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  • Did you like Star Trek: Nemesis?

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  • Wesley (the boy?!)

    True to your username, I heard the clip haha

    the director thinking Geordie was an alien

    Ugh. How did Stuart Baird end up directing this when you have a huge bullpen of Trek actor/directors that could've done so much better? Frakes is right there and did fine on First Contact / Insurrection. LeVar Burton himself, or even Roxann Dawson or Robert Duncan McNeill would have been available by then (although most of their directing credits come later).

    I could understand if they went outside for someone that had a track record of decent movies, but Baird had little experience directing before Nemesis and apparently none afterwards.

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    Hi StarTrek.website, I'm Karim Diané aka Jay-Den Kraag from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, AMA! (Responding to questions Thursday @4pm!)

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  • Hi Karim, big fan of your work in Academy! Jay-Den's backstory is already an all time great Trek episode.

    My hard hitting question is personal: Coffee or tea? More generally, favorite drink?

  • Did you like Star Trek: Nemesis?

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  • It's thoroughly mediocre. I will watch it if I'm watching the TNG movies, but probably not standalone. There is definitely some cool stuff in it, and I also like Tom Hardy and Ron Perlman, but as you note I don't think it really pulls it all together. And then there are things I hate, like dune buggies, B4, and the fact they fucking killed Data.

    It is especially bad as the last TNG movie. The TNG era crew should have got their Undiscovered Country epic last ride but Nemesis isn't nearly conclusive enough. At least we'll always have "All Good Things".

  • We Are Made Of Love

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  • Cronenberg's Law: For every Garnet there's a Brundlefly level freak of nature.

  • Installing EndeavourOS, should I use btrfs or ext4?

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  • Btrfs has a bunch of features and is one of the contenders for the "next" filesystem. Ext4 is utterly bulletproof though and has good enough perf so it's still your best bet unless you specifically want to use the advanced btrfs features.

  • Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks

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  • I encourage you to watch it and form your own opinion (just make sure to get past the first ten minutes of the pilot, the tone shifts dramatically).

    Captain Ake runs the Academy and commands the Academy ship, the Athena, which is used to do more hands on training but isn't the flagship by any stretch. She's more like a principal than a professor. The other main characters are cadets, with some strong supporting characters too.

    IMO it's the first live action Trek show in the new era to come out firing on all cylinders and it's great to see.

  • Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks

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  • Yes, but in context it's not a big deal. A lot of it is contrasting her with her peer, the chancellor of the war college, who is uptight. Ultimately, she's less military commander, or even explorer, and more chancellor of a school full of students and in that capacity it makes more sense to generate a relaxed atmosphere. When the situation calls for it, she can be serious as well.

    She just has her own style, but people want to be negative because she's not Picard-ing hard enough or some dumb shit.

  • I made a kernel module for overclocking USB devices (gamepads, mice, etc.)

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  • It's always great to see someone scratch their own itch, so kudos. However, I'm curious what the actual pain point is? Does your mouse not sample fast enough? Noticeable input lag on a gamepad? Seems like this would be a bug with the implementation if it needs to be overclocked to fix...

  • Boy and cat, the Netherlands, ~1910

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  • I wonder if history will look back on contemporary kid pics like this.

    "Born just in time for the bottom to fall out of the Western economy, get a worthless degree, and hold three jobs to survive under the rule of a pedophile cabal that started WW3"

  • Super Bowl Fallout: ICE Says Attacks on Agents Have Jumped More Than 1,300% Nationwide

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  • Absolutely no argument from me on that, but there is no getting away with it - once we start shooting back we've opened Pandora's box. The government is dying for an excuse to get even worse.

  • wealthcare

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  • Even if you did, 90% chance they'd charge you a few hundred bucks just to tell you to put Vaseline on it. 10% chance it turns black and they get to charge you big money to save you the trouble of cleavering it.

    ... Fuck insurance.

  • Super Bowl Fallout: ICE Says Attacks on Agents Have Jumped More Than 1,300% Nationwide

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  • People just want to make snarky comments about the second amendment because we're not shooting ICE agents in the face. They don't want to hear about the things our communities are actually doing.

    My own community hasn't been hit as hard as MN but we've got rapid response hotlines tracking ICE, getting people with cameras and signs on them at the blink of an eye, and resource support groups for the undocumented.

    Apparently that counts as nothing to a bunch of people that probably haven't lifted a finger against their own government despite the fact that fascism is almost certainly rising there too.

  • What the photon?!

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  • That story made no sense. That guy is a glorified forklift, why would you simulate a body/that much intelligence when the computer could just do its job without being capable of resentment?

  • This is a joke about HolyC

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  • Oh, that makes more sense, but then "unsigned" void?

  • This is a joke about HolyC

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  • Okay, U8, sure, but a boolean is U0? Surely U1 if you absolutely must...

  • My starter base is complete! (for now)

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  • Looks great! Always a nice feeling to complete a build... For now at least.

  • And no, it wasn't letting Neelix on board

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  • Note that I said independent of devices that are simulating your life for you, not just independent of devices.

  • Rank your Trek Bromances

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  • Julian and Miles feels the most real to me.

    Kirk and Spock are a close second, but only because we saw that they love each other in their ways, but they didn't spend a ton of time chilling out together on screen (camping Yosemite was great though)

    Harry and Tom third, they really had a good influence on each other and they spent a lot of holodeck time together in Sandrine's/Hawaii/Captain Proton/Fairhaven.

    Julian and Garak was a lot of fun, but I think it's overshadowed by Miles. Lunches and holodecking is all well and good, but Julian would turn to Miles for real stuff (although when he turned 30 that was Garak...)

    Sisko/Dax is good but it relies on Curzon a lot. The on screen time with Jadzia is focused more on how she's not Curzon, but they obviously still have a lot of love.

    Geordi and Data is a little too mentor-y. Like they're friends, but Data is more relying on Geordi for a humanity check, and Geordi gets advice from elsewhere on women (for obvious reasons) and that undercuts the bromance level I think.

    Nog/Jake are great, and I would put them higher except they're kids for most of the show and I feel like a bromance should probably be reserved for adults (kid friendships are different level). Although they do keep it up until adulthood if The Visitor is still accurate.

    I guess Malcolm/Trip then, but honestly they thought they were going to die in a shuttle once but that's kinda it. Been awhile since I watched ENT. If anything Trip/Archer.

    Odo and Quark have mutual respect, but there's too much antagonism to be a bromance.

    And Neelix / Tuvok is non-existent. Tuvok can barely stand Neelix and only comes to grudgingly tolerate his antics after half of his personality is suppressed IIRC. The fact that Tuvok throws Neelix a bone and dances when he leaves is evidence he softened, but not that they were bros.

  • And no, it wasn't letting Neelix on board

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  • It's less that digital things can't be alive and more that to be alive you need to exist independent of technology that's simulating your life for you. All biological organisms pass this test. Data passes this test. The Doctor and every other hologram does not.

    If you want to call the human body and perception an equivalent, I'll point out that when you cut yourself something has actually occurred to your physical body, it isn't just your brain seeing a knife and deciding it hurt you.

    But hey, you are welcome to disagree at which point holodecks become extremely unethical. This is, after all, just philosophy.

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    Any way to defeat HDCP for Chromecast recording?

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    Jellyfin Android remote comes up blank for mpv shim