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

Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • I don't get why they're okay with this

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  • True. At my tech helpdesk, I've seen people who keep their Macs on very old versions even if their hardware supports much newer (and non-Tahoe) versions and suffer problems because of it.

    For instance, the other day, a woman's Microsoft Office quit working because she was still on Ventura, which no longer gets security updates. This was on what I believe was a 2022 Macbook.

    I think something is seriously wrong with Apple's update system. I mean, the Windows approach is objectively wrong, but automatic update systems need to be at least a bit aggressive.

  • [USA] ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Series Premiere To Stream For Free On YouTube

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  • Or yt-dlp.

  • Gimp Heal Selection Tool - Resynthesizer

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  • I believe 3.0 finally moved to Python 3. Resynthesizer was also totally rewritten for 3.0, but I don’t think it’s in Python anymore (?).

  • TFW you're not concerned about Star Trek leaving Netflix

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  • Lucky for me, I upgraded both my desktop and laptop to 2TB SSDs before they decreed that the peasants can’t have SSDs or RAM anymore.

  • [Meta] RE: Starfleet Academy

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  • I get the complaints of lackluster writing in SNW S3, but also, you haven't seen truly bad media until you've watched either Twisters or Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, which makes Discovery season 2 seem downright straightforward and well-written by comparison.

    It's not the best consolation, but it could go much worse. Also, I feel like if I had a choice, I'd take being strapped to a chair and forced to watch SNW season 3 looped 2.5 times over the same for TNG season 1.

  • [Meta] RE: Starfleet Academy

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  • Unless it does something egregious, I'll probably push myself through it no matter what for the sake of completionism.

    Speaking of which, I need to do that for Disco's last couple seasons before I start the show.

  • The Real Thing

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  • I read it through my library, which keeps a good stock of Trek comic volumes. I think I now also have a PDF of it from a Humble Bundle.

  • Ilia could use a little polish, but gorgeous all the same

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  • You forgot somebody, and he’s very mad:

  • [Meta] RE: Starfleet Academy

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  • My biggest worry is what they do with the Klingons in the 31st century; they’re probably going to talk about how war-torn and poor Qo’Nos is or have the planet have gotten blow up or something dumb like that.

    I’d love to have it so that either Qo’Nos surprisingly has had its crap together and managed to avoid brutal civil wars post-burn, with the result being in defiance of all expectations, it was one of the better planets to get stuck on after the Burn.

  • [Meta] RE: Starfleet Academy

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  • This guy is low-key the Gowron of the Orions. I kind of hope he shows up again in one of the two later seasons.

  • Mom's Linux mint install keeps going to a black screen

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  • Post system specs here just to be safe. If it’s an older machine, there could be various hardware failures. “Monitors” makes it sound like a desktop, but you should clarify just to be safe, and perhaps indicate if has PCIe slots or is more of a mini PC.

    Also, what do you mean by “monitors going dark”? Are the backlights on, or are they absolutely dark?

  • Mom's Linux mint install keeps going to a black screen

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  • It’s probably not Secure Boot. I mean, worth a test, but it sounds like the issue occurs in the middle of a running session, which is not consistent with the issues sometimes presented by Secure Boot.

  • The Real Thing

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  • Honorary mention: IDW Picard's Academy was a fun enough read.

  • Gimp Heal Selection Tool - Resynthesizer

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  • It’s solidly okay. I wish it were in brush form like Photoshop was, and I wish it were better-optimized; it’s written in Python and a bit slow. I think Photoshop GPU accelerates this.

    Still, usable for a lot of things.

  • TFW you're not concerned about Star Trek leaving Netflix

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  • To be fair, I think there are more reasons to pay for Netflix than there are reasons to pay for Paramount+ that don’t rhyme with “Schmar Schmeck”.

    And honestly, I’m looking to just switch to a Blu Ray/DVD collection; with Lower Decks and Prodigy over, I might as well just have their series BluRays. Maybe I’ll come back for SNW seasons (and maybe SFA if worth it) so the show can get some ratings or whatever.

    As to avoid giving Paramount geezers cash, I’ll probably try to buy used from local businesses.

    For DS9 and VOY, though, I’ll probably just buy DVDs for plausible deniability and then torrent one of the many upscales. There’s supposedly a nifty project where someone’s using a Domesday duplicator to rip DS9 and VOY seasons’ laser discs with Domesday duplicator because the DVD transfers of those seasons are so horrible.

  • Best way to run Adobe products on Linux? Specifically lightroom.

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  • I usually use my device’s native boot menu these days; booting through GRUB usually triggers the Bitlocker screen.

  • I have the absolute worst reason for dual booting Linux and Windows

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  • Sounds like a freak accident rather than the fault of the VM.

    I literally use a GPU for passthrough on my Windows 10 (and macOS) VM; PCIe is a much more complex protocol and much easier to F up than USB.

    I’ve used my iPhone many times through Windows and been fine, as well as whole USB keyboards and mice (just simple ones); I think I might have even updated an iOS device once, though I can’t remember if I actually did. I’ve also used an iPod Nano 7th through an 11 LTSC VM before.

    I could see some things being a little finicky, but simply managing a Zune with a VM probably causes no issues. It’s probably been eons since it got a firmware upgrade anyway.

  • I have the absolute worst reason for dual booting Linux and Windows

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  • That's just a VM running atop Docker container; convenient, perhaps, but a little misleading to users who don't understand how Docker works and might think it's better performance-wise than a VM.

  • 🎶 I only have eyes for you 🎶

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  • I'd love to see those on him in one of the scenes in Star Trek: Klingon where he angrily shakes you...

  • Best way to run Adobe products on Linux? Specifically lightroom.

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  • Dual boot isn't that bad if you just use separate drives; the issue is only with Windows and Linux on one drive.

    It's not possible on all devices, but my laptop has dual NVMe slots, and I used to boot Linux off an SATA SSD and Windows off an NVMe on my desktop before getting rid of Windows and moving my Linux install to the NVMe drive. Never had a problem.

    The only hiccup you'll probably run into is exorbitant storage prices, although you can probably opt for less storage (256GB or 512GB), you can still get well below $100 and have it be perfectly fine.

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    Does anyone know which Spanish dub the Lower Decks Complete Blu-Ray Set has?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Star Trek TNG Intro but with Enterprise Lyrics

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    (Cue mysterious banjo intro to "Journey of the Sorcerer" by The Eagles)

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Politics Warning

    Make Armus Great Again

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    Politics Warning

    Make Armus Great Again

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    If SNW people go through with a TOS continuation, where will they start?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    SNW S3 E7: The Guy Who Didn't Like Vulcans

  • Risa @startrek.website
    data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website

    SNW S3 E7: The Guy Who Didn't Like Vulcans

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
    data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website

    Where do you guys start in a Lower Decks rewatch?

  • Risa @startrek.website
    data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website

    If I had a slip of latinum for every time a Starfleet officer stole a blue mid-1990s Dodge Ram pickup...

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Just a silly little GIF(

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Too Many Reposts

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    You Probably Get That A Lot

  • Risa @startrek.website
    data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website

    You Probably Get That A Lot

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    To his credit, Tom Kenny has done good stuff for Trek before

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website

    So it's a prequel, then?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    I think this format has a lot of potential.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website

    FYI: Audio Crackling Bug with Pipewire 1.4.1 + FluidSynth in Debian Testing/Unstable and Work-Around

    bugs.debian.org /cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
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    data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website

    Will SNW (or any future Trek) Retcon Mojave, California?