Miles O'Brien

The last time I used skype, it was to monitor my 3d print because I needed to finish a project and my last attempt went all spaghetti.

So as I was at work I’d log into my computer from my phone, call myself with skype, and check to make sure everything was still okay.

Then I discovered octoprint.

1 the things that have extra holodecks that I’ve seen are just space stations, which can have larger power stations. The ship in insurrection was purpose built to trick people into thinking it was their small village that they don’t leave often. It can have all the power it needs dedicated to the holodeck and be slow with a Son’a escort for protection.

2 with you on that one.

3 also with you on this one. It just makes sense. Two people on opposite sides of the system could have dinner together in a holodeck. Easiest sell in the world after the holodeck itself.

4 the only issue I have with medical areas being holodecks is how often we see power issues in star trek. If they lose power, no med bay, no holo-docs. But if you’re already doing it, I see no reason there can’t be all the holographic doctors you need, and if the entire interior of the ship is filled with holo-emmitters then the EMH isn’t an issue.

For the record, I’m with you. I think by the end of the 2380s they should definitely be having entire swathes of ships dedicated to holographic rooms.

In Voyager, The USS Prometheus had holo-emmitters all over, so the EMH was able to walk around and take the ship back from romulans.

Incidentally I was listening to some Certifiably Ingame ship breakdowns and they touched on a ship that has holographic interiors for a lot of spaces, but since I was falling asleep at the time I am unsure which ship it is. I’m trying to peruse the Playlist to see if anything looks familiar.

Calling out reposts obsessively is weird to me.There’s more people who have not seen something than who have seen it, at least on the internet. I think most people have seen the moon…

But if I ever have a problem where the vast majority of the posts I see are reposts, I’ll simply block the channel for awhile. It costs me nothing, and takes less effort than typing out a comment complaining in every repost.

It’s the “STOP LIKING WHAT I DON’T LIKE” meme, come to life. And I’d rather let people have their fun. Doesn’t cost me, nor anyone else, a thing.

I love when people say they feel dumb because they didn’t know something, because then I get to share xkcd with them, too.

They stated they didn’t break piracy laws because they downloaded a shitload of books for their LLM and didn’t seed any.

Torrents are downloaded by “leeches” and put out for download by “seeders”

A proper ratio of what you downloaded to what you allow others to download should be 1:1 if you’re not a dick. (1gb downloaded means you need to upload 1gb to other users for 1:1) but if you don’t seed at ALL or if you only seed bare minimum to keep downloading things, you’re called a Leech, and derogatorily. Because you didn’t seed.

So they’re stating “we didn’t break the law, we’re just leeches!”

They had an app store?

don’t lick the platters

No joke, as a teenager I temporarily considered using one as a pizza cutter but ultimately decided to use a pair of scissors just because I didn’t want the shiny platter to be greasy.

I really want a thin metal disc to spin now… Maybe see if I can get it to spin with my arduino…

My dad was convinced the fridge magnet he “wiped the hard drive with” was sufficient to destroy the data inside.

I plugged it in to the new computer and whattaya kno’, booted up just fine.

At the time, I assume he just didn’t know fridge magnets weren’t powerful enough to do anything past the sheet metal exterior.

Now I’m convinced he physically wiped the fridge magnet all over the outside, thinking that literally you had to wipe the physical drive with any old magnet, and has absolutely no idea how hard drives stored data or why/how magnets work to disrupt it.

A subtle, but important difference.

I never part with my hard drives, once all the important data has been transferred and the entire hard rive has been backed up vie external storage, I disassemble it and cannibalize anything I need, and keep the actual disc assembly intact. I like spinning them by hand.

My first though in reading the title was “well when your alternatives are shit like fox or CNN, you might as well just get it from social media.”

There’s about the same amount of integrity from it, and it’s way easier to think “man, this one guy I’m watching might not know what he’s talking about” than it is to think “this whole team of people are wrong” but then you have to take into account the parasocial relationship many viewers have with their content providers. It’s easier to trust “Paul” because he’s wearing the same clothes I am, speaking to me the way I talk, giving me things I like to hear.

Content creators (I stubbornly refuse to call them ‘influencers’) will push brands and sponsors all day every day, but news outlets will fabricate your entire reality at the behest of whatever rich fuck is in charge. News outlets happily run state propaganda, knowing they are lies.

Conclusion: all media sucks. Sensory deprivation chambers are the future of mankind if we are to survive. And I’m only partially joking, I think.

Man, imagine if your neighbor was getting shot at by his neighbor on the other side, and while you’re telling your neighbor “you got this Bro, I believe in you and here are some bullets” you go ahead to the other side and continue buying things from the shitbox taking potshots.

Buying stuff from Russia makes you a piece of shit. Pure and simple. You’re funding genocide.

And please do bring up the US and Israel, as if I won’t agree the US is a piece of shit for funding Israel’s genocide of Palestine and you’re engaging in whataboutisms I see people harping on every time China gets brought up.

I thought showing off my own kobo and library of books that I can let anyone I want read would convince them.

Nope.

Oh well

Indeed.

I even sent them the related news articles about content I’ve had removed from my own devices, and still they don’t seem to care in the least.

So I sent this to my parents, as they’ve spent hundreds, if not thousands on their Kindle books.

They don’t really care. Zero interest in DRM-free backups that I can make them. They don’t think it’s an issue. They trust Amazon to not mess with their books, and that they’ll always have access to wifi and kindles.

I mean, even if that is the case, so what?

Are other countries not allowed to have militaries anymore?

Space should not be militarized, in my opinion, but if the US is going to do it, then we don’t get to finger wag at other countries for doing the same thing.

If you’re giving your printers arms and fingers, that’s on you.

Do you keep a gun next to your printer in case it makes a noise you don’t recognize?

That’s the mark of a true cs student/programmer/software engineer

The hardware guys have it easy.

Her logic IS undeniable.

You heard it here folks, you shouldn’t question something unless you are directly affected by it.

NTA hit the sister delete the kids and wedding up

Spot on, my wife likes listening to those stories read by that annoying Ai voice.

I haven’t logged into Facebook in over a decade, can’t even remember the login email. Can’t be arsed to jump through hoops to ask for it to be deleted.

Can’t imagine why anyone would willingly make a fb page today.