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.
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.
For the record, I rationally hate AI*, and this title already raises suspicion for me.
"AI" is a buzzword, and seeing it in the title or slogan for project or product reeks of some business major jumping on a bandwagon that they don't truly understand, and where there's business majors, there's probably encrapification.
*: Of course, one of the big problems is "AI" is a misnomer - there's no "Intelligence" to it. "ML" is closer to capturing the nature of the technology without ascribing to it some magic power that it doesn't have.
I think I have a bit more nuanced feelings on the MIT license. If I actually write something useful, GPL all the way, baby!
However, I don't necessarily think the MIT license is the embodiment of evil; I find GPL a bit overkill for hobby projects. I'm not talking things that have the potential to become critical pieces of infrastructure like a kernel or something; I'm more talking about emoji pickers or hacky little Python scripts that would be pretty useless to a Fortune 500. In the minute chance someone actually cares about my silly little toy to fork it, I see very little point in encumbering it with the full heft of a copyleft license and stopping them from doing whatever the heck they want.
I agree that DS9 probably wins by far on its ability to hold off fleets during the Klingon and Dominion Wars.
However, I’m not sure I would dismiss Voyager so fast as a contender against the Enterprise D - I think Voyager is both well-armed and comparatively agile, with a higher maximum warp speed and likely a higher cruising speed. I think the ship’s unique strengths would at least give the D a significant struggle.
I think episode 8 is worth a shot. The basic premise is really stupid, but they execute it so darn well with the writing of social interactions. Also, I'm really surprised they pulled off Vulcan Patton Oswald, which initially scared me when the season trailer came out.
I think it was something dumb related to Cortana? It was a pretty useless operating system, and I’ve since run only Raspberry Pi OS on that particular Pi.
There have been some comics, but from what I can tell, they're vaguely set in a "season 4.5" where Boimler doesn't have a beard yet rather than a continuation off season 5. As a result, I haven't really read those.
Warp Your Own Way is great, though, and feels like it would have been a banger episode; there's such a wonderful balance of humor and almost making you cry.
Memory Alpha cites this as well as several other sources, showing the files were preserved and used at least in part in the documentary due to vigilant former effects workers.
My thought is the Borg Queen is less actually in control of the collective and more like the voice of the collective, similar to Locutus. She’s also the outlet for every drone’s horniness…
Not quite. The base footage was all 35mm; they were just transferred to tape when doing the editing and VFX shots.
It is very much possible to remaster DS9 at the very least - they did a few select scenes for the documentary “What We Left Behind”, complete with re-rendered CG effects, as the assets still existed on VFX artist’s computers.
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.