Kirk

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 19 hours ago

No it's a great recommendation.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yes Bazzite is great I tried it out recently and loved it.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I didn't say "average person" and end the sentence. I said the average person installing linux. The type of person who installs Linux in the first place is already extremely far from average.

I would consider act of installing Linux itself to be "tinkering".

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The average person who is installing Linux wants to be able to tinker.

The type of person who installs Linux in the first place is already extremely far from average.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 20 hours ago

I didn't say average person I said average Linux installer which is FAR from the average person.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

ok wow lol well now I know you're sexist lmao

[–] Kirk@startrek.website -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (33 children)

Zorin is a solid distro and is designed to appeal to Windows users.

Buuuut knowing what I know now I worry Zorin's simplicity could turn people off of Linux. Zorin is a good OS for your grandmother but the average person who would consider installing Linux wants to be able to tinker. Heck, I would consider the very act of changing your operating to be tinkering. Nobody accidentally stumbles installing Linux.

The options with Zorin are either use it as-is or risk breaking it. That's why I would personally recommend a KDE distro, probably something immutable like Fedora Kinoite. That way you can tinker to your heart's content with no fear of breaking it.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If you single out a female character who's not a Mary Sue as a Mary Sue for no reason other than because you personally don't the character, people will think you're sexist. Especially when you don't apply that definition to the white and male characters who more closely fit the established definition.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I know, I'm adding to what you said. I'm saying unfairness is not an "issue" of capital punishment, it's how it is, always has been, and is impossible to do without unfairness.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

Well said. Prodigy was not for me. But I'm not making it my personality!

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Heaven is almost certainly not real, and I didn't mention that. I only mentioned God as as example of something "greater" than man. I did not say God or heaven was real.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

I'll go one further, I wouldn't trust any human being to make that decision.

 

/c/fuckai has two dozen mods but ironically only time I've ever seen them take action on anyone was when they removed my post asking for recs for a community with more active moderation (lol)

I'd like to discuss generative AI from a highly skeptical perspective but with higher standards of quality and without all the mouth-frothy raging and bad memes of /c/fuckai.

Does anywhere else like that exist on the fediverse? I don't care if it's small/underutilized. And no I'm not interested in creating it myself.

 

I'm trying out LineageOS Android TV for Raspberry Pi 5. There is an option for HDMI-CEC in the menus, but nothing I do can get it working.

I know it's not the Pi, my TV, or my cables because CEC worked immediately with LibreELEC.

The Pi will go into sleep mode when the TV shuts off (even when the setting for that is disabled) so I can tell that something is being communicated. But I don't seem to have any control over it.

Does anyone have any advice for troubleshooting? I've tried power cycling the TV and Pi, unplugging cables, etc.

 

I tried Kodi with Libelec but it's still so jank. The Plex app is broken, there is no invidious or YouTube app I found that works. And sometimes it just "thinks" forever and I need to get up and unplug it.

I saw that Plasma Bigscreen was revived and it looks promising, but they don't have a release yet.

Are there any other options?

 
 
 

Will LineageOS, Graphene and /e/OS be affected by Google's changes to prevent sideloading? Is UbuntuTouch or Sailfish OS promising in the long term?

I understand that right now we are in a bad place, but in your opinion, what OS do you think people who care about freedom should rally around?

 

Not my OC I brazenly stole from @moregaghplease@startrek.website on reddit

 

Yes I know I'm behind everyone else!

First the away team spends a long time debating if they should proceed or... step outside for five seconds to call the ship. They ultimately decide that stepping outside for five seconds is not feasible.

But then literally one minute later Ensign Gamble is somehow beamed up. Presumably they must have called the ship to do this? Did they just... leave out the part about the (now obvious and real) danger? Was there a scene where Pike said "ok yeah his eyes are gone but you can keep going"?

Then later in the episode the away team spends a long time talking about trust and friendship while debating if they should walk on an invisible walkway instead of just like, I don't know, tapping it lightly with their toe or throwing a pebble on it first?

The Ensign Gamble B-plot was good and freaky and featured some great acting by everyone involved. But the A plot felt like it was vibe-scripted! I love SNW but come on.

 
 
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