So it’s an average day for Miles.

“That way we won’t have to share the bed for sex.”

Misters Chekov Do you want the Disney-owned, AI generated force ghost of Anton Yelchin to show up?

Beverly Crusher would.

Remember: LLMs don’t give you answers. They generate text that looks like answers. Whether that text actually contains a valid answer is not the LLM’s problem.

I think what really sets people off is the “finally” in the title – which comes from Engadget, of course, so OP isn’t even at fault here.

Nobody particularly cares for or about Threads but yeah, this is legitimately tech news and we shouldn’t shoot the messenger.

I mean, Samsung tablets come with handwriting detection. I immediately turned it off of on mine because it expects since kind of cursive that I don’t use but it’s there.

I consider Palm’s Graffiti input system superior – sure, you had to learn the alphabet but every palmtop came with a cheat sheet and one you had it down it was pretty damn quick to write with.

monkey’s paw curls

Okay, nicotine is now a Schedule II drug. You need a prescription to buy anything with nicotine in it.

Fair point although there is a difference between “can’t make a reasonable drawing with instruction at the level of one’s classmates” and “never progressed beyond very basic drawing skills because you never practiced”.

Luckily we have Worf, son of Moog.

DX1 runs fine with an alternative renderer (the Community Update should have everything you need to get going).

I could run Invisible War with few issues as well – but then I realized it’s Invisible War and played something else instead.

That’s Miles. His main job is to ensure that both the strongness and sweetness of correctly ordered raktajino are precisely double. In his spare time he ensures fair play at the dart board at Quark’s.

Many are, true. There’s a few other factors involved as well (I’m using the opportunity to upgrade, for instance). Most manufacturers won’t commit to selling you first-party components right from their own store, though. That still remains a bonus.

Fair enough, although I’m using the opportunity to upgrade and attempt to switch to Linux. And probably replace an older desktop computer with the old laptop (with a USB keyboard attached).

But yeah, under different circumstances it would make sense to buy a keyboard from eBay and attempt a repair.

It pretty much comes down to three things, all driven by their system’s modularity:

1. Repairability and upgradeability. You get officially supported spare parts for everything and they intend to keep selling compatible parts for the foreseeable future. Due to them internally standardizing their form factors, all parts are intended to be upgradable, even the logic board.
2. Swappable ports. Being able to reconfigure every port into whatever you need reduces the need for docks and adapters. Since the specs are open, third parties can make their own ports or offer compatible slots in their devices.
3. Reuse of components. At least some components like the logic boards are fully intended to be used outside their laptops, e.g. after an upgrade. I’m not sure if they offer detailed enough specs on stuff like the fingerprint sensor to use that for your own projects.

Whether this is worth it is up to you. Anecdotally, I have to replace my current laptop because the keyboard is dying. The rest is still fine, it’s just the keyboard. In hindsight, paying more upfront and being able to just order a new keyboard for fifty bucks would’ve saved me some money.

Yes.

The last time Q put humanity on trial he accepted “I know Morn” as proof of culture.

Oh no, it’s not funny to Germans either. Or rather it stopped being funny about three memes in.

Last winter, in order to protect the dwindling completely full strategic gas reserves, the government issued an order for all govenment-owned office buildings to limit the central heating to no more than 19° C because that seemed to be the most pointlessly bureaucratic solution at the time.

This included buildings that don’t even use gas for heating. Remote heat? Geothermal heat? Free waste heat that you have to actively vent to the atmosphere in order to lower the room temperature? Yep, all required to not exceed 19° C. The building I worked in at the time (for a company that rented some excess floor space) actually wasted energy adhering to this well thought-out rule.

So yeah, I’d say that in order to change a lightbulb you need at least 1000 Germans. You need both chambers of parliament to create and pass a new ordinance that applies specifically to this lightbulb (and several other contexts it has no business applying to but does because it’s too vaguely worded). Then you need at least three different expert panels to advise the government, regulatory agencies to make sure the ordinance is adhered to, licensed trainers to make sure the people executing the job are formally certified to do so… Actually, we might have to get the European Parliament involved; the new ordinance might benefit from being propoted to a European standard.

I’ll get back to you about this in about three to five years; we need to get this figured out.

Gentoo is great for two things: Firstly, learning about all the parts that go into a Linux system and how they interact. Secondly, typing emerge world into a shell and feeling like a god raising the continents from the ocean.

Then again the SGC has a policy of sharing supplies and rendering humanitarian aid when they can afford to but not sharing military equipment unless they really think it’s for the better. Starfleet should give them at least some credit for that; it’s remarkably close to common Starfleet practice.

In the end, though, it really demonstrates how the Prime Directive is a flawed measuring stick and always has been. People like the Klingons (hyper-aggressive), the Ferengi (hyper-capitalists who bought their way into space), and the Cardassians (space Nazis) are cool but the Tau’ri are sketchy because they bring guns when they explore space.

I’m pretty sure O’Neill would be happy to comment on how Starfleet and their equipment sure look military from the outside even if they bring civilians on their combat-ready vessels equipped with weapons of mass destruction. And how his humanity didn’t nuke itself. Well, except those Genii guys but they don’t count. Different humanity.

By the time the Ori have been dealt with, the Tau’ri have been outright declared the worthy successors of two of the most advanced civilizations their galaxy had ever seen. And each of those civilizations had lasted for millions of years so it’s not like it’s power-hungry psychos giving each other pats on the back. That still doesn’t change Starfleet’s point about their cultural advancement but makes it that much harder to cleanly argue.

It’s like they were made to turn the usual Federation talking points into complicated messes.

(On the other hand they can only hope the Federation never hears about how many solar systems they managed to destroy, usually by accident. Now that’s a good reason not to trust them with advanced technology.)