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

Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • "I'm not Jimmy-Jim-Jimmy-Jim-Jim-Jim-Jim. He's Jimmy-Jim-Jimmy-Jim-Jim-Jim-Jim." - Gonzo

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  • 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.

  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season Three Arriving on Digital, DVD, & Blu-ray

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

  • Grub and the Microsoft Ransomware

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

  • Grub and the Microsoft Ransomware

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  • 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.

  • The joys of childhood

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

  • Absent father to what's-his-name...

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  • Star Trek writers explaining how they got their ideas

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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.

  • (Cue mysterious banjo intro to "Journey of the Sorcerer" by The Eagles)

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

  • (Cue mysterious banjo intro to "Journey of the Sorcerer" by The Eagles)

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  • Oh. Duh.

  • Absent father to what's-his-name...

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

  • The joys of childhood

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  • 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.

  • Star Trek writers explaining how they got their ideas

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  • 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".

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    Howdy, Y'all

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

  • This is just Picard's warmup

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  • Level 14:

  • This is just Picard's warmup

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  • 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.

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    Howdy, Y'all

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  • 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?

  • (Cue mysterious banjo intro to "Journey of the Sorcerer" by The Eagles)

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  • 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.

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

  • [Help] openSUSE Tumbleweed BTRFS Migration/Clone to New SSD?

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  • I also recommend dd on a live USB, but with some advice.

    First off - and I'm really surprised nobody's warned you - be EXTREMELY CAREFUL with dd; it is a very powerful tool, but with great potential for data loss. Check your command over and over again to make sure it's doing what you want before running it, and make sure you have a backup beforehand; it will happily mow over any disk you tell it. Also, do it when you're fully awake, not at 1 AM or something.

    I would call myself an experienced dd user, and even I messed up once recently; I was trying to create a bootable USB when I was really tired. Instead, I overwrote a drive. Luckily, it wasn't my root drive, and I had a full backup of its contents, so I was able to reformat the drive and restore from backup.

    Also, don't run a bare minumum dd command like dd if=/dev/whateverdevice1 of=/dev/whateverdevice2; it's going to be an absolute pain in the rear.

    dd bs=1M oflag=sync status=progress if=/dev/whateverdevice1 of=/dev/whateverdevice2

    • bs=1M: The size of block it tries to copy at a time. Play with this a bit, as different drives have different optimal block sizes.
    • oflag=sync: Basically, most operating systems don't actually write data to the drive right away, but store it in a buffer in RAM to be written later. This is usually fine, but sometimes, you want to be certain that data has actually been written to a drive; this flag turns off that buffering so that when dd is done, the data will for sure actually be on the drive. In lieu of this, you could also just run the sync command afterwards, which forces it to write the current buffer to disk, but I prefer the dd way. It should also do it automatically during shutdown, but I have had cases where a system hangs during shutdown and I'm not certain if syncing is done or not.
    • status=progress: Gives the command a progress bar. It's just really darn convenient and allows you to see how much time is left, how fast the drive is going, etcetera. I don't know how anyone uses dd without this. Otherwise, it just shows nothing, and you're left anxiously wondering when it will be done.
    • if is input drive, of is output drive. I prefer lsblk for looking at the list of drivers.

    You'll usually need to run dd with sudo.

    Once you do a successful copy, you'll need to extend your BTRFS partition using GParted or similar. If you have a partition after your main one, like swap, you'll need to delete the swap partition before extending, then recreate the swap partition and update fstab accordingly.

  • Bcachefs 1.33 Delivers Its Biggest Upgrade Yet With Full Reconcile Support

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  • Cool. Probably still not using it. If I want to run an out-of-tree COW filesystem, I might as well be using ZFS - stable and with less drama.

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