IcedRaktajino

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

Am I whooshing here, or are you and I remembering VOY: Tattoo very differently? lol

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)
  • Scrappy Doo
  • Poochie (on The Simpsons but he was a parody)
  • Pretty much any child character added halfway through the show's run

Edit: The character of Jenny on Unhappily Ever After. She was played by Stephanie Hodge, and she was supposed to be the star of the show. Everyone hated her character, and she eventually got written off, came back as a ghost, and then abruptly left again.

The series was initially written as a starring vehicle for Hodge, whose character Jennifer was the focus of the first few episodes. However, the series soon turned its focus to Jack Malloy, a schizophrenic, alcoholic, and lazy husband who was kicked out of the house in the pilot episode. ... By the show's third season, Tiffany Malloy had become the breakout character, and Cox became the de facto co-star of the show along with Pierson.

In the fourth season, producers decided to kill off Jennifer's character, but returned her as a ghost. After continuing to torment her family as a poltergeist known as "Dead Mom", the Malloys realize that the show doesn't work without Jennifer as their common enemy. Jennifer is then brought back to life after a metafictional sequence, commonly used in the show, in which a network executive enters the house and explains to the characters that, due to the jokes no longer being funny, "Dead Mom" is no longer dead. Jennifer then returns and is overjoyed to be restored to life, until she sees the gigantic mess the family left for her to clean up. Jennifer throws a massive temper tantrum and vows to take terrible revenge. Nevertheless, Hodge decided to leave the show anyway, and several episodes after Jennifer's "resurrection", she eloped with a lesbian lover and was never seen again.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhappily_Ever_After

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

But how should voting work here?

Piefed polls but those leave out non-Piefed users. For something lower-tech but effective, I've seen mods make a post, make one comment for each choice, and lock the post. Then tally the votes for each comment/choice.

But the answer is Pluribus. lol

Didn't know that, but I rarely buy name brand these days.

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

Nice. Hope you're enjoying it. So jealous. I wish I could watch DS9 (more or less) for the first time again.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (8 children)

The actual seasoning crumbs are still sealed in a bag (for now? lol). It just doesn't come with the "shake" bags you pour that into in order to coat the food.

Honestly not sure. I'd have to splurge on the name brand to compare.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But what if a baby is immune? :D I’ll let this overspeculation sit for a while…

Bait taken.

Assuming the hive doesn't intentionally procreate: All the hive women Koumba is getting with....is the hive making sure they're all on birth control? A potential plot point is one or more of them becoming pregnant and having an immune baby (inherited from Koumba).

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Started a re-watch of SNW so finally able to relate to people who aren't as invested in TrekLit as I am 😆

Also finished the second book of the "Cold Equations" trilogy and started on the third the other day.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Now the show will not address this (and rightfully so)

....yeah. And there's a hive-mind / transitive property question Carol could have asked Laxmi's son which would have been a huge wham moment that would have really shaken Laxmi but I'm glad the show didn't go there.

Also: !pluribus@lemmy.zip

 

In before anyone assumes I'm making a blanket statement: Not all podcasters are crackpots, but all crackpots seem to have a podcast.

 

First snow of the year, and the dogs loved it. Unfortunately no dog tax because my hands were freezing and I wasn't in the mood to grab my phone.

 

Folks, we have some revolutionary sociological research to share with you today.

After making a guy dressed as Batman stand around in a subway car, a team of researchers found that the behavior of people around him suddenly improved the moment he showed up. No longer was everyone completely self-involved; with the presence of a superhero, commuters started helping each other more than they would’ve without him around.

Behold: the “Batman effect.”

 

Transcript:

Stan: Wait, Steve, give me your meme!

[Stan holds Steve's phone and meme up to the evil AI]

Stan: Does THIS make you feel better?

Evil AI: Stop! Will you?!

Stan: No! You have to look!

Evil AI: 1.6 million views? Who watches this shit?!

 

Like, would a skyscraper-style datacenter be practical? Or is just a matter of big, flat buildings being cheaper?

 

No, I did not make this mess. Just thought it was funny a jar of sauce and box of spaghetti had both fallen.

 

Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines’ inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines’ processors having integrated decoding support.

Laptops with sixth-generation Intel Core and later processors have built-in hardware support for HEVC decoding and encoding. AMD has made laptop chips supporting the codec since 2015. However, both Dell and HP have disabled this feature on some of their popular business notebooks.

HP discloses this in the data sheets for its affected laptops, which include the HP ProBook 460 G11 [PDF], ProBook 465 G11 [PDF], and EliteBook 665 G11 [PDF].

“Hardware acceleration for CODEC H.265/HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) is disabled on this platform,” the note reads.

...

While HP’s and Dell’s reps didn’t explain the companies’ motives, it’s possible that the OEMs are looking to minimize costs, since OEMs may pay some or all of the licensing fees associated with HEVC hardware decoding and encoding support, as well as some or all of the royalties per the number of devices that they sell with HEVC hardware decoding and encoding support

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to c/tesseract@dubvee.org
 

It's kinda cool that hash tags are turned into buttons but people tend to over use them to the point it's just obnoxious. I also don't find them very useful.

Clearly Tesseract is doing some kind of processing in order to do that, so would it be possible to add an option to just not show them?

Edit: I see there's an option to enable hashtags, but turning that off still has the text version of them. That's....slightly better but still kind of spammy. Can that be extended perhaps?

 

Is there a way to just block by platform on here?

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