That might me it - when I search older media, say The Andy Griffith show, sure enough there are a crap ton of plates.
It might be a sort of Venn diagram thing - Trek/Wars plates came at the dusk of the commemorative plate era, while the fans were more likely than others to buy collectibles like plates, making them seem unique from other fandoms.
I just realized another thing about April - assuming humans live 120 years on average in the Trek universe and April got turned roughly 20 in Counter/Clock, an elderly April could still be alive in the 2360s or 70s.
I never get why people use RAR anymore when tar archives are good now.
I would love that! Give the lost part of the Monster Maroon era (mid 2290s-2340s) some love.
The weird thing is April from SNW should canonically still be alive due to TAS:”Counter-clockwise Incident”.
I feel like I had a problem very much like this with Debian Testing on my Surface Go 1 (and I think my desktop too) a couple years back, and it turned out there was issues with /etc/nsswitch.conf. I can't remember exactly what I did, but this is the current contents of that file:
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
# If you have the `glibc-doc-reference' and `info' packages installed, try:
# `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.
passwd: files systemd
group: files systemd
shadow: files
gshadow: files
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=RETURN] dns myhostname
networks: files
protocols: db files
services: db files
ethers: db files
rpc: db files
netgroup: nis
Compare yours - maybe even post it so I can try to reproduce the issue on my machine. Anyhow, hope it helps, and good luck.
It depends. Sometimes I shut it down every night. Occasionally, I'll leave it in sleep mode for a few days.
I think the longest uptime I've had on anything I've owned is probably a month or so on a Raspberry Pi 4 server I used to have running with a personal Mediawiki instance (I still have the Pi, but if I ran a server in my dorm, I have the feeling someone might come to bite off my hand).
Have you tried SSH-ing into the system when it's in the bad state to see if you can diagnose the problem? You might be able to see if any displays are being detected at all in the problematic state. Part of me wonders, though is not certain, if the switch is somehow providing an inconsistent display name that confuses the system, though this is just a hunch - I have no idea what I'm talking about, to be frank.
Also, try switching TTYs and seeing if those show up.
Do attempts without Windows as the first step count e.g running Windows in QEMU on Wine on Linux?
Also, depending on which version of WSL you used, you might be breaking your own rule with WSL on VMs since WSL2 uses Hyper-V. You might also be breaking it again with QEMU.
What actually counts as "VM software"? Are you defining it as a hypervisor, or does, for instance, emulating Linux on ARM in an emulator of a RISC V system in an emulator of a PowerPC system break the rule. In addition, do you mean consecutive VM software steps, or could I for instance emulate an ARM CPU that supports hypervisors and run a VM software in there?
Honestly, play around with Xscreensaver - that's a fun collection. I've currently settled on the Apple II screensaver and have a custom Python script pip Star Trek scripts to it.
The Nakagin capsule tower one is awesome, too.
I think you might win.