James R Kirk
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James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•What's your favorite ship or class of ship?English
0·2 days agoExcelsior class? Why in God’s name would you want that bucket of bolts?
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•What's your favorite ship or class of ship?English
0·2 days agofeel somewhat obligated to love the Constitution
I love the design of golden age scifi and I love how the constitution class is like the perfect bridge between sleek atomic era and whatever you want to call the more detailed aesthetic in the 70s.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•What's your favorite ship or class of ship?English
0·2 days agoNot sure if it’s my absolute favorite, but I have always been unusually impressed with the creative design of the D’Kora class:

James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•What's your favorite ship or class of ship?English
0·2 days agoAlso quite fond of pre-Burn Discovery’s “retro-futuristic Art Deco” style.
There are dozens of us!
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Sheesh, the US is sure getting scary. Well, it's a good thing it would be impossible to trace Signal to someone via metadata like a phone number, right?English
21·2 days agoThe phrase “E2E encryption” definitionally means it applies when you don’t trust whole chain.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Sheesh, the US is sure getting scary. Well, it's a good thing it would be impossible to trace Signal to someone via metadata like a phone number, right?English
21·2 days agoContinuously steering a conversation away from the big important facts and towards irrelevant details is called “flooding the zone with shit” which yes, is a type of disinformation campaign.
And it only works if regular people take the bait.
Since I first learned about Linux I have never envisioned a future where Linux didn’t eventually take over essentially all operating system spaces and I still don’t. The question is how long will it take to get there.
But as others have said, I think the overall decline of desktop PC use combined with the just pure overall quality of Linux compared to Mac and Windows PCs in 2026 implies that the x86 PC space will become majority Linux within the next 10 years if not less.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•out of the loop, what's the problem with signal?English
62·2 days agoSignal is what you’re looking for
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Sheesh, the US is sure getting scary. Well, it's a good thing it would be impossible to trace Signal to someone via metadata like a phone number, right?English
125·2 days agoIt’s not a company it’s a nonprofit foundation. And they’ve been audited many times by independent auditors.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Sheesh, the US is sure getting scary. Well, it's a good thing it would be impossible to trace Signal to someone via metadata like a phone number, right?English
3·2 days agoyou agree it’s a distraction but continue to bring it up 🤔
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Sheesh, the US is sure getting scary. Well, it's a good thing it would be impossible to trace Signal to someone via metadata like a phone number, right?English
44·2 days agoThe fact that anyone is even debating the (completely irrelevant) first aid kit means the disinformation campaign is working.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Sheesh, the US is sure getting scary. Well, it's a good thing it would be impossible to trace Signal to someone via metadata like a phone number, right?English
7·2 days agoI’m saying by focusing on the irrelevant first aid kit you are playing into the hands of those who seek to discourage the use of private messaging apps.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•It's Thursday, but no new Trek airing. What are you guys watching instead?English
0·3 days agoI have no evidence to support anything other than that being a great idea
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Sheesh, the US is sure getting scary. Well, it's a good thing it would be impossible to trace Signal to someone via metadata like a phone number, right?English
1910·3 days agoI agree that bringing a first aid kit to a peaceful protest is not evidence that someone is planning violence.
I disagree that bringing a first aid kit along with explosives and assault weapons to a planned confrontation is evidence someone was attending a peaceful protest.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Sheesh, the US is sure getting scary. Well, it's a good thing it would be impossible to trace Signal to someone via metadata like a phone number, right?English
16920·3 days agoThis is total alarmist misinformation. The “evidence of terrorism” was not “using Signal” or “carrying a first aid kit”, it was taking part in an armed assault on an immigration facility where a dozen people set off fireworks and shot a police officer with an AR-15.
The prosecution used the presence of the first aid kit they carried during their armed assault, along with actual messages (not metadata) from a Signal chat to make the case that the attackers planned on using violence.
There are a lot of problems with this case, IMO the most dangerous part here is that adds legitimacy the (false) idea that “antifa” is an organization that exists. Something the Trump administration has been struggling to prove. This X post takes small details out of context.
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Don’t trust anything ever posted to X. Especially something that discourages the use of private messaging apps.
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I highly recommend everyone report this this post to your admins and strongly recommend all instance admins ban/warn accounts like OP. If we want the fediverse to catch on it needs to be more factual, not knee jer.
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James R Kirk@startrek.websiteOPto
Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•TIL that in 1996 they made a USS-Defiant CD playerEnglish
0·3 days agoYeah it’s not that they don’t exist it’s that artists/producers aren’t focusing on the album experience as much.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteOPto
Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•TIL that in 1996 they made a USS-Defiant CD playerEnglish
0·3 days agoTHERE. ARE. FOUR. CDS 😭
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•It's Thursday, but no new Trek airing. What are you guys watching instead?English
0·3 days agoThis is my memory as well, except not so gradually after S1.














€420 isn’t crazy for a 10gbps Wifi 7 router. A quick search tells me the Arris G54 is about that price and only 3.1gbps.
EDIT: Just realized the G54 is a modem/router combo.
EDIT 2: And the Turris €420 version doesn’t have Wifi