In Archer’s case, yes.
However, Paris stole directly from the dealership, apparently.
Once by Archer in ENT:"Carpenter Street" (though T'Pol did more of the work), and another by Paris and Tuvok in VOY:"Future'sEnd".
ffmpeg can use several different AV1 codecs, with varying levels of performance.
Most aliens have forehead ridges; some, like Tandarand, have giant cheeks. But the humans, they have… pronounced philtrums!
I was actually going through the audiobook of this trying to gather and classify enough data to fine tune a Piper TTS voice of the Star Trek computer.
Haven’t finished it yet, but maybe one day. While I normally would have ethical qualms about commanding the likenesses of the dead, they actually did try to collect voice data before Majel Barrett died; unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to actually pull it off, but the attempt feels as close to consent for this sort of thing as one can get.
I don’t know. There’s something about the description of the ENT novels that rubs me the wrong way.
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I just find it really weird to make Tucker Section 31 and add a whole convoluted thing about how he originally faked his death in 2155, but changed it to 2161 for some reason.
Painfully true, unfortunately.
No answers like, "They're all from Earth", "They're all in some version of Starfleet or United Earth Fleet", etcetera.
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All three have stolen a Dodge-branded car.
In fact, Paris and Archer stole nearly exactly the same kind of blue Dodge Truck, Archer in ENT:"Capenter Street" and Paris in VOY:"Future's End". I found this out while browsing the Memory Alpha facts for the Enterprise episode.
Bonus if you can think of other weird ones.
This is more a comic/graphic novel than a proper Trek novel, but I think Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way is possibly the best Star Trek comic I’ve ever read.
It stays true to the source material, and unlike a lot of IDW stuff I’ve read, doesn’t completely shark jump from the source material in an attempt to be mysterious, cool, or interesting just for the heck of it.
Probably the only other piece of IDW Trek I enjoyed this much was the TNG Mirror Universe, which did really well to achieve a “keep me on the edge of my seat” feeling.
I still need to read some other Trek comics, though, especially the TNG/Doctor Who crossover, which a local library branch of mine has. I also have a ton of PDFs from the recent Humble Bundle to burn through.
AMD GPUs are officially supported in the Linux kernel and Mesa. They pretty much just work out of the box with minimal setup on a fresh distro install.
NVidia GPUs often require out-of-tree proprietary drivers to work with full performance; these drivers are often a pain to install and update. Supposedly, things are getting less terrible now, but NVidia is still overall more likely to cause you pain than AMD.
Intel Arc dGPUs, like AMD, have decent native kernel and Mesa support from what I can tell, but tend to have worse performance than AMD. However, I hear they’re ridiculously good for video encoding!
What do you use Photoshop for? I ask because if you're just having fun with it or making simple edits like saturation or color curves, it's probably easier to find a replacement. GIMP still has a bit of a clunky interface, but has become much more livable since it got some non-destructive editing in 3.0. Personally, I use a combination of Inkscape and GIMP for a lot of stuff.
However, if you're using Photoshop in a professional capacity as say, a photographer or a graphic designer, I'm not sure you can effectively abandon Photoshop. As much as I hate Adobe, Photoshop is unfortunately an industry standard, and it's rather difficult to get running reliably under Linux. There are ways, but I wouldn't call them reliable. I thus can not in good conscience recommend you switch all your machines to Windows, though perhaps you can run Linux on one device and keep a dedicated Photoshop box if that's possible for you.
Everything else should probably be fine. Depending on what you play, you might lose a few games to kernel-level anticheat, but honestly, my thought is "Why should I give a company access to an important part of my operating system just to play a video game?"
As others have said, you should probably use LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice; the latter isn't really developed anymore, and the former maintains compatibility with your old files while having vastly better maintenance and feature updates.
Spotify and Discord both have native apps for Linux, so you should be good. I don't really use VPN services (I could rant about why, but that's best left for another time), but there's probably ways to get them working.
I wasn’t intending to convey this timeline could be a dream; I was moreso saying I thought my mind had made up this Microcenter to distract me from this dreadful reality.
I could have worded my initial post better.
Personality-wise, I feel like Grunkle Quark is more accurate.
Also, Bill is just a Q that got kicked out of the continuum.
I’ve been on a bit of a button-making kick, and here’s my latest one.
Bonus: The earlier one I did for TMBW. It needs some work in the margins - I just haven’t gotten to it yet.
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/26158084
I wanted a very 90s web-feeling GIF of a TOS science division badge(technically animated WEBP, but whatever), so I threw together the badge in Inkscape, then imported it into Blender to do animation and rendering.
I decided to make the border gold instead of the canon black, as it just looks every so slightly cooler during the spin animation in a very dumb way. I also went for metallic rather than trying to mimic embroidery because I was lazy.
I wanted a very 90s web-feeling GIF of a TOS science division badge(technically animated WEBP, but whatever), so I threw together the badge in Inkscape, then imported it into Blender to do animation and rendering.
I decided to make the border gold instead of the canon black, as it just looks every so slightly cooler during the spin animation in a very dumb way. I also went for metallic rather than trying to mimic embroidery because I was lazy.
EDIT: Accidentally duplicated post. Please see https://startrek.website/post/25896181 for all responses.
EDIT: The Harry Kim thing is more of a joke. This is less a question about Harry Kim and more about Nog.
Something about Nog's literacy history brings up a ton of weird questions in-universe.
Even for as class-based a society as the Ferengi, lower level workers have to have at least a little literacy to read instrument panels, repair ships, make sure they're carrying the right package, etcetera.
I think a key example here is Rom, who starts out a relatively typical exploited Ferengi - how would he read manuals to repair a holosuite without literacy.
I see two explanations. One, perhaps by "reading", they're referring to reading of a lengua franca like Federation standard - Nog has learned and is capable of reading the Ferengi language, but not another. When dealing with other languages, the general expectation is either a universal translator is used or they pick it up as they go.
Alternatively, it could be that it is expected in Ferengi culture that reading is just something you pick up on the job rather than in a concerted educational effort.
Of course, it is said and implied that after the school closes, Keiko teaches Jake and Nog one-on-one. Some education definitely happened off-screen.
Still, Starfleet seems to have educational requirements. In LD:"Something Borrowed, Something Green", Tendi mentions how she wouldn't have gotten into the Academy without having gone to high school, suggesting Nog needs the equivalent of a high school education to train to be a Starfleet officer.
It sounds a little ridiculous to go from being unable to read to a full high school education in less than three years, though that could be a bigger stretch than I'm making it out to be.
I'd say the simplest explanation is probably that again, Nog was more educated than we might interpreting being "unable to read" to mean.
It might be possible Ferengi also have higher-than-human-average neuroplasticity and simply adapt easier - this might even aid in the on the job theory.
So what are your ten cents? Also, it's been a while - glad to be back on Daystrom.
EDIT: Accidentally duplicated post. Please see https://startrek.website/post/25896182 for all responses and put future responses there. Also, I have more theorizing there.
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/22902299
Original by Doohan on TMBW Discord server:
Title a reference to their song "You Probably Get That A Lot", music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anWrcmKsYI8
I know that this one's been tackled twenty thousand million times and you're probably tired of seeing time loop memes by now, but like the urge to stick Gowron eyes on everything in the universe, I couldn't resist this intrinsic urge.
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/22902299
Original by Doohan on TMBW Discord server:
Title a reference to their song "You Probably Get That A Lot", music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anWrcmKsYI8
I know that this one's been tackled twenty thousand million times and you're probably tired of seeing time loop memes by now, but like the urge to stick Gowron eyes on everything in the universe, I couldn't resist this intrinsic urge.
Original by Doohan on TMBW Discord server:
Title a reference to their song "You Probably Get That A Lot", music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anWrcmKsYI8
I know that this one's been tackled twenty thousand million times and you're probably tired of seeing time loop memes by now, but like the urge to stick Gowron eyes on everything in the universe, I couldn't resist this intrinsic urge.
Oh, whoops. I guess I made a mistake in the Inkscape export. Guess I’ll fix that eventually.