Wait a sec, tuvok literally used it to pon far. So even more canon, on screen canon!

Not just Barclay either. Remember laforge? He was basically married to his warp drive waifu and then she showed up and it's like "oh shit uh awkward I've boned you in every hole"

That's just canonical at this point. 👉 👌

Otherwise why can you create holograms of your coworkers to bang and apparently that's not against the rules or the programming of the holodeck?

Especially time cops.

You kind have to admit that Star Trek isn't much of a post-scarcity socialist utopia.

For one thing, it's viciously elitist and hierarchical. You'd think a "post-scarcity socialist utopia" would have ways that a decorated captain would be able to get their hands on a ship in a pinch, but every Star Trek captain has had to steal a ship at some point because turns out there aren't a lot of them and they don't hand them out very easily.

Now you might say "Yeah but they can't just give out prime war assets to whoever asks for them!" -- at one point the ship they steal is an Enterprise that's being decommissioned -- you can't even use their junk without permission! Then ended up sending half the fleet after a piece of junk they were in the process of throwing out!

"We're delivering food and medical supplies to the colonies!" why? Why is that a thing you need to deliver? I thought this was post scarcity?

For another thing, Seems to me like there's plenty of racism in the star trek world. I mean, you don't want to be a borg, and God forbid you're one of soong's androids, you'll be on trial because they want to dissect your brain.

God help you if your ancestors were genetically modified, that's a jailin'.

Wanna live on the wrong planet? That's a jailin'.

Wanna stop a pre-warp civilization from being destroyed? that's a jailin'.

Wanna be a pre-warp indigenous civilization and not be destroyed if the Federation wants your planet? that's a jailin'.

Wanna get trained at star fleet academy without being part of the top 0.1%? You know that's a jailin'.

wanna be a hologram and get too uppity? That's a deletin'.

Wanna be a combination of two of the captains pet crew members and you don't want to be separated again? That's a murderin'.

Wanna be inconvenient to the fleet? That's a section 31...in'.

Some utopia. Some socialist utopia.

But look on the bright side! If the shiny headed captain wants to bang your mom, maybe you'll get made a member of the bridge crew anyway! Hope you have a hot mom!

But uh oh! Sorry Wesley, you got kicked out of the academy, you have to go off with space pedo now or no space for you! Maybe if your mom was seven of nine instead? "Your mom is seven? Never mind then, no space pedos for you because I want to get in that skintight catsuit!"

It's actually a technocratic aristocracy where we get to see the aristocratic few and only occasionally see the earth tone bedecked underclass in establishing shots.

Oh, we do get to see a space autist in Barclay -- oh, and he's mocked and ridiculed and belittled, and they're looking for any chance to get rid of him. Utopia, ladies and gentlemen! (Let's not talk about the fact that he's not allowed to be a space autist, but anyone is allowed to use the holodeck to create bangable versions of real people you've met or are likely to meet. Turns out the hierarchy can't enter yellow gridlines, go ahead and bang the ship's doctor, or the hot lady who's real good and making the space ships go fast good!)

"We're so advanced because we don't use money" great but who needs money when the highest ranking aristocrats get to choose exactly how all the capital gets used and the lowest ranking proleteriat can just die because there's no star ships available to deliver supplies this week?

"You don't understand! We're morally superior! We've ended want! We've elevated the common man to a new level!"

Yeah, that's exactly the logic by which the natives in America were subjugated. "Good news! We're bringing you Jesus and freeing you from your heathen ways!"

To be honest, Voyager is really great because it lays bare the fascist undertones. The young, attractive crew in nice uniforms walk around the pristine ship and live under the thumb of the God-King Janeway who will kill you if she can get 2 crew members out of it, and will destroy entire civilizations if she deems it acceptable.

But don't worry, she got her comeuppance by.... being promoted to Admiral (and that's not in Picard, that's during the movie timeline)! But don't worry, our good pal Picard, he.... was kicked out of Star Fleet for having political opinions the people higher on the hierarchy (I guess Janeway?) didn't like. How embarrassing. I guess he just didn't murder enough crew members to get them to multiply like firing neutrons at an atom until it splits.

While we're talking about Picard, let's talk a bit about holograms and synths. Why does star trek need EMH mark 1s cleaning plasma conduits in a socialist utopia? Why does star trek need mass produced worker-synths in a socialist utopia? Is it because they need slaves and they're not allowed to use black people anymore in their space aristocracy? Sounds a bit like a Greek or Roman socialist utopia.

But all joking aside? It's the space military-industrial complex. It's Space America minus the capitalism and the democracy. Far from a socialist utopia, unless joining space Raytheon is socialist utopia.

Maybe Q was right and humanity is just lucky he picked the francophone shakespearian hawk-tua who bamboozled him with bullshit into thinking humanity wasn't still a savage child-race?

I like to think that after his episode in TNG, Scotty went on to have all kinds of adventures in his little shuttlecraft.

When I was a kid, I'd draw his little shuttle craft showing up in battles against the borg and the like.

Ironic. That same starter pack means I'm probably gonna read it. And the light novels.

Depends on the SSD. I've only ever had one SSD become read only, and I've seen a lot of failed SSDs.

SSDs dominant failure modes of catastrophic failure?

Everyone has a choice to take the bad parts of their life and reject them or to choose to make them a lesson on what you don't want to see moving forward.

Doesn't mean you don't have empathy or sympathy for people who have hard lives, but it's a dangerous road assuming people aren't capable of choosing for themselves how to behave. We had better have a choice, or nothing can ever get better and we can't really give people freedom since they aren't able to choose for themselves.

Epictitus was a physically disabled slave in ancient Rome, and he said a lot about this sort of thing: people could control his body, but they couldn't control his mind. Now, over a millennium later, that lame slave has his name remembered alongside the philosopher king Marcus Aurelius as people of great virtue.

Interesting. It doesn't take any energy to produce solar panels, and no part of the process of building one produces any waste. Til!

From where I'm standing, everyone on Earth should be running a yacy node. It isn't perfect or even great, but it's the only truly free search option, and it only gets better the more people use it.

There are presently 8 times more people seeding a single torrent of the Minecraft movie than were running yacy nodes at any point in the past month. If people really care about the danger Google poses, they ought to be participating in a solution. Even with its flaws, if there were to be a sudden boom in the use of the software, that alone could end up encouraging individuals and organizations to put more resources into it.

I don't have any love for megacorps who try to be funny on social media....

....but those were pretty funny.

No lies detected...

I'm brave. I'll run anything on the bleeding edge. I main Debian sid.

But that thing, it scares me.

I've got a similar problem at home, and I use a really straightforward solution: since the problem manifests on my pcs, I just add my services to the hosts file. It's particularly good when I'm working on my next cloud, because sometimes you end up with a lot of data moving back and forth, and you don't really want to hit your router to hit the outside world to hit your internal server when you don't need it. I just sent it to resolve my main services to the internal IP address, and the best part is that even when the internet is down and DNS isn't available, my services keep on humming away. I might not even realize.

The n280 is specifically limited since it's 32-bit, but low powered machines can be useful regardless. Two of the servers in my empire of dirt are atom d2550s, and I'm even able to run proxmox on them (since that model is 64-bit), but in terms of bare metal, they were able to run Matrix conduit, ejabbered, a nostr relay, and for a while my searx and yacy instances. (Though as I recall the cpus lack of instructions eventually stopped me from running searx on that hardware) I think I was even able to run invidious.

If it's just for you, it would surprise you how much you can do with a very small amount of CPU power.

Another thing that a machine like that might be useful for is a jump box. You can just put a very light distribution on it, and make it accessible to the outside world and one way or the other (secured of course) so you can hop into it if you need to do any remote administration.

The one thing that I found when I was using stuff that was particularly low powered is drive latency matters a lot. If you are using an SSD for storage, even much faster processors end up spending a lot of time sitting there waiting for the spinning hard drive to get to where it needs to be so you can be a lot more efficient with less CPU power.

"classic"

Nnnooooooo! That's not true! That's impossible!

Seems like a good region for geothermal.

Runs on hardware that isn't a supercomputer.

I'm using what it's forked from, conduit, and I've hosted my matrix homeserver on an Intel atom D2550 that's also doing like 3 other things. When I tried the same with synapse or dendrite, opening a big chat room took a few days.