Kirk

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planning to switch from windows 11 to Ubuntu on my laptop in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago

Nothing wrong with Ubuntu, but it's interface is definitely geared more towards Mac folks.

My recommendation for someone making the jump to full time Linux is Fedora Kinoite. It's "immutable" meaning impossible to break, and uses KDE Plasma, which is like the modern Windows you've always wanted.

Again nothing wrong with Ubuntu, it's great and will run on the hardware you mentioned, but if you are someone who wants to tweak settings without fear of breaking something somewhere else, I really recommend Kinoite.

Suggestions for a replacement for PayPal in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Privacy.com is easy, too.

When you're divorced from reallity in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is what's funny to me, "AI" investors must know on some level these products don't actually work the way the companies claim, because if they did they would crash, not help, the economy as it exists now.

Anna’s Archive - Backing up Spotify in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 4 days ago

Yeah but until two months ago Spotify was 24kbps

Cher takes down Leavitt in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 23 points 5 days ago (3 children)

fake news

Anna’s Archive - Backing up Spotify in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 5 days ago (12 children)

I wonder why Spotify and not YouTube Music, Tidal or Apple Music all of which are higher quality.

Why Katy Perry is using a sexualized version of the Romulan uniform? in c/risa@startrek.website
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago

um do you really believe that performance stages are constructed to ignore whatever is on them

Why Katy Perry is using a sexualized version of the Romulan uniform? in c/risa@startrek.website
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago

If sexy romulan is ridiculous I don't want to be normal

Fuck AI. in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago

Ha! Yes so true.

How to handle lights that are physically powered off (but Home Assistant still sees as "on")? in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah that's probably the simplest way!

Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases in c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Most of my 2025 was Silksong actually, but for only $20 it felt like a patient gamer moment!

Fuck AI. in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (19 children)

I'm going to be that guy and point out that LLM's are not really "AI", that's just the corporate buzzword but "AI" is a loosely defined thing.

I think we should all get better at calling them LLM's publicly to take some of the magic woo-woo away.

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How to handle lights that are physically powered off (but Home Assistant still sees as "on")? (startrek.website)
 

I have a button that triggers a script for bedtime to turn off all lights, and, if pressed again, checks to see if all lights are off and if so, turns a few (like the bathroom light) on.

My problem is one or two of the lights (connected via Zigbee2Mqtt) are often powered off at the switch on the lamp, meaning HA still sees them as "on" until the power is restored and they can be turned "off" via the app. The lights cannot be turned "off" (in HA) manually.

Is there any good solution for detecting when a light goes missing and turning it "off" in HA?

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Is it confirmed that The Doctor we'll be seeing in Academy is NOT the one from "Living Witness"? (startrek.website)
 

I've always wanted to find out what happened to that guy but also the mystery is part of what makes it so compelling.

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And the toaster is the most popular cosplay choice (startrek.website)
 
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"Stargate" Reopens With New Series on Amazon Prime (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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And it will happen to YOU 🫵 (startrek.website)
 
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"The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot." (variety.com)
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The 1977 Coleco Telstar Arcade answered a design question that amazingly no one had asked before: "What if a game console looked like a Wild West take on the TARDIS console?" (startrek.website)
 

Source @natasha_jay@tech.lgbt https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/115485893919837503

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Layoffs hit CBS News and Paramount as David Ellison’s cost-cutting plan takes effect (www.poynter.org)
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It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It (futurism.com)
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Comment on /r/BlueSkySocial: "why can't we have one single social media site with a CEO who isn't weird and bad" (one reply mentions Mastodon). (www.reddit.com)
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Looking for a community for AI skeptics that is more actively moderated than /c/fuckai (startrek.website)
 

/c/fuckai has two dozen mods but ironically only time I've ever seen them take action on anyone was when they removed my post asking for recs for a community with more active moderation (lol)

I'd like to discuss generative AI from a highly skeptical perspective but with higher standards of quality and without all the mouth-frothy raging and bad memes of /c/fuckai.

Does anywhere else like that exist on the fediverse? I don't care if it's small/underutilized. And no I'm not interested in creating it myself.

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Anyone have any tips to get HDMI-CEC working on LineageOS? (startrek.website)
 

I'm trying out LineageOS Android TV for Raspberry Pi 5. There is an option for HDMI-CEC in the menus, but nothing I do can get it working.

I know it's not the Pi, my TV, or my cables because CEC worked immediately with LibreELEC.

The Pi will go into sleep mode when the TV shuts off (even when the setting for that is disabled) so I can tell that something is being communicated. But I don't seem to have any control over it.

Does anyone have any advice for troubleshooting? I've tried power cycling the TV and Pi, unplugging cables, etc.

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