As stupid as it is, at least this attempt at reviving Winamp doesn't seem to have any rhetoric about how it's going to be "built for the glorius inevitable agentic AI future revolution from the ground up" and talk about how "curating music has never been easier" because their "most advanced music AI in human history" takes away the need to have any personality, taste, or ears of your own.
I mean, the Blu-Rays are still easy enough to find and rip, although you have to spend $40 on season 1 because they never released reason 1 as one set. But honestly, giving Paramount cash in any form isn't that compelling.
I basically just gave three (or at least 2, as the DISCO one maybe is a bit iffy) examples of modern Star Trek scrutinizing the means despite the obstensibly good ends.
Also, another example is S2 E2 "Ad Astra Per Aspera" borderline almost literally puts "the moral cost of the means" (keeping good genetically modified people like Una out of Starfleet) that is ostensibly done for the ends of preventing another Eugenics Wars. I wouldn't hesitate to call this episode one of the best in the whole franchise, very much in the tradition of court case ethical discussion episodes like "Measure of a Man".
I don't think one can make a blanket statement about newer Star Trek quitting "believing something"; sure, it may be uneven in quality (maybe more than classic)*, but dismissing all of "NuTrek" out of hand is akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
: I mean, there's whatever DIS season 2 was, Section 31, most of PIC, etc., but also, it's not like good swathes of classic Trek aren't also kind of crap - I mean, there's the time Riker murdered his clone and nobody batted an eye, as well as TOS S3, TNG S1, and the inconsistency of VOY. Even in the good classic episodes, it's not like every one is "do the ends justify the means" - in addition to other ethical themes, classic Trek still had room for simply "Cool sci-fi s** happened and we have to deal with it", not to mention episodes focused on interpersonal drama like "Data's Day" or any of Deanna's "Oh f*** my mother is on board" episodes.
Hey, sneaking Alexander onto the holodeck is more than Worf ever did as a father.
I would say it depends.
I mean, the ends not justifying the means is kind of the entire point of DISCO S1 (whether or not the rest of DISCO embodied it is a different matter); Burnham has to let go of what Lorca summarizes as "Universal law is for lackeys. Context is for kings." or in other words, the ends often justify the means.
Also, SNW is better about it, than say, PIC; for instance, SNW S3 E7 "What is Starfleet?" from 2025, for all its flaws (including in some ways being very similar to TNG "Tin Man"), basically has the crew going "WTF! The ends (saving an alien race from a war they didn't start) do not justify the means (enslaving a sentient space whale)!" Also, SNW 1x06 is basically "ends don't justify means", although mostly because it basically copied "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas".
I'll have to see if this is in the officially published edition, but I'm currently at my dorm and both my Tech Manuals are at home.
One I bought in a used book shop in Sedona, and the other I got with a big load of Trek books that someone gave away back in 2025.
Uploading a gz source archive to a Git repository is absolutely cursed. Still, looks like a cool project.
I'll also add that if you do enable SSH and are stupid enough to expose port 22, then at least make sure you have key-based authentication instead of password authentication and keep your keys safe.
I could never get Gnome Network Displays to work, but it's worth a shot.
I saw my baby crying hard as babe could cry. What could I do? My baby's love had gone, and left my baby blue. Nobody knew
Personally, I think the most scarring sci-fi moment I ever had was the Doctor Who episode with the TVs that eat people's faces.
Also, hi. It’s been a while. I usually neglect this community, as I’m more active on TMBW Discord, but I like to post something every once in a while in case a BG fan stumbles onto Lemmy.
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/32667508
Alternatively, the whales' musical sequence from the 2005 film.
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DS9 is about the only 80s/90s Trek series with an almost completely watchable 1st season, though.