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data1701d (He/Him)

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

Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • "Starfleet Academy" early review round-up

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  • I wish Lemmy had a way to distinguish between disliking the news and shooting the messenger.

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    No! Make it not so!

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  • ?

    10 minutes of Memory Alpha searching yields no results. I'm truly stumped.

    EDIT: I see mentions of Beverly Crusher getting turned into a dog by Q, but nothing similar for Riker.

  • Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews

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  • For me, as long as Debian still packages it and disables these features, I’ll be fine, but LibreWolf looks more and more tempting these days, and having tried it a bit, I can live with the minor annoyances.

  • Personal growth, still punk as fuck

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  • The Star Trek IV punk is one of those jokes that’s so unfunny it causes an integer overflow and loops back around to absolutely hilarious.

  • [Help request] They say "don't break Debian" but apparently I managed to do it.

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  • I feel like it was more than the package manager whining; I think xorg literally wouldn’t start after the update, although it’s been so long now that I could be misremembering.

    Honestly, I probably could have salvaged the install if I’d wanted to without too much difficulty, but it was just a VM for testing distro packaging rather than a daily driver device.

    Still, what you say is good to know, and perhaps I should hold back on the Pacman slander. I’ve just been using Debian for around 4 years now and had pretty good reliability; then again, Debian (and most distros, with their pitiful documentation) would probably be very hard to use without Archwiki.

  • [Help request] They say "don't break Debian" but apparently I managed to do it.

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  • Eh, I disagree with you on Pacman. It could be possible I was doing something stupid, but I've had Arch VMs where I didn't open them for three months, and when I tried to update them I got a colossally messed up install.

    I just made a new VM, as I really only need it when I need to make sure a package has the correct dependencies on Arch.

  • [Help request] They say "don't break Debian" but apparently I managed to do it.

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  • Eh; testing doesn't break THAT often. Having used it on many of my devices for almost 4 years, I can count on one hand the number of times it broke in a way I had to chroot in to fix it.

    This is very unlikely to be because they are using testing.

    Still, using Debian Stable is probably a smarter idea for this user.

  • GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire"

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  • I like using this on my desktop, but it's way too easy to trigger this by accident on a laptop, so I disable it on there.

  • Flatpack apps performance on Linux Mint

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  • My best guess is that it's not a Flatpak permissions issue as others are claiming; the software is just trying to use your iGPU (which is usually crappy) instead of your dGPU.

    Try taking whatever command you use to start the program and tacking DRI_PRIME=1 on the front. This has often worked for me on applications regardless of whether they're native or Flatpak.

  • It's a mostly multi-universal constant

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  • The weird thing about that is I feel like whoever are Bashir’s commanding officers during the rest of his career would have had to have hand-picked him despite that, and thus wouldn’t have qualms about promoting him either.

  • 2026 is the year of the linux desktop

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  • iOS has been getting a bit buggier for me these past few years, but iOS 26 is a whole other level of bad.

    With what Google's been doing to AOSP, I just hope GrapheneOS and LineageOS can hold on just long enough until we can get some livable solution for Linux phones.

  • Running Python on Debian - is not so easy?

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  • I like to use pythonz in this case; it’s a tool to manage Python installs, and it puts the installs in a directory under your home directory, not affecting anything in the system.

    It does build each version from source, which introduces some quirks; I’ve found compilation for some Python versions works better with clang, and sometimes, you need to enable build options.

    Still, I think this is a good way to do things; just start whichever Python version you want, and then create a venv with it.

  • 2026 is the year of the linux desktop

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  • The year of Linux on the desktop was the friends we made along the way…

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    Are there ANY debuggers for Linux, that has a GUI

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  • No, I don’t want to spend weeks to learn GDB inside-out, so I don’t have to search online for 15-30 minutes on an AI infested internet every time I want to use it, for each feature I’m using it for that day.

    1. Search “gdb cheatsheet” and bookmark it. This looks good, but you have plenty of choices. When you find one you like, you probably almost never have to go to the internet again.
    2. Unfortunately, you can’t avoid a search engine while programming; you’re not going to get very far. All you can do is develop your search skills to avoid the slop.
    3. If you’re using a statically typed language (C, C++, Rust, etc.) already, basic GDB is comparatively simple. For these languages, not knowing GDB is a bit like an electrician not knowing how to use a multimeter; it’s a matter of necessity rather than “gatekeeping”.

    No, I don’t want to gatekeep Linux from “normies”, by making it as user-unfriendly as possible, so I can keep the Linux community a frat club for slur saying techbros.

    For your sake, I must emphasize that insulting the people you want help from is not an effective tactic for obtaining help. There are certainly jerks in the broader Linux community, but effectively accusing anyone in this community unable to give you exactly what you want of being a “slur saying techbro” (unless I misunderstand you) is, no offense, an incredibly entitled view to have.

    If you wish to make valuable use of internet forums, I would request you take heed of this: www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

    Anyhow, I wish you luck in your endeavors.

  • The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM

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  • In practice, Machine Owner Keys are a thing, though it depends on Microsoft still signing shim, I believe.

    Having Microsoft in the chain of trust rather than a standards body is rather concerning, though.

    Modern hardware absolutely should have an encryption processor; TPM just isn’t great.

  • New Klingon Bird of Prey Tatoo!

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  • Eh, the Pegasus tattoo doesn’t look great; half of it is missing. Must be embedded in the skin or something…

  • X.Org IMAKE Updated For Those Not Yet Transitioned To Autoconf/Automake Or Meson

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  • Maybe it’s just I’m a relative noob to build systems, but gosh, do I love Meson.

    The documentation’s pretty okay - not perfect, but better than cmake - and it feels like I can actually learn it by example through looking at other projects’ setups.

    I can live with using other build systems for other projects, but for personal projects, I’ll always choose Meson. I’ll always push for it if a project I’m working on needs to choose a build system.

  • It's a mostly multi-universal constant

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  • I feel a bit insulted that Bashir didn’t even make Lieutenant Commander in his entire life in Starfleet, considering he was very young when we last saw him.

  • It's a mostly multi-universal constant

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  • Interestingly, we see an okudagram in PRO that confirms prime Harry hit Lieutenant by 2384. Unfortunately, I can’t post it, as my instance is updating my image storage infrastructure right now.