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Nobody likes a sucker, especially the kind that fall for fruit tarts like you. I knew there was trouble. I could smell it on the hot evening breeze. Fortunately for me, trouble is my favorite thing… Because I’m Joe Milkshake. I kicked down the door with one swift, decisive motion.

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Mmh, overall still a bit meh.

Tilly was a bit too much with Raynor. I get she wants him to connect but also he is a commanding officer and he got the gist of many crew members in a short time. Maybe this is supposed to be a joke on how much emotional talking there is in Disco?

Grey/Gray(?) is a bit annoying. Basically forcing it out of Adira to break up. I guess that means no more of them going forward. Hope Adira finds someone else to be happy with.

I am glad they talked about the fact the Trill dude could have just given away the position of the tech instead of sending them off on the riddles. But honestly, I don’t get how those scientists had all these precautions and then still felt like, yes, some day the universe will be ready and not abuse this tech. Destruction of the tech makes a lot more sense. But maybe they’ll clear that up.

Edit:oh and wtf was that scene at the end in the caves. The actually nice monologue but all the guardians and Adira just weirdly standing there while the monologue is going. Then only at the end we see they released that symbiont into the pool, like no explanation at all what that is for. Is it going to die? Is that always done? Did the host just die during the last minutes of the show? Give some background please!

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There’s another creepy statue, I think of fries.

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Fuck yeah that’s the dude, just a different color scheme. Creepy as hell!

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Alright, I got to ask. Having one app for all these services sounds great. I remember some drama around it though, don’t recall the details. So what am I missing, is this actually good news?

Its not open source but neither are most of the apps it connects to.

Edit: Found a comment in another thread that sums up valid concerns feddit.nl/comment/8763492

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Wow dude. So much ignorance in so few words. Amazing.

RootBeerGuy ,
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Thanks to jail we have the most moderate musical tempo in the world!

RootBeerGuy ,
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April 9th would have meant straight to jail!

RootBeerGuy ,
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I do feel there’s got to be nuance of a commercial company doing this to generate profit in the long-run versus end-users doing this just so they can see content more easily.

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So I haven’t compared any and I am not sure if you are up to that but there are several fan-made upscales available online for all of DS9, as long as you are willing to sail the high seas.

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Welcome to the internet.

RootBeerGuy ,
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Hey, unrelated question, what’s the mother’s maiden name of your password?

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Agree with most of it. That intro with Michael riding on that ship at warp is exactly why I don’t like Discovery all that much. It’s always Michael, it’s got to be Michael. Plus the way this was used as you pointed out was just not good.

Also the reasoning to get Tilly back on board later, eh, don’t know, why not I guess. But why park a character at the academy teaching if you just get her back later with some half-baked excuse.

Same for Rayner, he has been retired as a Captain, despised working with Michael but of course she can persuade him to work as her Number One? Really? Sorry, but that does not make sense to me. I like him as a character though, so not too unhappy he sticks around.

But Michaels monologue about the progenitors at the beginning of episode 2 just nailed it in terms of what is not good about Discovery. Of course Michael recently thought about her existence, of course she has the drive to now look for answers the questions, but what if she does not understand. Always her her her. None of the other characters seem to matter.

I am quite excited they revive that progenitors plot from TNG, it is good material. However I am worried they only did so since they saw this is what saved Picard Season 03, fan service by bringing back as much TNG as necessary. So we will see. Cautiously optimistic, but it is still the Discovery that I don’t quite like.

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Yes! I loved that it really looked exactly like the ones in DS9!

RootBeerGuy ,
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Yeah, welcome to pre-2000 science. Things were a bit more basic then.

RootBeerGuy ,
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Has “Dear Ashley” not been online during the start and height of the Covid-19 pandemic? It’s not an entirely new concept.

On the other hand, just because you got a title to your name doesn’t make you intelligent or apt to discuss a topic. I have seen many PhD students in my time as one, who shouldn’t have received a PhD in the end as they really weren’t very good at what they were doing. E.g. manual counting of things in images and using the only statistical test that gives you significance, those sort of things in Life Sciences…

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I agree with you but you won’t get any points with that around here. Some people here are already of the opinion that if they can get an AI to respond to a question correctly 90% of the time, they don’t need these deleted comments archived anymore. Don’t even know how to argue with someone like that.

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“You want a finger? I can get you a finger, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me. I’ll get you a finger by this afternoon–with nail polish. These fucking amateurs.”

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3D!

How should I do backups?

I have a server running Debian with 24 TB of storage. I would ideally like to back up all of it, though much of it is torrents, so only the ones with low seeders really need backed up. I know about the 321 rule but it sounds like it would be expensive. What do you do for backups? Also if anyone uses tape drives for backups I am...

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Two questions, and please don’t take it as criticism, I am just curious about rsync but also one point you make.

“They go unmaintained” seeing as Borg is in use for quite some time, how does this look safer for rsync? For me it looks like the risk for that is similar, but I might not know background of development for these.

Second question more something I am asking myself, a lot of people seem to use rsync for backing up, but it is not incremental backup, or is it? I saw some mention of a “time machine” like implementation of rsync, but then we are again at your argument it might go unmaintained as its a separate niche implementation, or does that main rsync support incremental backup? If not, are you not missing that, how do you deal with it when just a file changes? New copy of it being transferred or somehow else?

RootBeerGuy ,
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Thanks for elaborating, the part about the pictures and movies not changing makes a lot of sense actually. Thanks for sharing!

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As opposed to what? If you said “thats why you cannot trust any software blindly” it would have been not that wrong.

RootBeerGuy ,
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Its a news site but the only place you can find the date of the article is in the URL. Sometimes I am baffled by the weird design decisions people are making.

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Anything she wanted, so she became a terrible person.

RootBeerGuy ,
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Why would they pokemon be on the side of the government during riots? Are pokemon stupid?

RootBeerGuy ,
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Yeah but they get less healthcare then, because now it costs money.

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Sign me up!

RootBeerGuy ,
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Well they got me at “thugs”.

RootBeerGuy ,
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Yeah agree, I keep trying it myself but its just weird in its layout. Just recently found this webclient, phanpy, that at least puts the longer posts together in a thread. Game-changer, but I am still not sure why the character limit still exists. Also no sorting options of incoming content or am I missing something? I guess it just doesn’t work that way.

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Is that actually easily fixable? Was planning to go dual-boot soon on my laptop and haven’t even considered this scenario.

RootBeerGuy ,
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That must have been quite the blood splatter from catheter to the doctors eye. I mean, not disputing this, just wondering if that’s really the only way it could have transmitted.

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Absolute classic with a twist.

RootBeerGuy ,
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Flapping your wiener in the wind like god intended. Just its the god of death, probably.

RootBeerGuy ,
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I comment more again. Used to a lot on reddit 5-7 years ago, less and less the recent years. Now back on Lemmy.

RootBeerGuy ,
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Aw man, finally a sort of appropriate question for me to drop this relatively new knowledge: you don’t even need heat to evaporate water, light is enough. Scientific finding from last year!

Sorry, you may not have needed to know, but more people should know about this!

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Sounds like they got a six demon bag in there.

RootBeerGuy ,
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It’s like that with a lot of things you could buy for your little one.

RootBeerGuy ,
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I have said it before, yes, people might leave. But the kind of people that stick so long to a dying platform are the ones that will never make it to Lemmy, Mastodon or whatever fediverse alternative you have.

None of these federated platforms employs any dark pattern algorithms to keep users engaged and clicking as much as possible. The kind of user that stays until the enshittification is not bearable anymore will not like the way the fediverse operates. So they go to some other place. Maybe its Facebook again, maybe Instagram, who knows.

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Yeah, if they are old enough those might be removable? Then again, from that time period they might be slower than RPis…

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Yea its “[email protected]”

RootBeerGuy ,
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Got some issue with the mobile app recently. It stopped recognising my already uploaded mobile pictures. Now they were blacklisted and when I cleared that it shows them again as not uploaded. In the timeline though everything shows as backed up. Bit weird and not sure how to solve it.

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Yes, just updated to the latest version in the hopes it fixes that, which it didn’t.

RootBeerGuy ,
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What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss

RootBeerGuy ,
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True, but keep in mind they likely have backups of everything. If you do this all at once it will probably be noticed and they might just roll it all back when you are gone. Case in point, reddit. If you do this slowly maybe it will stay, not sure.

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Emoduck, you just wanted to get hurt, right?

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I don’t mind paying for something but just seeing that its yet another subscription model thing makes me wretch.

(Hope I didn’t miss some fixed price info, I didn’t look that deep I admit…)

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