Australia and New Zealand should align with Europe. Having lived in both Australia and Europe, Australia is a Commonwealth country that is closer to European values than it is to American. Especially now, with the United States undergoing political and economic collapse.

I wish someone would make a Plan 9 distribution.

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They should solve this problem by using the same enforcement methods with alcohol access on underage social media users. I never knew anyone in high school who ever drank!

I’ve been running Ubuntu Studio for almost a decade, but I’m pretty fed up with it. Maybe I’ll switch to Arch. I dunno. Having a turnkey media production distribution was handy. It did audio well. But with pipewire, that seems redundant now.

Reminds me of that movie, Crash:

This explains it:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture_(4K_Ultra_HD)

There’s a new 4k Blueray that has extensive effects and scene updates.

The updated directors cut of TMP really improves that movie. It remains my favorite Trek film, with ST II: WoK a close second.

Neither should Windows itself. But here we are. And have been for some time.

So used car prices will be going up, then.

Flatpak is a central repository where an application is installed in a sandbox and cached. It can be updated from that central repository.

Snap is a mounted filesystem containing a repository and is stored locally. It is not sandboxed. It cannot be updated in part but is overwritten in whole. It is distributed by individual app maintainers, not a centralized repository.

So, fuck Nerdrotic and all the other overtly anti-woke political gatekeepers with a following. They don’t care about story, they care about shoehorning their ideology into everything cultural. They’re culture warriors, not storytellers. But there are good ones out there. For example, I really like Steve Shives’ work, he’s focused on the storytelling and has been fair in his Trek criticisms (IMO). YouTube is a mixed bag, but there’s good stuff out there too.

I saw enough to warrant walking away. Whatever Trek is, it’s not what it was. And what it has become is not for me.

For older stuff, I still think Farscape and the 2000s BSG remake still hold up too. I especially like the unreliable narrator thread in Farscape when Chriton had the brain implant. That was peak paranoia. Good stuff. The Expanse was good too.

I don’t think producers like JJ and Kurtzman are idiots. I think they have jobs. They know what their distributors want and give it to them. This is why they remain employed. They’re trusted by the money men. This, in contrast to actual geniuses like Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, John Carpenter, etc, who just want to make their visions come hell or high water.

For all I know, from a business standpoint Paramount execs might well be right. That is, chasing the youth market and hoping for a splash is the demo advertisers want. It’s their property, so good luck to them I guess.

I have a lot of respect for all the artists involved. The set and costume designers, vfx artists, grips and cinematography guys. They put a lot of work in and it visually shows. I hope they all get a good payday.

I’ve never even made it through a single episode of LD. Just not my bag of tea.

I grew up to reruns of TOS. Watched TNG as it aired. Saw bits of DS9 and Voyager as it aired. And genuinely liked and watched Enterprise as it aired (one of a few).

I did not like JJ’s NuTrek nor the post NuTrek TV shows. I really wanted to like Discovery, because I wanted serial Trek. I think episodic television is boring. But it didn’t work for me. Too many plot holes, tone swings, and internal contradictions. Never mind not respecting Trek cannon, it didn’t even respect its own plot setups.

Like NuTrek, it eschews coherence for flashy action in the moment. It’s like Luc Besson’s Du Look French film movement from the late 80s. All style, no substance.

OMG: Picard. I forgot about that show. I didn’t finish that one either.

I’ve liked Andor, Pluribus, and Severence. I honestly think the problem with Trek is Paramount execs. Kurtzman is just a symptom. He’s the figurehead to implement a policy of content by focus group. Never mind not knowing old trek or claims of pushing politics, the writers couldn’t write good material even if they wanted to because execs don’t care about that. They only want their target demographic.

I’ve given up. I didn’t finish Discovery. Got bored with SNW. Haven’t even seen any episodes of SA. I just don’t care about Star Trek any more. I’m not angry, just bored.

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