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data1701d (He/Him)

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"Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?"

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • Is it confirmed that The Doctor we'll be seeing in Academy is NOT the one from "Living Witness"?

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  • They did do something with the butt bugs in the IDW comics recently...

  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season Three Arriving on Digital, DVD, & Blu-ray

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  • It's nice that they still put out Trek physical media.

    It's just really weird that SNW stuff seem to be the franchise's only 4K Blu-Ray releases (besides film remasters and Kelvin timeline, of course) - everything else with a decent resolution has only been released in 1080p. Like, objectively, I can hardly complain about 1080p, and any more than that for LD and PRO is probably pointless, but it's really weird that PIC and DIS don't have it for the seasons that were filmed for 4K.

    Also, if they're not going to renew PRO, can they at least give it the dignity of a complete series set, or at the very least a season 1 Blu-Ray so I don't have to buy episodes 1-10 and 11-20 separately?!

  • Is it confirmed that The Doctor we'll be seeing in Academy is NOT the one from "Living Witness"?

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  • Yeh, perhaps it's one of those things Star Trek should leave unanswered, like they should have done with Breen. The Breen are supposed to be a meme!

  • Joined the club!

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  • Also, depending on the time of year, some E series models can drop to pretty low prices on clearance. E series used to suck, but they've upped the build quality and they're pretty good budget Thinkpads now. Most things should be swappable (check Hardware Maintenance Manual to be sure), so back in 2024, I was able to snap an E16 gen 1 with 8 GB RAM 256 GB and upgrade it to 24 GB RAM, 2 TB storage for not too expensive.

    The really nifty thing about the E16s is they have dual NVME drive slots; I just kept the OEM 256 GB drive in it and eventually threw a Windows 11 LTSC install on it, as I unfortunately have to use Windows to do a few assignments, which luckily only come up every couple weeks, usually.

  • Extremely slow boot time

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  • I'm agreeing with other people; there's probably a drive issue that the shop didn't catch.

    On my machine, those two services that take 30 seconds for you do not take nearly that long for me. dev-mapper-DebianVolume\x2dDebianMain.device (which is equivalent to dev-mapper-data\x2droot.device; our drives are just called different things) only takes 1.074 seconds for me, while lvm2-monitor.service only takes 357 milliseconds.

    I've only ever seen Linux boots take this long when either a drive failed or I accidentally formatted a drive that's in my fstab, causing it to fail to mount and eventually landing me in a recovery shell. At that point, I'd either use the recovery shell or a USB to edit the fstab.

    Next time you boot in, check to see if all your drives are showing up, check disk health, etcetera. Also, although this likely won't solve the problem, check that your drive connections are well-seated.

  • [Solved] How to set up Linux for gaming on GIGABYTE G5 MF?

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  • Depending on how your system is set up, DRI_PRIME might use a different number. Generally, you check with glxinfo.

  • Star Trek: Treasure Island

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  • Actually, I think Sam Eagle would be a better Worf; he has a more serious demeanor, and it’d be funny to watch him have to correct himself to say “the Klingon way.”

    Of any main character in the whole franchise, Animal would probably make a better Shaxs, but we’re focused on TNG.

  • What all would you do to set up Ubuntu as a NAS?

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  • This is a relatively new CPU. You might struggle on Ubuntu as well. As much as I love Debian, something like Fedora might be better.

    It may be possible to get Debian running, though - either run Debian Testing or install a Backports kernel and Mesa. Were you failing to boot Debian, or did you just struggle after getting it installed?

    Either way, I just don't recommend Ubuntu.

  • Im sorta a computer hoarder but what can i do with some older desktops?

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  • A suggestion: if you can't find anything else for them, keep them around as parts machines.

    There should still be useful components in them. For instance, a lot of the Wi-Fi modems may still be perfectly good for other things as long as they're mini-PCIE (I don't know if they use those in desktops). They may not be the absolute newest standard, but should still do the trick; it certainly came in handy when my sister's laptop's Wi-Fi modem decided to be a brat - I just swapped in an Intel modem from a laptop from 2016.

    I might not fully trust the SSDs or the HDDs, but they can still have their uses. There's one SSD from an old desktop that I currently have hooked up to my Wii U.

  • Im sorta a computer hoarder but what can i do with some older desktops?

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  • From what I can tell, people have supposedly run LLMs on it with not great, but not necessarily horrible results; Certainly has to be better than those clickbait posts about people running llama on Windows 98.

    A lot of budget desktops from the past decade can at least match, if not significantly outclass a Raspberry Pi 5. Heck, that barely beats my i5 from 2009, and the performance of CPUs has increased significantly since then.

    Then again, I'm not particular interested in gen ML, self-hosted or not, so I don't really care.

  • [Solved] How to set up Linux for gaming on GIGABYTE G5 MF?

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  • Although seem to have solved your main issue, I have a few comments on your Steam Run command.

    For one, I think VK_DRIVER_FILES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.x86_64.json and your prime-run command are redundant - both of those will do the same thing. Personally, I use neither of those and instead do something like DRI_PRIME=1 %command% (obviously not this exactly always, as there might be other flags, but roughly the idea).

    In general, I’d just recommend seeing which of these command flags you really need, because I see people in ProtonDB getting away with much simpler launch commands.

  • need help creating a package manager in c# - Lemmy.ca

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  • Every package manager you mention is shit.

    Every package manager you mention is s***.

  • DistroWatch Weekly - Review of Gnoppix AI Linux 25_10 (Yes its about as bad as it sounds)

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  • For the record, I rationally hate AI*, and this title already raises suspicion for me.

    "AI" is a buzzword, and seeing it in the title or slogan for project or product reeks of some business major jumping on a bandwagon that they don't truly understand, and where there's business majors, there's probably encrapification.

    *: Of course, one of the big problems is "AI" is a misnomer - there's no "Intelligence" to it. "ML" is closer to capturing the nature of the technology without ascribing to it some magic power that it doesn't have.

  • Im sorta a computer hoarder but what can i do with some older desktops?

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  • How old are these machines, from oldest CPU model to newest CPU model?

  • Im sorta a computer hoarder but what can i do with some older desktops?

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  • I mean, depending on the budget desktop, it might be much better than a Raspberry Pi 5, which I hear is already occasionally used for such things.

  • Give the man a minute, damn.

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  • Star Trek: The Search for Ensign Peter

  • Give the man a minute, damn.

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  • TIL

  • Poor Cindy-Lou Andorian

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  • I wouldn't touch with with an approximately 12 meter pole.

  • My son asked to watch a Christmas movie today

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  • It's kind of hard for me to watch the HP movies these days with all the Rowling stuff, which is unfortunate because Radcliffe and Watson have stood up to Rowling's transphobia. There's also a lot of stuff from reading the books as a kid that is, in retrospect, rather horrible.

    Maybe I could see myself one day re-watching them through a means that doesn't directly fund Rowling (or, in the future, her estate, if its activities are malicious) and enjoy the work of the other people who aren't involved with the stuff Rowling is doing, but for me, that day is not today; I just feel too conflicted about it.

    For now, though, if I want to enjoy Radcliffe, I throw on 2022's Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.