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[–] data1701d@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe your GPU is set to a low power mode? I wonder if something like CoreCtrl might help you.

I don’t have this problem on my Debian 12 machines, which both use this browser on XFCE, but they have AMD graphics. Then again, I don’t online game that often, but when I have, I don’t recall any problems.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Not necessarily. It’s currently on the latest ESR version. I use the repo version on my laptop (stable) and testing and don’t have this problem.

In recent years, Debian has gotten a lot better about keeping stuff on the current ESR version.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Actually, with the work done on box86/box64, you might be able to get stuff running well - last I heard, they got triple A games running around 45 FPS on Asahi on Apple M1.

However, it would be totally unsupported, and who knows how well the Apple M series optimizations will work on another member of the ARM family. (Although, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s been tried on Ampere at least once.)

Really, the biggest issue is probably power usage - I don’t know if it’s enough to increase your power bill significantly, but it would definitely consume more power than say, an i7. This is due to Altra CPUs really being more for server usage - performance per watt will likely be better overall for those kinds of workloads, but you’re probably not going to make full use of the hardware. These systems are really more of server dev kits than daily drivers.

For a desktop, I’d just recommend a PC with a high end consumer grade CPU like an i7 or Ryzen 7.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

I’d say it depends if you can find the right person and what CD it is.

I got this for about $15 with shipping included from someone downsizing their TMBG collection - I’ve been seeking out a few singles/EPs from this band that never made it to streaming due to a label breakup and cancelled rarities compilation back in the 90s, so my CD collecting has been very specific. My CD collection is thus very limited.

From what I can see, a typical non-mint used CD runs $5-10 for more common albums. CDs actually do tend to still be produced for a lot of new albums (or at least what I listen to), though if I have to purchase an album, I usually go for digital download from artist website or their BandCamp.

For me, besides the hard-to-find tracks (besides through YouTube compression), the desire to keep it in good condition is less for resale value and more because I appreciate it as an art form.

But if you do downsize your collection and have two oddly specific CDs…

Anyhow, I don’t totally know about 8 tracks, but who knows - someone out there could want it. The band who made my CD actually did a limited run of their 2021 album on 8-track as well as a cassette run.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Very well. For simple memes, just plop a textbox.

Though drawing bezier curve paths to create masks is a bit cursed.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

“Meme loops are the most common element in the fediverse.”

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I do my memes in Inkscape. Should be rather easy to install on Mint.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I haven't watched most of Picard yet except the first few episodes of season 1, but I weirdly picked up this detail from the IDW Picard's Academy comic. I enjoyed it. Maybe not a masterpiece, but it was at my local library and I would read it again just to look at Spock's outfit:

There's just something weirdly fitting about business casual out Starfleet Academy Instructor Spock.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I see Kevin Riley. I say the magic words:

IIIIIIIIII'LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL TAAAAKEE YOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOEEEEEMMMMM AAAAAGGGGGAAAAAIIIIINNNN KAAATHLEEEEEEEEEEEEN

Now, who's up for an Ensign or LJG Riley appearance in SNW?

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

At least later GTK fixed the whole file picker thing, though.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

Jokes aside, I would view this more as a Thomas Riker situation - Voyager was split in two in that moment. Both Kims were the same Kim before the divergence field, so both Kims have the same record before then.

In truth, probably part of Kim being stuck at one rank was probably because of a lack of transfers from Voyager, for obvious reasons - it's practically raining promotions on the Cerritos for instance, and transfer seems relatively frequent in Lower Decks.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Actually, according to an okudagram in PRO, he is at least a full Lieutenant by 2384 in the prime timeline.

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Continued From: https://startrek.website/post/13283869 https://startrek.website/post/14075369

I managed to fix the one biggest gripe about my Thinkpad E16: the RTL8852BE Wi-Fi controller randomly dropping out. I actually found this a few days ago, but I had forgotten where I put the file I had edited. You put a file in modprobe.d called 70-rtw89.conf. Both /etc/modprobe.d/ and /usr/lib/modprobe.d work - I used the latter, but for the sake of conventions, you should probably use the former.

You then put in these options for the rtw89 module: options rtw89_pci disable_clkreq=y disable_aspm_l1=y disable_aspm_l1ss=y

Now, my Thinkpad is a fully functional Linux laptop. I will be docking it to an 8 from my initial score of 8.5, but I'm back to liking it for now. If you apply the fix, be sure to update the firmware as well - some older distros have an old version that works but returns a lot of journalctl error on this card.

Update: What do you know! The updated firmware-realtek just went into backports!

Thanks, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-oem-6.1/+bug/2017277

 

I know we've all been crying to ourselves in bed at night over the end of such a wonderful show - me included - so here's a fun little distraction for now.

  1. What is your prediction for the plot of the series finale?
  2. How much gold-pressed latinum do you bet on it?

I bet 5 strips that it will be a parody/pastiche of the time shenanigans of TNG:"All Good Things" and VOY:"Endgame" where we get to see the futures of each character.

Your turn. Betting closes once the first episodes of the season comes out (in other words, I think you have until 11:59 PM PST on October 23rd to bet, though I could be wrong). I will declare the winner of our imaginary latinum when I've watched the finale.

P.S If it's not too much trouble, since there's still more than a month to season premiere, would you be able to pin this, @ValueSubtracted? It's totally fine if not, but would be convenient due to the long-term nature of this post.

 

Yesterday, I began watching the 1960s British sci-fi series The Prisoner (first five episodes) and have been quite enjoying it. Much of my enjoyment has been from the fact that it kind of feels like “What if The Cage was a whole series?”

In other words, like “The Cage”, it’s a prison environment in which a person can’t be certain of reality any more. It does diverge in all the torture on number 6, whereas the Talossian’s illusions are less flawed and sadistic a prison in some ways (you know, besides the purpose of breeding a bunch of human slaves). However, I feel like both “The Cage” and The Prisoner overall embody the same “everything might be fake” sense of reality. I almost feel like “The Prisoner” is somewhat a window into what Star Trek might have been if CBS hadn’t thought people would be too dumb to understand “The Cage”.

Besides the similar vibes with “The Cage”, another thing winning me over is the surreal set design, which has already won a place in my heart. I just wish I could make a replica of one of the signs in the village and have it not be so obscure no one would ever recognize it.

The main thing my 21st century brain finds fault with is the strong gender roles used in The Prisoner (there is always some woman that Number 2 sends to try and manipulate Number 6), although like TOS, I’ll give it a pass since it was in the same boat as most television at the time. However, I did like the twist in “Free for All” where Number 58 is revealed to be the real new Number 2.

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Original Post: https://startrek.website/post/13283869

Update: Nope, I'm still having the problem. It seems to be an ACPI problem. I found a potential solution, which I will test soon. The issue seems to only occur when using the charger and Bricklink Studio. These seems to be a common issue on Lenovo.

Another update: I fixed it, but I can't remember what I did. I'm having a great experience again. I'll see if I can find the fix for other owners of this laptop.

Update: I remember what I did, and have detailed it and where I found the fix here: https://startrek.website/post/14342770 . You should probably update the firmware for the sake of a clean journalctl, though.

After using this laptop a few weeks, I have one important note. I was having a problem for a while where, usually after waking from sleep, in some rooms my Wi-Fi card would disconnect and I'd have to reboot to get my network connection back. Based on journalctl, it seemed to be some sort of weird firmware error.

I found the fix was to install updated firmware, specifically the version of firmware-realtek from testing, upon which the problem has stopped ocurring. As firmware packages tend to not have a lot of dependencies, I do want to see if I can get a bookwork-backports package uploaded so it's easier to install.

 

I recently came across this meme. After researching, the original meme appears to be https://www.geeksandgamers.com/topic/star-trek-doctor-mccoy-memes/ in late 2020.

That leaves me with one question: Where is this frame of DeForest Kelley from? Looking through both my memories and a double-check in MemoryAlpha, I'm certain it's not from TOS. Is there someone here more familiar with DeForest Kelley's filmography or, alternatively, someone who actually has the time to start looking through DeForest Kelley films?

 

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/13903979

This Might Be Lemmy is a community for fans of the alternative rock band They Might Be Giants to share opinions, show experiences, fan art, and whatever other John & John-related stuff they like.

!tmbl@lemmy.world

 

What are your guy's thoughts on the theme for Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973)?

I feel like:

  1. It almost sounds like the battle music for a Star Trek turn-based JRPG on the Nintendo DS.
  2. I feel like PRO's theme gives very similar vibes to this one while having a distinct identity.
  3. I almost feel like this theme is a weird in-between of the TOS theme and TNG-era theme (which makes perfect sense - I mean what else would be between the 60s and the 80s).
 

cross-posted from !tmbl@lemmy.world

Based on The Mesopotemians by They Might Be Giants and the Epic of Gilgamesh.

 

This Might Be Lemmy is a community for fans of the alternative rock band They Might Be Giants to share opinions, show experiences, fan art, and whatever other John & John-related stuff they like.

!tmbl@lemmy.world

 

I'm writing a program that wraps around dd to try and warn you if you are doing anything stupid. I have thus been giving the man page a good read. While doing this, I noticed that dd supported all the way up to Quettabytes, a unit orders of magnitude larger than all the data on the entire internet.

This has caused me to wonder what the largest storage operation you guys have done. I've taken a couple images of hard drives that were a single terabyte large, but I was wondering if the sysadmins among you have had to do something with e.g a giant RAID 10 array.

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Janeway Variant Tier List (startrek.website)
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Let me know if I missed any!

Edit: Here’s the link: https://www.opentierboy.com/rank?state=N4IgLglgpgTgziAXAbVBJ5owLQIDQgB2GAyiAWEqiOoiDAKwDsAnhALYDWAHJ+SAGMMAMSgBDGAAISAGzEtYkgBIB7GSoDmMMe0kApMYSgB3eSAC+eNBgAOANgBmYB9ygBXAMz8hdVeq06+oYmZpbWdHAAHgCObgBWTAAWGlDeIjBQhAKJkgBKUHAQcGCGAlCSANJiYDAQRhYAumE0GJCw2GL8xHQAgvyUKOEgDHYAnDYwkdwyMmm9ACbsENoykoA4BAAqHOUb2gBuUKsAMmLGcAD8gLgEQUamLBZWLXSRAAyjbsbGDsZ8BD4gBlu8kkKgckgAQioYBoHkNoRAWA4xNFuEI-hgAMLaABeLEkAFk3DB5ooAGp1Ao3EL3Zq0EAARg0KkgiRYcRUcxAJDcACM4DYxGVJAARCAHaGZIWA6mNWmtLDYHldDDg-pUIacYzsaKcHlMbGUdF0ACi7BUyjUmm0umld1hTxAACZuBp2C8xDZuPcjSAAJriKSg5SHVa20JNR50to4NFETFqwYOuDGAQqQijJgaSKctbgtxgSTGcpiGQZMTzPGJMQHSRiKl3WsFxIqdhQACEl3tdL2dk4AmihAgEBsnJIEBk4oh6hU83r4bldGj2AcyrowgT1Dp8xgiTg2J5Gjc2M5+OWMChc5pkYwPLicUdSJediVPoA6hI4Ilh5fZde6G4smqKAmVqbEoHmVcQA3JoGgoCAwBkVI6DDPFSQkCBDALLZFCOIpKHMIA

Edit: Updated Linux with Resistance, Year of Hell, and Borg Janeway

Weird. It seems like the images failed to save. So here’s the who’s who.

  • Fear Slayer Hologram Janeway: From the end of VOY: The Thaw as a decoy Janeway to trick the digital embodiment of fear.
  • Hologram Janeway: The one from PRO.
  • Admiral “Time Travel Laws?” Janeway: The one from VOY: Endgame
  • Crazy Murder Vines Janeway; From PRO: Terror Firma
  • Subspace Divergence Janeway: The one that blows up her Voyager to save the other Voyager from that one organ-harvesting race in VOY: Deadlock.
  • Emo Hologram Janeway: The evil act Hologram Janeway puts on for the Diviner in PRO: A Moral Star
  • “But We Already Have a Janeway at Home!”: Dala, the scammer that pretends to be Janeway in VOY: Live Fast and Prosper.
  • Silver Blood Janeway: The duplicate Voyager from VOY: Course: Oblivion.
  • Mirror Janeway: From somewhere in PRO season 2, which I haven’t watched yet.
  • Warship Janeway: From VOY: Living Witness.
  • Borg Janeway: Undercover Borg Janeway in VOY: Unimatrix Zero
  • French Resistance Katrine: That one time the Hirogen made the whole crew think they were holodeck characters in the WW2 French Reistance. Janeway was a bartender.
  • Year of Hell Janeway: From the Year of Hell Timeline. Died almost immediately.
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