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

Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • 🎶 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.

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

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  • It might be possible, depending on if the screen is connected to the dGPU or iGPU (I'd guess iGPU). I wouldn't know because I did my setup on a desktop with two dGPUs. I would think it's possible, but you might need an external monitor (?). I don't know how Optimus laptops are wired.

    Where I started for GPU passthrough, which got me ~90% of the way there, is https://github.com/bryansteiner/gpu-passthrough-tutorial . Gives you the shell scripts, XML, etcetera needed to do it; I had to modify some bits (some of which you can see in issues), but this is my preferred tutorial. Basically, try it, get really frustrated, take a break for a while, get back to it and keep tinkering with it (check permissions, logs, PCIe driver binds, etcetera), and eventually, you'll figure it out.

    https://github.com/mysteryx93/GPU-Passthrough-with-Optimus-Manager-Guide is linked in one of the issues and specifically concerns your kind of laptop.

    I might be able to send over some of my XML to get you started, but I don't know how helpful that will actually be over the tutorial, as our systems are completely different, and the AMD GPU I use has different bugs/quirks when doing this than Nvidia ones. The truth of the matter on why there's not really a single-click, easy way to do GPU passthrough is because each system is unique, from the motherboard PCIe implementation to bugs in GPU firmware. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try, but it takes a bit of ingenuity.

  • Installed homebrew on wii

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  • To be fair, I’ve heard Wii U isn’t particularly pleasant running Linux either. I’ve never run Linux on my homebrewed Wii U, but someone in my Linux Users Group brought theirs in once.

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

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  • The Adobe installer doesn’t run on Wine; someone got a recent version of Photoshop running once, but it’s a pirated version and it’s super buggy.

    You can’t use Windows as a Docker container. Docker containers are not running full operating systems; they just run software on top of the current kernel but isolated from the main userspace, making it look to programs inside the container as if it’s a separate system. Anything that claims to be a “Windows Docker container” is just running a VM in a Docker container, which falls into the same pitfalls.

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

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  • Unlike what others say, a bog standard VM might be the wrong choice depending on which features you use due to lack of graphics acceleration in said VM.

    You might be able to get GPU passthrough working on a VM, which I have, with both a Windows and macOS VM that can use the GPU (not at the same time); however, this is really complex (took me ages the first time, though I’ve since discovered tricks to make it a bit easier), and you have to have dual GPUs. Single GPU passthrough is technically possible, but then you can’t use your Linux DE while using the VM. I will say, though, that once it’s set up, it’s a better experience than dual-booting; you get to run graphics-intensive Windows apps quite snappily on one monitor (or monitor input) and use your Linux desktop on the other.

  • Didn't know that the wordle word list included mythical legends.

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  • Not to be confused with that coward, the anti-quark:

  • There's only one stop on this route

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  • The Q have a comparatively nice one stop by comparison:

  • Installed homebrew on wii

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  • Honestly, it's just a search engine search away, a pretty well-covered thing.

    Here's this for starters: https://wii.hacks.guide/

    It's basically jailbreaking the console, after which you can run pretty much anything that the console has the power for, including the Linux kernel.

  • Is there desire for Capt. Una spin-off?

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  • I don't think they're doing so much of a TOS reboot as a TOS continuation with some retconning and reusing some SNW sets and cast.

    I've heard it floated around that it would depict the start of Kirk's mission, which TOS didn't depict, showing the crew already relatively comfortable with the ship. Personally, I'd like them to something of a year 4/5 that takes place either during or after TAS. As I mention elsewhere in this thread, I think "Yesteryear" would be an awesome remake; it could be pulled off in one 50 minute episode (already double TAS length), but I think it would be awesome to extend it to a two parter.

  • Is there desire for Capt. Una spin-off?

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  • Not sure I'd want a full TOS reboot, but I think a few more retcons wouldn't hurt so long as they're in the overall spirit of Trek.

    What I've mentioned before that I think would be interesting to see is a remake of the TAS episode Yesteryear. Most TAS stories are probably best left as such, or else they would lose their campy charm, but I think Yesteryear could benefit, especially from the dramatic storytelling recent live action Trek has focused on. We could get so much good Vulcan lore out of it, and I'd hope they could do awesome set and costume design.

    In my ideal episode, it's still weeks to months until Sarek takes in Burnham; I feel like otherwise, Spock wouldn't have to be going back in time to save himself.

  • Star Trek Strange New Worlds is my favorite Star Trek series ever. I love all the risks they take and the cast is excellent. I can’t believe it’s being cut short. Give me 7, 8, 9 seasons.

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  • To be fair, 5 seasons has become a miracle for any scripted television to attain, period. Heck, even 3 is lucky these days.

    Also, I have a feeling they’ve known 5 seasons was the length for a while and have written the ending in a way that allows them to end the show largely on their own terms.

  • Is musl libc still not suitable for workstations?

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  • The GPU driver issue would really only be a problem for Nvidia stuff.

  • Commander Ransom totally wants to spot for the Koala

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  • Ransom may be too dumb to understand it, but he is principled enough to accept and support it.

  • Opening Netflix tonight

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  • When all else fails:

  • Opening Netflix tonight

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  • s/tf/e/

  • Commander Ransom totally wants to spot for the Koala

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  • “Oh, we don’t do it for the numbers. We do it to quiet the voices in our heads.”

    I love Lower Decks as a while, but I think this is the single best-written line in the entire show.

  • Milennium Salamander

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  • Homestar(trek) Runner... It's dot com!

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  • They Might Be Giants collaborated with them and released a new t-shirt in 2025, I think to commemorate the anniversary of their initial collaboration back in the mid 2000s.

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