themoken

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[–] themoken@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago

Btrfs has a bunch of features and is one of the contenders for the "next" filesystem. Ext4 is utterly bulletproof though and has good enough perf so it's still your best bet unless you specifically want to use the advanced btrfs features.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 15 points 2 days ago

I encourage you to watch it and form your own opinion (just make sure to get past the first ten minutes of the pilot, the tone shifts dramatically).

Captain Ake runs the Academy and commands the Academy ship, the Athena, which is used to do more hands on training but isn't the flagship by any stretch. She's more like a principal than a professor. The other main characters are cadets, with some strong supporting characters too.

IMO it's the first live action Trek show in the new era to come out firing on all cylinders and it's great to see.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 29 points 2 days ago (32 children)

Yes, but in context it's not a big deal. A lot of it is contrasting her with her peer, the chancellor of the war college, who is uptight. Ultimately, she's less military commander, or even explorer, and more chancellor of a school full of students and in that capacity it makes more sense to generate a relaxed atmosphere. When the situation calls for it, she can be serious as well.

She just has her own style, but people want to be negative because she's not Picard-ing hard enough or some dumb shit.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It's always great to see someone scratch their own itch, so kudos. However, I'm curious what the actual pain point is? Does your mouse not sample fast enough? Noticeable input lag on a gamepad? Seems like this would be a bug with the implementation if it needs to be overclocked to fix...

[–] themoken@startrek.website 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely no argument from me on that, but there is no getting away with it - once we start shooting back we've opened Pandora's box. The government is dying for an excuse to get even worse.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 16 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Even if you did, 90% chance they'd charge you a few hundred bucks just to tell you to put Vaseline on it. 10% chance it turns black and they get to charge you big money to save you the trouble of cleavering it.

... Fuck insurance.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 33 points 6 days ago (3 children)

People just want to make snarky comments about the second amendment because we're not shooting ICE agents in the face. They don't want to hear about the things our communities are actually doing.

My own community hasn't been hit as hard as MN but we've got rapid response hotlines tracking ICE, getting people with cameras and signs on them at the blink of an eye, and resource support groups for the undocumented.

Apparently that counts as nothing to a bunch of people that probably haven't lifted a finger against their own government despite the fact that fascism is almost certainly rising there too.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That story made no sense. That guy is a glorified forklift, why would you simulate a body/that much intelligence when the computer could just do its job without being capable of resentment?

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, that makes more sense, but then "unsigned" void?

[–] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Okay, U8, sure, but a boolean is U0? Surely U1 if you absolutely must...

[–] themoken@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Note that I said independent of devices that are simulating your life for you, not just independent of devices.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Julian and Miles feels the most real to me.

Kirk and Spock are a close second, but only because we saw that they love each other in their ways, but they didn't spend a ton of time chilling out together on screen (camping Yosemite was great though)

Harry and Tom third, they really had a good influence on each other and they spent a lot of holodeck time together in Sandrine's/Hawaii/Captain Proton/Fairhaven.

Julian and Garak was a lot of fun, but I think it's overshadowed by Miles. Lunches and holodecking is all well and good, but Julian would turn to Miles for real stuff (although when he turned 30 that was Garak...)

Sisko/Dax is good but it relies on Curzon a lot. The on screen time with Jadzia is focused more on how she's not Curzon, but they obviously still have a lot of love.

Geordi and Data is a little too mentor-y. Like they're friends, but Data is more relying on Geordi for a humanity check, and Geordi gets advice from elsewhere on women (for obvious reasons) and that undercuts the bromance level I think.

Nog/Jake are great, and I would put them higher except they're kids for most of the show and I feel like a bromance should probably be reserved for adults (kid friendships are different level). Although they do keep it up until adulthood if The Visitor is still accurate.

I guess Malcolm/Trip then, but honestly they thought they were going to die in a shuttle once but that's kinda it. Been awhile since I watched ENT. If anything Trip/Archer.

Odo and Quark have mutual respect, but there's too much antagonism to be a bromance.

And Neelix / Tuvok is non-existent. Tuvok can barely stand Neelix and only comes to grudgingly tolerate his antics after half of his personality is suppressed IIRC. The fact that Tuvok throws Neelix a bone and dances when he leaves is evidence he softened, but not that they were bros.

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I'm doing two simultaneous runs, a good Sorcadin run on Tactician and a dark urge, evil Berserker run in Honor Mode that follows along. The good party is basically acting as an advance team to remind me of the scary encounters, ambushes etc. but I've also never done an evil durge run so it's not exactly a 1:1 comparison.

The evil party is just shy of Act 2, but I'm playing with the only companions I have access to (because of my evil actions) and I'm roughly trying to play them on type. Astarion is a Gloomstalker Assassin, Lae'zel is an Eldritch Knight and Shadowheart is a Light Domain Cleric. We are cake walking at the moment, didn't really break a sweat through the Underdark and Monastery. I'm concerned at not having a true caster... But I'm also sort of intrigued at the viability of this party.

Counterspell is the big thing I'm worried about. The advance team is proccing it constantly. Also replacing Haste with potions would suck and I can't get the Haste bow (I assume, Dammon is dead). So far relying on cleric skills for AoE has been working okay.

Can I get away with using speed potions and maybe something clever like going full anti-magic and using Sussur blooms with some party tweaks?(edit: apparently that's not possible anymore, but still Silencing weapons etc.)

Or, should I bite the bullet and spec Minthara as something castery when I get her? If so, who do I replace?

Any suggestions welcome.

 

I have my Linux box running my TV and it works great, but I'd like the ability to treat my Chromecast as a desktop window for streaming without switching inputs, multitasking etc. I have an HDMI capture card that works great with a Switch, but the Chromecast detects it's not HDCP (DRM) compliant so it won't work. Is there a way to outsmart that detection with software or hardware?

I've heard some knock off hardware confuses it enough to work but it seems like the info is old and I'd rather not roll the dice on hardware that's otherwise garbage...

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