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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

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  • I’ve also been jumping into the novelverse recently; my grandfather had a friend who was trying to offload his late wife’s Trek collection, and I ended up the recipient.

    I started with the second Department of Temporal Investigations book, then used this chart to decide where to properly begin. Even though I heard some grievances about it, I chose the DS9: Avatar books; it all made fun enough reading for before bed.

    Unfortunately, my collection has a bunch of weird gaps, so now that I’ve finished those, I have to look for the next book, Section 31: Abyss (Little relation to the now-infamous film), at a used book store in my area.

  • Believe it or not but the only being to have more temporal violations than Janeway was Pelia.

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  • “Is this really necessary? The wormhole aliens already put me through this kind of crap.”

  • I wouldn't take any chances

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  • I wouldn’t take any chances either… I’d put the bullet through his heart before he causes any more suffering for anyone else, personal consequences be darned.

  • What Have I Learned From Daily Driving Arch Linux For Three Years?

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  • Weird. Guess it’s a crazy fluke.

  • What happened to the Linux Kernel Archive at lkml.iu.edu (Indiana University)?

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  • Try e-mailing them. I don’t know about that specific mirror, but I use the University of Arizona mirror, and when issues came up, they got back to me pretty quick about what was going on.

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  • With that said, if you were forced to choose between them, who would you live under?

    On one hand, under the Borg you at least wouldn’t be aware of your loss of civil rights and wouldn’t suffer being hit by chemical weapons or something, but on the other hand… my goodness what is the Borg queen doing with Data?! You know what, I live to serve the Founders now.

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  • No. The Dominion is from Gamma.

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  • “Order to chaos”? Aren’t you forgetting someone?

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  • All I’m saying is age is weird in space. I mean, don’t do anything stupid, but the Neelix thing isn’t that weird.

    Now if you want REALLY MESSED UP stuff, try that one timeline where Harry Kim married Tom Paris and Kes’s daughter.

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  • The only thing I can say for this show is while the suit and bowtie is very un-Vulcan, it’s more Vulcan than whatever TAS had going on here:

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  • Santa, when the Claus fell

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  • All of this guy's Trek videos are Christmas classics in my heart.

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  • That sounds more like something weird about the card itself than with the driver; "power saving feature" makes me think a faulty hardware ACPI implementation by the card vendor is to blame. I've had a similar thing happen with my Wi-Fi modem where it would completely crash and only a reboot would fix it; I too have to do special kernel options to get it working.

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  • I usually hate it when studios wipe something off the face of the earth for a bunch of tax BS or whatever, but please do this to Star Trek: Scouts.

    What pains me is it is certainly possible to make a good Star Trek kids show that isn’t just iPad baby slop. Like, just have a show about a bunch of kids having fun around Starbase 170 or something, with hints of what the often-exhausted Starfleet and civilian parents are going through.

    But no, most of the brainless executives have long since decided kids (and almost everyone, honestly) don’t need quality of any sort.

  • The Quark Who Subsidized Christmas

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  • QuillOS: Alpine-based Linux distribution optimised for Kobo e-readers

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  • Honestly, I’ve been tempted by a Kobo lately; I have a lot of Star Trek RPG and comic book PDFs/ePUBs that I got through Humble Bundle over the past couple years.

    Kobo seems like the least horrible brand I can get for a reasonable price with a reasonable screen quality; as pleasantly simple and reliable as they seem, and as nice as electronics re-use is, I’m not sure that one Sony e-reader that’s as old as my younger sibling fulfills my use case.

    Though honestly, if you have other recommendations for a Linux-friendly color e-reader, I’d be glad to hear them.

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  • Honestly, I have mixed feelings about this.

    I’m very squeamish about adding more than the bare minimum external repos, though less so about extrepo stuff. I’m honestly worried this is just going to make it very easy for people to find new ways to break their systems; then again, that may be less likely to happen for the user demographic of Debian, and in the end, that’s no reason not to add a feature this convenient.

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  • https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianNet

    It’s an official Debian address, and the main page redirects to .org. I think it has more broad use now, but I think it’s often been used for stuff like media codecs they can’t include in the main distro. Often used for side projects.

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  • What GPU model is it? And what distro are you using?

    Did you install separate AMD drivers? You’re generally not supposed to do that; it’s just plug-and-play in the kernel and MESA (assuming the version is new enough), and you usually don’t need to download separate drivers.

    Also, what kernel flags did you have to use?

    It’s just that I’m a bit skeptical any of this is actually the fault of the AMD Linux kernel driver, and I would guess there’s some underlying software or hardware issue like a faulty ACPI implementation on the motherboard. I’m not saying AMD can do no wrong, but in this case, making blanket statements about the quality of AMD GPU drivers may be premature.

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  • As others have said, “stable” and “unstable” have a different connotation in the FOSS world.

    Rolling releases probably don’t have more software crashes than their stable counterparts, which is what you meant.

    However, some use cases prefer that they are able to use the same config for a long time, and when software updates frequently, system administration can become a cat-and-mouse game of “What config broke this time?” That’s not to say rolling release is bad, but sometimes it’s like using a power drill instead of a screw driver.

    Also, I definitely feel like a stable distro is more likely to survive a software update after not using the computer for a few months to a year. Granted, I’ve had a Debian Testing (rolling release) install that did survive an upgrade after a year of non-use, but I’ve also seen Arch VMs that broke after just a couple months of non-use, forcing me to reinstall.