themoken

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[–] themoken@startrek.website 38 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Yeah, my sister-in-law has an iPhone and all of my wife's pics and videos turn to garbage in transit. For the longest my SIL just thought Android cameras were terrible and it locked her in to iPhones at upgrade time - which is exactly what Apple intended.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Hahaha, definitely not

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Andorians are shown at least once in TNG... Lal has an Andorian appearance in the running when choosing her non-android avatar.

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

I'm also glad to see Wayland tools maturing. The hand wringing about lack of X forwarding was always FUD and a nonsense reason to cling to the fiction that X works well over a socket and justify all the shitty compromises X made to remain compatible with it.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

The Windows scheduler is so stupid chip manufacturers manipulate the BIOS/ACPI tables to force it to make better decisions (particularly with SMT) rather than wait on MS to fix it.

Linux just shrugs, figures out the thread topology anyway and makes the right decisions regardless.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

One Take Frakes returns, you love to see it

[–] themoken@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody running a FOSS third party launcher is an average end user. Also, people routinely add flags to typical games even on Windows (e.g. -skiplauncher)... It's really not that big a deal.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Really? I use Arch native Steam and Proton no problem. You either use steam-runtime (uses built in Ubuntu runtime) or steam-native (expects Arch packages) but there is a meta package for pulling the runtime deps. Both have worked for me.

That said, Flatpak has come in clutch for me as well on the Steam Deck, and for things like Prism Launcher (modded Minecraft launcher) where you want to juggle multiple Java versions without needing to run archlinux-java between switching packs.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

The Hayes code sucked, but the way directors needed to be creative to get around it was great. Modern directors could learn a lot about making romantic relationships smolder and using innuendo instead of adding cheap sex.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

No, it didn't - I was exaggerating a bit. In the end it was a good plot point, I just find it really unlikely the alien scan would choose her unless he was majorly hung up.

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

It's always hilarious to me that Minuet was used as Will's great love in Future Imperfect. I get it's just a convenient plot device but damn Riker, you spent like a couple hours with a simulation and somehow it registers higher than Troi??

[–] themoken@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago

First Contact is legit excellent. So are cats named Tuvok.

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