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  • My biggest gripe is that the all feed is not actually the all feed from across the fediverse, but a feed from all instances your instance is federated with.

    It's even worse than that. It's all communities that users on your instance have subscribed with. If someone creates a new community on another instance, you won't see it on yours until you or someone else discovers and subscribes to it.

  • We didn't ask for stretchy pants. Give me back my cotton jeans.

    And while you're at it, put back the other two belt loops.

  • I switched once in college just because I could. But then I switched back when Windows 7 was released.

    Then I switched again at work because our product ran on Ubuntu server, and I hate PuTTY with a passion, and it was just easier to manage Linux from Linux. But I switched back again when we were acquired by a larger company that required us to use more productivity tools that didn't run well on Linux at the time and had to to "just work" (Skype for Business, Zoom, etc).

    These days I spend most of the workday in WSL via Windows Terminal. At home I run a handful of Linux VMs atop an ESXi hypervisor installed on an old desktop. But when I'm not working, I generally just stay as far away from computers as possible.

  • I switched once in college just because I could. But then I switched back when Windows 7 was released.

    Then I switched again at work because our product ran on Ubuntu server, and I hate PuTTY with a passion, and it was just easier to manage Linux from Linux. But I switched back again when we were acquired by a larger company that required us to use more productivity tools that didn't run well on Linux at the time and had to to "just work" (Skype for Business, Zoom, etc).

    These days I spend most of the workday in WSL via Windows Terminal. At home I run a handful of Linux VMs atop an ESXi hypervisor installed on an old desktop. But when I'm not working, I generally just stay as far away from computers as possible.

  • I wonder what changed.

    There is a link at the top of this page that will give you the answer.

  • On Enterprise they just call them lights.

  • Spock has to have a moment of crisis that brings him to the state of character he's in in TOS.

    This. It's literally what we saw happen in DIS to get him from what we see in The Cage to what we see in SNW. There is no reason it can't happen again.

  • He is certainly spending a lot less time expressing emotions than he did in season 2 of Discovery.

    There seem to be two major camps of thought about his portrayal in SNW:

    1. He is way too different in SNW than he is in TOS, thus breaking canon. These must be people who really enjoyed the nobody-ever-experiences-personal-growth-except-for-Seven-of-Nine aspect of VOY.
    2. Personal growth is okay, but his current trajectory is veering off too far from where he needs to land in TOS. This is the nobody-ever-makes-the-same-mistakes-twice camp.

    Here's what we know for sure, chronologically:

    • Spock smiles at plants in The Cage and seems stable.
    • Spock is a mental and emotional wreck in DIS season 2, but he pulls it together in the end.
    • Spock is back in control in early SNW season 1, but he has overcorrected after the events of DIS to a place where he is much more stoic than he was in The Cage.
    • Spock opens back up the emotional can of worms in SNW season 1 to fight an adversary, and he is having a difficult time closing it back up. But he seems to be trying to make the best of it.
    • Spock is about to lose all his Vulcan DNA in this week's upcoming episode. Hijinks will ensue with T'Pring's family.

    That last one may lead to more overcorrection in the future. Or maybe it won't. Who knows?

    Maybe he'll undergo Kolinahr at some point before TOS. Maybe it doesn't work twice, and that's why he fails in TMP.

    But you can't tell me you've never met anyone in real life whose emotional state of being sways back and forth like a pendulum swing over time.

  • grin at a plant

    To be fair, The Cage is set before SNW and even before DIS. And if you recall season 2 of DIS, he sort of lost his mind at some point in-between.

  • The Enterprise computer illuminates wall panels to guide Ortegas to her quarters. In “Encounter at Farpoint” Riker was guided to the holodeck and Data by a similar system.

    And IIRC it was introduced as being a relatively modern innovation in UX. So that's a continuity break.

  • How well does it compare as a carbon sink versus wood?

    We stuff "cellulose" into so many products, especially food. If mycelium is more efficient, maybe it could replace some of that wood pulp.

  • Corporations have been pushing the sustainability-is-a-personal-responsibility narrative for decades. But even in the best case, it only makes a drop-in-the-bucket difference compared to solutions that work at massive scale.

    "What is your carbon footprint?" I don't know. What is Walmart's?

    On top of that, there are billions of people who are either currently living in poverty or are finally on their way to tasting the prosperity that much of the Western world has had for the last century. Will our cuts in consumption be enough to outweigh the increases by everyone else? Even if we break even, that still leaves us on the way to disaster.

    There is no silver bullet. The more realistic scalable solutions we can synergistically use to achieve sustainability, the better.

  • And yes, that includes Enterprise

    [skip Intro]

  • Yes. Never deflate the spicy pillows.

  • I generally start looking to replace mine around the time that Google Maps starts becoming laggy. That's usually around the 3 year mark for me. After 4 years things get pretty bad.

    Nexus 5 - Pixel 2 - Pixel 6a

    Practically every app update grows its respective compute and memory footprint. And over time, it adds up. Combine that with the big jumps in resource usage that come with OS updates, and eventually things just start slowing down.