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On the end of Discovery

I have mixed feelings about Disco ending. I really dug the first season’s look at a Federation at war, and following the person who arguably set that war in motion dealing with her culpability. Add to that a ship that is part weird science lab, part haunted house. And yeah, I could live with the Klingon redesign....

gnuplusmatt ,

Discovery also seems to employ the dimensional technology that the pod from the future employed on Enterprise, being much bigger on the inside

gnuplusmatt ,

the cruel irony is that the only reason that Kelpiens are even spacefaring is because Discovery intervened the previous season, in that regard Discovery caused the burn

gnuplusmatt ,

Yeah but the season 3 finale took it to a new extreme

gnuplusmatt ,

The Klingon merchant on Tulgana IV definitely has the Lursa and B’ETor sound going on, I’d be surprised if the voice actress wasn’t wearing Klingon teeth

gnuplusmatt ,

Found the millenial

millenial? Some of us are now in our forties. We grew up in the format wars

gnuplusmatt ,

The Enterprise theme actually played over the end credits - was called “Archer’s Theme”

gnuplusmatt ,

sighs heavily in Australian

gnuplusmatt ,

Yes endgame was good, but fuck if people aren’t now comparing the “weekly episodes” to what was essentially the epic 2 part seaon finale.

spoiler plusseason 2 of Loki was as good as anything they’ve done___

gnuplusmatt , (edited )

I’m not defending negative nellies - but its is possible to enjoy something and still criticise it. You’ve attacked me in the past for having a minor criticism. I’m not going to block you over it, I just think twice about whether I want the hassle, but maybe that’s just me

gnuplusmatt ,

I liked the “He looks like Tom Paris” back and forth, I’m glad they didn’t do something hokey like he’s Tom Paris’ cousin or something. I liked the flashback showing Mariner as the tag along first year, worked better than just telling us in the previous episode, that flashback probably should have been attached to episode 9.

I kept expecting William Boimler to show up before the end of the season, guess they’re holding onto that thread for next year

gnuplusmatt ,

I assume it was because you were tracking down instances of Klingons hugging?

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They’re constantly expanding the Active Directory schema and adding a lot of cool new features to Active Directory

you mean by letting it rot and become a security nightmare while trying to force everyone to move over to azureAD/entraID?

gnuplusmatt ,

The flatpak size disadvantage is negligible in the age of terabytes

the issue is overstated as most flatpaks use the flatpak platform runtimes and share their own libraries in a similar manner to the host, yes its separate libraries, but its not dozens of disparate copies like some detractors of flatpak seem to state

gnuplusmatt ,

that’s the beauty of distros, those that want traditional package structure can still use a distro that does.

Even the current flatpak first distros like OSTree spins of Fedora (Silverblue, Kinoite et al) provide mutable containers for using any package format you like.

gnuplusmatt ,

whatever the new architecture ends up being, at some point we will see x86 relegated to a daughter board in the machine while we transition, or x86 will live in a datacenter and you’ll buy time on a “cloud pc” like what microsoft will already sell you in azure

gnuplusmatt ,

Microsoft is a cloud provider these days, Windows doesn’t make enough money, that’s why they are desperate to monetise already paying customers.

Azure/entra or whatever the fuck they call it this week is where the real money comes from

gnuplusmatt ,

AGIMUS’s drones were reminiscent of the drones from Arsenal of Freedom

Who here uses a less popular Linux distribution? What made you choose it?

Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I’m curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I’d love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.

gnuplusmatt ,

Don’t know if this counts - used Fedora KDE for about a decade and then last year moved to Fedora Kinoite. It’s essentially the same, but is OSTree based and immutable. I like the solid base, the rebasing function and containers

gnuplusmatt ,

Sorry I didn’t see a notification for this.

It’s a different work flow installing software. Flatpak first mentality, then install stuff in a Toolbox container, if that doesn’t work layer the rpm.

Being able to rebase has been helpful, I’ve based forward to rawhide a few times to try new packages and then rebase back to stable.

You lose things like being able to use packages out of copr, but used to only really use that to test new versions of KDE. However the devs created a branch for KDE testing anyway, so nothing lost.

Happy to answer any specific questions you might have

gnuplusmatt ,

keep in mind Prodigy was produced by nickelodeon and only distributed on Paramount+ - for accounting purposes they are all separate entities - Paramount, CBS, Paramount+, Nickelodeon etc even if they are all owned by ViacomCBS

gnuplusmatt ,

CBS Studios produces most of them and then Paramount+ holds the distribution rights in most cases

gnuplusmatt ,

they were also home of all the movies at one point and that changes every few months, and by region. Accountants going to Accountant

gnuplusmatt ,

that Nickelodeon were the original commissioners of the production, made out of their budget and their terrestrial broadcast rights.

gnuplusmatt ,

the meme blames paramount+ for cancelling a show they didn’t commission and in a large portion of regions was never on streaming

gnuplusmatt ,

I was hoping for Prime, but their kids offering is pretty anemic compared to Netflix. With the cost of Netflix it only gets a few months a year in our household too

gnuplusmatt ,

borg completely absurd and ridiculous (sex suits instead of armour? High heels?)

I always assumed that was the doctor playing dress up and she wasn’t individual enough to contradict it. Once she came back to the Alpha Quadrant she clearly got some fashion sense

San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code (www.businessinsider.com)

San Francisco says tiny sleeping ‘pods,’ which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code::The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces.

gnuplusmatt ,

The header photo suggests at least 4 room mates tho?

gnuplusmatt ,

Oh yeah, Shit the photo was cropped how I viewed, I was optimistic that the under bed area was a work area or desk or something

gnuplusmatt ,

Year of the Linux desktop for most users is always n+1

For me it has been since 2012.

gnuplusmatt ,

It looks like they will add a subscription edition, doesn’t necessarily mean current editions will go away. If they don’t offer free upgrade again, for a lot of people they will need to decide to either buy a full license or roll a subscription.

There is not a lot known here tho, will Windows be part of the existing 365 subscription? Will OEMs offer a full license any more? Or will it be a trial before adding a sub or license.

No one knows

gnuplusmatt ,

And there’s that feeling of dread when you remember you will die one day

gnuplusmatt ,

not to be that guy, but on Enterprise they were called hand scanners or just scanners

gnuplusmatt ,

These drops have been so good. I’ve managed to get all the hero ships in regular size, even the Cerritos which I thought I’d missed my chance on. I missed regular DS9, but I am tempted by the XL in this drop…

gnuplusmatt ,

buy the discs to show Paramount you’re interested?

gnuplusmatt ,

This is one tangible draw back to being on the fediverse instead of mainstream social media - no one at companies are going to be watching or considering engagement here. So if it sort of locks us out of fan noise. I guess keep streaming it

gnuplusmatt ,

The Original 4400 got cancelled on a cliffhanger. I refuse to watch the reboot

gnuplusmatt ,

Why would I want those extra features in my torrent client? My transmission runs in a container and does its job

gnuplusmatt ,

My private tracker has multiple transmission versions on their approved list 🤷‍♂️

gnuplusmatt ,

Didn’t get it until July this year. The kids brought it through the house in 2021, by some miracle of vaccination the wife and I didn’t catch it then. Then the wife brought it home. Was pretty mild for both of us. We’ve kept our boosters up and we’re in Australia so it didn’t go nuts here until omicron

gnuplusmatt ,

Pipewire has been great, except for some edge cases

Still got passthrough issues 2years later

gnuplusmatt ,

that diagram is amazing, needs to be updated for Coda tho - which would put lines everywhere…

gnuplusmatt ,

I enjoyed Coda, but if there was a time to take a hatchet to characters and storylines, that was the time. I understand why they did what they did.

gnuplusmatt ,

the money is drying up, gotta find new ways to monetise

gnuplusmatt ,

without hashtags, I cant discover anything on bluesky, its made discoverability so much harder than mastodon imho

gnuplusmatt ,

Hey Beavis… Eheheh, I’m a skull now. This kicks ass!

Did we kill Linux's killer feature?

A few years ago we were able to upgrade everything (OS and Apps) using a single command. I remember this was something we boasted about when talking to Windows and Mac fans. It was such an amazing feature. Something that users of proprietary systems hadn’t even heard about. We had this on desktops before things like Apple’s...

gnuplusmatt ,

It doesn’t even need to be a script you could just alias the 2 commands on a single line to a command in bashrc

gnuplusmatt ,

The video is from Paramount Plus, who don’t currently have the rights to Prodigy, even though the parent company does. If they included it in their promotional material it would effect their ability to either sell those rights to someone else or write the show off for tax purposes.

It’s convoluted and stupid, but running your streaming service as a separate entity is how all the studios have it rigged up. Accounting ftw

gnuplusmatt ,

Bluesky confuses me, how do I discover anything without hashtags? Maybe I’ve been on mastodon too long?

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