themoken

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[–] themoken@startrek.website 51 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I don't really care what color they are when they are long as your palm and flying at your face.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago

Agreed. It's one thing if it's climate change or something where we at least need to put a plan out there even if there's zero chance of it happening, but for basic common sense stuff like this don't bother. If we ever get back to trying to make average American lives better with the government, this is low hanging fruit.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Huh, I kind of think the opposite. I haven't read everything he's written, but it seems to me that he kinda sucks at endings.

I loved Anathem, and when you realize what's going on it's so cool, but then it doesn't explore that idea as much as I want, it just ends without looking around the next corner. Cryptonomicon is a fun, interesting read and gets you worked up about what a monumental shift is going to happen... And then ends right as it's coming to fruition. Even Seveneves had a 5000 year jump and spends hundreds of pages on the consequences of humanity's brush with death... And then tosses in another population with five pages left. I want to keep going!

Maybe I just don't like being tantalized in the last few pages of a book, but I feel like I'm left hanging and unsatisfied, like there's a missing sequel. His pulpier, early novels were much better in terms of wrapping up the story.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

I have a tortoise and he's great. I wouldn't necessarily recommend them for everyone, but if you like reptiles they have a lot going for them. Calm, quiet, low maintenance, vegetarian (no crickets, mice etc.) and have a lot of personality. If you take care of them they can be a friend for life.

I like to take mine into the yard in an enclosure and chill in a hammock nearby. He even likes to cuddle into the crook of my neck on the couch. Not exactly the most active pet, but his calming energy helps my anxiety. When he's splooted, basking under a heat lamp I am almost envious.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

This looks like fun, just grabbed it, thanks for posting it here.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This is about Linux kernel driver maintainership... It's all open source.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago

Yeah, they all are, even though they probably would have been fun. I'd watch Bakula as Archer again too, I just think there's zero percent chance it would be greenlit.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 35 points 3 months ago (13 children)

I can't wait to put this on my shelf next to Enterprise S5-S7, Captain Worf, and Star Trek: Legacy.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't have experience with MSI recently, but I'd be really surprised if you couldn't flash a new BIOS off the system partition or FAT32 USB. You may not be able to update from Linux directly, but almost all motherboards I've seen support doing it from the BIOS interface.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 8 points 3 months ago

I interpret it as they are fools because they can be convinced of anything and become proselytizers in the course of a day. They didn't really engage with the idea, they are just zealously parroting what someone else told them.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

On the one hand, this is sort of what betas are for.

On the other hand, doesn't this game require secure boot for anti-cheat? I thought making your multiplayer game enforce security policy meant it was impossible to cheat!?!? Get fucked EA.

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