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gnuplusmatt ,

People who hate them have never driven them

gnuplusmatt ,

I was similar, almost monthly releases over the years kept me engaged.

I would add to those recommendations the Cold Equations Trilogy and if someone enjoys that, Mortal Coil (as a prequel to cold Equations) and The Light Fantastic as a sequel.

Is there a proper way to use several DE's on one distro or is it not advised?

I have read many conflicting things, like always. Just wondering if there’s a safe way to use several DE’s on one distro without messing up my damn computer lol I’ve tried it several times and it always messed things up. I’m currently brand new to fedora workstation 38 too btw. Thanks alot

gnuplusmatt ,

Move to silverblue/kinoite and when the urge to use another DE just rebase the OStree to the other branch - Silverblue for Gnome, Kinoite for KDE, Sericea for sway, Vauxite for xfce and there are some other not yet official branches for other DEs on Quay

Nebraska governor signs executive order defining men as "bigger, stronger and faster" (boingboing.net)

Nebraska governor Jim Pillen, a Republican not noted as a women’s rights supporter, yesterday issued an executive order “defining” males and females and the attributes thereof. The anti-transgender political grandstanding offers fusty explanations of the sexes–men are “bigger, stronger and faster” on average–in...

gnuplusmatt ,

So in Nebraska a two men with a measurable difference in size and strength in a relationship are actually heterosexual?

gnuplusmatt ,

We still get our share of toxicity here. I mused recently that if you’re assessing the success of lemmy/kbin on how close an experience to reddit it is - I’ve been attacked in the same ways by hyper fixated debate lords here too

gnuplusmatt ,

Similarly if nvidia wanted me to buy their cards they’d get their drivers sorted out. While plugging in an amd card just works with literally no setup from me, nvidia will get no money from me

gnuplusmatt ,

Brave at least claims to be an actual fork of chromium, they cherry pick upstream apparently. It’s still full of crypto bs, so choose your poison.

gnuplusmatt ,

You can get usb-c aux adapters that split off a charge port too, they aren’t very expensive either

gnuplusmatt ,

You think people are really trying to use Lemmy to advertise?

gnuplusmatt ,

how will I read the instructions a vendor sent me for a windows server that is a word doc because who knows? Oh no… Anyway

gnuplusmatt ,

It is… It is green

gnuplusmatt ,

“Computer! Taffy, honey, shrimp, soda, corn, steak, chicken nugget, crispy lemon rock candy, chili, gravy, chocolate sundae! Hot!”

gnuplusmatt ,

Nah for me it’s almost 40yo mortgage, family and high cost of living energy

gnuplusmatt ,

I hate when people try to write technobabble like that. It has a logic and if you have watched enough star trek it starts to make sense.

Then JJ Abrams comes a long and has Butterbeer Crampleslice tell us life support system is behind the aft nacelles. Even the first few seasons of the new Trek shows did this crap until they brought on science and Canon consultants

gnuplusmatt , (edited )

There is nothing technochron blorbinator in the Trek lexicon - I’m saying that writing example technobabble like that shows a lack of understanding of the source.

I don’t have any specific examples, but I remember the first 2 seasons of discovery and a little in the first season of Picard getting Trek particles wrong and not knowing systems. It got better once they hired Erin MacDonald and brought on David Mack and a few other novelists to consult on prodigy and I think Picard iirc

edit: Hey look I can play the edit game too - I provided a poorly researched example and explained that technology use not well used in early discovery - I acknowledged that being critical of technology use can be hand waived because its fictitious and apparently that’s not good enough for our combative OP. I also provided sources on the franchise now using specialists to keep track of technology and technobabble, and advised that I am not a “nutrek hater” as our contentious colleague here had to go and attack me personally - check below for the receipts and tax returns!

gnuplusmatt ,

I’ll be sure to take notes next time I do a rewatch

gnuplusmatt ,

I am going to shift the window on what I meant a little - star trek uses its technology as a plot contrivance all the fucking time, every series is guilty of it. Tech can be a hindrance to the protagonist or be stupidly overridden depending on what the plot needs. Most of the series are good at making the tech at least make sense in the world.

Take the breath sensor in s1e03 - as a security device its there to just be beaten, which is stupid - but also in star trek world with scanners and tricorders it makes no sense. The main computer could scan you at the door and know who you are without breathing on something. Its a fundamental misunderstanding of the world. To new fans its not a problem, but have you met a Star Trek fan before?

Once they brought people on that actually can beat the technology needs into shape for the world, this new era of trek has been fine IMHO. None of it is story breaking, and its frivolous because yes, this is fiction and the world can be whatever it wants for scifi reasons. This was the first example I found quickly scrolling transcripts. There’s others like the SQL line in season 2.

gnuplusmatt ,

Both of us can do backflips to justify our positions. I also acknowledged that it’s fiction and it can be whatever it wants to be. I dont claim to know everything.

It doesn’t change the fact they brought on people specifically to do a better job of these things, so that backflips are less required 🤷‍♂️

gnuplusmatt , (edited )

Erin MacDonald interview

NS: So speaking of cool, you are now a science consultant for the franchise. Tell me how that came about, and what your duties involve.

EM: Yeah, this is a dream job. This is as good as it gets.

…

They’re realizing how effectively Star Trek can be used to teach science, they really want to capture that, and with Star Trek having this big resurgence, and having all of these shows now being developed, they realized that having someone who is a behind the scenes person as well as a representative for teaching science through Star Trek would be an advantage to them.

So that’s what they’ve hired me to do. I’m working this year on retainer for the Star Trek franchise. That doesn’t say that every show is using me, but I’m available to any shows that do want to use me, and to try and keep track of all the technology and all of the travel and all of the stuff that they mention. All of these series are coming out at different points in different timelines, and someone’s gotta keep track of all of that. And they are, but it helps having me who can just focus on the technology and the technobabble and the galaxy and to try to keep that all straight. So it’s really exciting and I can’t wait for the stuff that I’ve worked on to actually start airing so that I can talk about it!

confirms Mack as consultant

There are other resources and tweets out there confirming as much.

Don’t assume I’m a “nutrek” hater. I love new Trek mate, I buy the discs, I stream it, I’ve got the eaglemoss models! I use to defend the spore drive as a cool use of subspace domains or that Picard season one is a good remix of the themes of the episode tapestry all of which earned me many down votes on parts of reddit.

I can still be critical when parts of it could IMHO be done a little better, and as I said I’m glad that new Trek really is trying

gnuplusmatt ,

Why is top left Kevin James

gnuplusmatt ,

I just got a car with no transmission instead

gnuplusmatt ,

Before the rise of Android and ios I’d have said it was possible, but the goal posts have shifted pretty far. Unless something backed by a corporate entity or government rises Up, it’s a no. A chromeos type thing for smartphone is not going to happen for mass market, because there is already Android.

Discounting Android, the last mile of what a smartphone is capable of can not be accomplished in Foss manner, without end to end verified OS images and some kind of secure enclave for banking and “security” features, carriers and banks are not going to get on board any more. Convenience features like DRM video streaming, casting also probably are not achievable either

gnuplusmatt ,

Things like androidpay/apple pay type functions require a chain of security checks, on Android it’s levels of safety net. some banking apps require similar

gnuplusmatt ,

At 720p you can, not 1080p or 2160p - Linux meets minimal widevine

gnuplusmatt ,

I went back to a pixel, as I couldn’t get my oneplus with lineageOS to do Android pay, after custom roms on all my phones since the HTC Dream, I have been running stock for the last 18 months, kind of miss it

gnuplusmatt ,

What’s taters, precious?

gnuplusmatt ,

really? From the outside looking in, it looks like most Christians are atheists just putting on a show because it’s expected of them. Its the only logical explanation for otherwise rational people buying into that twaddle

gnuplusmatt ,

I pay $17AUD a month for a family plan

gnuplusmatt ,

I can think of lots of reasons that will force me to have chrome installed if this goes ahead.

it might even go as far as being chrome on a supported OS (win/mac/cros/android with google play services)

gnuplusmatt ,

When millions of dollars are at stake in the streaming wars, and I see dozens of near-zero-cost posts about how “this is exactly the Trek all us old Trek fans have been waiting for dudbebrodudes!!

Yes corporate shills are coming to lemmy of all places to astroturf, I bet they’re all over usenet and dialup BBS as well

gnuplusmatt ,

Really wish davinci had a flatpak or appimage

gnuplusmatt ,

Wasn’t this the plot of multiple Sylvester cartoons?

gnuplusmatt ,

I feel like Sean is the kind of guy I could geek out with

gnuplusmatt ,

Yes let’s shift the blame off massive polluting companies, we should eat veggies and let them warm the earth

gnuplusmatt ,

I like buying shit as much as the next person, I also don’t think endless growth for shareholders is a laudable goal and is likely dangerous. I also don’t think that essential services should be run for profit, but then I am from a country with proper government health care. Government should set a baseline, not a company.

But as I said, I still like buying shit

What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?

I’ll go first, I took my mom’s college textbooks which came with discs for a couple distros and failed to install RHEL before managing to get Fedora Core 4 working. The first desktop environment I used was KDE and despite trying out a few others over the years I always come back to plasma. Due to being like 12, I wanted to...

gnuplusmatt ,

I picked up RedHat 6.0 (hedwig) on the front of a Linux magazine in 2000. Took a few days to get X working on my Pentium3 at the time. In the end the thing that sent me back to Windows was an inability to get my modem running and thus no internet.

When I was at university in 2004 doing a network administration course, our lecturer was very proud of the livecd he’d created with an environment for the course. It was based on Fedora core 2. It was fascinating. Tried to install fc on my laptop at the time but struggled with ndis wrapper to get WiFi running.

Would try again out my early career (2006), went out to Ubuntu and debian. Gamed in early dx7/8 days in wine and Cedega. Would run home servers and mythtv on Linux over the years.

When the steam client beta came out I tried again in earnest to move to Linux full time and was ultimately successful, coming back to Fedora KDE 19 and staying there until moving to Fedora Kinoite last year.

Don’t use Windows really except when I have to with building the SOE and a few windows servers at work. I am involved with azure and azureAD at work, so to me Microsoft is mostly a website and a powershell prompt.

gnuplusmatt ,

In a good way, they took a lot of scifi things that have been done in other trek and remixed them into a very good episode. It had shades of Voyager’s “Faces”, DS9’s “You Are Cordially Invited”, Data getting his emotion chip in generations. These are things we’ve seen, but explored in new and pleasing ways.

I feel like these bread crumbs of context to “Amok Time” are going to make a classic episode better, but for a lot of newer fans there could potentially be no pay off if TOS can’t hold their attention.

Some fan discourse I’ve seen on mastodon suggested “oh look there’s the AR wall” like its some kind of bad thing, but I don’t see this as any different to saying “oh look CGI character” we all know it, you don’t need to point it out.

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