themoken

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[–] themoken@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago

I agree the Metron connection didn't need to be made so explicit. Would've been better if it was if-you-know-you-know about the lights, but I guess that would be unsatisfying to anyone unlikely to wiki things after the fact.

Anyway, also agree this was a great episode regardless. Couldn't help tear up when the Gorn died, which is not where I expected to be today.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 51 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I don't really care what color they are when they are long as your palm and flying at your face.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago

Agreed. It's one thing if it's climate change or something where we at least need to put a plan out there even if there's zero chance of it happening, but for basic common sense stuff like this don't bother. If we ever get back to trying to make average American lives better with the government, this is low hanging fruit.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Huh, I kind of think the opposite. I haven't read everything he's written, but it seems to me that he kinda sucks at endings.

I loved Anathem, and when you realize what's going on it's so cool, but then it doesn't explore that idea as much as I want, it just ends without looking around the next corner. Cryptonomicon is a fun, interesting read and gets you worked up about what a monumental shift is going to happen... And then ends right as it's coming to fruition. Even Seveneves had a 5000 year jump and spends hundreds of pages on the consequences of humanity's brush with death... And then tosses in another population with five pages left. I want to keep going!

Maybe I just don't like being tantalized in the last few pages of a book, but I feel like I'm left hanging and unsatisfied, like there's a missing sequel. His pulpier, early novels were much better in terms of wrapping up the story.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have a tortoise and he's great. I wouldn't necessarily recommend them for everyone, but if you like reptiles they have a lot going for them. Calm, quiet, low maintenance, vegetarian (no crickets, mice etc.) and have a lot of personality. If you take care of them they can be a friend for life.

I like to take mine into the yard in an enclosure and chill in a hammock nearby. He even likes to cuddle into the crook of my neck on the couch. Not exactly the most active pet, but his calming energy helps my anxiety. When he's splooted, basking under a heat lamp I am almost envious.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

This looks like fun, just grabbed it, thanks for posting it here.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

This is about Linux kernel driver maintainership... It's all open source.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 10 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, they all are, even though they probably would have been fun. I'd watch Bakula as Archer again too, I just think there's zero percent chance it would be greenlit.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 34 points 4 weeks ago (13 children)

I can't wait to put this on my shelf next to Enterprise S5-S7, Captain Worf, and Star Trek: Legacy.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 33 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't have experience with MSI recently, but I'd be really surprised if you couldn't flash a new BIOS off the system partition or FAT32 USB. You may not be able to update from Linux directly, but almost all motherboards I've seen support doing it from the BIOS interface.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 8 points 4 weeks ago

I interpret it as they are fools because they can be convinced of anything and become proselytizers in the course of a day. They didn't really engage with the idea, they are just zealously parroting what someone else told them.

 

Hey all. I use the Jellyfin Android app to control an MPV shim running on Linux (Arch, Plasma 6) and for the most part it works great. However, sometimes the app just completely loses track of what's playing or where in the video it is. I can still pause/play blind, but I'd like to be able to tell where I am in a season/episode. Any trick to dealing with this?

For reference I have the app set to "unoptimized" battery usage so it shouldn't just be going to sleep. I do have to open Jellyfin to actually send pause/play button presses from the notification though so I don't know if I just need a better workaround (I'm on the latest Android version if that matters). I also had the same problems using a Chromecast but never bothered to mess with that since the dongle is proprietary, but with the mpv shim the whole stack is open source so I thought I'd ask...

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