[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago

"I can't stop the heterocyclic declination!" (TNG: "Samaritan Snare")

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's nice that major news outlets are saying what we nerds have been screaming for the past two decades. Microsoft only shares a small portion of the blame for the recent outage (they could have built their OS better so software vendors don't feel the need to use kernel modules, but the rest is on CrowdStrike) but we are too depenent on them.

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

If my American university has a system in place for students that don't own Windows, I would not be surprised if yours has a better one :)

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

LibreOffice has opened every DOC(X) the school has sent me, albeit imperfectly, and all assignments are turned in as PDFs, which I usually make using Markdown and LaTeX. I have had to use Office 365 for collaboration, but only about twice a year, and that runs very smoothly in Firefox. On one occasion I tried to collaborate with CryptPad, but it didn't work as well as I hoped.

Most computer labs at my uni run Windows 10, rarely 11, but a lot of the science labs run Linux. A surprising amount of the software required for classes has been open-source, too.

The most frustrating thing has been the lockdown browser used for some exams. My university library has computers I can borrow for exams, but yours might not, and they detect VMs, so you might have to dual boot for that.

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, only thing I can think of is the few banking apps that don't have web versions.

I was lucky enough to have all my banking and 2FA apps work perfectly on GrapheneOS. The only app that gave me a significant amount of trouble was iClicker, which my school uses for attendance. That was fixed by enabling Google Play location services, and there was a (fairly expensive) alternative anyway.

I did have to buy a new phone to use Graphene, because I got my previous one as part of a carrier's cell plan, and it had a locked BIOS. Though I think the purchase was worth it, and just moving my SIM card from one device to another was enough to get it working.

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

From what I've heard uBlock Origin Lite only barely falls short of the ad-blocking coverage that regular uBO offers, so there will still be options for Chrome users after this happens, not to mention the multitude of alternative browsers and app stores for Android.

I still think that making Linux phones a viable alternative is very important, but it's not significantly more important now than it was a month ago.

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Move Along Home" would work so much better as a Doctor Who episode. Has a kind of absurdity that is perfect for Who, but stands out in a bad way in Trek.

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 7 points 3 months ago

The AtGames Genesis Flashback is more akin to the Ferengi "Genesis Device" from Lower Decks than the original Genesis Device.

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't have much PC building experience, but these specs seem sufficient. Only comment is that you might need to use a distro with a new-ish kernel and graphics stack, given the very recent CPU and GPU. So not Debian stable, but Fedora, Ubuntu, or any rolling release distro will be fine.

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 27 points 3 months ago

Normal, plug and play mice last a long time, with or without firmware updates, which are typically free. I guarantee that nobody will buy this mouse, and if it does release it will stop receiving updates within six months.

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For a while I daily drove a Purism Librem 14 with Debian's fully free kernel, and installed as few non-free packages as possible, including firmware blobs (which I didn't install any of until I decided I needed Bluetooth). My experience with gaming was generally fine.

With linux-libre you really have to buy your hardware specifically with support in mind. You're limited to Intel and non-bleeding-edge AMD graphics cards, a very small range of wifi cards, and no Bluetooth. Otherwise, video games should work as well as they would on any other computers with the same specs. Especially if you're also limiting yourself to games with free engines - I'm not aware of a single libre game that demands more than a modern Intel integrated graphics card can provide, even on high settings.

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