The fallacy of the Borg, in Star Trek, is they assume humans are worth assimilating. That’s a very human-centric perspective. A more interesting storyline would be the Borg rejecting the humans and the humans trying to prove the Borg wrong.
Accidentally updated my entire system yesterday (instead of just my #Flatpak apps which I normally do for regular updates), which also updated #KDEPlasma to version 6. The first exp was broken, no doubt, since it defaults to #Wayland, which isn't great for my #NVIDIA GPU (the entire desktop was slow to a crawl, like it's being rendered using my CPU). Even after switching to #X11 tho, while that slowness quickly disappeared, I found that there are some widgets I rely on that are broken on Plasma 6, and even my Plank dock wasn't behaving properly (i.e. not identifying existing, open windows).
Thankfully, years ago when I first moved to #Linux full time, I had set up #Timeshift to create a system backup every midnight and every pre-update in case an update goes wrong (like in this case). Never had the need for it, and never bothered to test if the backups it made would work fine, until yesterday. Launched the Timeshift app on my desktop (didn't even need a safe/live environment), selected one of the recent backups, click the restore option and it was done in a second and prompted me to restart. Restarted my PC, and I was then back in my perfectly stable system on Plasma 5.27 like nothing happened <3
So please, for system backup purposes - use Timeshift! For personal file (user home directory) backups, use a #Borg based backup solution such as #Vorta (which I also absolutely love). They absolutely will save your ass someday!
I watch this 2 Parter almost every week now and it's still one of the best #StarTrek 2 parters to me that hasn't lost anything to me no matter how many times I see it.
Going to use the next few days to redo my #backup setup, after realizing my backup NAS is going to be offline for a while. Looking into #borg, or is there anything else that may be worthwhile? Already looked at restic, but borg seemed to win that comparison.
#AllStarTrek I mean, really, the premise is ludicrous. The #Borg don't do research? The borg can't figure out how to modify their own damn nano-probes to attack #Species8472?
I am eternally baffled by people who like other people based on similarity. What can you learn from someone who is exactly like you? How long can one possibly be fascinated by the face they see in the mirror?
One of the things I love best about #ActuallyAutistic community is its diversity.
We all share brain type, and that is awesome, but aside from that, we are incredibly diverse. We are of all nationalities, genders, all ethnicities, all faiths, all cultures, all social classes, all ages etc. The wealth of knowledge, experience, diversity of viewpoints is incredible.
And so...hanging with my neurokin makes me feel very, very wealthy.
So thanks for being here 💚 and adding your cultural and technological distinctiveness to the collect...oh, wait, that came out wrong... 👀🤖
Just finished the barebones firmware of #TalosES. It includes a BIOS, loader, monitor, and a simple assembler. Now on to writing a good demo and wrapping up the project, so I can do #TalosCR, the low-cost, single-board, SMD version! https://www.thebyteattic.com/p/talos-es.html