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I stand by my head canon that Galaxy class ships are equipped to deposit saucers on planets to establish starter colonies. It's already basically a floating city in space.
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He's gonna fire a lot of employees in about a year.
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I'm a bit sad that I've stuck to my guns on completely jumping ship from Twitter (and Reddit after the API fiasco) and so many people who said they would just ... didn't. It was an ad for white supremacy on Shitter that finally made me nope out.
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I was working with optimizing memory on my pentium III lately for when i want to run more arcane dos games, and actually switched video cards because the BIOS on an nvidia card was so big that it was making it hard to map memory to that area... fun times.
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How are Intel's drivers? My new PC has an A750 because I like to live dangerously. It's been great in Windows for the few games I want to play (the older stuff that has performance issues with Arc I'm largely not interested in or can play on my old PC)
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I'm glad somebody else has brought up that TWoK sort of feels at odds with Trek despite being the best of the films. However, I say it is still the best Trek movie because:
It focuses on the characters who know from Star Trek, and their growth, change, loss, and acceptance is critical to the story. While the things that happen to them aren't limited to Trek characters, Kirk, Spock, et al. were the definition of "Star Trek" at the time.
The militaristic aspects aren't totally foreign to Star Trek. While exploration was always at the forefront of their mission, Starfleet was (as Carol Marcus pointed out) still a military organization. What has happened is that the exploration/scientific aspects in the story have been initially shifted to Dr. Marcus.
The sci-fi aspects and story telling are still very strong, it's just that Kirk and Khan shooting each other in a nebula is so great that we forget they're there.
- What are the ramifications of a device like Genesis, which puts a civilization even closer to the ability to "play god?" Is every tool that can create also doomed to be a weapon that can destroy?
- How does a future society balance the often competing goals of scientific exploration with military power, especially given something like Genesis?
- What responsibilities do we have when we decide to "play god" within a much smaller microcosm such as Khan's people. Kirk presumed he was doing the right and just thing by setting them up on a planet but never returned to check on them. Was he responsible for what happened to Khan as a result?
The increased breathing room of a full motion picture that doesn't have to delve into the backgrounds of the characters we already know gives the story room to breath, and unlike TOS we have time to let events that aren't driven strictly by the "gimmick" of the scifi aspect intermingle and impact with the plot device(s).
I still hold that TMP is the most "Trek" of the movies, but TWoK is the best of the movies while still being sufficiently "Trek."
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I work for a college. We use our internal link shorteners to make sure a given link points at the latest version of a resource and measure engagement by seeing what is the best way to get important information to our students and faculty. (Did people actually click on that announcement in our LMS?)
They’re terribly useful for us.
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Wondering if you tuned in during synth battle royale…
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I’ve been using it in lieu of google maps for quite some time now and it seems to work fine. It no longer assumes I’m The Blues Brothers and direct me to drive straight through shopping malls.
Can I just say how fortunate we are that *both* of the recent actors for Pike did smash-up jobs? I’m talking about Bruce Greenwood in the Kelvin films and of course Anson Mount in SNW. Each brought something different and was a stand out in their respective appearances.
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Been a lot of trolls in COM lately. Probably one of them.
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so Twitter was vi then he turned it into edlin and now he wants it to be emacs.
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You don’t need to. It might even help you figure out if you’d like Lower Decks.
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HE DOES THE WALK
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They released earlier to coincide with screening it at SDCC.
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The main thing I disliked is that it kinda of removed any chance of us getting a "Spock is split into his human and vulcan halves by a transporter accident and they totally don't get along with each other" episode down the line.
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Can you get zmodem file transfers working consistently? I’ve been struggling with my older wimodem232. I need zmodem to download my qwk packets of course.
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Easiest: Find an old 4:3 flatscreen vga monitor that also supports composite. There’s a fair number of them out there. Best: retrotink but that’s going to probably cost more than the c64.
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Meta is Facebook’s parent company and Threads is their Twitter competitor. It doesn’t yet, but will soon support activitypub which means it can talk to the rest of the Mastodon servers.
The worries range from Meta using this to destroy the fediverse via embrace, extend, extinguish, to moral objections, and more.
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Similar to how we refer to TOS episodes as "The Nazi Planet" and "The Gangster Planet" this one will be "The Alzheimer's Planet."
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Did Spock forget how to read?
Maybe it's a nod to Discovery establishing he had a learning disability similar to dyslexia.
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Is the SDF Matrix server still active? My password doesn’t work and I can’t find a way to reset it in maint.
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Too pricey for me, but damned sexy.
Ben Eater has been doing a series where he builds a 6502 breadboard computer from scratch, and it’s at the point where it can run some Apple I software (Wozmon)
Wanted to get back into the DOS era of software and games (it’s what I grew up on.) I would have preferred something older, but I ended up with a Slot 1 Pentium III/500. Fortunately it has an ISA slot so all the truly DOS friendly sound cards. Specs: Gateway 4W4 Something Pentium III/500 384MB Yamaha YMF715 ISA sound card (SoundBlaster Pro and OPL3) S3 Trio 3D/2X AGP mt32-pi (Roland MT-32 and General MIDI) Generic Compact Flash-IDE adapter Gravis Gamepad that still has that little joystick you screw in. 20” Dell Trinitron (forgot the model) Testing it with Tyrian here, but my plan is to play through Ultima Underworld soon on it. What’s everybody else’s vintage computer of choice? ![](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/687a6234-4348-4de5-a520-ab7073ff5a3c.png)