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[–] [email protected] 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).

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Time to fix the Wikipedia article, then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

For some reason, I've always associated "The Guitar" by They Might Be Giants with TMP.

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