Rattus R. Rattus has some real Chuck E. Cheese energy.

I just started playing MTG and didn’t know about this forthcoming Trek expansion, so I’m intrigued.

An oldie but goodie: https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/articles/installing-linux-on-a-dead-badger-users-notes/

No, but if you eat enough of them you will get thicc.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as a technical, is in fact, GNU/Technical, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Technical.

I think Data is too similar to being human to be mistaken for a clanker.

I think the real test will be if LLMs start acting like exocomps. I don’t think this is at all likely but I never would have predicted that LLMs could be as accurate as they are or have so many weird emergent phenomena.

I agree with all you said, I just can’t believe it is possible for conservative viewers of the show to be blindered to the numerous, numerous ways where the show morals, both implied and very much stated, are antithetical to the entire value structure of the modern right-wing of the USA.

But then again, when I think of the Trek fans I know in real life, it is surprising how many of them are Republicans. Not a majority, but enough. So they might just be overlooking the things they don’t agree with.

I guess it is the year of the Linux desktop for at least some people.

I’ve used Linux desktop in various forms for just over two decades, this has to be the fourth time it felt like Linux was having its chance to seize marketshare. Each time it ends up not being the mass adoption that people hope for but it feels like the community grows each time so I think it is neat nonetheless.

This is a fair point, I was being a bit facetious, but I’m sure there are plenty of teams both totally in person and totally remote using it. It is just bad optics I think. Like if Teams isn’t useful enough for them that they have to be in person despite having an ostensibly full-featured videoconferencing and calendar coordination and chat, the hell good is it for my organization?

Makes me laugh additionally because the modern conception of “dogfooding” in tech was popularized by Microsoft itself back in the 1990s. This is the opposite of dogfooding and really is a big condemnation of Teams as a software solution for connected work, at least on paper.