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Admiral Patrick

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I'm surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

Special skills include: Knowing all the "na na na nah nah nah na" parts of the Three's Company theme.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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  • Reading "Q-Squared" and trying to follow the track changes has me like...

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  • Both technical limitations, convenience, and moral objections to DRM (if it has to phone home or I can't use it how I want, I won't buy it). I have a Kobo but prefer to have a clean epub for whatever I buy so I feel like I actually own it.

    The online shop I bought "Q-Squared" from has most of them DRM free, including all 3 of the Destiny books. Not sure how deep the DRM-free well is, but spot checking it shows most of the ones I looked at were clean. Worst comes to worse, I'll do like I did when I still bought ebooks from Amazon and buy the DRM'd version and high-seas a clean copy.

  • Reading "Q-Squared" and trying to follow the track changes has me like...

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  • https://www.thetrekcollective.com/p/trek-lit-reading-order.html?m=1

    Someone else commented it a bit ago, and made me realize the rabbit hole for the Trek novelverse goes deeper than I thought.

    Destiny was recommended twice here and the guide lists it as a good starting point, so once I power through this one I'll probably start there.

    I should buy A Stitch in Time. I borrowed a copy and read it years ago but I don't actually have a copy myself.

  • Internet-Connected Consoles Are Retro Now, And That Means Problems

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  • Yeah, I expanded my hard drive (unofficial methods) in my 360 and "installed" all of my games to it. That way if the optical drive starts to go or my discs get messed up, all it'll have to worry about is reading the disc initially to allow it to play from the hard drive. I did similar on my soft-modded OG Xbox but I don't even need the disks for that one anymore (and the DVD drive is kaput anyway).

    I haven't messed with x360 emulators as I never had anything powerful enough at the time, but I saw not long ago there was one available for Android now, so I may look back into it.

    But yeah, something like XLink Kai that somehow satisfies the cloud connectivity would be cool. But I'm not sure how that would work since it'd have to have valid certs for the hardcoded domains the system and games would connect to.

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  • Very nice and....way more detailed than I would have imagined. I don't even see the book I'm currently reading in that chart. I did find "Destiny" in there (recommended here twice) and it has the indicator for "good starting point" even though several others lead into it. So if I needed a third reason to buy that set, there it is.

    Luckily (YMMV) I've come to appreciate ebooks so it's just a matter of finding ones that don't have DRM and putting in my credit card.

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  • I didn't even remotely get the assumption it was implying cartridge-based consoles connected to the internet. The next sentence is even "That beautiful feature fell away when consoles joined the Internet"

  • Internet-Connected Consoles Are Retro Now, And That Means Problems

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  • Did you read TFA or just react out-of-context to the intro paragraph?

  • TIL that on April 18, 1930, the BBC reported, "There is no news." and then played piano music for the rest of the broadcast time.

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  • You joke, but there are news "articles" that are just a bunch of quotes of what people are saying about a topic on Reddit or Twitter that read very similarly to what you commented.

  • Meanwhile, in SW Florida [OC]

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  • Notice what you don't see: Any scratches or dirt on it nor mud on any of it's 6 tires. Total pavement princess.

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  • Yeah, reading more than a chapter at a time is what I'm gonna try for the rest of this book. I'm about 1/3 into it but have to keep going back and reading the previous chapter over again because I can't remember which universe the last "wham moment" happened in.

    And the fact that any time something major happens, Trelane wipes their memory of it isn't helping

    That's quite the collection. I just read the synopsis for Destiny and it does sound quite promising. After I finish this one I may buy that and give it a go.

  • TIL that on April 18, 1930, the BBC reported, "There is no news." and then played piano music for the rest of the broadcast time.

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  • OMG, we as a society need to go back to that instead of filling a 24 hour news cycle with pundits and endless opinons.

  • When you're cooking and it does its thing.

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  • Literally that.

    Growing up, I always loved going to Grandma's house because it always smelled so good because she was always cooking something. Later in life, I realized it was just a faint onion smell because she put them in everything.

  • Changed one letter in the subtitles and made it relevant IRL. Also dropping a new meme template.

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  • Ha, thanks.

    I'm also proud for pausing it at just the right spot so she looks like the lady from the Math Lady meme:

  • Changed one letter in the subtitles and made it relevant IRL. Also dropping a new meme template.

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  • Changed one letter in the subtitles and made it relevant IRL. Also dropping a new meme template.

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  • What's your uptime?

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  • On these, yes, but the batteries are not integrated like in modern laptops.

  • Where in the world is Peggy Sandiego?

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  • Also from this episode:

    Gonna tell my kids this is David Cross

  • 50 Corns, 50 Days, 1 Message

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  • It only takes one to ruin your day. You can filter out all the dedicated political meme communities (time well spent, IMO) but you can't filter out the ones here because no one tags anything, no one puts any alt text, and the titles are just generic snark.

  • Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter calls TSA 'unconstitutional' after pat-down

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  • Don't you know who I am??

  • 50 Corns, 50 Days, 1 Message

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  • If it's about a political figure (or group of), yes.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org
    Fuck Oracle Too

    Oracle’s Ellison Calls for Governments to Unify Data to Feed AI

    www.msn.com /en-us/money/other/oracle-s-ellison-calls-for-governments-to-unify-data-to-feed-ai/ar-AA1yUMLW
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

    www.404media.co /microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/
  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Ensign Ro Karen

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    The most unrealistic thing ever shown on TV

  • Lemmy Apps @lemmy.world
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    Tesseract 1.4.30 Released

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Ensign, bring this meme format about: People I always thought were in Trek but actually weren't...

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    TNG O'Brien versus DS9 O'Brien

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Not OC

    I've got A/C, cheese, water, and Faith of the Heart

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

  • Anything But Metric @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Swimming Pool

    www.nbcnews.com /news/world/japan-sinkhole-swallows-truck-yashio-rcna189550
  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    You're re-making TNG and get one F-bomb. Where are you dropping it?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Not long ago Data realized he could have something better in his life. And what did he get? Why, a big boost of confidence, a little more self-esteem, and a very happy misses at home.

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Race Conditions, Illustrated

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    "You know, gentlemen, I'm a bit of a Chad myself"

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    How the next 4 years are going to be...

  • Community Promo @lemmy.ca
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    60s through 90s Music

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    (Sad Alexander Noises)

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    I thought the Memory Alpha page for Talur was my favorite, but a new challenger has appeared...

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    When it's forecast to drop to -3 F and your power suddenly goes out...

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Had to squeeze through a blockade of Buicks just to get into Kroger this afternoon