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"Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?"

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • Mom's Linux mint install keeps going to a black screen

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  • Post system specs here just to be safe. If it’s an older machine, there could be various hardware failures. “Monitors” makes it sound like a desktop, but you should clarify just to be safe, and perhaps indicate if has PCIe slots or is more of a mini PC.

    Also, what do you mean by “monitors going dark”? Are the backlights on, or are they absolutely dark?

  • Mom's Linux mint install keeps going to a black screen

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  • It’s probably not Secure Boot. I mean, worth a test, but it sounds like the issue occurs in the middle of a running session, which is not consistent with the issues sometimes presented by Secure Boot.

  • The Real Thing

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  • Honorary mention: IDW Picard's Academy was a fun enough read.

  • Gimp Heal Selection Tool - Resynthesizer

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  • It’s solidly okay. I wish it were in brush form like Photoshop was, and I wish it were better-optimized; it’s written in Python and a bit slow. I think Photoshop GPU accelerates this.

    Still, usable for a lot of things.

  • TFW you're not concerned about Star Trek leaving Netflix

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  • To be fair, I think there are more reasons to pay for Netflix than there are reasons to pay for Paramount+ that don’t rhyme with “Schmar Schmeck”.

    And honestly, I’m looking to just switch to a Blu Ray/DVD collection; with Lower Decks and Prodigy over, I might as well just have their series BluRays. Maybe I’ll come back for SNW seasons (and maybe SFA if worth it) so the show can get some ratings or whatever.

    As to avoid giving Paramount geezers cash, I’ll probably try to buy used from local businesses.

    For DS9 and VOY, though, I’ll probably just buy DVDs for plausible deniability and then torrent one of the many upscales. There’s supposedly a nifty project where someone’s using a Domesday duplicator to rip DS9 and VOY seasons’ laser discs with Domesday duplicator because the DVD transfers of those seasons are so horrible.

  • Best way to run Adobe products on Linux? Specifically lightroom.

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  • I usually use my device’s native boot menu these days; booting through GRUB usually triggers the Bitlocker screen.

  • I have the absolute worst reason for dual booting Linux and Windows

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  • Sounds like a freak accident rather than the fault of the VM.

    I literally use a GPU for passthrough on my Windows 10 (and macOS) VM; PCIe is a much more complex protocol and much easier to F up than USB.

    I’ve used my iPhone many times through Windows and been fine, as well as whole USB keyboards and mice (just simple ones); I think I might have even updated an iOS device once, though I can’t remember if I actually did. I’ve also used an iPod Nano 7th through an 11 LTSC VM before.

    I could see some things being a little finicky, but simply managing a Zune with a VM probably causes no issues. It’s probably been eons since it got a firmware upgrade anyway.

  • I have the absolute worst reason for dual booting Linux and Windows

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  • That's just a VM running atop Docker container; convenient, perhaps, but a little misleading to users who don't understand how Docker works and might think it's better performance-wise than a VM.

  • 🎶 I only have eyes for you 🎶

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  • I'd love to see those on him in one of the scenes in Star Trek: Klingon where he angrily shakes you...

  • Best way to run Adobe products on Linux? Specifically lightroom.

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  • Dual boot isn't that bad if you just use separate drives; the issue is only with Windows and Linux on one drive.

    It's not possible on all devices, but my laptop has dual NVMe slots, and I used to boot Linux off an SATA SSD and Windows off an NVMe on my desktop before getting rid of Windows and moving my Linux install to the NVMe drive. Never had a problem.

    The only hiccup you'll probably run into is exorbitant storage prices, although you can probably opt for less storage (256GB or 512GB), you can still get well below $100 and have it be perfectly fine.

  • Best way to run Adobe products on Linux? Specifically lightroom.

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  • It might be possible, depending on if the screen is connected to the dGPU or iGPU (I'd guess iGPU). I wouldn't know because I did my setup on a desktop with two dGPUs. I would think it's possible, but you might need an external monitor (?). I don't know how Optimus laptops are wired.

    Where I started for GPU passthrough, which got me ~90% of the way there, is https://github.com/bryansteiner/gpu-passthrough-tutorial . Gives you the shell scripts, XML, etcetera needed to do it; I had to modify some bits (some of which you can see in issues), but this is my preferred tutorial. Basically, try it, get really frustrated, take a break for a while, get back to it and keep tinkering with it (check permissions, logs, PCIe driver binds, etcetera), and eventually, you'll figure it out.

    https://github.com/mysteryx93/GPU-Passthrough-with-Optimus-Manager-Guide is linked in one of the issues and specifically concerns your kind of laptop.

    I might be able to send over some of my XML to get you started, but I don't know how helpful that will actually be over the tutorial, as our systems are completely different, and the AMD GPU I use has different bugs/quirks when doing this than Nvidia ones. The truth of the matter on why there's not really a single-click, easy way to do GPU passthrough is because each system is unique, from the motherboard PCIe implementation to bugs in GPU firmware. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try, but it takes a bit of ingenuity.

  • Installed homebrew on wii

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  • To be fair, I’ve heard Wii U isn’t particularly pleasant running Linux either. I’ve never run Linux on my homebrewed Wii U, but someone in my Linux Users Group brought theirs in once.

  • Best way to run Adobe products on Linux? Specifically lightroom.

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  • The Adobe installer doesn’t run on Wine; someone got a recent version of Photoshop running once, but it’s a pirated version and it’s super buggy.

    You can’t use Windows as a Docker container. Docker containers are not running full operating systems; they just run software on top of the current kernel but isolated from the main userspace, making it look to programs inside the container as if it’s a separate system. Anything that claims to be a “Windows Docker container” is just running a VM in a Docker container, which falls into the same pitfalls.

  • Best way to run Adobe products on Linux? Specifically lightroom.

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  • Unlike what others say, a bog standard VM might be the wrong choice depending on which features you use due to lack of graphics acceleration in said VM.

    You might be able to get GPU passthrough working on a VM, which I have, with both a Windows and macOS VM that can use the GPU (not at the same time); however, this is really complex (took me ages the first time, though I’ve since discovered tricks to make it a bit easier), and you have to have dual GPUs. Single GPU passthrough is technically possible, but then you can’t use your Linux DE while using the VM. I will say, though, that once it’s set up, it’s a better experience than dual-booting; you get to run graphics-intensive Windows apps quite snappily on one monitor (or monitor input) and use your Linux desktop on the other.

  • Didn't know that the wordle word list included mythical legends.

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  • Not to be confused with that coward, the anti-quark:

  • There's only one stop on this route

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  • The Q have a comparatively nice one stop by comparison:

  • Installed homebrew on wii

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  • Honestly, it's just a search engine search away, a pretty well-covered thing.

    Here's this for starters: https://wii.hacks.guide/

    It's basically jailbreaking the console, after which you can run pretty much anything that the console has the power for, including the Linux kernel.

  • Is there desire for Capt. Una spin-off?

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  • I don't think they're doing so much of a TOS reboot as a TOS continuation with some retconning and reusing some SNW sets and cast.

    I've heard it floated around that it would depict the start of Kirk's mission, which TOS didn't depict, showing the crew already relatively comfortable with the ship. Personally, I'd like them to something of a year 4/5 that takes place either during or after TAS. As I mention elsewhere in this thread, I think "Yesteryear" would be an awesome remake; it could be pulled off in one 50 minute episode (already double TAS length), but I think it would be awesome to extend it to a two parter.

  • Is there desire for Capt. Una spin-off?

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  • Not sure I'd want a full TOS reboot, but I think a few more retcons wouldn't hurt so long as they're in the overall spirit of Trek.

    What I've mentioned before that I think would be interesting to see is a remake of the TAS episode Yesteryear. Most TAS stories are probably best left as such, or else they would lose their campy charm, but I think Yesteryear could benefit, especially from the dramatic storytelling recent live action Trek has focused on. We could get so much good Vulcan lore out of it, and I'd hope they could do awesome set and costume design.

    In my ideal episode, it's still weeks to months until Sarek takes in Burnham; I feel like otherwise, Spock wouldn't have to be going back in time to save himself.

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    My Attempt at Jellico circa 2381

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    Has Anyone Else Noticed Jellico's Face Constantly Changes in Prodigy?

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    Gul Donal Wants a Statue

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    Don't Worry, guys! I've Gone Trek in a They Might Be Giants board as well!

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    Las Vegas, Nevada in the 24th Century?

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    Make a Little Birdhouse in Your Warp Core

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    You're not the boss of me now!

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    I'm finally going to the 🪩DISCO🪩

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    I'm finally going to the 🪩DISCO🪩

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    Here's Some Parliament Class Love

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    Has anyone else been receiving scam messages lately?

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    How Many Kims on the Anaximander / Is the Anaximander sufficiently staffed?

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    (Not OC, mostly) Gowron Jumproping

  • Quark's @startrek.website
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    Looks like federation times are back up with Lemmy.world again.

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    "But when the phone inside her ribcage rings, it's not for me."

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    Klingon Theology Question: "When I say jump out of an airlock, you will JUMP OUT OF AN AIRLOCK!"

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    I finished watching DS9... again.

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    What’s with Sci-Fi and Commemorative Plates?

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    How would the Trill Symbiosis Commission handle duplicate symbionts?

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    Change my mind: SNW, SFA should fire their music departments and replace them with Chris Westlake!!! 😉