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

Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • 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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  • 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.

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

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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.

  • Is it confirmed that The Doctor we'll be seeing in Academy is NOT the one from "Living Witness"?

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  • They did do something with the butt bugs in the IDW comics recently...

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

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  • It's nice that they still put out Trek physical media.

    It's just really weird that SNW stuff seem to be the franchise's only 4K Blu-Ray releases (besides film remasters and Kelvin timeline, of course) - everything else with a decent resolution has only been released in 1080p. Like, objectively, I can hardly complain about 1080p, and any more than that for LD and PRO is probably pointless, but it's really weird that PIC and DIS don't have it for the seasons that were filmed for 4K.

    Also, if they're not going to renew PRO, can they at least give it the dignity of a complete series set, or at the very least a season 1 Blu-Ray so I don't have to buy episodes 1-10 and 11-20 separately?!

  • Is it confirmed that The Doctor we'll be seeing in Academy is NOT the one from "Living Witness"?

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  • Yeh, perhaps it's one of those things Star Trek should leave unanswered, like they should have done with Breen. The Breen are supposed to be a meme!

  • Joined the club!

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  • Also, depending on the time of year, some E series models can drop to pretty low prices on clearance. E series used to suck, but they've upped the build quality and they're pretty good budget Thinkpads now. Most things should be swappable (check Hardware Maintenance Manual to be sure), so back in 2024, I was able to snap an E16 gen 1 with 8 GB RAM 256 GB and upgrade it to 24 GB RAM, 2 TB storage for not too expensive.

    The really nifty thing about the E16s is they have dual NVME drive slots; I just kept the OEM 256 GB drive in it and eventually threw a Windows 11 LTSC install on it, as I unfortunately have to use Windows to do a few assignments, which luckily only come up every couple weeks, usually.

  • Extremely slow boot time

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  • I'm agreeing with other people; there's probably a drive issue that the shop didn't catch.

    On my machine, those two services that take 30 seconds for you do not take nearly that long for me. dev-mapper-DebianVolume\x2dDebianMain.device (which is equivalent to dev-mapper-data\x2droot.device; our drives are just called different things) only takes 1.074 seconds for me, while lvm2-monitor.service only takes 357 milliseconds.

    I've only ever seen Linux boots take this long when either a drive failed or I accidentally formatted a drive that's in my fstab, causing it to fail to mount and eventually landing me in a recovery shell. At that point, I'd either use the recovery shell or a USB to edit the fstab.

    Next time you boot in, check to see if all your drives are showing up, check disk health, etcetera. Also, although this likely won't solve the problem, check that your drive connections are well-seated.

  • [Solved] How to set up Linux for gaming on GIGABYTE G5 MF?

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  • Depending on how your system is set up, DRI_PRIME might use a different number. Generally, you check with glxinfo.

  • Star Trek: Treasure Island

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  • Actually, I think Sam Eagle would be a better Worf; he has a more serious demeanor, and it’d be funny to watch him have to correct himself to say “the Klingon way.”

    Of any main character in the whole franchise, Animal would probably make a better Shaxs, but we’re focused on TNG.

  • What all would you do to set up Ubuntu as a NAS?

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  • This is a relatively new CPU. You might struggle on Ubuntu as well. As much as I love Debian, something like Fedora might be better.

    It may be possible to get Debian running, though - either run Debian Testing or install a Backports kernel and Mesa. Were you failing to boot Debian, or did you just struggle after getting it installed?

    Either way, I just don't recommend Ubuntu.

  • Im sorta a computer hoarder but what can i do with some older desktops?

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  • A suggestion: if you can't find anything else for them, keep them around as parts machines.

    There should still be useful components in them. For instance, a lot of the Wi-Fi modems may still be perfectly good for other things as long as they're mini-PCIE (I don't know if they use those in desktops). They may not be the absolute newest standard, but should still do the trick; it certainly came in handy when my sister's laptop's Wi-Fi modem decided to be a brat - I just swapped in an Intel modem from a laptop from 2016.

    I might not fully trust the SSDs or the HDDs, but they can still have their uses. There's one SSD from an old desktop that I currently have hooked up to my Wii U.