Ubuntu 6.06 was my first Linux install. I still remember the pain of ndiswrapper to get Windows WiFi drivers working on Linux.

I suppose. Then again, they had to accelerate things or she’d have never reached that level before the show had ended.

Don’t worry. I’m sure Michael Burnham will come back somehow and help the writers get out of their block.

The mirror universe arc was, IMHO, when Georgio was at her most interesting and I also liked it.

I don’t mind Tilly’s character. Her growth felt organic to me. She just always had a lack of confidence. At least she started out bad at everything and lacking confidence and they developer her. Michael just STARTED as the miracle child and then they had to pathetically try and claw her back.

That said, I can understand why some people didn’t like her. She wasn’t for everyone.

Star Trek Discovery is a perfect example of how to build wonderful support characters and ideas, but have terrible main characters and story execution.

Literally all of the supporting characters, like Saru, Tilly, Staments, Culber, Reno, Adira…they’re fantastic characters.

Burnham, and by virtue nearly every character she frequently interacts with, are tainted. She’s a Mary Su, fixer of all things, get out of writer’s block free card. Even when they “kick her down”, she still comes back as the solution when the writers run out of ideas. Even when she jumped into the future, the writers just couldn’t fucking help themselves with the prions and making her immediately say “I’m smart and the best. You should do this” to an admiral with an entire swath of doctors and advisors available. Somehow she’s jumped hundreds of years into the future and is supposed to be out of her depth, but is the expert? Fuck off.

Saru and Tilly somehow comes out mostly untainted, but Georgio, Booker, etc. all get overshadowed by her shit character design by virtue of being joined at the hip with her story.

Also, the stories always build up to some “grand reveal” that is utterly stupid. Dilithium exploded because feelings. DMA “oops our bad” aliens. Shitty Klingons. An AI that never heard of backups.

The most interesting arcs are the Emerald Chain, Ariam’s sacrifice, and Zora. Like…Ariam’s sacrificial story was AMAZING. Why tf didn’t they do stories like that the rest of the time???

If they had spent less time making Burnham the solution to everything while promoting her shit self to Captain and written things that built to a satisfying conclusion, it could have been a good show.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t a good show.

Basically how to summarize all of Discovery.

VTubers are people who use avatars instead of being on camera. Typically the avatar is lip synced to their voice.

I’m happy my company basically issued a ban on Windows without pre-authorization. We’re entirely a macOS and Linux shop.

Please no. Look…I am glad you played Kirk, man…but your story is DONE. Picard’s story didn’t need its own show either.

Stop making rehashes FFS. Stop leveraging nostalgia and then disappointing us.

Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds: Do more of that (I know SNW is a prequel, but it explores characters that barely saw the light of day).

Fucking Orville did Star Trek better than modern Star Trek.

As a fellow Mint enjoyer who is too fucking old to be fixing their desktop all the time…yes

Really? Nice. Didn’t know that about Flatpaks.

While I prefer Debian packages, what’s wrong with Flatpaks other than a bit of bloat caused by redundant dependencies? They’re not Snaps.

It looks like it’s going to be a staging ground for things to be merged into Weston proper, along with potentially some newer and better features coming to it exclusively or first.

As long as it’s open source, sounds like a win to me. More AMD embracing Linux as a first party OS is good in my book.

Every endpoint device I use is using full disk encryption, yes.

This is the way

Server is rebooted, as needed, for updates. I think it just got a kernel update two weeks ago, so it probably only has ~14 days of uptime.

My desktop and laptop are shut down when not in use. Leaving them on when not in use is pointless.

Never understood obsessions with “uptime”. If you have high numbers for uptime, you’re a bad sysadmin/maintainer of your hardware unless the appliance is purpose-built to be always up and air gapped.

In my experience, the updates are quick as long as you boot it once every few months. I have a work laptop that I rarely use unless I’m travelling (I work primarily on a desktop, but I will keep it charged and update it once every 2-3 months so it’s ready for action.

For Brother Laser printers, I highly recommend the brlaser package over using the Brother-provided drivers.

Welcome to full time Linux!

Me, as a fan of both: “I’m a turbo nerd, aren’t I?”

Yeah Mint being the “Just works” distro is why I use it these days. Debian is best for servers/low maintenance systems, Mint is best for desktops IMHO.