can we please keep this community about technology and not Twitter/X and elon news?
I liked the way they talked about science from a warrior race in Mass Effect. The Krogans have scientists but they're mostly focused on making bigger bangs and booms. I would probably assume the Klingons are similar.
I know we have a few episodes showing other sides of the castes but generally we only interact with the warrior caste and occasionally see arbiters like in Rules of Engagement (DS9) or Judgement (ENT).
The only time we saw an actual Klingon scientist was in a TNG episode where they had figured out meta-phasic shields or something that allowed shuttles to get closer to a sun than ever before. Crusher was even dealing with some prejudice regarding Klingon scientists and has a few lines about how it feels weird to be working with a Klingon not focused on war and battle.
My main issue was less about how they looked and more about what they were capable of. The idea of being able to essentially species change a Klingon into a Human with TOS-era Klingon medical tech sounds impossibly advanced for what the Klingons are known for. Their scientists are few and far between, and even in TNG it's elaborated on that treatments for disabilities aren't even looked into, they just tell you to kill yourself. That doesn't sound like the kind of species that 100 years prior is going to be able to do this insane medical procedure.
They would have been fine with hair. The whole thing where everyone is bald was the point that made it look bad.
I have pictures of T'kuvma photoshopped with hair and he looks great.
Another thing I want to mention is that Gene himself never held the series up to visual continuity. When the budget got better, the sets got better and so did the makeup. It was just a natural progression of the series. I don't feel like it's a stretch to keep trying to improve on alien appearances, especially as the aesthetic for the show changes and evolves. I like the SNW bridge update. I like that it's all metal and glass and feels substantial.
Licensing is a no-go. There's no way Paramount would sell any iota of the Star Trek IP for movies or TV shows.
You might not be aware of the fan film fiasco, but essentially back in the day people used to be able to do all kinds of cool things including bringing in Trek alumni actors to play parts in their fan films until a man named Alec Peters went a few steps too far. Initially the main complaint was that he was using the Star Trek IP to essentially launch his own competing studio, but he did some boneheaded things like illegally selling branded Star Trek merch. Guy was literally selling Axanar coffee at one point. He was taken to court and Paramount released an entirely new massively restrictive rule set for any fan project, shutting down those not in compliance.
The only way you're going to get access to this content is through piracy. That's the only universal answer to when studios randomly scrub things off their platforms.
I remember when Netflix just started up and we were fresh off the end of ENT. Doug Drexler and a lot of the crew were trying to see if they could get Paramount to let Netflix do a final s5 for ENT, and it went absolutely nowhere but it was a nice little hype train for a while wishing that I could see the Romulan war.
The tiny Bialettis are adorable.
I boil the water in a kettle and then put it in the bottom and on the stove with the rest of the apperatus. I've never had it be finnicky since I've started the brew from warm.
The real issue with the Moka is that the metal superstructure gets overheated and it causes the coffee to scorch. I've had that problem my entire life and never cared enough about coffee to go and try figure it out, but after speaking with some of my friends we found that starting from warm was the key to a foolproof Moka.
It's fun to karate-chop the grinds and filter off the plunger into a can. It's one of my favorite parts of brewing the cup.
The Moka Pot is for espresso. The way you use it properly is to pre-boil the water in the bottom portion and then apply the heat from the stove to minimize the overall scorching from overheating the frame. My grandparents always started from cold and I start from warm and it makes a world of difference in taste and power.
If you're consistently brewing coffee and not espresso the AeroPress is a no-brainer. It makes an incredible cup that really brings out the flavors in great coffee. When I want to show somebody a good single origin to demonstrate the funky flavors I will always brew with an AeroPress because it's very clean. The Moka pot can do this for good espresso, provided you start from warm water.
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KDE Connect rocks. It's objectively better than Windows Phone Link because, somehow, it fucking works.
Yeah, I'm definitely opening myself up to issues by having installed Arch instead of Ubuntu, but as much as I'll bitch about these problems existing, I really do enjoy the process of fiddling and troubleshooting.
I find Ubuntu can be used right out of the box for productivity depending on your workload and general productivity tools - personally my shop primarily uses Gsuite stuff so I can access everything within the browser, making most of what I do generally agnostic to environment. The main thing I liked about Ubuntu is all the changes MS have made to it, including things like having cloud connectivity for GDrive and OneDrive out of the box, instead of needing some kind of hacky weird solution. I find Ubuntu with all the MS contributions has become a very good productivity OS on top of being a solid server to be using with Hyper-V.
I have it installed on Arch (running an Nvidia GPU) and it works flawlessly connecting to my main Windows machine.
The main issue is that Linux is too fragmented and absolutely not user friendly enough to be consumer-grade in most applications. Steam is doing their best with SteamOS and they have been making great strides in a lot of areas, and they've even allowed me to feel like I can run Linux as a primary OS without losing out on my main off-time workload of gaming. Stuff like DXVK and Proton have made amazing strides towards a gaming OS that isn't Windows.
Unfortunately too much shit goes wrong for the average user. Troubleshooting also becomes problematic when the community itself is fragmented on solutions. Often I will search up a problem and be recommended different solutions that are not using the tools I have available in favor of the other poster's favorite system. It's very annoying to say "I have problem X and have tools Y" and be told "Well, tool Y will do the job but tool Q will do it better".
I've been running Arch on a laptop recently and the first thing I had to do was troubleshoot networking. I looked at the router, wondered if I fucked up the config. Everything else connects fine, must be something else. Turns out that the clock was out of sync and it was preventing the OS from verifying any cryptography. The only time I've had that shit happen on Windows is on an old Surface RT that would randomly decide it was the year 3000.
The main issue is that easy problems that should be solved baseline by the OS crop up far too often for the average user to want to have to deal with day to day. Also, whenever you go to ask on a forum, you're usually told to just do something entirely different or use another distro. Every time I go to fix something on this machine it sends me down a rabbit hole of shit I don't care about because it doesn't solve my problem since it introduces a brand new one to solve. If I want to use solution X don't tell me to go install program Y that's your favorite program to use but is literally not what I'm trying to accomplish.
Today I installed Manjaro onto an old laptop and for the life of me I could not figure out why it wasn't connecting to the internet. It wasn't a network issue, it was the fact that the time was out of sync. It took me a while to realize that was the issue and not that I had fucked up my router config or something. It just couldn't validate any cryptography because the time was off. There were like four different solutions that all attempted the same fix and eventually I was able to connect with ethernet and restart timesync, which only worked after a restart.
If you hang around the communities you'll notice a lot of people who admire Spock or Data in terms of relating to their emotional struggles and relating to the broader community. It depends on where you hang out but yeah, there's a lot of autism around Star Trek, and it's just the genuine kind of people who are neurodivergent.
You wouldn't say that if you had a conversation with somebody about lightsaber forms. EU contains MASSIVE autism. Filoni stuff is pretty autistic too and that's the new core of the franchise.
I don't get how it's a big debate when the guy's FAQ functionally boils down to saying "yeah this is spam and defederate if you don't like it" almost as if it's a challenge.
As much as I miss content in abundance to mindlessly doomscroll that was functionally why I left reddit.
Yeah I never got the gimmick of that sub because it's actively contributing to the problem. Guy lives rent free in their heads and they have to take it out on the rest of us.