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

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • MRW I'm trying to slack off for the rest of the year and someone tries assigning me a new task

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  • No. “Digital” refers to the logic used to implement a system, which is usually boolean and probably still is in Star Trek.

    Things can be digital regardless of implementation; tapes and spinning hard drives, can still store digital binary data.

  • For the Horde!

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  • The whole time, I was thinking, "Why doesn't Pike just pull a Quark (or more correctly, make Quark pull a Pike), and marry, then almost immediately divorce her?"

  • Goodbye, and thanks for all the Space Whales

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  • “Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so.”

  • The Linux kernel is just a program

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  • Zaphod’s just zis guy, you know?

  • Confused Space Savior Sounds

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  • The difference is it was Federation citizens doing it to rogue Federation citizens, who had actually committed a similar crime of forced relocation by making a Cardassian colony uninhabitable to Cardassians.

    That doesn’t make the situation totally right, that’s just to say it’s morally gray.

    It’s a little like calling the Alamo a genocide.

  • Wake up babe new USS Defiant just dropped

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  • Honestly, the transporter is the main reason why I think the Federation could (possible by a landslide) win a war against the Empire from Star Wars; the Empire likely doesn't have the defenses to stop a Starfleet vessel beaming photon torpedoes, neurocene gas, etcetera directly onto star destroyers. All it takes is a few ships getting past the tie fighters.

  • unbalanced ram. duel channel soldered memory

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  • It gets less essential the more memory you have, though I have 32GB of RAM on my desktop and still have 32GB swap space, which is probably way overkill, but I can afford it for now become I have a 2TB SSD that still has several hundred gigabytes left and could probably have a bit freed. With the memory shortage caused by "artificial intelligence" companies, I may have to go less crazy on the storage now, though.

  • scx_horoscope: Astrological CPU scheduler

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  • If I had any close friends who used Linux, I would install this for April fools.

  • All he wants is an official Red Ryder, phase-adjusted, two-hundred shot, range model phaser rifle!

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  • To be fair, it’s a BB gun, which are tiny metal pellets that, while possibly painful, usually aren’t super lethal and are not a useful instrument in a “good ol’ traditional” American mass shooting. They’re more often used on tin cans than flesh. A few sociopathic kids might use them to torture birds, though.

    Maybe they contribute to our dangerous gun culture by getting kids involved early, but getting an older kid a BB gun isn’t as weird or comically American as it sounds in and of itself.

  • All he wants is an official Red Ryder, phase-adjusted, two-hundred shot, range model phaser rifle!

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  • Eh. I mean Christmas Story’s kind of fun, but fair warning, it has a scene that’s rather racist to Chinese people.

  • unbalanced ram. duel channel soldered memory

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  • That just sounds like insufficient swap space, honestly. For part of the summer of 2024, I used a laptop from 2016 with 8 GB of RAM as my man portable devicr. The swap partition size I used was fine for most things but a but small; however, I’d occasionally run Spleeter and run out of memory, leading to the issues you experienced, which were alleviated by just adding a temporary swap file. Before that, I used a gen 1 Surface Go, also with 8 GB RAM.

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  • I don't like Ubuntu, but objectively, this is probably a hardware issue and not a software issue.

    I mean, you can try another distro to be sure, but the chances of it solving the issue are slim.

  • Reading "Q-Squared" and trying to follow the track changes has me like...

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  • The main thing that personally drives me nuts about DRM is as a Linux user, many streaming services will only give you 480p or even 360p video even though you're paying for more. With that bullcrap, combined with buggy streaming services, the high seas is sometimes literally a better experience than streaming. Then the hippy moral stuff gets involved:

    Although of course, if I can buy it used on Blu-Ray at a local business (Zia and Bookmans are probably the two best places to do it in my area), I'll do that instead, and just rip the Blu-Rays; it funds places I like while still being (more) legal (than just straight up pirating).

    (Granted, I'm a bit of a hypocrite, as I don't pirate that much. I'm still on Paramount+ for now because my parents still pay for it, but we're so focused on Star Trek that my idea to just get the Blu-Rays and DVDs is tempting them to get off.)

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  • Wait... It's a used stick? For future reference, that's a key piece of information. I'm guessing it had a life before it was a server, making it older than 3 years. Depending on the history of the old laptop, I'd guess there's a solid chance that stick is just worn out.

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  • I'd disagree on the 16GB part. It's nice to have, but I think 8GB is perfectly fine for most non-gaming use cases. Heck, a couple years ago, I used a laptop from 2010 with 4GB quite comfortably.

    I mean, get at least 16GB if you can, especially in a dev setup, but 8 GB hasn't murdered that many people yet.

  • Debian’s git transition plan

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  • I mean, that's true, but that doesn't mean that's why Debian's doing it.

    If they were solving just that, then they would have just pushed for something like a reproducible tarball where you can point to a commit, branch, tag, etcetera from which that tarball can be reproduced and not bother migrating their package format.

    Debian has a serious ease-of-packaging issue that I've witnessed first-hand, and I think they've made it clear that it's moreso the ease factor they're focused on that the security factor.

  • Debian’s git transition plan

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  • Not really. If xz were the issue, Debian would have just switched to a different tarball format like lz4.

    This is more about Debian packaging conventions being very archaic and requiring a lot of futzing with upstream tarballs and patches.

  • unbalanced ram. duel channel soldered memory

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  • I have an E16 gen 1 AMD that I run in a similar configuration- 8 GB soldered + 16 GB SODIMM. I’ve had no problems.

    I’d recommend what others have suggested - try reseating the RAM and run a memory test. Also, what distro are you using, not that it’ll necessarily help.

  • Wait, I know you...

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  • I hate to say it, but that's a bit of an unfair insult to Kai Winn.

    At least Kai Winn wasn't cutting public services for Bajorans (granted, she was in a position of religious rather than government power), and telling the Federation to go back to where they come from isn't almost equivalent to telling Federation citizens to kill themselves. Also, she (probably) doesn't sell shuttlecraft, and thus there are no stickers that say "I bought this before I knew Kai Winn was crazy".

    Maybe a closer analog is Marjory Taylor Greene - still a fascist idiot who enabled Gul Trump, but certainly a different kind from Elon.

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    A Rehash of a Classic

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    Solution to my Thinkpad E16 Wi-Fi Woes

    bugs.launchpad.net /ubuntu/+source/linux-oem-6.1/+bug/2017277
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    A Gamble: What will be the plot of Lower Decks's Finale?

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    In part because it reminds me of TOS:”The Cage”, I’m hooked on The Prisoner

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    Gender and Sexual Orientation in FERENGI society

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    An update on my Thinkpad E16

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    Gender and Orientation in Vulcan Society

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    I never realized that DeForest Kelley's final on-screen role was in this postmodern masterpiece!

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    (Solved) A Minor Mystery: Can anyone identify where this image of DeForest Kelley pulling a rabbit out of a hat comes from?

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    This Might Be Lemmy: A Brand New They Might Be Giants Fan Community for 2024

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    This Might Be Lemmy: A Brand New They Might Be Giants Fan Community for 2024

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    Thoughts on TAS Theme

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    No Enkidu Love in the They Might Be Giants song on the Mesopotamians

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    This Might Be Lemmy: A Brand New They Might Be Giants Fan Community for 2024

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    This Might Be Lemmy: A Brand New They Might Be Giants Fan Community for 2024

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    This Realization Caused the TOS cast to climb the Black Mountain

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    What is the political status of Hysperia?

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    After Mr. Tysess's Sudden Reappearance in 2389, Q had him and some crewmates throw on this diddy.

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    A New Thing to Haunt Your Dreams

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    I CAN Live with It (You'll have to click image link, as it's an APNG)