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- Comment on [Very minor Academy spoilers] Does anyone else think the marketing undersold Holly Hunter as Chancellor Ake? 2 weeks ago:
They started filming the season 2 finale this week. I think if she wasn’t going to be in season 2 we’d have heard something by now.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 2 weeks ago:
The away team braclets are programmed for at least a couple of different modes, and switching is pretty quick. I would think if they could use programmable matter to make a multi-mode tricoder, it would be standard.
At any rate, I assume they can’t program matter into dilithium, because that would have made recovering from the Burn a whole lot easier.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 2 weeks ago:
Re: limits of programmable matter:
On Discovery away teams wore programmable matter flashlight bracelets that could turn into a phaser, and I think even a phase rifle, but from these last couple of episodes it seems they can’t make a tricorder that turn into a medical tricorder.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* 1x01: “Kids These Days” 2 weeks ago:
The Doctor mentions he put an aging program 5 centuries before to put organics at ease, which is obviously the Watsonian explanation for why Robert Picardo looks older.
That should also establish that he’s not the Doctor backup from VOY: “Living Witness”, who wouldn’t have been online 500 years ago.
- Comment on The State of the 'Star Trek' Universe Coming Into 'Starfleet Academy' 2 weeks ago:
When Is Starfleet Academy Set?
Although the show is somewhat vague about it, Starfleet Academy is set in the late 32nd century—approximately around the year 3190, a similar timeframe to when Star Trek: Discovery‘s fourth season takes place, which had previously mentioned the reopening of the institute to a new class of cadets in its premiere. The show is, at the very least, set some time after the events of Discovery‘s third season, which saw United Earth rejoin the Federation after a century of independence, as Starfleet Academy itself—based out of the starship USS Athena—spends much of its time docked at the Academy’s ancestral home near the Presidio in San Francisco.
I thought it was obvious that the show is set after Discovery? In the fourth season the Academy reopened on the station/ship where Federation headquarters was; Earth agreed to rejoin the Federation at the end of the fourth season (not the third), and it would have taken time to finalize Earth’s re-entry and then more time to reach a point where Starfleet Academy would move back.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 4 weeks ago:
NetNewsWire doesn’t have its own accounts, but it can still sync your read items through iCloud.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 5 weeks ago:
There must be something else to it. I’ve never paid any interest on my credit cards and I paid off my mortgage early; by your logic I should have a low credit score, but it’s actually in the “Excellent” range.
- Comment on A New 'Star Trek' Comic Gives Uhura the Full Spotlight 2 months ago:
Why the Civil Rights Movement, other than the immediately obvious reason? It brings things full circle with Uhura and her first actor, the late Nichelle Nichols, who initially planned on leaving the original Star Trek after a single season. It was a discussion with Martin Luther King, Jr. that changed her mind; as a fan of the show, he called her “our image of where we’re going. You’re 300 years from now, and that means that’s where we are and it takes place now. Keep doing what you’re doing, you are our inspiration.” And when she told him about her plans to leave, he told her, “You don’t have a black role. You have an equal role.”
TIL MLK convinced Nichelle Nichols to stick with the show.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 3 months ago:
Apple Music has an Android app.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 3 months ago:
Apple Music has a family plan, and it’s cheaper than Spotify’s, at least in Canada (16.99 vs 20.99).
- Comment on OpenAI signs $1 trillion worth of chip deals to feed its AI habit 3 months ago:
These numbers don’t make any sense to me, as the hed is about buying lots of chips, and the body is about power use. No matter how you slice it, $8.76/kWh is a terrible fucking investment … if that’s chip-inclusive, that’s another story.
Data center scale is usually given in terms of power consumption, not computing power. The trillion dollars is meant to buy enough hardware to suck up 20GW of power, and probably none of the money will go towards power generation.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 3 months ago:
- On the Xbox home screen, go to "My Games and Apps."
- Then, go to “Apps,” “Settings,” “General,” and "Personalization."
- Go to “Games and Apps,” then scroll to the right until the three boxes below "Choose whether game hubs open automatically from the following places."
- Uncheck the boxes on all three options: “Recently Played List,” “Groups,” and “Installed Games.”–
- Comment on My instance is lagging behind 14 hours of federated content... 4 months ago:
lemmy.ca upgraded lemmy an hour or two before your post. Maybe one or both of the instances you’re looking at also upgraded recently and the problem has something to do with that.
- Comment on had a stroke trying to read this 5 months ago:
How are you even alive if a tiny mistake like that is enough to give you a stroke?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" 5 months ago:
Apparently the TARDIS stopped by. I’m going to have to go back and see if I can spot it.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 5 months ago:
I know they tried to explain it but why did the building vaporize that guy?!
Chapel’s DNA was used to open the door to get in, and the door don’t want anyone going through without her.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
So, your complaint isn’t that you were unjustly banned, just that Reddit is actually good at detecting ban evasion?
- Comment on Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI's Next Big Leap 6 months ago:
How about making “AI’s next big leap” be about energy efficiency?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II" & 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues" 6 months ago:
While Chapel is dealing with Batel, the Gorn hatchlings seem to agitate when the ship first goes close to the binary stars.
I think it was a CME that got the hatchlings agitated, not getting close to the stars.
- Comment on Solar Industry Says Senate Plan Would Cede Production to China 6 months ago:
Oh don’t worry, Trump will put a 1000% tariff on the Chinese stuff.
- Comment on Infinite glitch 8 months ago:
The music labels have responded by trying to make artists wait much longer before re-record their music:
It’s significant, Greenstein said, that the first Taylor’s Version wasn’t released until she’d been off Big Machine for three years. Until then, she was legally bound not to re-record any of the material, and this time frame was typical of record deals in the past. But this is the part of the equation that Swift likely changed for good.
“For decades, major labels were somewhat rational when it came to the prohibition of re-recordings,” Greenstein said. “But now they’re going to be asking, ‘What’s the risk of a Taylor’s Version?’”
In response, record companies are now trying to prohibit re-recordings for 20 or 30 years, not just two or three. And this has become a key part of contract negotiations. “Will they get 30 years? Probably not, if the lawyer is competent. But they want to make sure that the artist’s vocal cords are not in good shape by the time they get around to re-recording.”
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 8 months ago:
Microsoft owns id’s parent company these days, and Microsoft provides services to the Israeli military.
- Comment on Ben Shapiro's sister 9 months ago:
Slate: The Far Right Thinks Sydney Sweeney Killed Wokeness
It’s a common phenomenon, really. Sydney Sweeney is beautiful now, and would be considered so in any era. But because she’s no longer the only type of woman who’s considered beautiful, certain people on the right think they’re being oppressed and the world has gone to hell.
Why have these weirdos zeroed in on Sweeney in particular? There are lots of beautiful white women with big boobs out there—Kate Upton, Blake Lively, Katy Perry, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Ratajkowski, and more. As far as I can tell, part of it seems to be that Sweeney doesn’t shy away from talking about or sharing her body. On Euphoria, she does a lot of nudity, and she’s spoken in interviews about feeling comfortable with it. On SNL, she repeatedly joked about her boobs and even wore a Hooters uniform. The National Post praised Sweeney for “playfully owning her sex appeal with zero apologies” and criticized Vanity Fair for suggesting it might have been nice to give her some material that wasn’t about her beauty.
- Comment on Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status 9 months ago:
Tesla is far from alone in flashing the “death cross.” The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 both showed it as well on Monday, as the indexes continue to fluctuate in wild and somewhat unpredictable ways thanks to the endless uncertainty that the Trump administration has introduced to the market through its blanket tariffs and “will they, won’t they” exceptions that keep getting tacked on and taken off.
An individual stock hitting this point doesn’t really seem like that big a deal when whole indexes are getting there.
- Comment on What we all want deep down 11 months ago:
I have enough money that I don’t worry, but not necessarily enough that I shouldn’t worry.
- Comment on What we all want deep down 11 months ago:
It’s still handy to have enough money that losing your job wouldn’t be an emergency.
- Comment on If you want to work here 11 months ago:
So the bathrooms have bidets, right?
- Comment on 1 year ago:
Apparently the law is written so that it would also be applicable to other apps like RedNote, if a president were interested in applying it.
- Comment on Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship [404 Media] 1 year ago:
They’re not posting to Facebook because they need to. From the article:
The silver lining here is that Facebook was already increasingly a waste of our time. The only reason we’re able to share our stories via our official Facebook page is that we’ve fully automated that process, because it is not actually worth our time to post our stories there organically. Since before we started 404 Media, we knew there was very little chance that Facebook would help us reach people, grow our audience, and make the case that people should support our journalism, so in a way we lost nothing because there’s nothing to lose.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 1 year ago:
We have literally every biome here, more vacation options than you could fit into a human lifetime of just visiting them all
Americans just don’t have enough vacation days; Europeans might be able to manage it.