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  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso"

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  • I'm a little late to the party, but this episode is everything I wanted from modern Trek.

    I'm loving that the cadets are competitive but ultimately supportive of each other. I love that we spent an entire episode focused on Jay'den's backstory and the Klingons, without any tedious martial arts or (real) space battles but the stakes were still plenty high. I found the resolution, and the message (not letting go of the past, but letting the present in) to be excellent Trek.

    Caleb is also proving to be a bit more of an academy-era-Picard style character (great at a lot of stuff, but arrogant) rather than the sort of troubled genius vibe in the first bit of the show. I am looking forward to seeing him, and the other cadets, developed further.

    Holly Hunter is doing great, bringing her own style. Loved she had a history with the Klingon guy and advocated for her student. I get why she's rubbing some the wrong way, but she is masterfully handling the people around her, leading with empathy, and has been very effective.

    Also love we got some classic Klingon music from the movies, it was a nice nod.

    Overall, I think this show is finally taking real advantage of the far future timeline. It is a little silly that major diplomacy is being effected at the Academy but because the Federation is still finding its feet again and the fact that the world has been mixed up from 90s Trek, it makes the Academy a much more interesting lens on the world than it would have been if it was set in the TNG-VOY timeframe.

  • Me, who has went through multiple race riots since the 90s

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  • I've been doing that and, in a world where Democrats are actually interested in making the world better and more fair, maybe that would work.

    The problem is that Democrats don't want that. They want to continue supporting big business, deporting "illegals", drone striking foreigners, making tons of money from corporate donations... But occasionally wave a rainbow flag. They want to keep our race into fascism under the speed limit, and are wondering why they're getting no traction with people who want to turn the fuck around.

    If they had a platform that made even modest promises about taxing billionaires, bringing bloodsucking insurance companies and predatory banks to heel, getting the police in line etc. they'd have a wildly popular platform and they'd naturally stop trying to squash progressive candidates. But unfortunately, the corporations say fixing issues will make their stocks go down.

  • Me, who has went through multiple race riots since the 90s

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  • Vote Blue! Their platform includes

    • Small budget cuts to the jackbooted thugs murdering you in the streets!
    • Slapping billionaires on the wrist in the court of public opinion, the only court that matters!
    • Allowing all of their legislation to get hung up by a rotating cast of party traitors and then backing them to the hilt when a progressive candidate primaries them!
    • Throwing money at healthcare industry donors to fix healthcare!
    • Restoring faith in American alliances by promising to look the other way when any of our pals decide to genocide those naughty minorities.
    • Gerrymandering, but this time it's us so it's cool!

    Ahem. To be clear, I'll vote against Trump any chance I get, but we are still totally fucked until we get politicians that can actually stand for something that big business doesn't donate to.

  • Preference

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  • An anti-DEI fork by a wingnut and a project that isn't even half way ready to use starting from scratch in a niche language. Neither of which are capable of dealing with the fundamental problem of X, the protocol itself, without becoming something entirely different.

    ... I'm not holding my breath.

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  • Agreed. I was an early Wayland convert because once upon a time I started writing a WM and taking an interest in X internals... And then my face melted off like I'd opened the Ark of the Covenant.

    Things are so much simpler now.

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  • I use KDE Connect remote input on Wayland all the time...

    KMag is broken (simply has not been updated, not like it couldn't work) but you can zoom the entire screen in KDE with super +/- is that not good enough?

  • Preference

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  • Didn't they straighten out Wayland support? I thought this was a thing of the past as of 555, but I also haven't run Nvidia myself in years and years.

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  • Wayland is a sports car - modern, tailor made for performance. X is like a '99 Civic that's had the seatbelts stripped out and the airbags replaced with cameras that let all the other cars on the road see you naked.

    It's fine to prefer X, but the older it gets the more people are going to roll their eyes at you. XWayland is fine for random old stuff, but there is zero reason X should be running your whole display these days.

    Inb4 someone mentions network transparency that gimps the rest of the system or some 5000 year old app that needs to sniff events sent to every other program.

  • All the different Star Trek series on a triangle graph

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  • Academy has been good so far, way lower stakes, but you have to get past the first ten minutes of episode one. It sets up the main plot, but it's way more... Discovery style bad shit happening and baseless action, than the rest of the show. IMO they should have filled it in as backstory later in the ep, after they'd established more of a tone, but otherwise it gets good quick.

  • The state of Linux music players in 2026

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  • I have a giant FLAC collection and I sometimes wish I could use these local players because I used Winamp/XMMS/quod libet back in the day, but I feel like I just can't give up consistent access from outside the house.

    I ran Tauon for a while (and have run a few of the others over the years) but I always end up back at my Airsonic setup. Works in any browser, works in a few different Android apps (Subsonic compatible), less of a pain than mpd.

    Maybe it'd be different if I was still sitting in front of my computer virtually all the time, but nowadays phone to Bluetooth speaker/car/Chromecast is like 90% of my listening.

  • Linux Lands Fix For Its "Subtly Wrong" Page Fault Handling Code For The Past 5 Years

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  • Basically, the executing thread might get interrupted in a window of code where the interrupt flags are wrong. Not looking at the specifics, but this could lead to various things from mostly harmless (e.g. potentially holding a lock for many times longer than expected but eventually releasing it) to program crashing (e.g. if taking an interrupt while handling the fault leaves the data structures in an inconsistent state).

    This is likely the first one, since it was missed for so long in a very well exercised piece of code.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • Are you running the native version or through Proton? When I played Civ VI the Linux native version performed worse than using Proton, ironically. Either way, maybe try switching?

    Since you specified multiplayer I'm guessing it's not time to load from disk or anything.

  • New Patches From Valve Bring AMDGPU Power Management Improvements For Old GCN 1.0 GPUs

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  • For ancient stuff, maybe, but AMD is also active in enabling new stuff in the kernel and userspace. AMD basically invented Vulkan, and have had the best open source driver stack for years at this point.

    I love what Valve has done for Linux, but it's the last mile of track at the end of huge amounts of outside work enabling the hardware to work in the first place.

  • Linux crashing issues

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  • As lime mentions, look at swap. The Mint installer should have suggested it, but if not it's pretty easy to setup after the fact (just use a swap file instead of a partition). Windows does this as well and it should pretty clearly deal with OOM.

    Coral Island has a platinum rating on ProtonDB so it should be absolutely no sweat to run if you have the resources.

  • Democrats Unveil 3 Articles Of Impeachment Against Kristi Noem | "Secretary Noem, you have violated your oath of office and there will be consequences," said Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.).

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  • He doesn't need to actually stop them, just make them appear illegitimate. Also, in places where Republicans are in power already, they will absolutely do this and suddenly we're looking at a midterm where the best outcome for Democrats is losing no power instead of gaining any.

  • I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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  • I have a wife stuck in the Adobe-verse and yeah, going back that far should work great. It didn't become a huge hassle until they started being insane with the licensing.

  • Gavin Newsom comes out swinging against California billionaire tax

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  • The treatment of Bernie in the 2016 primary also made me lose faith in our form of flawed Democracy. Living in a red state, primaries are my only chance to have any effect on the national Democratic Party and 2016 made it obvious they would accept no challenge to the status quo. Superdelegates are plainly undemocratic, but the post Citizens United world makes both parties absolutely beholden to the corporations.

    We literally can not have a candidate that is against business and therefore can not have a candidate that is against fascism.

    That said, I will probably continue to pull the lever on my purely symbolic, utterly pointless, placebo vote for the lesser of two evils because people don't understand that the only non-voters that matter are the ones in battleground states.

  • Trump Vows ‘Day of Reckoning’ After Deadly ICE Shooting in Dark Rant

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  • I don't get why anyone thinks this will be consequential anymore. We already know what's in them, Trump's base does not care. The Supreme Court basically made Trump untouchable by the law...

    I mean, I'd take some legal deus ex machina to get us out of this shit any day, but at what point are the Epstein files the distraction from the fact that Americans are being wantonly murdered by the state?

  • they only turn on the body cam for the money shot

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  • "Don't be a minority" is a rule so deeply ingrained in their ethos they think it's universally understood already.