data1701d (He/Him)
“Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?”
- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Is there desire for Capt. Una spin-off?English
2·12 hours agoI don’t think they’re doing so much of a TOS reboot as a TOS continuation with some retconning and reusing some SNW sets and cast.
I’ve heard it floated around that it would depict the start of Kirk’s mission, which TOS didn’t depict, showing the crew already relatively comfortable with the ship. Personally, I’d like them to something of a year 4/5 that takes place either during or after TAS. As I mention elsewhere in this thread, I think “Yesteryear” would be an awesome remake; it could be pulled off in one 50 minute episode (already double TAS length), but I think it would be awesome to extend it to a two parter.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Is there desire for Capt. Una spin-off?English
2·12 hours agoNot sure I’d want a full TOS reboot, but I think a few more retcons wouldn’t hurt so long as they’re in the overall spirit of Trek.
What I’ve mentioned before that I think would be interesting to see is a remake of the TAS episode Yesteryear. Most TAS stories are probably best left as such, or else they would lose their campy charm, but I think Yesteryear could benefit, especially from the dramatic storytelling recent live action Trek has focused on. We could get so much good Vulcan lore out of it, and I’d hope they could do awesome set and costume design.
In my ideal episode, it’s still weeks to months until Sarek takes in Burnham; I feel like otherwise, Spock wouldn’t have to be going back in time to save himself.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek Strange New Worlds is my favorite Star Trek series ever. I love all the risks they take and the cast is excellent. I can’t believe it’s being cut short. Give me 7, 8, 9 seasons.English
23·23 hours agoTo be fair, 5 seasons has become a miracle for any scripted television to attain, period. Heck, even 3 is lucky these days.
Also, I have a feeling they’ve known 5 seasons was the length for a while and have written the ending in a way that allows them to end the show largely on their own terms.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Is musl libc still not suitable for workstations?English
2·1 day agoThe GPU driver issue would really only be a problem for Nvidia stuff.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•"Starfleet Academy" early review round-upEnglish
1·3 days agoI wish Lemmy had a way to distinguish between disliking the news and shooting the messenger.
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Linux@programming.dev•Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link PreviewsEnglish
5·4 days agoFor me, as long as Debian still packages it and disables these features, I’ll be fine, but LibreWolf looks more and more tempting these days, and having tried it a bit, I can live with the minor annoyances.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•[Help request] They say "don't break Debian" but apparently I managed to do it.English
1·4 days agoI feel like it was more than the package manager whining; I think xorg literally wouldn’t start after the update, although it’s been so long now that I could be misremembering.
Honestly, I probably could have salvaged the install if I’d wanted to without too much difficulty, but it was just a VM for testing distro packaging rather than a daily driver device.
Still, what you say is good to know, and perhaps I should hold back on the Pacman slander. I’ve just been using Debian for around 4 years now and had pretty good reliability; then again, Debian (and most distros, with their pitiful documentation) would probably be very hard to use without Archwiki.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•[Help request] They say "don't break Debian" but apparently I managed to do it.English
1·4 days agoEh, I disagree with you on Pacman. It could be possible I was doing something stupid, but I’ve had Arch VMs where I didn’t open them for three months, and when I tried to update them I got a colossally messed up install.
I just made a new VM, as I really only need it when I need to make sure a package has the correct dependencies on Arch.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•[Help request] They say "don't break Debian" but apparently I managed to do it.English
1·4 days agoEh; testing doesn’t break THAT often. Having used it on many of my devices for almost 4 years, I can count on one hand the number of times it broke in a way I had to chroot in to fix it.
This is very unlikely to be because they are using testing.
Still, using Debian Stable is probably a smarter idea for this user.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire"English
4·5 days agoI like using this on my desktop, but it’s way too easy to trigger this by accident on a laptop, so I disable it on there.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Flatpack apps performance on Linux MintEnglish
2·7 days agoMy best guess is that it’s not a Flatpak permissions issue as others are claiming; the software is just trying to use your iGPU (which is usually crappy) instead of your dGPU.
Try taking whatever command you use to start the program and tacking
DRI_PRIME=1on the front. This has often worked for me on applications regardless of whether they’re native or Flatpak.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•2026 is the year of the linux desktopEnglish
2·8 days agoiOS has been getting a bit buggier for me these past few years, but iOS 26 is a whole other level of bad.
With what Google’s been doing to AOSP, I just hope GrapheneOS and LineageOS can hold on just long enough until we can get some livable solution for Linux phones.
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Linux@programming.dev•Running Python on Debian - is not so easy?English
3·8 days agoI like to use pythonz in this case; it’s a tool to manage Python installs, and it puts the installs in a directory under your home directory, not affecting anything in the system.
It does build each version from source, which introduces some quirks; I’ve found compilation for some Python versions works better with clang, and sometimes, you need to enable build options.
Still, I think this is a good way to do things; just start whichever Python version you want, and then create a venv with it.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•2026 is the year of the linux desktopEnglish
10·9 days agoThe year of Linux on the desktop was the friends we made along the way…
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Linux@programming.dev•Are there ANY debuggers for Linux, that has a GUIEnglish
132·9 days agoNo, I don’t want to spend weeks to learn GDB inside-out, so I don’t have to search online for 15-30 minutes on an AI infested internet every time I want to use it, for each feature I’m using it for that day.
- Search “gdb cheatsheet” and bookmark it. This looks good, but you have plenty of choices. When you find one you like, you probably almost never have to go to the internet again.
- Unfortunately, you can’t avoid a search engine while programming; you’re not going to get very far. All you can do is develop your search skills to avoid the slop.
- If you’re using a statically typed language (C, C++, Rust, etc.) already, basic GDB is comparatively simple. For these languages, not knowing GDB is a bit like an electrician not knowing how to use a multimeter; it’s a matter of necessity rather than “gatekeeping”.
No, I don’t want to gatekeep Linux from “normies”, by making it as user-unfriendly as possible, so I can keep the Linux community a frat club for slur saying techbros.
For your sake, I must emphasize that insulting the people you want help from is not an effective tactic for obtaining help. There are certainly jerks in the broader Linux community, but effectively accusing anyone in this community unable to give you exactly what you want of being a “slur saying techbro” (unless I misunderstand you) is, no offense, an incredibly entitled view to have.
If you wish to make valuable use of internet forums, I would request you take heed of this: www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Anyhow, I wish you luck in your endeavors.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRMEnglish
17·10 days agoIn practice, Machine Owner Keys are a thing, though it depends on Microsoft still signing shim, I believe.
Having Microsoft in the chain of trust rather than a standards body is rather concerning, though.
Modern hardware absolutely should have an encryption processor; TPM just isn’t great.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•New Klingon Bird of Prey Tatoo!English
6·11 days agoEh, the Pegasus tattoo doesn’t look great; half of it is missing. Must be embedded in the skin or something…
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Linux@programming.dev•X.Org IMAKE Updated For Those Not Yet Transitioned To Autoconf/Automake Or MesonEnglish
2·11 days agoMaybe it’s just I’m a relative noob to build systems, but gosh, do I love Meson.
The documentation’s pretty okay - not perfect, but better than cmake - and it feels like I can actually learn it by example through looking at other projects’ setups.
I can live with using other build systems for other projects, but for personal projects, I’ll always choose Meson. I’ll always push for it if a project I’m working on needs to choose a build system.
You could do signup through a form and just throw a QR code on a poster.
My university Linux Users Group usually uses Crytpad (which is FOSS and seems federated, and has a flagship instance) to create forms for votes, so that might do the trick for you.


Honestly, it’s just a search engine search away, a pretty well-covered thing.
Here’s this for starters: https://wii.hacks.guide/
It’s basically jailbreaking the console, after which you can run pretty much anything that the console has the power for, including the Linux kernel.