Corgana

Corgana , 1 day ago

I have a very similar setup to you, and I use SyncThing without issue for the important files (which I keep in my Documents directory to make it easy to remember).

Corgana , 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

The 8bitdo ultimate you linked to is great. To be clear I have only used it with Windows.

But if you get it there is a hitch that's not made clear anywhere- in order to use on 2.4ghz mode (with the dongle) with gyro enabled, you need to downgrade the firmware to an old beta version 8bitdo doesn't host anymore. Someone uploaded it to google drive in that reddit thread I linked to.

Corgana , 2 days ago

Yeah it is a beta, but the actual final update that was released lacked that gyro functionality over 2.4ghz that was in the beta. So yeah, you kinda do need to "downgrade".

Hopefully they do release an update with that functionality enabled one day but it's been well over a year now and they don't even officially provide that beta version anymore. So it's not looking hopeful.

Corgana , 2 days ago

https://c.tenor.com/punj70NkFc0AAAAM/the-simpsons-why-didnt-i-think-of-that.gif

Corgana , 2 days ago

Agreed on all counts! I was personally not a big fan of S1-S3 at all, but S4 really blew me away and this season is even better. It really sucks that they decided to stop it after it finally found it's flow. Like you said I am at least glad they experimented with something different.

I’m sorry so many of the fans are haters.

The motivation of the people that watch a show they don't even like, then write about it online just blows my mind.

Corgana , 2 days ago

I think season one did everything great except the plot which felt like they were trying to do 100 things at once. I was happy to see by time season 4 came around they calmed down and focused on one story much better.

Corgana , 2 days ago

So glad to see this opinion, I think season four is one of the best seasons of trek out there, and it's weird because I think 1-3 are not great at all. I feel the same way about Enterprise.

Corgana , 1 day ago

Definitely. Zero complaints with the score, sets, uniforms, etc.

Corgana , 2 days ago

The devs did a Q&A that answer pretty much every question in this comment section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwz2iZwYpgg

Corgana , 1 day ago

Sonequa gave possibly her best performance of the whole series in this episode. I know everyone makes fun of how much Burhnam cries, and like- it is a lot, but this time it really felt like she was being maximally vulnerable.

Also I really liked the Klingon(?) lady. Did not expect that to be her personality based on the promo pics.

Corgana , 1 day ago

WTF

Corgana , 4 days ago

I don't disagree, but discoverability is important. On the flipside there are so many times in FOSS world where I've actively looked for a tool for months, only to give up and then months later have someone randomly mention it in a thread where I discover it has existed for years.

Corgana , 5 days ago

This is the second time Book’s extrasensory abilities have been the key to solving one of the clues, the first being in “Jinaal”.

Yeah he's gonna die in the finale isn't he

Corgana , 4 days ago

Star Trek (derogatory)

I can feel what this means in my gut

Corgana , 5 days ago

This is really cool, it would be nice to have some quick options like start minimized or minimize to tray.

Corgana , 5 days ago

Or Nativefier (which uses electron) but with a nice GUI.

Corgana , 5 days ago

Oh no I didn't realize it had ended! Maybe someone else will pick it back up.

Corgana , 5 days ago

Mint or Zorin for those with windows experience, Ubuntu for those used to Macintosh, are all great "just works" distros. Don't overthink it, OP!

Corgana , 6 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

I have trouble believing that last bit. My Mastodon feed is always extremely full of scientists and Mastodon has almost 3x the active users that BlueSky does.

Corgana , 8 days ago

dead project

alive

🤔

Corgana , 8 days ago

This is a great question. I like to recommend Data's Day for newbies because he sort of goes around and introduces every character, but it's a pretty unconventional episode.

I think I would go with "Doomsday Machine"!

That said, I also think Darmok would be a good fit too, the concept itself is unique in that as far as I know it's the first it was used in science fiction, but the manner in which the concept is presented "Enterprise crew encounters a problem that can't be solved with guns or technology" is pretty darn representative.

Corgana , 8 days ago

Sometimes I think Star Trek did Sub Rosa just to prove they didn't need to include their usual copius amounts of nudity in order to create something extremely erotic.

It's like the story about how Hitchcock didn't give "The Birds" a soundtrack after someone said his movies were only scary because of the music.

Corgana , 8 days ago

Ironically, being a comedy episode it's not very representative!

Corgana , 8 days ago

Good point! I forgot that it was mostly the two of them on the planet. It is also somewhat unusual in that there is no distinct B-plot. The events that take place in orbit are directly related.

Corgana , 8 days ago

I picked "Doomsday Machine" but Corbomite Maneuver is also really good. Classic in multiple senses of the word.

Corgana , 10 days ago

Uhh... why did you just paste the comments from the video without the answers?

Corgana , 12 days ago

it is stated that Starfleet officers swear

https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExdTlrZDFtaWN3eTBnN2V3OHVybXQ0cXc1bjlqeXZoc25ucnZ3eXc3NiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/JTtOXcLwQW0bhgyA8K/giphy.gif

Corgana , 12 days ago

I really like Zorin as a beginner's distro. It's based on Ubuntu so most everything is designed to work with it without learning a whole new command line tool, but it doesn't try to hide the Linuxey stuff and mimic windows. On top of that it's just very polished.

Corgana , 12 days ago

Sometimes FOSS communities are so very uptight, we should relax a bit.

Now THIS is funny

Corgana , 12 days ago

Hmm

Corgana , 12 days ago

Good point, perhaps "beginner's distro" is not the best term because not everyone wants to put a ton of attention into their operating system!

Corgana , 13 days ago

A better comparison would be energy utilized per user, in which case the energy requirements for Bitcoin are miles and miles ahead of what the average person produces using a computer in the same amount of time. Even a gamer, playing 4k 120fps ray traced games 12 hours a day would use a fraction of the energy of someone mining bitcoin.

Corgana , 13 days ago

How much energy is used by our current financial system?

Orders of magnitude less than Bitcoin requires, which is the criticism.

Corgana , 7 days ago

Especially in this season it so obvious how Tilly’s intelligence manifests in being able to bypass entire complexes of prejudice and social norms (perceived and unconscious, spoken and unspoken) whether they be human or alien, and get right to the point with somebody. In an organization that is constantly trying to establish trust with a variety of unknown actors, Tilly is an incredible asset.

Very well said!

Corgana , 15 days ago

Online accounts works seamlessly with Google Drive but yet not for OneDrive.

It also is not the same thing as "Drive Sync" on Windows that mirrors local files.

Corgana , 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

2008 is not "damn old" in terms of filesystems.

Corgana , 17 days ago

Yes. Why bother sharing if you're not trying to help others?

Corgana OP , 17 days ago

I don't remember Zimmerman looking so feminine and classically attractive but if you say so.

Corgana OP , 17 days ago

I tried to find out more about the guy who made it but he hasn't posted to BBS since 2020, has a suspended reddit account, and a deleted Twitter.

I have to imagine someone that trekkish is at least familiar with Our Website so fingers crossed someone might know him because I would totally get one of these too.

Corgana , 17 days ago

I know this is a joke but "Enshittification" requires there to be a monopoly that abuses commercial customers along with users. Linux distros can't really have monopolies since the switching costs are so low.

Corgana , 17 days ago

Annoyed

Corgana , 15 days ago

I liked that at no point Burhnam spoke down to the town leader dude by going "actually yes we are gods now open the door I'll explain later" even though in the short-term it would have been faster.

Corgana , 17 days ago

Is this using ActivityPub? I notice that the lead dev shares a username with a lemmy.world admin.

EDIT: yes it is I missed that it is already federated with Lemmy instances

Corgana , 19 days ago

They absolutely were, without question. That said, there's nothing this guy can do to make that happen on Mastodon instances he doesn't own.

Corgana , 19 days ago

It seems like we agree on the facts, and I certainly won't disagree that it's worse now, but I would characterize Twitter's (pre-Musk) response to extremism as "measured, lacking and lethargic", before I would use "imperfect", which still implies "pretty good" and from my perceptive it was not good enough to make me want to use it. I think maybe we just have a different tolerance for hate speech.