gnuplusmatt

joined 1 year ago

Brave at least claims to be an actual fork of chromium, they cherry pick upstream apparently. It's still full of crypto bs, so choose your poison.

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

You can get usb-c aux adapters that split off a charge port too, they aren't very expensive either

how will I read the instructions a vendor sent me for a windows server that is a word doc because who knows? Oh no... Anyway

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Computer! Taffy, honey, shrimp, soda, corn, steak, chicken nugget, crispy lemon rock candy, chili, gravy, chocolate sundae! Hot!"

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is... It is green

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Red Hat 6 on the front of a magazine in 2000 which was an interesting curiosity, and then a Fedora Core 2 live disc my university lecturer was handing out in 2004.

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am going to shift the window on what I meant a little - star trek uses its technology as a plot contrivance all the fucking time, every series is guilty of it. Tech can be a hindrance to the protagonist or be stupidly overridden depending on what the plot needs. Most of the series are good at making the tech at least make sense in the world.

Take the breath sensor in s1e03 - as a security device its there to just be beaten, which is stupid - but also in star trek world with scanners and tricorders it makes no sense. The main computer could scan you at the door and know who you are without breathing on something. Its a fundamental misunderstanding of the world. To new fans its not a problem, but have you met a Star Trek fan before?

Once they brought people on that actually can beat the technology needs into shape for the world, this new era of trek has been fine IMHO. None of it is story breaking, and its frivolous because yes, this is fiction and the world can be whatever it wants for scifi reasons. This was the first example I found quickly scrolling transcripts. There's others like the SQL line in season 2.

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'll be sure to take notes next time I do a rewatch

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

There is nothing technochron blorbinator in the Trek lexicon - I'm saying that writing example technobabble like that shows a lack of understanding of the source.

I don't have any specific examples, but I remember the first 2 seasons of discovery and a little in the first season of Picard getting Trek particles wrong and not knowing systems. It got better once they hired Erin MacDonald and brought on David Mack and a few other novelists to consult on prodigy and I think Picard iirc

edit: Hey look I can play the edit game too - I provided a poorly researched example and explained that technology use not well used in early discovery - I acknowledged that being critical of technology use can be hand waived because its fictitious and apparently that's not good enough for our combative OP. I also provided sources on the franchise now using specialists to keep track of technology and technobabble, and advised that I am not a "nutrek hater" as our contentious colleague here had to go and attack me personally - check below for the receipts and tax returns!

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I hate when people try to write technobabble like that. It has a logic and if you have watched enough star trek it starts to make sense.

Then JJ Abrams comes a long and has Butterbeer Crampleslice tell us life support system is behind the aft nacelles. Even the first few seasons of the new Trek shows did this crap until they brought on science and Canon consultants

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

I went back to a pixel, as I couldn't get my oneplus with lineageOS to do Android pay, after custom roms on all my phones since the HTC Dream, I have been running stock for the last 18 months, kind of miss it

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

At 720p you can, not 1080p or 2160p - Linux meets minimal widevine

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