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Corgana

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/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021

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Canon Connections: DIS 5x06 - Whistlespeak

• Doctor Kovich gives Burnham a list of the five scientists who had the task of researching the Progenitor technology, three of whom we’ve already learned about. The remaining two are a Denobulan, Hitoroshi Kreel, and a Betazoid named Marina DeRex. The first Betazoid we were introduced to in Trek was TNG’s Deanna Troi,...

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it is stated that Starfleet officers swear

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I really like Zorin as a beginner’s distro. It’s based on Ubuntu so most everything is designed to work with it without learning a whole new command line tool, but it doesn’t try to hide the Linuxey stuff and mimic windows. On top of that it’s just very polished.

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Sometimes FOSS communities are so very uptight, we should relax a bit.

Now THIS is funny

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Hmm

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Good point, perhaps “beginner’s distro” is not the best term because not everyone wants to put a ton of attention into their operating system!

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A better comparison would be energy utilized per user, in which case the energy requirements for Bitcoin are miles and miles ahead of what the average person produces using a computer in the same amount of time. Even a gamer, playing 4k 120fps ray traced games 12 hours a day would use a fraction of the energy of someone mining bitcoin.

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How much energy is used by our current financial system?

Orders of magnitude less than Bitcoin requires, which is the criticism.

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I remember when new uniform variants meant it was a new series (or at least a new admiral).

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WTF

Were the [REDACTED] also a result of the Progenitors? DIS s5 spoilers

So, the plot in season five of Disco is hunting down clues left behind by scientists who uncovered the technology left behind by a precursor race of alien beings who panspermiad their genetics all over the galaxy, resulting in all your favourite humanoids, like humans, Klingons, Romulans, and Cardassians, as seen in the TNG...

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I had a similar thought. So far Disco (unlike in “The Chase”) has implied that the progenitors seeded all life. I have a feeling it’s meant to throw us off the trail a bit.

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Online accounts works seamlessly with Google Drive but yet not for OneDrive.

It also is not the same thing as “Drive Sync” on Windows that mirrors local files.

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2008 is not “damn old” in terms of filesystems.

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Impossible to not read in his voice

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Clapping

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Yes. Why bother sharing if you’re not trying to help others?

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I don’t remember Zimmerman looking so feminine and classically attractive but if you say so.

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Smiling

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“Living Witness” might be my all-time favorite Voyager episode for this reason.

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I know this is a joke but “Enshittification” requires there to be a monopoly that abuses commercial customers along with users. Linux distros can’t really have monopolies since the switching costs are so low.

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Annoyed

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Culber’s newfound spirituality arc felt kinda shoehorned in as an odd piece of character development in a show that’s about to end. I actually initially really enjoyed that he felt weird about hosting a Trill spirit (Trek has a habit of stuff getting right back to normal after a traumatic experience) but it’s dragged on without a clear direction as to what it means. I have to assume it will become relevant to the main plot at some point. Discovery surely wouldn’t leave weird thread dangling, right? Right?

The whole idea of a humanoid habitat built around a semi-functioning weather control network was cool. Though I would have loved to have seen the dead civilization around the tower they eventually go to!

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idk Stamets seemed pretty receptive and understanding, I think Culber was moreso unsure because he sees himself as a “man with all the answers” and didn’t like the vulnerability that came with showing his partner a side that’s unsure and not confident. That’s how it seemed to me at least.

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I liked that at no point Burhnam spoke down to the town leader dude by going “actually yes we are gods now open the door I’ll explain later” even though in the short-term it would have been faster.

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Yeah totally. I think the glibness is coming from a place of experience. Like he knows Culber will get there eventually, but there are no words that will help. Like the whole trying to tell a queer teenager “it gets better” thing.

New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative) (codeberg.org)

This is a feature that as far as i know lemmy does not have, so it might be worth it to checkout and support piefed, it will probably be useful if there are certain topics that are really relevant to you and you want to develop in depth knowledge of.

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Is this using ActivityPub? I notice that the lead dev shares a username with a lemmy.world admin.

EDIT: yes it is I missed that it is already federated with Lemmy instances

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