It gets less essential the more memory you have, though I have 32GB of RAM on my desktop and still have 32GB swap space, which is probably way overkill, but I can afford it for now become I have a 2TB SSD that still has several hundred gigabytes left and could probably have a bit freed. With the memory shortage caused by "artificial intelligence" companies, I may have to go less crazy on the storage now, though.
If I had any close friends who used Linux, I would install this for April fools.
To be fair, it’s a BB gun, which are tiny metal pellets that, while possibly painful, usually aren’t super lethal and are not a useful instrument in a “good ol’ traditional” American mass shooting. They’re more often used on tin cans than flesh. A few sociopathic kids might use them to torture birds, though.
Maybe they contribute to our dangerous gun culture by getting kids involved early, but getting an older kid a BB gun isn’t as weird or comically American as it sounds in and of itself.
Eh. I mean Christmas Story’s kind of fun, but fair warning, it has a scene that’s rather racist to Chinese people.
That just sounds like insufficient swap space, honestly. For part of the summer of 2024, I used a laptop from 2016 with 8 GB of RAM as my man portable devicr. The swap partition size I used was fine for most things but a but small; however, I’d occasionally run Spleeter and run out of memory, leading to the issues you experienced, which were alleviated by just adding a temporary swap file. Before that, I used a gen 1 Surface Go, also with 8 GB RAM.
I don't like Ubuntu, but objectively, this is probably a hardware issue and not a software issue.
I mean, you can try another distro to be sure, but the chances of it solving the issue are slim.
The main thing that personally drives me nuts about DRM is as a Linux user, many streaming services will only give you 480p or even 360p video even though you're paying for more. With that bullcrap, combined with buggy streaming services, the high seas is sometimes literally a better experience than streaming. Then the hippy moral stuff gets involved:
Although of course, if I can buy it used on Blu-Ray at a local business (Zia and Bookmans are probably the two best places to do it in my area), I'll do that instead, and just rip the Blu-Rays; it funds places I like while still being (more) legal (than just straight up pirating).
(Granted, I'm a bit of a hypocrite, as I don't pirate that much. I'm still on Paramount+ for now because my parents still pay for it, but we're so focused on Star Trek that my idea to just get the Blu-Rays and DVDs is tempting them to get off.)
Wait... It's a used stick? For future reference, that's a key piece of information. I'm guessing it had a life before it was a server, making it older than 3 years. Depending on the history of the old laptop, I'd guess there's a solid chance that stick is just worn out.
I'd disagree on the 16GB part. It's nice to have, but I think 8GB is perfectly fine for most non-gaming use cases. Heck, a couple years ago, I used a laptop from 2010 with 4GB quite comfortably.
I mean, get at least 16GB if you can, especially in a dev setup, but 8 GB hasn't murdered that many people yet.
I mean, that's true, but that doesn't mean that's why Debian's doing it.
If they were solving just that, then they would have just pushed for something like a reproducible tarball where you can point to a commit, branch, tag, etcetera from which that tarball can be reproduced and not bother migrating their package format.
Debian has a serious ease-of-packaging issue that I've witnessed first-hand, and I think they've made it clear that it's moreso the ease factor they're focused on that the security factor.
Not really. If xz were the issue, Debian would have just switched to a different tarball format like lz4.
This is more about Debian packaging conventions being very archaic and requiring a lot of futzing with upstream tarballs and patches.
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/32667508
Alternatively, the whales' musical sequence from the 2005 film.
Alternatively, the whales' musical sequence from the 2005 film.
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/30091443
Note: I'm not casting all Republicans as a "skin of evil" here; I feel many of them are just people trying to make their way in the world whose daily struggles and fears have been amplified manipulated by the "skin of evil", an administration that constantly denies human rights and demonizes (as well as convinces its followers to partake in the demonization of) people who, for the most part, are also just trying to make their way in the world. I've known Republicans, and while the people they give their support to frighten me, most of the ones I've know aren't demons.
EDIT: To be clear, I’m not saying Republican voters did nothing wrong, that they don’t deserve consequences, or that we should avoid making them feel bad. In many ways, the “skin of evil” is their collective wrongs and the way they enabled the current horrors. The evil, however, is a subset of a person (sometimes almost the whole set, though), while the “skin of evil” is the set of evil. Also, I admit I feel a bit on the availability heuristic and that “most of the ones I know” isn’t the strongest evidence.
Note: I'm not casting all Republicans as a "skin of evil" here; I feel many of them are just people trying to make their way in the world whose daily struggles and fears have been amplified manipulated by the "skin of evil", an administration that constantly denies human rights and demonizes (as well as convinces its followers to partake in the demonization of) people who, for the most part, are also just trying to make their way in the world. I've known Republicans, and while the people they give their support to frighten me, most of the ones I've know aren't demons.
EDIT: To be clear, I’m not saying Republican voters did nothing wrong, that they don’t deserve consequences, or that we should avoid making them feel bad. In many ways, the “skin of evil” is their collective wrongs and the way they enabled the current horrors. The evil, however, is a subset of a person (sometimes almost the whole set, though), while the “skin of evil” is the set of evil. Also, I admit I feel a bit on the availability heuristic and that “most of the ones I know” isn’t the strongest evidence.
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/29610115
For the two people on Earth who are both Trekkies and Team Starkid fans.
If you don't get this reference, fix yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrxKX44qBJ0
For the two people on Earth who are both Trekkies and Team Starkid fans.
If you don't get this reference, fix yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrxKX44qBJ0
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If I had a slip of latinum for every time a Starfleet officer stole a blue mid-1990s Dodge Ram pickup...
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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".
No answers like, "They're all from Earth", "They're all in some version of Starfleet or United Earth Fleet", etcetera.
My Answer
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.
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.
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Honestly, the transporter is the main reason why I think the Federation could (possible by a landslide) win a war against the Empire from Star Wars; the Empire likely doesn't have the defenses to stop a Starfleet vessel beaming photon torpedoes, neurocene gas, etcetera directly onto star destroyers. All it takes is a few ships getting past the tie fighters.