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For the GPU passthrough, I reused what I did for Windows 10. After that, I think you have to add a few QEMU flags in the Virt Manager XML (have to find them), but after that, you just download an OpenCore ISO from https://github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Opencore and it pretty much just works (except for audio, which is something I’m working ob. I got a Pulse server running on MacOS once and forwarded it to my Linux sound server over the virtual network, but I haven’t been able to replicate that.) Every few months, they’ll update it with the latest OpenCore.

For some reason, my brain forgot that Domino’s is a multinational chain. 🤦‍♂️ Still, I would say for POS systems Linux is better because the developer can have much more control than a Windows machine. Still, I see Costco using some POS machines that run Windows 10.

On another note, from what I’ve tried of Fedora, I liked what I saw. I mostly use Debian for several reasons: my first exposure to Linux was Ubuntu VMs and Raspberry Pis, Debian (as Ubuntu’s upstream) follows conventions I’m accustomed to (mostly apt, but also just how Debian groups packages in general), and has great community support (though its wiki kind of sucks, so I often check Arch wiki). I use Trixie (Testing) on my desktop to get newer software, but on my laptop, I run stable and just use Flatpak for anything that has seen significant updates since Bookworm came out.

Whoops. I just infodumped. TLDR The long, analytic version of what you just said.

The blurb: I think there are several factors to Lower Deck’s efficacy as a Star Trek comedy series.

For one, I think the classic Trek formula in many ways lends itself to a comedy. For one, I think comedy was always an intentional part of classic Trek writing balanced with other elements, whether it be Bones making a quip at the end of a TOS episode, Data manifesting his mannerisms, or Tom calling Tuvok a real freakasaurus. In addition, there was often the unintentional humor in Star Trek or the camp (granted I am a younger viewer), whether it be the ironically funny punk depiction in Star Trek IV, Troi uncomfortably harnessed in a dark, surreal environment with mediocre effects, or chuckling at what DS9’s 2024 gets horrifically and laughably wrong. Lower Decks utilizes the classic Trek formula by amplifying the intentional comedic writing while strategically replacing the unintentional humor with well-placed satire.

I also think that Lower Decks expresses a love of Trek that other Trek shows (though I have enjoyed them somewhat) seem to lack despite (or maybe because) its comedic focus, both through satire and fidelity. Rather than trying to make Star Trek darker and edgier for the sake of 21st century, Lower Decks does a great job of reviving the 24th century, whether it be the aesthetic faithfulness of the LCARS panels compared to other recent Treks, the new-yet-familiar 24th century ships that feel like the old kit-bashes in spirit, or wacky holodeck sports. In addition, although there is some of the humor typical to adult animation that I don’t necessarily enjoy, namely innuendo, a lot of the humor is well done, whether it be references that are niche for even the most savvy Star Trek fan, satires that simultaneously are funny while re-exploring previous Star Trek concepts and characters, or honestly comedy that even stands on its own without becoming so surreal the episode is some futile incoherent mess.

I also feel that what Lower Decks does great at that many other comedy shows and just shows in general fail to do, and that’s not letting its primary genre interfere with storytelling. Lower Decks is fundamentally a comedy show, but like a true Star Trek, most episodes have a moral (MAYBE NOT Rise of Vindicta, but I’ll give that a pass). The Cerritos is an explorer, but whereas the Enterprise may have explored grand political themes, the Cerritos uses its crew to light-heartedly (or sometimes, heavily) voyage through career ambition, the mother-daughter relationship, death, personal growth, collaboration, and much more in a unique, yet fundamentally Star Trek fashion, letting the moral guide the comedy without letting it get sappy. I’d in fact go as far to say that Lower Decks does character development better than the majority of Star Trek series (which often struggle with a character focus), probably only rivaled by DS9.

Overall, I think (and hope) any future Star Trek series regardless of genre would do well to follow Lower Deck’s example in building itself around what makes Star Trek Star Trek.

P.S I’m a bit biased because I’m starting to think Bradward Boimler is my spirit animal. To find that out, you first have to think you want to be another Star Trek character (a Data, a Kira, a Bones, etc.) and then slowly realize that you’re just trying to be that character (kind of like imposter syndrome except hopefully you come to an epiphany that you need to try and be your own person).

At first, I was trying to think of some alternate explanation like they’d just bothered to install Unity on a newer version (which I instantly had to self-reject that notion as bonkers). My guess is that that’s the version the stack was developed for and initially rolled out at guinea pig restaurants before a wider introduction (I don’t know when these were introduced, as I rarely do Dominoes.).

Not really much of a problem with it, as if it’s 16.04, it’s still getting extended updates to 2028 and will probably have a paid extra two years offered that Dominoes is willing to pay. If it’s 14.04, then it’s already on paid extended support until 2024.

Not that I’d touch straight Ubuntu with a 39 and a half-foot pole anytime soon, though some derivatives manage to make good out of it, the best being in my opinion PopOS.

One, although it’s rare to have phones that support it, I do dream of owning a Linux phone one day.

Two, I have no idea why I was surprised to run across the OpenRGB guy on Lemmy.

Also a Raspi Imager fan when I have Pis around since I usually have it installed anyway.

I would use dd, but I always worry I’ll bungle something and only use it when necessary. I’m trying to write a utility called Rubber Duck Disk Dump that takes all the same options but parses your command beforehand to try to guess what you’re doing and warn you if it is really, really stupid, and if you type yes, it then passes all args straight to dd.

It’s nuts how one can go from an imperialist navy general to a popular sitcom actor. I mean, how do people let such a thing slide?!

And them.

I’ll make sure to add her.

It’s a PRO thing. Also, I’ll add a list clarifying each one, as pictures don’t seem to be showing.

True. I tried to cover that base, but kind of failed miserably. 😂

My thoughts about the sdcond bullet point are that the Cerritos suddenly became a more dangerous ship due to stuff like the Pakled or Aledo incidents, causing families to request transfers.