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[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

I agree with you. However, playing devil’s advocate, it could be argued that the law was applied because Bashir is a citizen of United Earth within the Federation, meaning that per the Prime Directive, Earth can enforce its own law within the bounds of the Federation constitution (perhaps with some limits on enforcing certain parts on non-United Earth citizens, especially in a zone like San Francisco).

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That then begs the question: Why did they have a problem with Una, a non-human augment, joining Starfleet? In PRO, it is also implied that Dal would not have been let in if not for Janeway’s push.

Also, perhaps Darwin Station required a longer investigation to check which researchers were involved, so the arrest does not happen on screen and is left for another ship (after all, the D needs to keep boldly going, so I can imagine a Miranda swopping by later to do the arrest for the Enterprise).

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

Actually, I think Neelix doesn’t count as a natural disaster - I think he was a genetic experiment - a manmade disaster.

I’ll admit though that after Kes, Neelix is a somewhat enjoyable character.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 17 points 2 months ago

While some of this can be a problem, I feel like using podman automatically disqualifies you as a regular user.

I think the more accurate title is “Linux is harder for medium power users who are already used to an operating system.”

I honestly feel I am unqualified to say how easy Linux distros are, as I often think to do things that a normal user wouldn’t, thus breaking my system in a way that doesn’t mirror what a regular user would experience.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

True. Industry entrenchment would be a big issue. I can think of two ways to try to fight it. The less viable option would be trying for PSD support, which would be a lot of work. The other option would be to write a Photoshop plugin to allow working with the new file format in Photoshop. This might be annoying to end users having to deal with the format, but also easier developer-wise because you could make sure Photoshop handles rendering right; you'd just need a way to warn about operations in Photoshop that can't be converted to the new FOSS program's native format.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Not exactly “full of” - it was more like 3 classrooms with 30 each. Still a lot of Macs, but keep in mind this was a high school of 2000 students. Also, I’m pretty sure the Macs were paid for with grants for the visual arts programs rather than standard public funding.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In some ways this is true. However, I feel like in the case of Adobe, someone needs to take another shot at a good FOSS image editor. Adobe is really starting to mess itself with generative AI; knowing many artists, they hate generative AI image tech as a threat to their job, so I find it weird that Adobe is alienating one of their largest user bases. I find it weird how Inkscape is really good and has evolved (I actually switched to it from Adobe Illustrator and don´t regret it), while GIMP has barely changed in 10 years.

I get that some parts of an image editor are complex, but at some point, it's just a chain of mathematical operations. Maybe I'm wrong, but when I get the time, it's almost tempting to take a stab at the issue.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think it depends. If a school has a laptop for each student, it is most certainly a Chromebook. However, a lot of schools also have a mix of systems. In elementary school, I was taught to use Microsoft Office on Windows, for instance. At my high school, all the students had Chromebooks, but there were also some labs with Windows machines; graphic design, photography, and film classes had labs full of 5K iMacs.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I added an apt repo someone had created. I've checked how it works, and it's just a CI routine pulling the latest Discord package for the website and throwing it in a repo.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’d say also greens and purples were a part of the DS9 pallet.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

I had no idea there was even a native Spotify port for Linux.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Time to fix the Wikipedia article, then.

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