Man that’s some kerning.

Six years later, Data gets the joke.

I knew where this was going, but I couldn’t stop reading. Well done.

… Stonking Stingray?

Running out of names, Canonical?

I’m glad this didn’t make it into the episode.

I believe you meant, “…a long road.”

I enjoyed Wings when it was on, but when I saw it on reruns, I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much. It did last several seasons.

Those weeks were a lot more stressful, and longer than a week, when I used Slackware and started installing stuff that wasn’t packaged for Slackware. I would dread new software. It was the Unifi controller that finally put me over the edge: I wasn’t even willing to give it a shot. I ran the controller on my Kubuntu desktop for a few weeks until I switched the server to Debian.

It felt like a house of cards. Nudge one of those cards by, say, updating a library, and you could easily break something else.

“If you want to know how Linux works, ask a Slackware user,” is the old saying. It’s true…we had to know, because we didn’t have a choice not to know.

Maybe everyone else does, too. The party probably doesn’t last all day.

I just tried it on my tablet. I can see enough to know it’s a Warbird (only because of the Star Trek context, though), but it’s not coming out clearly to me like the ones I saw on Facebook were. I wonder if there’s some jpg compression going on that’s messing with it.

Edit the one someone added elsewhere in this post with the nature scene showed up for me within a few seconds.

You know, that was me, too. I never could see anything in those posters people had.

But lately I’ve been seeing posts from someone on Facebook that makes them, and I’ve been able to see the image when I view it on my tablet or laptop.

This one didn’t work, but I’m on my phone and don’t have my glasses on. I’ll try it on a larger screen later.

I compiled my own kernel for a few years when I first started using Linux in the late 90s. “So much faster by removing things I don’t need,” I claimed. I cringe at that now.

I’ve been using stock kernels for years now. Any speed improvements from a custom kernel are more than offset by the time it takes to configure and compile it. Making one mistake could wipe out years of theoretical speed improvements as you recover, reconfigure, and recompile. Plus, if you have a problem with a piece of hardware down the road, how do you know the issue isn’t your custom kernel?

I’d say, do it once or twice for the experience, or if there’s some specific reason you need it (bleeding edge hardware, for example).

Some years back, I realized I’d rather be using my computers instead of administering them.

Poor Jack.

Thanks. Also, goddammit.

The ad in question. I forgot how funny it is.

And Kremlev was at the wedding, so even if he didn’t pay for it (which he probably did), he’s clearly close enough to the Trumps to be invited, which is bad enough.

It was either that or study the material for grad school.

Someone covered Smooth Criminal?

–old guy

My wife sometimes sends me Instagram links, and half the time they don’t even open to the post she was sending me. Most of the time it’s obvious (such as if I get sent to the main feed), but sometimes it takes me to a completely different post. WHAT THE HELL WAS I SUPPOSED TO SEE?!

I’ve tried to follow some artists on Instagram, but it never seems to show me their most recent posts. I have to go into each one and look individually. It prioritizes random other people over the people I’ve specifically followed. If I click on someone’s profile circle at the top of the page, I get …a video? It doesn’t take me to their page where I can fucking see what they’ve posted lately.

What a pain in the ass. I rarely use it. It’s just not worth the headache. Too bad, because I really like things like the thrillhousecycling account, which is cycling memes using Simpsons screen shots.

We all know Facebook, et al, have algorithms to prioritize certain content, but Instagram’s seems to be far, far worse. I only follow ~3 accounts, and I see dozens of other things, but not the ones I actually follow.

He knew, he even tried to get another ship to respond, acknowledging the situation. He’s just following orders for this trip around the block, and could have even argued against them in private.

This dangerous energy ribbon comes by every 37 years, very close to Earth, but no one knew it was due for a visit? There are so many issues with that entire plot point, which others have pointed out, in part. I don’t have a problem with the overall concept - it’s sci-fi, after all - but the issues with how Kirk ends up in the Nexus are plentiful.