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

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • Reading "Q-Squared" and trying to follow the track changes has me like...

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  • I'm usually not big on ebooks, as I tend to read in the evening and haven't had a good e-reader for a long time, and I just don't enjoy blue light at night.

    However, I got a bunch of Star Trek comic eBooks in a Humble Bundle recently, and I need a good way to read those; I'm thinking I'll pick up one of the Kobo Colors. I've seen their limitations, and while it's enough to annoy a lot of comic readers, I'm personally fine so long as I can distinguish the division colors and think it would still be a good purchase for my use case. It might also be nice for my many Star Trek Adventures RPG PDFs; it'd be one less window on my laptop when I (occasionally) GM.

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  • I’ve also been jumping into the novelverse recently; my grandfather had a friend who was trying to offload his late wife’s Trek collection, and I ended up the recipient.

    I started with the second Department of Temporal Investigations book, then used this chart to decide where to properly begin. Even though I heard some grievances about it, I chose the DS9: Avatar books; it all made fun enough reading for before bed.

    Unfortunately, my collection has a bunch of weird gaps, so now that I’ve finished those, I have to look for the next book, Section 31: Abyss (Little relation to the now-infamous film), at a used book store in my area.

  • "It is the year 2000. But where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars. Why? Why?"

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  • I just realized that this may be better than Frakes asking you questions. That is an epiphany.

  • Believe it or not but the only being to have more temporal violations than Janeway was Pelia.

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  • “Is this really necessary? The wormhole aliens already put me through this kind of crap.”

  • I wouldn't take any chances

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  • I wouldn’t take any chances either… I’d put the bullet through his heart before he causes any more suffering for anyone else, personal consequences be darned.

  • What 3D printing-related software runs on Linux?

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  • Most software on that front works. I usually just use Cura for slicing.

  • What Have I Learned From Daily Driving Arch Linux For Three Years?

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  • Weird. Guess it’s a crazy fluke.

  • debian 13.2 with yt-dlp 2025.12.08 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp. What command do I need to download the newest format available, not exceeding 1080p and up to VP9?

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  • Honestly, AV1 software decode isn’t that bad on most recent hardware. My desktop with 2018 hardware does it just fine, and so does my 2023 laptop.

  • What happened to the Linux Kernel Archive at lkml.iu.edu (Indiana University)?

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  • Try e-mailing them. I don’t know about that specific mirror, but I use the University of Arizona mirror, and when issues came up, they got back to me pretty quick about what was going on.

  • Mr. Popular over here

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  • With that said, if you were forced to choose between them, who would you live under?

    On one hand, under the Borg you at least wouldn’t be aware of your loss of civil rights and wouldn’t suffer being hit by chemical weapons or something, but on the other hand… my goodness what is the Borg queen doing with Data?! You know what, I live to serve the Founders now.

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  • No. The Dominion is from Gamma.

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  • “Order to chaos”? Aren’t you forgetting someone?

  • Annoying characters

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  • All I’m saying is age is weird in space. I mean, don’t do anything stupid, but the Neelix thing isn’t that weird.

    Now if you want REALLY MESSED UP stuff, try that one timeline where Harry Kim married Tom Paris and Kes’s daughter.

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  • The only thing I can say for this show is while the suit and bowtie is very un-Vulcan, it’s more Vulcan than whatever TAS had going on here:

  • Annoying characters

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  • Santa, when the Claus fell

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  • All of this guy's Trek videos are Christmas classics in my heart.

  • What Have I Learned From Daily Driving Arch Linux For Three Years?

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  • That sounds more like something weird about the card itself than with the driver; "power saving feature" makes me think a faulty hardware ACPI implementation by the card vendor is to blame. I've had a similar thing happen with my Wi-Fi modem where it would completely crash and only a reboot would fix it; I too have to do special kernel options to get it working.

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  • I usually hate it when studios wipe something off the face of the earth for a bunch of tax BS or whatever, but please do this to Star Trek: Scouts.

    What pains me is it is certainly possible to make a good Star Trek kids show that isn’t just iPad baby slop. Like, just have a show about a bunch of kids having fun around Starbase 170 or something, with hints of what the often-exhausted Starfleet and civilian parents are going through.

    But no, most of the brainless executives have long since decided kids (and almost everyone, honestly) don’t need quality of any sort.

  • The Quark Who Subsidized Christmas

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  • QuillOS: Alpine-based Linux distribution optimised for Kobo e-readers

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  • Honestly, I’ve been tempted by a Kobo lately; I have a lot of Star Trek RPG and comic book PDFs/ePUBs that I got through Humble Bundle over the past couple years.

    Kobo seems like the least horrible brand I can get for a reasonable price with a reasonable screen quality; as pleasantly simple and reliable as they seem, and as nice as electronics re-use is, I’m not sure that one Sony e-reader that’s as old as my younger sibling fulfills my use case.

    Though honestly, if you have other recommendations for a Linux-friendly color e-reader, I’d be glad to hear them.

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    What is the largest file transfer you have ever done?

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    Janeway Variant Tier List

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    Children on the Cerritos

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    I prefer my dentist fully-clothed, thank you very much.

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    Liking my new Thinkpad E16 AMD

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    Interest in a Star Trek Comics Community on this instance

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    Stick Trek: The Next Generation - Repulsive Propulsion (Another Who/Trek crossover meme)

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    Does nobody remember Needole from Who Trek: Voyager?

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    How did the entire California Class make it to the Cerritos during the Texas Class incident?

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    For the Whovians on C/Doctor Who

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    Windows 9x Fastfetch Logo for Chicago95

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    Theory About Pike's Wheelchair

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    Starship Noise Generator

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    Is Badgey part of a bootstrap paradox?

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    Willie Mays - the 'Say Hey Kid' considered baseball's best all-around player - dies at 93

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    The Treachery of Images of Nixon

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    I'd go to school if...

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    Application of the (Temporal) Prime Directive Across Alternate Timelines