IcedRaktajino

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submitted 1 hour ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago) by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to c/risa@startrek.website
 
[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 34 points 3 hours ago

No idea, but once I was feeling extra awkward and started singing along with the rest of them.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 15 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Honestly, for me, it's when someone knows when to keep their mouth shut or opinions to themselves. I could, in theory, consider the dumbest person in the world "intelligent" so long as they don't open their dumb mouth and make situations worse.

Basically, any idiot can speak, but it takes intelligence and/or wisdom to know when not to.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I'd get a new weather app that only shows the weather. If you're on Android, try BreezyWeather (F-Droid link).

The F-Droid ("freenet") one ~~only~~ mainly uses OpenMeteo as the source (which is pretty good) but the releases on Github offer additional sources. Not sure why there's a discrepancy, but I use the Github release and Accuweather as the source. YMMV which gives the best results for your area, but I often wasn't getting severe weather alerts with OpenMeteo.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

The world is just as fucked up as it ever was. The only difference now is that every fucked-up thing that ever happens anywhere is getting pushed to your always-on doomscroll device in real time with people attaching their mostly ignorant opinions to it.

This is where the "touch grass" advice comes into play. In broad terms, the real world is not nearly the hellhole social media portrays it to be.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 11 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Until I enlarged the thumbnail, I at first thought this was a cross-section of a cruise ship which is a totally different type of hell.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A Ferengi ship? Interesting choice!

TIL that I've always been looking at them backwards. I always thought the curved section was the front.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Had to look that one up and recognized the USS Aventine from ST: Destiny. Definitely looks like a cool ship. Assuming the models of it are from ST: online?

My standard is "Fast Draw". F-Droid

The only limitation is you can only have one widget. So if your home screen is typically widget-heavy, this probably isn't for you.

It also only sorts apps alphabetically, but that's how I like it, so isn't an issue for me.

maybe they don't use plasma at all?

Never even thought of that. There was a lot of dialog and plot points about finding alternatives to warp after the Burn, and we know they still use dilithium as a regulator, so I assumed they're still using the same M/A reaction as before. But it's very possible they extract the energy from the reaction in completely novel ways now.

Was just assuming the same way as we've always known because (checks notes) the nacelles still light up blue lol.

I could but probably won't. I've already settled on DS9 mixed with a nap or 3 as my reward for surviving a really crappy and stressful week at work.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Glad I'm not the only one mortgaging their Saturday and hoping to pay it in full on Sunday 😆

 
 

Do you prefer the hulking majesty of a Galaxy class, the sleek curves of an Intrepid class, the retro-futuristic Constitution or something else?

I've grown quite fond of the Danube class runabout. Small, agile, warp capable, and weapons. Most of the amenities of a larger ship in a smaller package. Where the large ships are like flying cities, the runabouts are more like space RVs and the quadrant their open road. There's just something more personal about them that appeals to me.

 

During a recent panel aboard the Star Trek Cruise ship (via Screen Rant), Marina Sirtis stated Star Trek: Legacy is “never going to happen.”

Marina Sirtis: First of all, Legacy is never gonna happen.

Jonathan Frakes: Come on, Marina!

Marina Sirtis: You know, you hate hearing the truth. There is not a single studio in America that is gonna make a series where most of the leading actors are over 70 years old. I’m sorry, but that’s just the truth. It’s just Hollywood.

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me_irl (startrek.website)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to c/me_irl@lemmy.world
 

Alt Text: The text above the image reads "When you're in a group chat, and the chat goes silent for a few days, so you assume they've moved to another chat and not invited you." Image is of Frasier in a spa, wearing a mud mask and robe, with a suspicious look on his face noting that "there's a platinum door".

 

Which is why I rarely read below the 3rd level reply.

Edit to add alt text.

 

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bUMHgfxNoo

Remember those brick cellphones in the 1990s? They were comically large by today’s standards. These phones used the 1G network to communicate and, as such, have been unusable for decades now. However [Alan Boris] has resurrected this classic phone to operate today.

Originally costing as much as today’s top-of-the-line phones, but instead of weighing just a few ounces this classic Motorola DynaTAC 8000 Classic 2 tips the scales at a hefty 1.5 lbs. [Alan Boris] decided to not just bring the electronics back to life, but to even stuff a modern cellphone inside it to make it fully functional. Given the size of this phone, finding room for the new innards wasn’t much of a challenge. In fact, after the retrofit there was less in the phone than when it started life.

Using a perfboard and some tactile switches he was able to sense the button presses on the phone’s keypad and relay those to a Raspberry Pi Pico 2. The Pico in turn drove a small color LCD to replicate the original screen and controlled a pair of ADG729 boards used to dial the BM10 cellphone within this cellphone. The BM10 is a cellphone about the size of a 9V battery, making it easy to put inside the DynaTAC and bring the handset back to the modern cellular network.

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Chaos Theory (startrek.website)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
 
 

I guess "hire someone" is always an option, but it's a difficult task sometimes, especially finding someone reliable. It's not even that the larger thing is outside my ability, it's just "ugh, I don't have time for this".

Curious if anyone has any tips and tricks to overcome this kind of paralysis.

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