My Linux Mint 22 iso currently has a ratio of 11908.34 over the last year and a bit.

Edit: linuxmint-22.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso is gaining fast with a ratio of 314 in just two weeks.

When I first watched I thought it was just a sandwich, but on closer inspection it appears to be some sort of star-shaped burrito.

The moment the planet exploded during the opening act I was certain that Kirk was daydreaming up some action since he was literally just complaining about how bored he was.

As the episode went on I was no less convinced, but began to wonder if maybe there was some alien interference that was transforming his desire for action into either a shared dream or some simulated experience for both crews.

Counterpoint: you could not have TPM and secure boot requirements that needlessly alienates a large player base of Linux users.

I’m going to have to watch the episode again to give it a fair chance, but I think I agree. The characters were acting pretty much exactly like the teenagers you see in a cliche slasher film.

I know that the episode has to happen, but discovering a facility like they did during a dig should have called for a thorough study before proceeding, but they just strolled in. Chapel even gave a sample of her blood to an unknown alien mechanism just to see if the door would open.

Then when they walk in the first thing they should see are a couple of corpses lying on the ground, but it takes them several minutes of wandering around the room before noticing. Scanning the bodies reveals that they died a long time ago of starvation; possibly a hint that they were trapped and sealed in maybe? At this point Spock should have deduced that the door was going to lock.

They also lost contact with the Enterprise pretty much immediately, but with the front door still wide open it doesn’t occur to them that it might be a good idea to set up a comms relay. These are 8 skilled professionals that just waltzed in here without a plan or backup, and then lost contact with their only support and chose to keep going anyway.

And then Gamble, in full view of everybody, and after just hearing the chief of security say not to touch anything, grabs the shiny glowing orange sphere of destiny and holds it up for a good last look.

From here most of the rest of the episode is actually really good. I enjoyed the puzzle of them figuring out that they’re all still in the same room.

I didn’t enjoy so much the explanation that Gamble is brain dead but is somehow still being controlled by a non-corporeal being. If his body is moving around then surely there are still signals in his brain indicating life. I suppose this could be explained by the entity taking control of his lower brain functions only.

And finally I don’t know why they made such a big deal about crossing the invisible bridge to reach the door. After taking a single step the bridge is revealed to be solid, so why couldn’t they have just stuck a toe out or thrown something to see what would happen? Or hold on to Chapel by the arms and carefully lower her down over the edge.

Just so many unnecessary risks taken again and again this entire episode.

In fact Gareth Coker’s soundtracks for Ori are so good, they are one of the few video game OSTs that I’ve bought on vinyl. That and Signals from the Outer Wilds.

Pure magic and they definitely helped make the games.

Immich is a photo/video hosting solution à la Google photos

I adored Moss (mostly for its theme but also for the highly innovative gameplay) but I haven’t had a VR system in some time. This one might be first on my list to buy if I ever get into VR again.

Heyyy relax guy!

The idea behind a ransom is that all parties need to believe with certainty that as long as money is exchanged, then nobody gets hurt. As soon as there’s doubt about getting paid or about being released, then suddenly there’s turmoil for any other party to hold up their end.

If I’m told I need to pay a ransom to get somebody freed but I know they may not be released even after I pay, then I may not pay. So it’s in the captors best interest to always release them upon receiving payment.

Then again we’re dealing with desperate, possibly evil people with no sense of morality and who will never have considered game theory before. Real life is messy.

Is it comfortable in the hand? The surface looks super rough

I’m glad Ortegas is finally getting a subplot. In the previous seasons she’s always felt like she was missing “her” focus episode which other members of the crew like M’Benga got. All she had was “I fly the ship” which was a bit lame.

Thank you. It felt to me like her entire character development arc has been her coming to terms with being a great pilot? But yet at the beginning of the series we didn’t have any sense that she had self confidence issues or was anything less than outstanding.

She’s always been an excellent pilot, but then we had a single episode where she briefly loses her memory and with it her sense of identity because now her entire thing is “I fly the ship.”

Bethesda

Seems to work really well. I can do obscure searches like Outer Wilds and it will pull up pictures I took from my phone of random gameplay moments, so it’s not doing any filename or metadata cheating there.

Which model would you recommend? I just switched from ViT-B/32 to ViT-SO400M-16-SigLIP2-384__webli since it seemed to be the most popular.

I’m coming up on 10000 for linux mint that I started nearly 300 days ago. 2.7GiB download, 24.8TiB upload.

My next highest is GIMP 3.0 at a little over 400.

When Below Zero came out it was clear that they had no idea what made Subnautica special, something that a sequel had no hope of replicating. Fear of the unknown and the drive to explore deeper. Once you’ve completed Subnautica you are a god of the sea, and that knowledge and experience cannot be lost.

Mobius Digital was able to make a successful DLC for Outer Wilds because they understood what made their game work, which is the player’s own curiosity.

Managed service provider. Basically corporate IT.

This song is new to me, but I am honored to be a part of it.