“Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?”
- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations
Gargoyles (where Frakes and Sirtis are the main villains) even cracks a joke, “You and what Starfleet!”
I heard Takei and Frakes were on Adventure Time. After a Google, in addition, it seems so was Sirtis, Burton, and a bunch of Lower Decks actors.
Kate Mulgrew is great in Infinity Train.
I think one of my favorites, though, is the completely unrelated freebee for your cellphone randomly dropped for Kevin by Takei at the end of an episode of Community.
On one hand, (insert AGIMUS laughing noises).
On the other hand, Harry already had a rank where the doctor didn’t.
I’ve never watched Stargate, except for the first film and a few random SG-1 episodes. I knew Sirtis was in it at some point, but not Picardo.
“You know, @hopesdead, has anyone told you you’re a real freakasaurus?”
In all seriousness, I always love a Star Trek episode/film involving a crew’s misadventures in the past (except the whole ENT space Nazi thing, which I have neither watched nor particularly want to watch).
Like, why the heck is Oracle still on this Earth? The only thing I can think of is MySQL, to which my response is, “Just use MariaDB.”
To be fair to Phoronix, I hardly think they’re the worst offender in Linux space; I find their Linux coverage to be the least terrible online. They cover new kernel and software developments pretty well.
Other Linux-focused sites seem to mostly consist of clickbait “Ditch Windows 11 headlines”, fleeting Linux apps, explaining something that there are already vast amounts of quality articles for, and/or thinly-veiled advertisements.
That is not to say Phoronix is perfect; I don’t necessarily enjoy having to run my ad blocker there. However, it’s not like it’s different on other sites. Comparatively, I find Phoronix to be a decent quality Linux outlet.
To be fair, it would be weird for Google NOT to support Linux, as I believe they use Debian Testing internally.
Personally, I find Debian pretty good these days. I used to default to Testing, but I’ve gravitated towards stable.
Honestly, in the age of Flatpak and Steam, almost any distro works.
That first part sounds like software/firmware stuff like mine, but the second part almost sounds like an antenna design issue.
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.
Maybe Fedora?
Personally, though, I’m a Debian guy - Testing on my desktop and stable with Flatpaks and a few backports on my laptop.
Who would have thought? I’ve hardly touched Windows in over 2 years (mostly other people’s computers and the occasional app in my GPU-accelerated VM) so I haven’t kept up much.
According to the repair manual, my Wi-Fi card is actually replaceable, at least physically. I don’t know if Lenovo still does BIOS whitelists of cards like they used to (I think they did remove it a few years back.), but their OEM parts website has a diverse selection if this fix were ever to break.
I’d say other than the bottom being a bother to remove (and the keyboard not being designed to be replaced, though after some research, it seems possible), this is a surprisingly repairable laptop for how recent it it.
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-beer1 hypervisor, so long as UEFI support has improved since I last used it.
1: I say this because of the non-libre extension pack.
As I have learned the hard way, it truly is.
I agree with Mint. I think Ubuntu has kind of devolved though, and PopOS is the better way to go. Fedora’s good too these days.
My recommendation is to try out a few distros in VirtualBox before switching - this was my process, and it can be very gradual.
I don’t use Mint, but I would guess that you could change your repos in /etc/apt/sources.list
, run sudo apt update
, and then sudo apt full-upgrade
. Just make sure the full upgrade isn’t doing really dumb stuff like deleting a bunch of programs.
I could be completely wrong and this could be terrible advice, but this has become the wisdom for me when I use Debian Testing. Of course, I just did straight sudo apt update
after Bookworm was released and the upgrade to Trixie went mostly fine. I have never upgraded between stable versions, so I may not be one to say.
As a younger fan, for the longest time, I avoided Lower Decks as I’m not usually into the adult animation comedy genre. I first watched it late last year and have rewatched the whole thing 3 or 4 times total since (though I often start around “Terminal Provocations” as I don’t enjoy earlier episodes as much.).
Me and my siblings would often watch whatever Trek my mom was watching before eventually doing our own watch throughs.
In addition to the good suggestions for others in this thread (like setting it up as a portable gaming device or a server of sorts), it could also be set up as a low-distraction productivity machine. I don’t know how well something like LibreOffice would run on it, but I imagine you could probably use a simpler word processor or even a plain text editor.
Worst comes to worst, I wonder what hardware support for this thing is in something like ReactOS or FreeDOS.