Why does that look like Alexander Rozhenko but middle aged and with a drinking problem spurred by his traumatic childhood?
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Is this xfce-winxp-tc? I ‘ve played with it before and it’s awesome.
However, I don’t use it because while the XP start menu replica is cool, I need a Win7-style search bar, and Whiskermenu sticks pit like a sore thumb here.
I think a 7 replica would be awesome, but I think some parts of Aero can only truly be replicated with a new WM and DE, such as the color changes in the taskbar for different applications. Many themes just fall short - proportions and effects are slightly off and such.
I think the main other distro I used in that VM at that time was Fedora 37 at that time, which should have also been using Wayland. I had made the VMs because I was working on Debian packaging for an application I liked and wanted to make sure the modifications I made didn’t break it on other distros.
I’m not necessarily a “Wayland is the embodiment of evil” kind of guy, but I love XFCE and pretty much won’t leave it unless it dies, meaning I’m on Xorg until they port XFWM4.
Not really, but I switched from Qwerty to Workman years ago, though I can live with Qwerty if I have to when it’s on someone else’s machine.
I use Workman because I found Colemak rather hard to learn, mostly because of the position of S being one over from where it was on Qwerty.
In order for them to be allowed on exams, I ghink they’re required to have a non-QWERTY layout.
Linux (and I think maybe even macOS) can do Ctrl+Shift+U, and then you type the Unicode hex number.
Discord also has an app from Linux - you can get it as a Flatpak (an official one) or as a native package, although they don’t provide a repo for native packages and expect you to manually download a package file every time there is an update.
For the native packages issue, someone created an apt repo on Github, and if you look in the CI routine, you can tell they’re using the official Discord packages and not modifying them.
Honestly, I should probably be sandboxing it more.
It’s annoying to use a proprietary service, but the This Might Be a Wiki community is rather enjoyable.
It’s not just packages. Ubuntu performance is terrible - it runs so much worse than other distros in VM. I don’t know about spins, but main Ubuntu takes 30 seconds to respond to some button presses whereas it’s nearly instant in other GNOME-using distros given equal or less resources.
Part of me wants to create a content fork of Memory Alpha that's independently hosted. A couple years ago, I was messing with creating an LCARS skin, but didn't get beyond a really janky proof of concept (https://gitlab.com/dexcube/lcars-mediawiki-skin); knowing more about MediaWiki skins now and wanting to redesign this for usability, I would probably rewrite this from the ground up now.
However, part of me also wants to do a wiki for the band Cheekface, since it doesn't have much in the way of online documentation and their back catalog is getting larger. Also, even relatively in-depth coverage of the band is a much smaller undertaking than managing decades of canon.
I've long wanted to make Shaxs ear rings, although I only have a red Lower Decks uniform right now because I did Boimler last year, and I've toyed with the idea of reusing it to do a Vendome this year (probably won't happen, honestly), so it'll be a while before I can rationalize getting another Starfleet uniform.
Wasn’t sure how good this would be, but that was rather fun.
I was tempted to diss the banjo ship for being too generic a space ship, but it’s just so well executed I can’t.
Now, I what I really think we need is a full orchestra arrangement of “Faith of the Heart” done in a full orchestra arrangement like a classic theme. All there is right now is the crappy MIDI where they just changed a few instruments but didn’t change the arrangement.
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(Solved) A Minor Mystery: Can anyone identify where this image of DeForest Kelley pulling a rabbit out of a hat comes from?
(startrek.website)
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?
What are your guy's thoughts on the theme for Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973)?
I feel like:
- It almost sounds like the battle music for a Star Trek turn-based JRPG on the Nintendo DS.
- I feel like PRO's theme gives very similar vibes to this one while having a distinct identity.
- 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).
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.
I saw the original (grayed out) part around Nicoles's death and couldn't take take it seriously. Therefore, here is my addition to make all of this more accurate.
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After Mr. Tysess's Sudden Reappearance in 2389, Q had him and some crewmates throw on this diddy.
(startrek.website)
It is believed he entered an anomaly with a shuttle in mid-2385. Upon returning, he said, "I guess I basically missed the late 80's."
Seriously, though, it surprises me how naturally Starfleet this guy sounds, especially after knowing him from another role. It just feels like he could be edited in to be some Ensign at Conn on a TNG-era bridge and no one would notice.
A severe temporal anomaly during a transporter accident lead to this abomination, Kai Winkomaskix, child of Mogh.
The transport officer on duty almost phasered them on site. During the manhunt, Gul Dukat got the closest he ever did to getting a statue on Bajor.
Luckily, temporal investigations got everything sorted out.
Kai Winkomaskix, child of Mogh was a spiritual successor to Needole. https://startrek.website/post/12514221
Edit: I added a GIF version as the thumbnail. Here's the apng version below.
EDIT: Replaced GIF with WEBP. Looping is slighttly different, but otherwise the same.
If it’s not moving, wait 30-ish seconds and see if it loads.
Let me know if I missed any!
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.
Risa’s Dental ”You’re on a pleasure planet, so why shouldn’t your teeth be a pleasure as well?”
Although I imagine dentists don’t exist in the 24th century like they do know; I imagine instead of braces or fillings, a general doctor just replicates chompers like they did for Ransom that one time, albeit hopefully the right size.
Another update: https://startrek.website/post/13283869 I found a fix for my issue. I'm annoyed that I had it in the first place, but I overall still like my laptop.
Important update in this post: https://startrek.website/post/14075369 I still consider this a good laptop, but this is an important fix if you're using this on Debian 12. When 13 comes out next year, the out-of-box support of this laptop should be basically perfect.
Anyhow, back to the original post: I recently got a brand new laptop, a Thinkpad 21JT001PUS, to consolidate/replace my array of various on-the-go-Linux devices, and I have to say, I'm impressed. I know Thinkpad and Linux aren't news, but for such a recent device, I am surprised how well it works. The price wasn't bad (which makes up for the fact that it's a Zen 3 chip with DDR4, in my opinion), it has good upgradability (I'll touch a bit on my experience later), and hardware support was really good.
I initially tested hardware support with Debian Testing Trixie XFCE (as that was the Live USB I happened to have on hand, since I often test devices and also keep it around as a backup for my desktop, which runs Testing). At first I couldn't get it to boot, but then I found the BIOS setting to enable non-Microsoft certificates. After that, I booted in and found everything worked out of the box (except the fingerprint sensor, of course, but that's extremely rare for any laptop anyway). However, after experience with my previous portable devices, I learned I prefer stable distributions on those, as during some parts of the year, I can go months without opening the laptop.
Thus, I retested with Bookworm. Almost everything worked still, except for the Wi-Fi (which seems to have been introduced in later kernel versions). Luckily, this thing has an ethernet port (From which it is HECK to remove cables - I've found I had to twist the end up a bit to get it out), so I was able to do an install and then add the Backports kernel to get Wi-Fi working.
One minor issue I had (a software fault rather than a hardware/kernel one) was Bluetooth headphones, but as it turned out, it was just that PulseAudio was installed instead of Pipewire, so after switching, it worked flawlessly with Blueman).
As for battery life, so far it seems okay (as I write this, it says 3:29 left at 51%), but I haven't rigorously tested it yet (though I threw on the usual tlp and stuff like that for good measure).
For performance, I once again haven't tested it too rigorously, but I did play some Civ VI, which it was keeping up with just fine.
The upgrabability of this laptop does have one caveat, though. The bottom is a bother to remove, and most Youtube crap conveniently glosses over them. For one, some of the screws would get loose but not come out all the way. I eventually found the trick was to throw some pry tool under the screw head to hold it up so I could get it the rest of the way out. After they were all out, the bottom cover STILL wouldn't budge. This too ended up being a matter of jamming a pick in one corner of the case and running another one to slowly pry up the bottom case on all sides. I lost a plastic tab or two in the process, but that doesn't show up on the outside, and I think 24 GB of RAM (and 2 TB of NVME 2280 storage + 256 GB, the Windows drive that I left in the 2242 bay) will be plenty for a long time.
Overall, I would say this is a great laptop for those who don't want to go the route of purchasing a used laptop for Linux. I'll say an 8.5 out of 10 due to the hard-to-remove bottom cover and weird ethernet port (Update: 8 out of 10 now due to the nasty Wi-Fi bug I had to fix with a few module options, see posts linked in top of page).
Here's the Linux Hardware probe: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=1e50fb1862
I have a pair of socks and pants with this on it.