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I had an Acer netbook that I ended up calling the Netbook of Theseus because I bought one in 2009, then several years later bought an identical one on eBay. I ran Linux on the thing and kept it until last year.

I'm also going to give a curve ball: MASH.

Movie recommendation: Run Silent, Run Deep. It's a WW2 Pacific theater submarine movie with Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. But it's directed by Robert Wise (Star Trek: TMP) and the story beats will be recognizable by fans of both TMP and Wrath of Khan. It also focuses pretty heavily on the lower decks crew.

I have an E495 with an SATA SSD, a cheap one at that, and it takes Arch (btw) about 5 seconds to get to SDDM login and about 7 seconds from login to usable Plasma desktop.

Try that with Win11.

Go back to Reddit, go into PrequelMemes or SaltyAsCrait, and start talking about the Godawful dialogue in the prequels. Let us know how that goes.

...but it's not a remake...?

No...the whole idea behind free software is that you can build from source and can even modify and contribute because it's free. There's no moral imperative to use CPU cycles and energy to do everything on your own computer.

It is pretty cool that Gentoo's Portage extends the Ports tree concept to the base operating system, though. I used to use it but at a certain point I decided it was too much of a time suck. I hopped around distros and nowadays use Arch. If I get tired of Arch, it'll probably be Fedora unless they go the way of Ubuntu and Windows.

Ignorance is a choice, too. I've met so many people who are proud of being ignorant. I once met a woman who was in her mid 30s who was explicitly against learning new things because...reasons?

Oh lort. You just gave me flashbacks. One of my kids bought one of those $200 Chuwi laptops and it would barf all over itself about once a month, so badly it would require a reinstall.

Couldn't have doors in high school, we might try to smoke a joint in there after all.

Doors?

No, seriously, the only time I had a toilet with a door in public school was in kindergarten. After that, no doors on the toilets.

I like the part where she admits she doesn't give a shit about infant mortality rates in poor areas

It was never about the sanctity of life for most of them.

Go back and rewatch TOS. Spock is emotional.

Yeah, basically they took the intro Dennis McCarthy wrote for TNG, and replaces his theme with the TMP theme

https://youtu.be/jzpeulsbv8o

PSA: Word isn't layout software, it's a WYSIWYG document editor. You can change settings to make it work more like layout software, but it's better to use a layout tool if you need that.

Recently I switched to using Affinity Publisher because it did everything I needed from InDesign. The only problem being, if I want to share files with anyone, I have to make sure they also have Affinity Publisher.

It seems like a lot of iot tech is geared more towards iPhone in the US. For example my wife's Odyssey will read the entire header of a text message with text to speech, and if you look into it Honda says it's a known issue. No such issue with iPhones.

Good Lord they established that Pike and Batel have a relationship in the first episode.

Rigel 7 is literally a callback to The Cage

Just going to tell the story that I broke one of the cardinal rules of PCMR by drunkenly pointing out the origin of "master race" when someone in a PCMR thread was going on about some other group being offensive and how PCMR was so much better.

It's always been tongue in cheek; it's meant to be a statement that PCs are superior to consoles. At a certain point it seems like PCMR just turned into talking about PCs. And that's fine. The sticky thing about it is, if it's not about jokingly talking about PCs being superior, does it need to be PCMR? On the other hand it's dang near a brand at this point. Can you move a PCMR audience over to something else entirely?

You know, I can't argue with most of this. I think other than TAS, Discovery S1 is about the only Trek I've never rewatched. It doesn't really fit in with the era it's meant to be set in, it brings back a lot of things I don't really care for in Trek (Mirror Universe, Section 31, etc) but it mostly knows what it is and where it's going.

Season 2 might be, but I'm not sure. The Enterprise was revealed at the end of S1 of course and by golly it sure seems like Anson Mount hit the ground running as Pike.

I seriously wish the beginning of S3 had been Rod Roddenberry doing a soft reboot of Andromeda. He's talked about how one of his "jobs" is taking his dad's ideas and pitching them as new shows, and I feel like Andromeda could have been an interesting direction for Star Trek to go. I'd love for more resolution on Calypso. I'd love more talk about how the ship's computer got taken over by an alien AI and they're just sort of letting it do its thing as a part of the crew. But at a certain point the show just...sorta...trailed off.

And despite liking that it felt like a soft Andromeda reboot, it simultaneously felt like they used the time shift to not deal with why Discovery looked nothing like any of the other ships of the era, and to ignore the "black ops" nature of the ship.