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Iced Raktajino

@ IcedRaktajino @startrek.website

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I'm beautiful and tough like a diamond...or beef jerky in a ball gown.

  • Shut up and take my money: A working Bluetooth TNG Combadge

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  • I have an old rotary phone / bluetooth "headset"! Though it's only technically portable.

    It's a 50's wall-mount model that the phone company would have hardwired (no RJ-11). I've got it hooked to a Bluetooth -> POTS adapter that will decode the pulse coding. It rings when my cell rings, you can answer/place calls from it, and you can dial 0 to engage the voice assistant. Technically speaking, I can absolutely text people from a rotary phone.

    Is it practical? No. Do I use it? Rarely. It's mostly decorative, but if I'm going to have retro tech as decorations, I like to make it work. Next "wish list" is an old payphone.

  • Shut up and take my money: A working Bluetooth TNG Combadge

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  • not amazing as a Bluetooth device. Microphone didn't pick up super-well

    That's disappointing. Seemed to work well in that video, though it was quiet; I did wonder how it would fare in the real world, though.

    A Bluetooth version of the TMP communicators might have better success albeit at the cost of having to hold your arm up for the whole conversation.

    I've used smart watches for phone calls like that, and it was pretty annoying after not very long at all.

    I could probably easily make a Bluetooth TOS communicator, but that would be two roughly phone-sized things to carry around, so not really practical.

    OTOH:

  • She Gets Us

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  • glorify the rich & exploitation/objectification of women for massive profits.

    I get it. I almost feel like some of that was both lampshading the practice as well as exploiting it. Every time that would come up Maya would have commentary on it.

    They also mention Trump several times.

    Yeah, that made a modern-day rewatch kind of difficult. I intentionally skipped those parts. Having re-watched several old shows somewhat recently, sadly, the orange T-bag comes up quite a bit. Just is what it is (or was what it was?).

    Also ignore my other comment. I accidentally hit submit before I had anything typed out lol.

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  • She Gets Us

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  • So true. And I'm confident it's not just nostalgia making me think that.

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  • Literally my first thought every time I see David Cross in any role (past or present).

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  • Good memory!

  • I Have to Ask. Which Instance Was Online During the Cloudflare's Outage?

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  • Startrek.website :)

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  • It's pretty great and mostly holds up.

  • Why do communities make 'unpopular opinion' based sub-communities, but can't handle it when someone gives a good one?

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  • And you're going to honestly believe a mod's reasoning at face-value?

    Irrelevant. As a literate human being, I can click on your username and see your submissions. I can search the alt they listed and read those submissions. And, finally, I can look at those and arrive at the conclusion that both of those seem like trolling and the same person.

    Now that you've been sufficiently fed, I bid you adieu with my handy dandy block button.

  • Why do communities make 'unpopular opinion' based sub-communities, but can't handle it when someone gives a good one?

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  • You mean this post that's not removed? https://kbin.melroy.org/m/[email protected]/t/1316788

    (Edit: Fixed wrong post link. That link was to this post 🤦)

    Looks like a cromulent, albeit absolute shit, opinion to me. So far so good (using that phrase loosely). BUT... you seem to have behaved very asshole-ish in the comments.

    And the modlog says Trolling and Ban Evasion and listed another alt with a similar post history to yours that was also banned for trolling and hasn't posted since your account was created. 🤔

    So, maybe instead of whinging you do some self reflection, yeah?

  • ISO Project Ideas For Wyse 3040 & 5010 Thin Clients

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  • Yep, that's why I haven't messed with Kubernetes either; way overkill for a homelab and especially so since I downsized due to soaring electricity costs here.

  • ISO Project Ideas For Wyse 3040 & 5010 Thin Clients

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  • The only reason I gave up on Docker Swarm was that it seemed pretty dead-end as far as being useful outside the homelab. At the time, it was still competing with Kubernetes, but Kube seems to have won out. I'm not even sure Docker CE even still has Swarm. It's been a good while since I messed with it. It might be a "pro" feature nowadays.

    Edit: Docker 28.5.2 still has Swarm.

    Still, it was nice and a lot easier to use than Kubernetes once you wrapped your head around swarm networking.

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  • I had 15 of the 2013-era 5010 thin clients. Most of them have had their SSDs and RAM upgraded.

    They've worn many hats since I've had them, but some of their uses and proposed uses were:

    1. I did a 15 node Docker Swarm setup and used that to both run some of my applications as well as learn how to do horizontal scaling.
    2. After I tore down the Docker Swarm cluster, I set them up as diskless workstations to both learn how to do that and used them at a local event as web kiosks (basically just to have a bunch of stations people could use to fill out web based forms).
    3. One of them was my router for a good while. Only replaced it in that role when I got symmetric gigabit fiber. Before that, I used VLANs to to run LAN and WAN over its single ethernet port since I had asymmetric 500 Mbps and never saturated the port.
    4. Run small/lightweight applications in highly-available pairs/clusters
    5. Use them to practice clustered services (Multi-master Galera/MariaDB, multi-master LDAP, CouchDB, etc)
    6. Use them as Snapcast clients in each room
    7. Add wireless cards, install OpenWRT, and make powerful access points for each room (can combine with the above and also be a Snapcast client)
    8. Set them up as VPN tunnel endpoints, give them out to friends, and have a private network

    Of the 15, I think I'm only actively using 4 nowadays. One is my MPD+Snapcast server, one is running HomeAssistant, ,the third is my backup LDAP server, and one runs my email server (really). The rest I just spin up as needed for various projects; I downsized my homelab and don't have a lot of spare capacity for dev/test VMs these days, so these work great in place of that.

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    Lemmings who still don't want to use AI, why?

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  • Because:

    1. I'm not a lazy, smooth-brained rube.
    2. I'm not in the business of selling AI to lazy, smooth-brained rubes
    3. I have no stake in the supply chain nor do I stand to profit from those selling AI to lazy, smooth-brained rubes.

    Furthermore:

    1. I don't trust "AI". If I'm going to have to fact check it anyway, might as well just do it myself and earn the damn knowledge.
    2. AI does not work for me (or you). It works for the companies who are forcing it on you and sucking up your data.
    3. The energy costs and water requirements are mindbogglingly staggering
    4. I refuse to feed or ride any hype train
    5. It's creating scarcity of things that could be put to better use (energy, water, computer components, land, talent, you name it).
    6. It's not even AI. It's just a dead-end bullshit generator

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • In my nearly half century on this planet and having dealt with many a drug dealer in my younger days, absolutely none of them have been this pushy 😆

  • how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life?

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  • "Does it piss you off when Google/whatever does [blank]? Yeah, me too. So I run my own versions to not have to deal with that crap. Would you like me to set you up an account on my stuff?"

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • At best, it's JARVIS from Iron Man 3 when he went all buggy and crashed Tony in the boondocks. lol

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    Yes, That Great-Looking 'Star Trek: Voyager' Game Will Let You Spare Tuvix

    gizmodo.com /star-trek-voyager-game-across-the-unknown-tuvix-2000663331
  • Coffee @lemmy.world
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    Coffee prices haven’t surged this much in decades | CNN Business

    edition.cnn.com /2025/09/12/food/coffee-prices
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are some trends/fads that you are glad the world has moved on from?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    When something still uses micro USB in 2025

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    What are your favorite Star Trek books?

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    Paused my DS9 rewatch to read "A Stitch in Time" and am so glad I did

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Amazon (or any online retailer) needs a "Treat 'yo self" button that one-click orders something from your wish list / saved items.

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    Watch This Documentary About 'Star Trek: Phase II' and See What Could've Been

    gizmodo.com /star-trek-phase-ii-documentary-otoy-roddenberry-2000639257
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Rain barrels are the exact opposite of "Saving it for a rainy day"