gnuplusmatt

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[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

There is nothing technochron blorbinator in the Trek lexicon - I'm saying that writing example technobabble like that shows a lack of understanding of the source.

I don't have any specific examples, but I remember the first 2 seasons of discovery and a little in the first season of Picard getting Trek particles wrong and not knowing systems. It got better once they hired Erin MacDonald and brought on David Mack and a few other novelists to consult on prodigy and I think Picard iirc

edit: Hey look I can play the edit game too - I provided a poorly researched example and explained that technology use not well used in early discovery - I acknowledged that being critical of technology use can be hand waived because its fictitious and apparently that's not good enough for our combative OP. I also provided sources on the franchise now using specialists to keep track of technology and technobabble, and advised that I am not a "nutrek hater" as our contentious colleague here had to go and attack me personally - check below for the receipts and tax returns!

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I hate when people try to write technobabble like that. It has a logic and if you have watched enough star trek it starts to make sense.

Then JJ Abrams comes a long and has Butterbeer Crampleslice tell us life support system is behind the aft nacelles. Even the first few seasons of the new Trek shows did this crap until they brought on science and Canon consultants

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Why is top left Kevin James

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I went back to a pixel, as I couldn't get my oneplus with lineageOS to do Android pay, after custom roms on all my phones since the HTC Dream, I have been running stock for the last 18 months, kind of miss it

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At 720p you can, not 1080p or 2160p - Linux meets minimal widevine

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Things like androidpay/apple pay type functions require a chain of security checks, on Android it's levels of safety net. some banking apps require similar

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's taters, precious?

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 17 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Before the rise of Android and ios I'd have said it was possible, but the goal posts have shifted pretty far. Unless something backed by a corporate entity or government rises Up, it's a no. A chromeos type thing for smartphone is not going to happen for mass market, because there is already Android.

Discounting Android, the last mile of what a smartphone is capable of can not be accomplished in Foss manner, without end to end verified OS images and some kind of secure enclave for banking and "security" features, carriers and banks are not going to get on board any more. Convenience features like DRM video streaming, casting also probably are not achievable either

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like people should be careful uploading sensitive content to a service like this.

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

really? From the outside looking in, it looks like most Christians are atheists just putting on a show because it's expected of them. Its the only logical explanation for otherwise rational people buying into that twaddle

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago

I can think of lots of reasons that will force me to have chrome installed if this goes ahead.

it might even go as far as being chrome on a supported OS (win/mac/cros/android with google play services)

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago

When millions of dollars are at stake in the streaming wars, and I see dozens of near-zero-cost posts about how “this is exactly the Trek all us old Trek fans have been waiting for dudbebrodudes!!

Yes corporate shills are coming to lemmy of all places to astroturf, I bet they're all over usenet and dialup BBS as well

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