ipacialsection

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[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Between "S TRIAD", the Susan Foreman references, the teases with Mrs Flood, and the shifting timeline of Ruby's birth, it feels like this episode was specifically referencing all the fan theories about this season in order to shoot them all down. Obviously these episodes were filmed a while before anyone could even make fan theories, but it seems that us Doctor Who fans are very predictable.

I dunno if the effect is the same for people who haven't been following the press for the whole season, but this felt like a masterclass in suspense-building for the finale. "Empire of Death" had better live up to all of its buildup.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

First, go to [three dots] -> Preferences -> Runners -> Proton, click the button next to the newest available version of Proton GE (currently ge-proton-9-7), and wait for it to download.

Then, go to your bottle -> Settings -> Runner, set the runner to ge-proton-[version], and wait for Bottles to configure the new runner.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Have you tried using different runners? According to ProtonDB Ape Out is completely supported by Proton, so maybe try a Proton runner instead of Wine.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now I'm (tentatively) excited to see how they'll outdo a season with a novel gimmick in each and every episode, including a musical and a crossover with a parody show, in terms of gimmicky weirdness.

Could you describe the issue in more detail, then? What happens when you try to play a video? If you get any error messages, please copy them.

It might not be Wayland-related at all.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I just tried installing Parole on my own KDE Plasma+Wayland system and it just works, aside from opening an external playback window, which feels a bit weird, but I'm assuming it's normal. The only display drivers available are X, but the "Automatic" pick works.

If it doesn't work for you, make sure xwayland is installed.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My second distro was Debian 8, initially with LXDE (which has barely changed at all since then, so it's still nostalgic) then later switching to KDE Plasma 4. I probably hold the most nostalgia for it, even more than I do for my first distro (Linux Mint 17). For a while I was into Plasma Netbook, which I find to be an especially weird, nostalgic product of its time, and the Oxygen theme in general is probably my favorite default look for any DE.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was quite satisfied with Debian Stable for a few years on at least two different laptops, and felt I had found my "forever distro", until I got a Framework laptop whose AMD graphics were quite buggy on it. In order to get rid of all the issues, I had to upgrade to Testing and install a mainline Liquorix kernel (and along the way, I briefly made a Frankendebian and fiddled with kernel parameters). While my years of experience with Debian and derivatives has prevented me from breaking anything, I do wish I didn't have to use all of this beta-quality software just to prevent games from freezing and crashing constantly, just because I bought "new" (about a year old) hardware.

I still want to keep Debian, because I've found nothing else that works quite as elegantly or stably, but I'm hoping to find ways to get the performance I need without Liquorix, and if something forces me to reinstall between now and the time Debian Trixie becomes stable, I'll probably give Fedora or KDE Neon another try.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"Klingon ambient" would be a good concept for an album.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I proposed that resolution because it's the closest to 1920x1200, but keeping a 3:2 aspect ratio.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Glad we have a release date now. Although, I hope they go for weekly releases, because I don't want to feel obligated to binge watch it.

Like I said I've only seen the consensus classics there, and it's been a while. I'm planning to see the rest of it as the Greatest Generation podcast covers it. But it is also probably my least favorite Star Trek show.

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