I feel like the Pandronians aren’t as severe - maybe an 8. You could explain the floating in part as a naturally occurring anti-gravity system (which does canonically exist artificially).
I might be biased, though, in kn my Star Trek Adventures campaign, I have a Pandronian as my chief medical officer.
Me, in Arizona: 
Though honestly, my thought is if the rest of the country gets rid of DST, I feel like Pacific should go to PDT because it’s incredibly nice when that part of the country aligns with Arizona’s time. Granted, that might be weirder for the eastern Mountain time states.
Not totally right. Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, and Prodigy are all decent as well. TOS is also worth a watch with an episode list, and TAS has a few good ones as well.
Discovery, in my opinion, isn't as bad some say either. It's hardly peak Star Trek, but I've found I enjoy it sometimes. I also have to throw in obligatory Orville suggestion.
As others have set, Lower Decks is not the first show you should watch though - it's more enjoyable after watching everything. Also, both Lower Decks and Prodigy, I'd recommend watching through the first 10 or so episodes before making a judgement - the first few episodes aren't their best. Lower Decks is often funny and at least once a season (from season 2) puts out a masterpiece that belong with the best of Trek. I'd say the top/my favorite LD episodes are (in no particular order):
Obviously, you hang in the castle for a bit so you can go over to the ion storm later with a full understanding of context.
It depends. The Cerritos is passingly mentioned in Prodigy, which suggests at least one version (probably ours) of the Cerritos is in the prime timeline.
I think your Adobe comment isn't quite right. I have two family members who are professional photographers and use Photoshop; Photoshop is so important to their workflow they can't give it up just to use Linux. They thus stick with Windows (though one's work had them using Macs for a bit, so they see it as acceptable).
In contrast, although I sometimes used Photoshop in hobbies (a euphemism for memes), I never used any features so specific to Photoshop that I couldn't just replace it with a combination of Inkscape and GIMP.
I think the truth is as much as I hate Adobe, Photoshop is the best at what it does right now compared to competitors; GIMP 3.0 has a dismal UI and a weaker feature set, and the latter is largely true of a lot of the web-based editors as well.
I love this site.
(Starts Daystrom Institute post on how US OSHA became UE OSHA became UFP OSHA)
Also, half-dead macrovirus infected with a worm put in charge of Starfleet Medical.
Used to use Red Hat. This theme is for people who have nostalgia for back when Red Hat wasn’t a puppet of the blue monster - not the one that likes cookies.
Thunderbird’s not bad, but I usually use web stuff.
I have an existing iCloud e-mail that I haven’t had the time to switch off of. I then use G-Mail for school stuff - since I’ve signed away my soul to Google anyway, might as well use what they have to offer.
Maybe one day, I’ll start my own personal e-mail utopia, nut that day is not today.
Whoops. I just infodumped. TLDR The long, analytic version of what you just said.
The blurb: I think there are several factors to Lower Deck’s efficacy as a Star Trek comedy series.
For one, I think the classic Trek formula in many ways lends itself to a comedy. For one, I think comedy was always an intentional part of classic Trek writing balanced with other elements, whether it be Bones making a quip at the end of a TOS episode, Data manifesting his mannerisms, or Tom calling Tuvok a real freakasaurus. In addition, there was often the unintentional humor in Star Trek or the camp (granted I am a younger viewer), whether it be the ironically funny punk depiction in Star Trek IV, Troi uncomfortably harnessed in a dark, surreal environment with mediocre effects, or chuckling at what DS9’s 2024 gets horrifically and laughably wrong. Lower Decks utilizes the classic Trek formula by amplifying the intentional comedic writing while strategically replacing the unintentional humor with well-placed satire.
I also think that Lower Decks expresses a love of Trek that other Trek shows (though I have enjoyed them somewhat) seem to lack despite (or maybe because) its comedic focus, both through satire and fidelity. Rather than trying to make Star Trek darker and edgier for the sake of 21st century, Lower Decks does a great job of reviving the 24th century, whether it be the aesthetic faithfulness of the LCARS panels compared to other recent Treks, the new-yet-familiar 24th century ships that feel like the old kit-bashes in spirit, or wacky holodeck sports. In addition, although there is some of the humor typical to adult animation that I don’t necessarily enjoy, namely innuendo, a lot of the humor is well done, whether it be references that are niche for even the most savvy Star Trek fan, satires that simultaneously are funny while re-exploring previous Star Trek concepts and characters, or honestly comedy that even stands on its own without becoming so surreal the episode is some futile incoherent mess.
I also feel that what Lower Decks does great at that many other comedy shows and just shows in general fail to do, and that’s not letting its primary genre interfere with storytelling. Lower Decks is fundamentally a comedy show, but like a true Star Trek, most episodes have a moral (MAYBE NOT Rise of Vindicta, but I’ll give that a pass). The Cerritos is an explorer, but whereas the Enterprise may have explored grand political themes, the Cerritos uses its crew to light-heartedly (or sometimes, heavily) voyage through career ambition, the mother-daughter relationship, death, personal growth, collaboration, and much more in a unique, yet fundamentally Star Trek fashion, letting the moral guide the comedy without letting it get sappy. I’d in fact go as far to say that Lower Decks does character development better than the majority of Star Trek series (which often struggle with a character focus), probably only rivaled by DS9.
Overall, I think (and hope) any future Star Trek series regardless of genre would do well to follow Lower Deck’s example in building itself around what makes Star Trek Star Trek.
P.S I’m a bit biased because I’m starting to think Bradward Boimler is my spirit animal. To find that out, you first have to think you want to be another Star Trek character (a Data, a Kira, a Bones, etc.) and then slowly realize that you’re just trying to be that character (kind of like imposter syndrome except hopefully you come to an epiphany that you need to try and be your own person).
Can you give more info about what you tried (commands, GUIS, etc)? What does it say when it denies your request?
Also, timezones usually go by cities - I for instance, I’m on AZ time as well, and the time zone for me is called America/Phoenix.