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"Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?"

Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • New ‘Star Trek’ Movie In The Works At Paramount From Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley

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  • I enjoyed the D & D movie, so maybe they can pull off something good. Maybe they could just do something set in, say, 2467.

    However, I’m extremely sad that it probably won’t be Crisis Point 3.

  • What's the experience for using AMD GPUs for COMPUTE on GNU/Linux?

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  • I will point out that the card support for ROCm has improved; AMD explicitly supports most RDNA3 or later consumer GPUs, and I think support might go back to RDNA2, maybe RDNA1.

    Supposedly it’s technically possible to use Polaris, but it’s very broken at this point.

  • Why go through the trouble to use Arch?

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  • The Arch Wiki is probably the sungle most useful documentation for any Linux user; I don’t even use Arch and it’s still extremely helpful.

    I could see the benefits of using Arch just so almost every function my system has is near-perfectly documented in Arch Wiki.

    As for the distro itself, it has the newest packages, and often good repos with interesting packages that Debian and others may lack. It also expects you to choose and install the components you want, whereas the Debian installer will usually just install defaults; you can use Debootstrap for a minimal Debian install, but that’s not as well supported for installing Debian due to the way tools as set up on the install medium.

    The reason I choose Debian over Arch is because if I don’t use a device for several months and have to install updates (like my school laptop over the summer), Debian Stable is more likely to survive that than Arch; I’ve destroyed several Arch VMs by trying to update them after not using them for months. I’m sure I could have salvaged them if I tried, but I’d rather just make a new VM.

  • x86/32bit to try on an old Acer one nettop intel atom CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz 2GB ram

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  • It looks like NetBSD and OpenBSD might be good OSs for 32-bit; the next FreeBSD version is dropping support. I don’t use any BSDs, but I think a BSD is probably the best-supported modern Unix operating system for this kind of hardware as the last of the major distros drop i386.

    Linux distro support is really thinning out for x86_32, so for this use case; I’m sure the distros still exist, but they’re often niche projects. Gentoo may do the trick if you want to; I can’t tell if they compile their newfangled precompiled packages for i386 though, so if they don’t, you’ll probably have to set up a cross compiling setup from a more powerful x86_64 machine, which you’d need to use every time you update.

  • The Strange New Worlds Season 3 Soundtrack has been released

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  • I just want a Lower Decks Vol 1 vinyl reissue and a Vol 2.

  • Linux users after Windows 10 EOL

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  • Wasn't necessarily suggesting 11 LTSC; just my personal choice.

  • Linux users after Windows 10 EOL

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  • Not really.

    Ampere's for servers; if you have the cash to blow, you can get a fancy workstation, but not a laptop. It's really a shame; I think Ampere might be able to do well in the consumer CPU market if they wanted to face Qualcomm (and assuming they can get their single core performance up). A lot of their hardware seems to follow standards pretty well.

    Graviton is only used internally inside Amazon and not sold to customers.

    The only semi-decent ARM laptops you can get right now are Snapdragon ones, some of which kind of support Linux but with a lot of caveats and obnoxious quarks.

  • Linux users after Windows 10 EOL

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  • I have to have Windows for my university's test-taking spyware, so I just have a barebones 11 LTSC installed on a secondary drive.

  • LEGO Star Trek Enterprise REVIEW

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  • Heck, if you want the stickers, you can easily print them on a good inkjet.

  • Linux MacBooks & the cursed Broadcom module

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  • I just looked it up, and it seems a lot of the pre-Apple Silicon MacBook had swappable airport cards that used a completely standard mini PCIE slot. From a cursory google search, it looks completely possible to swap in something like an Intel Wi-Fi card that is supported natively by the kernel.

    A mini-PCIE Wi-Fi modem can be had for not too expensive, around the $30 range; in fact, if you have a good stack of old Wintel laptops, one of those might have a card that works well. In fact, I did that with my sister‘s laptop (although she was using Windowd) – her Realtek Wi-Fi card was causing endless misery, so I ripped the Intel modem out of an ultra book from circa 2016 and put it in her laptop. No more issues.

  • swww renamed to awww, due to the author's guilt from obliviously naming it "final solution"

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  • Exactly. Luckily, back in high school, my IB History class spent a good couple months just learning about authoritarian rulers and their tactics.

    I especially like pulling out Pinochet because he’s a clear and relatively recent example of right wing authoritarianism, manipulation of existing religious structures, and US government support of authoritarian regimes that help contextualize its trend towards authoritarianism.

  • Creation Entertainment have announced ENT cast members for STLV 2026

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  • I think the biggest issue with ENT is probably the sexualization of T’Pol, the culmination of a nasty habit in Berman Trek.

    I could tune out 7’s catsuit because she was otherwise well-written and the good plotlines outnumbered the bad, but it feels like at least 75% of all T’Pol stories were of the horny Berman type, to the detriment of her character.

  • STAR TREK 4 Has Finally Been Scrapped As Paramount "Moves On" From Chris Pine-Led Franchise

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  • While we're at it, let's just pull in Chris Pine (multiverse crap) and William Shatner (Nexus crap) and have one of those nutty SNW episodes that sounds like a horrible idea but is surprisingly one of the better episodes that season:

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    Can kids under 10 be possibly taught coding, without even mentioning the word syntax to them ??

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  • I mean, I had an uncle showing me HTML at 7 (not a programming language, but still). I learned basic JS on Khan Academy at 11, and if I’d known it had existed earlier, I would have started earlier.

  • the self checkout machines at Walmart need a reboot. syslinux 6.03

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  • That's pretty normal for most UEFI x86_64 things up to 2020 or so.

  • the self checkout machines at Walmart need a reboot. syslinux 6.03

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  • UEFI first became common on new computers in 2011-2012, so I don’t a lot of 2014 computers were BIOS.

    I have a cheapo laptop from 2012 (one of last Gateways) and it’s a UEFI machine.

    At this point, I think 15 years ago is a more realistic estimate for the last legacy BIOS machines - my Win7 box with a 1st gen i5 is legacy BIOS.

  • Windows 10 End Of Life - Your Story

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  • Mostly, he uses Photoshop for printing, though, and I don’t know if Krita has as powerful a printing dialog.

  • Windows 10 End Of Life - Your Story

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  • My grandfather asked me about Linux, but unfortunately, he’s still using Photoshop for now.

  • LUKS decrypt at boot over SSH?

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  • +1 for Clevis. I’ve been using it on my laptop for a year and it works like a charm. Sometimes, you need to update bindings after kernel updates, but it’s overall quite smooth.

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    Got bored and created my attempt at Mirror Badgey in Inkscape

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    Solution to my Thinkpad E16 Wi-Fi Woes

    bugs.launchpad.net /ubuntu/+source/linux-oem-6.1/+bug/2017277
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    A Gamble: What will be the plot of Lower Decks's Finale?

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    In part because it reminds me of TOS:”The Cage”, I’m hooked on The Prisoner

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    An update on my Thinkpad E16

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    (Solved) A Minor Mystery: Can anyone identify where this image of DeForest Kelley pulling a rabbit out of a hat comes from?

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    Thoughts on TAS Theme

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    What is the largest file transfer you have ever done?

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    Janeway Variant Tier List

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    Liking my new Thinkpad E16 AMD

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    Starship Noise Generator

    dexcube.gitlab.io /starship-noise