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The what? Apple's never done an adaptation. Nope. Not Apple, that's for sure.

Honestly, though: brilliant graphics, design, and acting. The writers should all be taken out and shot, though.

You mean R&S? Yeah. There were maybe 4 funny ones, and the rest were crap. Space Madness, however, is IMHO one of the greatest pieces of comedy ever produced. Maybe it was just one-hit-wonder syndrome.

I have. It's not bad, despite my several grievances with it. Mainly the Gorn redesign as cheap knock-offs of Xenomorphs, that Kirk could never have hand-to-handed. And I really, really dislike the whole Spock/nurse Chapel story line. T'Pring was grossly mistreated, and it makes Spock's surprise at her behavior in Amok Time completely out of character: he knew what he did. I'm also not fond of jumping directly to musical episodes in so early; shows usually only do that when they start running out of other ideas. I had to fast-forward through most of that one. I was really unhappy about killing off... who they killed off. I would have preferred almost any other character be sacrificed if they really felt it necessary.

But all that said, there is a lot of good, and I'll keep watching it. I think my biggest gripe is that they picked SNW to continue, over Lower Decks‽ That was bogus; LD was a far better show.

As an American, I've never been. When I lived in Bavaria, though, it was an extremely popular vacation destination. I remember being rather shocked because it just never occurred to me that it had beaches and warmth, and wasn't really that far from Munich; I just had never in my life in the US met anyone before who'd gone there, that I knew about.

Or Arch with snapper and either refind-btrfs or grub-btrfs.

This is a solved problem; on some distros it's not even an optional install; it's just set up automatically.

Before refind-btrfs, I used my phone to download and burn rescue ISOs on demand, because it had become so infrequent a need. The last time I broke my system was replacing the root NVMe with a larger one; I dd'ed the old onto the new and missed a UUID change. It must have been a half dozen years since the previous time.

My systems got a lot more stable when I changed to a rolling release distro.

Yeeeeup

Episode IV. That's my hill.

NeuTrek. TNG squeeks by, but any Trek with a dysfunctional, corrupt Federation with a Black Ops team is out.

The West Wing, season 4. After Sorkin left it went to shit.

Ren & Stimpy was hit or miss, but really after the first season it fell off a cliff pretty fast.

Nobody's ever done an adaptation of Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy, which is too bad.

TLoTR had 3 movies; everything after has been just a shitty job of milking the success of the first 3. Which is too bad, because Cumberbuzzle was brilliant as Smaug.

No. If mine goes single digits, it's a crap shoot. It can take 30 minutes to go from 20% to 10%, but it will shut down 5, 3,or 1 minute after it hits 10%.

I have never had a phone where the developers were such shit at coding the voltage estimation, or designing the hardware doing the measuring, or whatever combination makes it so random.

Never buying another Samsung again. Mainly because if the uninstallable bloatware, but crap like this battery thing is also infuriating.

As @catloaf says, you need to provide nor specific information.

Did you use LVM? Or just btrfs? If the latter, adding space to a volume is trivial - a single, simple command. It's a little more involved with LVM, but not crazy much so.

This is a good list.

There are three kinds of Linux commands:

• commands I use frequently
• commands I've never seen or don't know about. There's almost nothing in standard POSIX that falls in this category, and a lot of OSS that does. E.g., I use to always reach for fuser until I realized it's not a base install on many distros, so I switched to lsof which is is, and is also both more powerful and harder to use.
• commands I've seen before but use so infrequently I forget they exist, or what they're called. This is sadly a larger set than I'd like.

Some of these in this list are the third kind.

It's an interesting idea. I think it's just the phrasing. You're giving someone, socially and conversationally, an instruction. That's bound to illicit a knee jerk "you're not the boss of me!" reaction, mentally if not verbally.

What? Is this an AI post? It makes no sense. Nothing in here is even vaguely true.

And also because if we included Pluto, we'd have to include another half dozen Pluto-sized dwarves we've discovered since.

But, yeah, my understanding is that it's really about dominance. Pluto is too submissive. Not alpha enough, if you will.

Can you give me an example of the first two points? I haven't encountered that colloquialism yet. I've heard "a hot minute," which is clearly a just a figure of speech and would be absurd to ridicule, but it sounds like you're talking about something else. I just don't understand the second. I'm absolutely certain there's some slang being used in circles I don't frequent, so I'm not questioning you, I'm just curious. What's the hip new slang, dog?

I admit to using amaze-balls. So does my wife, sometimes. It's an amaze-balls term.

That sounds horribly transactional. Like you're asking people to apply for a job as your friend.

That may just be me, but I wouldn't react well if someone approached conversation like a job interview.

It's also fair to point out that your browser may not know your external IP; if you're behind a NAT, like a home LAN, your computer probably thinks its IP is the LAN IP, an address shared by millions of computers the world over. If you're using a VPN, your external IP (which JavaScript could get) is the IP of the exit node - an IP shared with possibly dozens of other people. Of you're not using a VPN, well... that's on you. That's privacy 101.

They don't mention enshittification - I think Doctorow popularized the term later - but this is a perfect example of a process that contributes to the phenomenon.

I had never thought about it in these terms, but they repeatedly mentioned curation, and it's so clearly a fundamental topic in today's online world.

This was an incredible video, thanks for sharing. It gave me a new perspective to consider.

That's the thing with ethics: they aren't generally written anywhere. That's where being a decent human being comes in.

Without the Holocaust, there'd have been no international horror over the atrocities of concentration camps, gas chambers, human experimentation, genocide. Anti-Jewish sentiment was rampant around the world.

Progressives made a lot of progress off the back of WWII, and the anti-fascist sentiment in the US that survived until the greatest generation died and their grandchildren took over. It's entirely possible that, without WWII, the fascism we see in the US today would have happened much earlier, and we'd have run our own concentration camps.

Ironically, the people who probably would have benefited most from preventing "Hitler" would be the modern Palestinians, because without Hitler, Israel would not exist today, and it wouldn't be carrying out a genocide.

Huh. My cousin is a professor, and my best friend is a high school teacher. They're both responsible for developing their curriculum. That's only an n=2, but it's 100% that if they (the people I know) hate their curriculum, it's their own damned fault.