Would be the ultimate "man cave" for sure lol.
Yeah, I always wondered how explicit Klingon made it through the UT unchanged, lol.
when Quark uses a human idiom, is he actually saying that, or is it a translation of a similar Ferengi phrase?
Most characters, I'd guess it was massaged through the UT. With Quark, though, it could probably go either way. He's frequently interacting with a diverse crowd, so he probably is pretty fluent or at least capable in an array of languages. Wouldn't surprise me at all if he was using the idioms directly rather than having Ferengi phrases translated.
What would be the reason to move it to a dedicated infrastructure, you not needing your existing infrastructure?
Yeah, that, or if I decide one day I don't want to deal with my own hardware anymore. I've got a hybrid cloud infrastructure currently, and most of the heavy services (DB mostly) run on my own hardware for cost/performance reasons (and I have fiber, so might as well use it lol)
Good question!
Mine's a small instance and runs on my existing infrastructure, so my only real cost (aside from a crazy amount of unpaid time and stress) is the domain name which is about $20/year.
If I moved it to dedicated infrastructure, I've estimated it would cost me about $65/mo for just the backend, UI, and database services (to maintain the same level of performance, anyway. Could probably host it for less and take a performance hit). Object storage for pict-rs would probably be around $10/mo since I force it to use webp
and have a 512 KB limit for user uploads.
Those numbers may be a little high, but they're based on my existing VPS provider which has amazing SLAs and uptime.
He may know Picard calls it wine, but he may not be able to call it that himself because the running joke is Chateau Picard wine is terrible.
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I totally get where they're coming from with that shutdown announcement. I've had to "talk myself off a ledge" a few times to not go the same route and shut mine down. Ended up making some server policy changes that helped, but there's eventually going to be something else later.
If we keep treating the Fediverse as just a scrappy, amateur effort, it will never reach its full potential and it will be forever just a niche thing.
What suggestions do you have to change the way we're treating/running it currently?
That's exactly what I would have done, lol.
When I'm gone and done with it, someone more altruistic than I can report it to the archaeologists haha.
Thanks. (hands you two slips of gold-pressed latinum). I haven't had a chance to look into that yet (been playing around with Kodi and the Emby add-on), so you may have saved me some time/research effort.
The existence of a third universe confirmed? Prime universe, mirror universe, porn universe.
Doubt anyone living in a non-Federation world would bother learning it.
Right. I guess the UT would still be needed, but only for edge cases. After being reminded it existed, I looked it up. Pike mentions he's surprised the Terralysians speak it. I'm suspending disbelief with Vic being a hologram (and could have been programmed to speak it) and Kira and Odo picking it up over the course of 7 years on DS9.
“The 37’s” ... each hear people speaking their native language due to the universal translator.
That part I can accept at face value since it's just speaking. Now if Amelia Earhart had broken out into some anachronistic Pat Benatar, I'd have had several further questions lol.
TIL HTC still makes phones.
Used to love their devices then they just kind of....disappeared.