There’s 2 kinds of people in Trek fandom:

1. The sane people who know Berman sucks and her outfit is a known unfortunate symptom - we just pretend Seven had real clothes.
2. “I liiiike Seven of Nine” - creepy gen X white guys who just watch Trek for boobs and lasers.

I like my Quark version:

Seriously, though. Why do Quark and Doofenschmirtz give kind of the same vibes? I guess part of it is a Perry the Platypus dynamic with Odo.

On another note, I sometimes get tired of "Please recommend a good laptop" posts - they're always just the same old advice: "I liked my Framework" or "Get a Thinkpad".

I kind of wonder if we could just have an annual mega-post for Linux hardware that gets pinned and mentioned in the server links. For example, "(Pinned) Linux Hardware 2025". Then we have a rule that you don't do hardware recommendation posts unless it's something extremely oddly specific, like "Best Linux hardware for a Pentium II build" or maybe even a question about people's experiences with VFIO on recent motherboard.

I mean, this might be a bit more your fault in this case, but I agree with the sentiment.

They're always changing something about the CSS sheets, and I find it a pain to develop for, granted it's been a few years since I last touched it, and on a very hobbyist level at that. I quickly switched to Qt for that project. Now I use wxWidgets, which I guess just uses GTK, but I like that I don't have to directly deal with GTK.

On an unrelated note:

Why do you have Teddy Ruxpin as your desktop background, and more importantly, why do I feel such reverence for it as a very non-stereotypical background for a Linux user?

Honestly, I kind of want Kirk to stay dead regardless of how they do it.

Admittedly, that irks me slightly just because of the shared name with the devices folder in root, but do what works for you.

I don’t know. You should make sure it doesn’t have a Realtek Wi-Fi card. Otherwise, it looks fine. I found the Linux Hardware report for it here: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=7144bb41

I think the price to performance doesn’t look the best, though. Maybe go for a Thinkpad instead?

I totally agree with you on the Linux side. However, I first got into Linux by using it in Virtualbox on Windows. In the Windows world, as far as I know, it’s the easiest-to-use free-as-in-beer^1^ hypervisor, so long as UEFI support has improved since I last used it.

1: I say this because of the non-libre extension pack.

I feel like that's the Trek films in a nutshell - from a critic's standpoint, they're not necessarily all great, but they almost feel like long Star Trek episodes that you enjoy anyway.

Here's my thoughts on each film:

• Generations: Honestly, I think pretty good with a solid overall plot. I loved Data's arc - I feel like they did a great job not taking the comic relief too far. The fight scene was delightfully campy, and the "Time is a predator" stuff is so memorable to me.
• First Contact: I think it was a fun film. It's almost the Wrath of Khan of the TNG films - a lot more action, with some Trek - which is probably why it's considered the best. Personally, I prefer Generations, but this is still a good watch.
• Insurrection: There were a lot of fun moments, but the overall plot wasn't that great - Picard's new love interest that we never hear about again, the weird theme about "being in the moment" that I feel didn't integrate into the plot all that well, etc.
• Nemesis: I think Nemesis had a lot of great things that didn't quite land at the end. I think Shinzon did a great acting job, but could have been written better. They made him more irrational than I think he should have been, and the whole plot with "blowing up the earth" and "conquering the galaxy" felt way out of line for someone who is the product of and survived imperialism. As for B4, I feel they didn't address the ethical concerns of throwing Data's mind in him. At the end, blowing up Data didn't help, but if the rest of the movie had been written better, I might have been fine with this choice, Chances are, whether through B4 or a Search for Spock-esque plot, we would have gotten another film where we got Data back.

For one, AI datasets often break copyright law, frequently appropriating from artists. Executives are also trying to use it to eliminate the jobs of artists, and I feel it’s wrong to try and obsolete something people love doing.

In addition, they take a lot of power, not helping in the way of the needed changes to follow climate goals.

Clarification: Copyright laws can be annoying, and I don’t always agree with them. However, it also protects smaller artists. I think there are many cases where piracy is totally fine, though, like if a company vaults an animated streaming show and gets rid of all other ways to watch it.

Meanwhile on the USS Voyager:

Tuvok and Chakatoy encounter each other in the hallway near Holodeck 1.

Tuvok: Commander, I am concerned about the Captain’s continuous holodeck usage. She has not exited the room for the past three hours, and I believe it may be inhibiting the effective operation of the ship.

Chakatoy: It’s been a rough week. I’m sure she’s just blowing off some steam.

Suddenly, they heard muffled noises through the holodeck door.

Tuvix: I have a right to live!

(Excessive machine gun noises)

Chakotay taps his combadge.

Chakotay: Doctor, can you come to holodeck 1? I think something’s wrong with the captain.

(No offense to Janeway. Just a fun caricature.)