Let's just hope XFCE can finish the transition before then. If not, I am not looking forward to having to shop for a new DE.
I'm not sure about NVIDIA drivers. Otherwise, it depends on what kernel your distro is using; if it's Debian, there's a chance you might have problems, though you could install the backports kernel, which I do on my Thinkpad E16.
I just realized. They say they're broadcasting to the entire quadrant - but which quadrant?
Chances are they'll do something normal and boring like the Alpha Quadrant and create a bunch of canon confusion, but it would be kind of awesome if took place in the Gamma Quadrant and looked at life in the Dominion (or post-Dominion planets) after the war.
I had no idea what Posadism was until you mentioned it. Looking at it, I think elements of it are coincidentally in there, but I don't think that's totally what it's trying to convey.
For one, Boseman, Montana definitely didn't look that socialist, and yet Cochrane developed a warp drive; it was the new connections and widened view of the galaxy that facilitated the development of socialism. Sure, the Vulcans helped, but it was humans who had to change.
Also, I feel like "aliens helping in revolution" is sort of antithetical to the concept of the Prime Directive.
Overall, I think Star Trek is less about through ufologic socialism and more about peoples figuring out socialism for themselves; space and aliens are mostly just a plot device to explore.
I think it depends. Overall, I think most of Star Trek isn't solarpunk, but the version of earth depicted in it very much is.
Picard: "Easy come, easy go, will you let me go." The entire cube: "We will not, no! We will not let you go." The Enterprise: "Let him go!"
Also, reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M63GVUAGc10
They did. Also, in the Guardian of Forever's alternate timeline in season 3, mirror Burnham successfully kills Georgiou at the cost of her own life, upon which Georgiou is returned to the prime timeline.
I think part of my Prodigy meme problem was I tried to encode in a bit too high a resolution (720x480). When retesting it today, I had a 49.1 MiB file, verses with a WEBP encoded at quality level 90, I got it down to 3 megabytes while still looking pretty good. I also kept having an issue with APNG white lines that I could never figure out.
Also, the WEBP was a bit larger than that - I wasn't satisfied with FFMPEG's default quality level of 75, so I experimented and decided on 97, getting a size of 333.8 KiB.
P.S For funzies, here's the WEBP version of that Prodigy meme I was talking about (done in 85):
"Generations of warriors from our house have jumped with this jump rope. Use it with honor, my son."
On a side note, I have no idea if kids these days do jump ropes. Heck, when I was young not too long ago, jump ropes were just those mythical things from the TV - I don't know if I ever saw one on a school campus (granted, I'm also on the spectrum, so it may have just been I was so bad at physical activities like that that I ignored them).
I'll just predict there's a good chance someone's going to respond something like, "they're always on them tablets these them days", to which I say, Yes, that's a factor in the problem, but I also feel like there's declining social opportunities for kids in general. If I go on, it'll turn into a rant that I don't think fits the tone of Risa.
Mostly with posting the APNG - Lemmy doesn't seem to natively support them in thumbnails. You CAN embed the image in the post and put a different format in the thumbnail, but that sort of beats the purpose. The caveat is you have to set the extension to PNG, or Lemmy won't accept it.
Also, while single-frame PNGS have an acceptable compression ratios, APNG files start to get large - a dozen or few dozen megabytes. Really, it doesn't take that much time to load most times, but it's long enough that people might miss it.
I would say no. I mean, the treatment fits the universe (lots of people enslaving other people), but there isn't even a subtle condemnation of this. In many ways, despite it tending to be a story about rebellion, Star Wars mostly tells a story with the status quo; especially in the original trilogy, there's never really an "are we the good guys" moment. (I could be wrong - been ages since I watched anything Star Wars.)
Meanwhile, Star Trek is constantly examining itself, with Starfleet officers often "stop[ping] to debate the rights of a robot" or whether the self-respect of one Starfleet officer is worth the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. Even when they treat synths like crap, it's usually depicted as being morally wrong.
This is a bit of a tangent, but this question makes me think about the evolution of Ood depictions in Doctor Who. Their first appearance was a bit weird about their enslavement, but they rectified that in later episodes.
P.S: I think this question is more suited for c/startrek than Daystrom Institute, as it's more about comparing the themes of two franchises than any in-universe explanation.
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The Psychological and Physical Impacts of Being a Former Borg Drone on Seven of Nine
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A Casual Mathematical Analysis of the Creepiness of Various Male Character on Voyager
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I barely have time as it it. Please, don't make me do the writers, too!
Also, if you actually look into the graph, note that data points have X axis error bars of +-1.
For those who don't want to open Desmos:
Edit: Added the Harry spike for that timeline where he had a kid with Tom's daughter, as well as a gap for Neelix and Tuvok during the whole Tuvix thing.
Another Edit: Fixed the line connecting episodes 69 and 70 for Neelix.
Have any of you guys heard of the Blasting Company/Petrojvic Blasting Company before? I find them TMBG-like in the sense that they have often dark, bizarre lyrics and play with accordions and horns, albeit in more of a folk/swing revival-esque way.
For those who haven't heard the band, a good song to demonstrate what I'm talking about is "Princess Andy".
Edit: If my tone wasn't conveyed (especially to those who haven't watched Prodigy), this is meant to be an affectionate meme towards all of Star Trek.
Note that the language I use is meant to be a comedic summary. I vaguely define the "episode genre" as people banding together [to fight authoritarianism or a faulty idea like militarism or isolationism].
Examples of this sort of episode include:
- TOS:Patterns of Force
- TNG:The Chase
- DS9:Paradise Lost
- VOY:False Profits
- SNW:Strange New Worlds
Because of his original purpose, it makes sense that the Doctor wouldn’t have held a Starfleet rank during Voyager.
However, in Prodigy, he still doesn’t have pips. This leads to my questions:
- Can a self-aware hologram hold rank or a non-com position in Starfleet?
- If so, how would the Doctor attaib it?
According to the STO wiki, he doesn’t wear them by choice but does have a rank. That might be a reasonable explanation; I can’t imagine Janeway not at least trying to field commission him.
John Henry has its 30th birthday tomorrow!
What are your favorites off this album? Thoughts in general?
Personally, I think it’s a crime Mrs. Train and Welcome to the Jungle were excluded from the final album. Still waiting for Superfueld Freaksicle. 😉
Also, the TMBG merch shop’s having a sale, including a free download of the mastered demos and 20% off anything with the code TMBGWORLD, if anyone’s interested.
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Do you have any TMBG songs where you like another variant over the album version?
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Stares in Debian Testing. (Though I use Bookworm on my laptop, probably soon to be Trixie. Nice thing about Trixie is I'll no longer have to use the Backports kernel on my Thinkpad and can just stay on the LTS one.)