T156
@T156@lemmy.world
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 1 day ago:
He certainly seems to think so, though. When he was sharing his emotions with Picard, he was distraught that he wasn’t as open about his fondness for Amanda, before she died.
- Comment on We are back in sync with lemmy.world! 2 days ago:
Basically, Lemmy works by having a whole.bunch of different servers chitchat to each other. Hence how I can post a reply to you, even though you’re on Aussie.zone, and I’m on Lemmy.world.
The problem was that because Lemmy.world was big, and there were a lot of people in Aussie.zone who had feeds over there, Lemmy.world couldn’t fire stuff off quickly quickly enough.
Analogically, you’re basically getting a telegram to your house every day, saying what’s on the news. Except that there are a lot of people, so the telegraph operator can’t write and send the telegrams out quickly enough, and the message started backing up.
Lemmy.world basically enabled multi-threaded sending, which works like hiring more telegraph operators. While they could now keep up, there was still a huge amount of backlog that they had to send.
It’s only until this post that they finally caught up.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 2 days ago:
At least if Sarek is any indicstor, they are definitely very restrained. He was quite distraught over not being as affectionate with Amanda as he could have been.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 2 days ago:
Although it is also important to consider that for both Spock and Michael, they weren’t full Vulcans, but were Human, or part-Human, with all the relevant emotional needs and expression.
It is not implausible that the Vulcan method works with Vulcans, but not nearly as well with non-Vulcans.
- Comment on What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)? 2 days ago:
Plus, like with Marilyn Monroe, their personality on stream is generally a persona of sorts. They’re going to be very different collecting food and paying for it on their own, compared to when they’re in front of an audience.
You’d be more inclined to think that someone who looked a bit like the streamer received the food.
- Comment on kawaiiiiiii 3 days ago:
Why not? They can’t go across, but they can certainly go up.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Series And Graphic Novel Nominated For Hugo Awards 5 days ago:
Considering Parallels, there’s at least a sector of Enteprise’s worth of universes, ignoring the one that exploded, that could be close enough to TNG.
Intrigued by the idea that literally every Star Trek took place in a different universe though. That sounds like something you’d find in TOS/Lower Decks episode, only for jtnto just reset by next episode and be forgotten about.
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 5 days ago:
You can’t just call the cat a parasite.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 6 days ago:
He’s also useful. A lot of the kinds of people who might wish to be rid of him back in the day would much rather put him to use for their own ends.
- Comment on Will SNW (or any future Trek) Retcon Mojave, California? 1 week ago:
TNG also brought up raising the continental shelf to create more livable space. Picard’s brother was working on that.
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 1 week ago:
Mp3 is already compressed, as is the MP2 CDs use.
If it wasn’t conpressed, you’d be looking at CDs per track, instead of tracks per CD.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 2 weeks ago:
Surely that would very a lot depending on where they get their energy from? Even the most measly household solar panel can deliver 10W to a charger, in which case, the energy impact would be negligible.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 2 weeks ago:
It’s also safer, because you’re not connecting something that might carry data to the USB port. Wireless charging cannot transmit data. USB can, so delivering a virus or something that way isn’t out of the question, where it would be harder to do that over wireless charging.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t sound correct, considering the amount of wireless chargers that will take 10W, but can only deliver half that to the phone.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 2 weeks ago:
I’m surprised that you can wirelessly charge like that. In my experience, wireless chargers are really finicky about positioning, unless they have some multiple-coil trickery going on, which a lot of battery pack chargers generally don’t. Having them in a pants pocket seems like a really good way to throw that alignment off.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 2 weeks ago:
On my S5, there’s a little flap that you had to open and close to maintain the IP67 rating. Constantly opening and closing it was a recipe to breaking it off, where wireless didn’t put that kind of wear in.
With my newer phone, it’s easier to keep the cable with a battery pack to charge when out and about, and charge wirelessly at home, since I generally don’t need it done with any great speed, and it saves having to buy/replace another cable, or forgetting to unpack and take it with me.
Qi charging is also pretty standard, which is also good if I have a few devices with different cable needs, but mutually support the same wireless charging standard, since I can put an iPhone and an android on the same pad, without having to swap cables back and forth.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 2 weeks ago:
Although most phones made in the past decade will detect that, and suspend wireless (and possibly wired) charging if the phone’s circuits are heating, until the temperature drops.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 3 weeks ago:
We also don’t know if it was just that gene that was altered, or if there are other effects. Modern gene editing isn’t so precise that we can edit just the gene we want. A lot of genes with similar sequences as the target can also be affected.
It’s basically like firing a shotgun at the house they live in. You might hit the one you want, but you may also hit other unrelated people in the process.
- Comment on cherry pickers 4 weeks ago:
“Cherry picking” is a form of selective arguing, where someone will laser focus on one tiny part of the data, even if the rest of it says things contrary to their point.
So, if I had data saying that 70% of people who trod on landmines died immediately, 25% experienced loss of at least one limb, 2.5% were unharmed, and 2.5% were unaccounted for, a Cherry-picker might argue that landmine hopscotch is completely safe, since only 25% of people lost limbs, and a portion of people were completely unharmed.
- Comment on Poooweeeer!!! 4 weeks ago:
Sort of?
ATP basically packages the energy, like wires, or the battery.
But the powerhouse/generator that makes them would be the mitochondria under most circumstances, since one of the main mechanisms to do that lies within the mitochondria.
- Comment on tickle tickle 4 weeks ago:
“This is I, when the cute biochemistry student tickles me in the stomach. Unbeknownst to me, I will be later killed by her as part of her research.”
- Comment on tickle tickle 4 weeks ago:
Usually, if the mouse is infected or mutated in a given manner, its innards would need to be removed and studied, to determine what effects the mutation/infection had on them. This kills the mouse.
- Comment on CherryTree Introduces Star Trek: Deep Space Nine-Inspired "IYKYK" Raktajino Mug 4 weeks ago:
This seems like the kind of thing you’d need either a dishwasher, or one of those cafe rinsers that spray water up into the thing to clean.
You’d never be able to get your hand into the corners.
- Comment on CherryTree Introduces Star Trek: Deep Space Nine-Inspired "IYKYK" Raktajino Mug 4 weeks ago:
Does the gravity field count? It’d take a huge movement for us to notice any shift in Earth’s inertia.
- Comment on What is the point of the Nicole spam? 4 weeks ago:
Easier and/or less moderated. They would be much more difficult for a moderator to track down if you’re talking with them on another platform.
- Comment on What is the point of the Nicole spam? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve received 3 Nicole messages since I’ve been on here, each one with a different photo. It’s weird, really weird. I ran the photos through TinEye and Google Reverse Image Search but I found no exact matches. The photos are blurry somewhat, which implies that they are shots taken from a video, which is a method catfish have used to evade detection. It’s also possible that the original photos have long been deleted (as far as I’m aware, this would contribute to evading detection) and the catfish is using this to their advantage.
They could also be photos catfished from other people.
- Comment on Which shows are worth watching? 5 weeks ago:
They’re definitely good choices, but all of them are worth watching. Your tastes might differ from the recommendation, anyhow, so it’s worth checking the shows out personally, and then make a judgement.
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 5 weeks ago:
Holograms aren’t stable in the long term. They will start to come apart after some time. That, and they constantly require power to maintain. A bed and furniture does not, and will still work if the ship needs to go without power for one reason or another. Most things someone might put by hologram can be done by replicating the thing, instead of using a hologram. Most rooms have a replicator, and excepting furniture, which you might need to ask engineering to make for you, you can just make it yourself.
Starships aren’t lacking space by any means, so there’s no need to stick people into a broom closet.
Though there are things like that. The Ba’ul “migration” ship was basically that, where the entire ship was meant to be a holodeck. In the 32nd century, rooms are basically holograms, except that holography has been superseded by programmable matter.
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 1 month ago:
How did they estimate whether an LLM was used to write the text or not? Did they do it by hand, or using a detector?
Since detectors are notorious for picking up ESL writers, or professionally written text as AI-Generated.
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 1 month ago:
It’s dying because its repeating the old mistake of trying to go back to the exact same formula, and because it’s less accessible.
In my opinion, Paramount taking Disco off of Netflix, in favour of sticking it onto its own streaming service, was a mistake. Although it meant that people were less able to access it, either because Paramount Plus wasn’t available in their region, or because they couldn’t justify the cost of spending money on another streaming service.
And in the meantime, it keeps trying to go back to the same thing. That was what killed it back at the start of the 21st century. Enterprise and Voyager were variants of exactly the same kind of thing as TNG, with better special effects. Everything keeps trying to go back in time, and cater to Nostalgia. Remember Captain Kirk? What about Picard? Or the Constitution-class Enterprise? There doesn’t feel much like there’s anything interesting in Trek any more. It’s basically all rehashing or nostalgia.
For all its flaws, part of what made Discovery interesting was that it was (not unlike the ship itself) an experimental testbed. Writers would, and did, just throw everything at it, for good and ill, and I’d argue it worked. Having that flexibility gave us the second wave of Trek, and I’d argue just as much that Discovery settled into being some kind of 32nd century TNG was either a harbinger, or hurt it severely.
What Trek really needs for a revival is something that the network would never allow (CBS/Paramount would never risk their cash cow.), and that is to go back to its roots. Not in the Federation-and-Enterprise way, but in what made TOS.
TOS stood out because it wasn’t like the other cowboy shows at the time, or like the rocketty sci-fi of the era. It was distinct. It pushed the social-progressive line so hard it was nearly pulled off the air, and if Roddenberry had had his way with including an LGBT member in TOS like he’d wanted, might have done so outright.
Newer Trek (TNG and onwards) is much safer and more conservative by comparison, to the point of being boring. It barely pushes the line, if at all. The Orville, by virtue of having less brand baggage behind it, arguably does a better job of being progressive.
Visually, too. Every Federation starship basically follows the same template, even into the far distant future. Trek is not glued to the appearance of the Constitution-class Enterprise, or a variant of such for its hero ships, nor does every ship need to use warp engines and that.
A minor side tangent, but reverting to the same kind of thing is why I was rather disappointed with what Discovery did with the 32nd century. It would have been far more interesting if they’d gone to a time when all the powers we know and are familiar with, and even the tech aboard Discovery were ancient and long-deprecated.
Discovery in the 32nd Century, as an Equinox counterpart of the Voyager plot could have been amazing, both from them being an outdated starship in what used to be familiar territory and what it would mean to maintain Federation values when the Federation doesn’t even exist any more.
Honestly, I think bits of Picard and Strange New Worlds had the right idea when it came to the Synth ban, and the Illyrian extinction. Show us the downsides of Federation policy for things that might have been well-intentioned, but had negative or mixed effects, and how they fixed/improved it. That’s something we’ve rarely seen in Trek, in a way that wasn’t just “we don’t like this rule, so we’ll ignore it”.
Here comes the question: If you’re in Alex Kurtzman’s position, how are you going to sell the franchise to a new, young audience? How are you going to convince kids who spend their time playing Roblox and watching Mr. Beast that Star Trek is a good show to watch?
The young audience isn’t a monolith, and I’d argue that Star Trek is better off not competing head-to-head. Could you imagine DS9 or Voyager with their totally not-a-square radical groovy Teenage Mutant Starfleet Captain? It would be unwatchable. Hell would be upon us.
Instead, Trek could benefit by competing through simply not competing, and stand out, rather than copy other sci-fi. Give us what Trek has always been, a nice slow comfort watch, where everyone is competent, and everything isn’t always at stake or fisticuffs all the time. That may work to its benefit, when everything else is dark and gritty, since it would be distinct compared to other things.