data1701d

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[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago

I'm not sure about NVIDIA drivers. Otherwise, it depends on what kernel your distro is using; if it's Debian, there's a chance you might have problems, though you could install the backports kernel, which I do on my Thinkpad E16.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago

I just realized. They say they're broadcasting to the entire quadrant - but which quadrant?

Chances are they'll do something normal and boring like the Alpha Quadrant and create a bunch of canon confusion, but it would be kind of awesome if took place in the Gamma Quadrant and looked at life in the Dominion (or post-Dominion planets) after the war.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I had no idea what Posadism was until you mentioned it. Looking at it, I think elements of it are coincidentally in there, but I don't think that's totally what it's trying to convey.

For one, Boseman, Montana definitely didn't look that socialist, and yet Cochrane developed a warp drive; it was the new connections and widened view of the galaxy that facilitated the development of socialism. Sure, the Vulcans helped, but it was humans who had to change.

Also, I feel like "aliens helping in revolution" is sort of antithetical to the concept of the Prime Directive.

Overall, I think Star Trek is less about through ufologic socialism and more about peoples figuring out socialism for themselves; space and aliens are mostly just a plot device to explore.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it depends. Overall, I think most of Star Trek isn't solarpunk, but the version of earth depicted in it very much is.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 7 points 5 months ago

Picard: "Easy come, easy go, will you let me go." The entire cube: "We will not, no! We will not let you go." The Enterprise: "Let him go!"

Also, reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M63GVUAGc10

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I think part of my Prodigy meme problem was I tried to encode in a bit too high a resolution (720x480). When retesting it today, I had a 49.1 MiB file, verses with a WEBP encoded at quality level 90, I got it down to 3 megabytes while still looking pretty good. I also kept having an issue with APNG white lines that I could never figure out.

Also, the WEBP was a bit larger than that - I wasn't satisfied with FFMPEG's default quality level of 75, so I experimented and decided on 97, getting a size of 333.8 KiB.

P.S For funzies, here's the WEBP version of that Prodigy meme I was talking about (done in 85):

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Mostly with posting the APNG - Lemmy doesn't seem to natively support them in thumbnails. You CAN embed the image in the post and put a different format in the thumbnail, but that sort of beats the purpose. The caveat is you have to set the extension to PNG, or Lemmy won't accept it.

Also, while single-frame PNGS have an acceptable compression ratios, APNG files start to get large - a dozen or few dozen megabytes. Really, it doesn't take that much time to load most times, but it's long enough that people might miss it.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 6 points 5 months ago

Why do we even bother with data at all? Let’s just not exist - humans greatly increase attack surface.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I think it wasn't actually Stallman - it's a common misattribution.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Depends on your hardware and distro. Linux-libre not be so bad assuming it’s one of those old Thinkpads. Also, though, if you’re on Debian; they deblob their kernel already and put the blobs in separate packages so they can be optionally used. Don’t install any blobs and you’re good.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago

It's mostly a breeze. The only misery I can recall is I remember I had a wonky knockoff Arduino board that kept jumping serial ports, but that was a hardware issue.

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