lhr”?! Like, it’s clearly it intended to be a Klingon word and not an Anglicization, but they failed miserably to actually follow the rules of the language.

  • “F” is not used for that sound in any major Klingon Romanization system (“f” corresponds to “ng” in xifan hol mapping); “v” is the closest thing.
  • “k” is also not used; that should be a “q”.
  • The apostrophe usually only comes after vowels, as it denotes a glottal stop.
  • “h” is not pronounced silently like it is here; it’s a weird consonant kind of like a soft g.

It’s so bad it looks like Okrand had to fix it in one of his Klingon audio tapes - the official Klingon word is “veqlargh”, leaving the TNG onscreen versiob as a very weird Anglicization with a pointless apostrophe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Funny, though honestly, I've always just used the instance website. I haven't seriously tried Voyager yet, and perhaps I should.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

No.

I usually just use Bash; there’s a certain level of complexity where it begins to be more reasonable to just use Python.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yes and no. I think connotation is important here; “stable” means different things in different contexts even within computing, and they both denote different but important things - kind of like free of cost verses freedom.

In the distro case, people need/want a distribution where they know a new version won’t come and break their config when they update at 2 AM and miss it in the changelog, and “stable” has been agreed upon as the term in that context. Of course, that can change, as all language does, but that’s just the current convention.

Also, Debian tends to make sure software is not unusable before stable is shipped (the Nvidia thing is an anomaly I’ll explain below); while they sometimes fail, as you’ve hinted, I find it quite rare that it actually happens. Also, the “static” of Debian isn’t absolute; if something really has a breaking bug or a security vulnerability that affects overall system usability (basically something that can’t be fixed by installing a Flatpak), they will put out a fix, like with the Linux kernel or a web browser (via the security repo, included by default in all installs).

Additionally, looking at this changelog, while the Nvidia situation is objectively a bit embarrassing, it looks like they were working on getting them updated, but just didn’t have much luck - I’m guessing a breaking change in the software that made it harder to package. Also, it’s in the non-free repo, which is on the back burner compared to the rest of the distro - something in the main repo will usually only be at most a few months behind at time of distro release.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nvidia-graphics-drivers

 

I’ve been on a bit of a button-making kick, and here’s my latest one.

Bonus: The earlier one I did for TMBW. It needs some work in the margins - I just haven’t gotten to it yet.

TMBW button

 

Has anyone else had the issue lately where when making a post, it gets posted twice?

I can't tell what's been happening, but it has occurred multiple times recently. I use Firefox, so maybe that's a factor, but I'd also guess Firefox usage per capita is higher than average in the Lemmy crowd.

In at least one case, I pressed the create button, and it appeared to not work, so I pressed it again.

I feel like I should file a bug report, but I first need to do more troubleshooting, but since I can't just go fill a random community with posts trying to reproduce this bug, I should probably set up a test instance. Before I do that, though, I was wondering if anyone else had experienced this problem.

 

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/26158084

I wanted a very 90s web-feeling GIF of a TOS science division badge(technically animated WEBP, but whatever), so I threw together the badge in Inkscape, then imported it into Blender to do animation and rendering.

I decided to make the border gold instead of the canon black, as it just looks every so slightly cooler during the spin animation in a very dumb way. I also went for metallic rather than trying to mimic embroidery because I was lazy.

 

I wanted a very 90s web-feeling GIF of a TOS science division badge(technically animated WEBP, but whatever), so I threw together the badge in Inkscape, then imported it into Blender to do animation and rendering.

I decided to make the border gold instead of the canon black, as it just looks every so slightly cooler during the spin animation in a very dumb way. I also went for metallic rather than trying to mimic embroidery because I was lazy.

 

EDIT: Accidentally duplicated post. Please see https://startrek.website/post/25896181 for all responses.

EDIT: The Harry Kim thing is more of a joke. This is less a question about Harry Kim and more about Nog.

Something about Nog's literacy history brings up a ton of weird questions in-universe.

  1. How are the Ferengi able to be a functional space-faring species and business empire without at least a little emphasis on literacy?

Even for as class-based a society as the Ferengi, lower level workers have to have at least a little literacy to read instrument panels, repair ships, make sure they're carrying the right package, etcetera.

I think a key example here is Rom, who starts out a relatively typical exploited Ferengi - how would he read manuals to repair a holosuite without literacy.

I see two explanations. One, perhaps by "reading", they're referring to reading of a lengua franca like Federation standard - Nog has learned and is capable of reading the Ferengi language, but not another. When dealing with other languages, the general expectation is either a universal translator is used or they pick it up as they go.

Alternatively, it could be that it is expected in Ferengi culture that reading is just something you pick up on the job rather than in a concerted educational effort.

  1. How did Nog manage to "catch up" fast enough to attain the educational level needed for a Starfleet officer?

Of course, it is said and implied that after the school closes, Keiko teaches Jake and Nog one-on-one. Some education definitely happened off-screen.

Still, Starfleet seems to have educational requirements. In LD:"Something Borrowed, Something Green", Tendi mentions how she wouldn't have gotten into the Academy without having gone to high school, suggesting Nog needs the equivalent of a high school education to train to be a Starfleet officer.

It sounds a little ridiculous to go from being unable to read to a full high school education in less than three years, though that could be a bigger stretch than I'm making it out to be.

I'd say the simplest explanation is probably that again, Nog was more educated than we might interpreting being "unable to read" to mean.

It might be possible Ferengi also have higher-than-human-average neuroplasticity and simply adapt easier - this might even aid in the on the job theory.

So what are your ten cents? Also, it's been a while - glad to be back on Daystrom.

 

EDIT: Accidentally duplicated post. Please see https://startrek.website/post/25896182 for all responses and put future responses there. Also, I have more theorizing there.

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Too Many Reposts (startrek.website)
 

Hi. Normally , I enjoy the original (or at least lesser-known) memes on here.

Lately however, I’ve noticed that despite the anti-repost rule on here, way too many posts recently have been reposts; many of them very well might literally appear in the first results of an image search for “[insert series] memes”.

Personally, I feel that the purpose of any Trek meme community should primarily be to explore strange new memes; while occasionally reposts commemorating seasonal events (as well as the occasional tastefully-timed time loop meme) are acceptable, I think they should never dominate this community. I am hoping we can reduce that frequency and return to our primary mission.

Thank you for your time in listening to my concerns. Glory to you and your house.

 

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/22902299

Original by Doohan on TMBW Discord server:

Title a reference to their song "You Probably Get That A Lot", music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anWrcmKsYI8

I know that this one's been tackled twenty thousand million times and you're probably tired of seeing time loop memes by now, but like the urge to stick Gowron eyes on everything in the universe, I couldn't resist this intrinsic urge.

 

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/22902299

Original by Doohan on TMBW Discord server:

Title a reference to their song "You Probably Get That A Lot", music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anWrcmKsYI8

I know that this one's been tackled twenty thousand million times and you're probably tired of seeing time loop memes by now, but like the urge to stick Gowron eyes on everything in the universe, I couldn't resist this intrinsic urge.

 

Original by Doohan on TMBW Discord server:

Title a reference to their song "You Probably Get That A Lot", music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anWrcmKsYI8

I know that this one's been tackled twenty thousand million times and you're probably tired of seeing time loop memes by now, but like the urge to stick Gowron eyes on everything in the universe, I couldn't resist this intrinsic urge.

 
 
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