data1701d (He/Him)

“Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?”

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

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  • I usually hate it when studios wipe something off the face of the earth for a bunch of tax BS or whatever, but please do this to Star Trek: Scouts.

    What pains me is it is certainly possible to make a good Star Trek kids show that isn’t just iPad baby slop. Like, just have a show about a bunch of kids having fun around Starbase 170 or something, with hints of what the often-exhausted Starfleet and civilian parents are going through.

    But no, most of the brainless executives have long since decided kids (and almost everyone, honestly) don’t need quality of any sort.



  • Honestly, I’ve been tempted by a Kobo lately; I have a lot of Star Trek RPG and comic book PDFs/ePUBs that I got through Humble Bundle over the past couple years.

    Kobo seems like the least horrible brand I can get for a reasonable price with a reasonable screen quality; as pleasantly simple and reliable as they seem, and as nice as electronics re-use is, I’m not sure that one Sony e-reader that’s as old as my younger sibling fulfills my use case.

    Though honestly, if you have other recommendations for a Linux-friendly color e-reader, I’d be glad to hear them.




  • What GPU model is it? And what distro are you using?

    Did you install separate AMD drivers? You’re generally not supposed to do that; it’s just plug-and-play in the kernel and MESA (assuming the version is new enough), and you usually don’t need to download separate drivers.

    Also, what kernel flags did you have to use?

    It’s just that I’m a bit skeptical any of this is actually the fault of the AMD Linux kernel driver, and I would guess there’s some underlying software or hardware issue like a faulty ACPI implementation on the motherboard. I’m not saying AMD can do no wrong, but in this case, making blanket statements about the quality of AMD GPU drivers may be premature.


  • As others have said, “stable” and “unstable” have a different connotation in the FOSS world.

    Rolling releases probably don’t have more software crashes than their stable counterparts, which is what you meant.

    However, some use cases prefer that they are able to use the same config for a long time, and when software updates frequently, system administration can become a cat-and-mouse game of “What config broke this time?” That’s not to say rolling release is bad, but sometimes it’s like using a power drill instead of a screw driver.

    Also, I definitely feel like a stable distro is more likely to survive a software update after not using the computer for a few months to a year. Granted, I’ve had a Debian Testing (rolling release) install that did survive an upgrade after a year of non-use, but I’ve also seen Arch VMs that broke after just a couple months of non-use, forcing me to reinstall.