absolutely. if the show had kept Pulaski and developed the character she could have become a beloved member of the main cast. imagine the stories we could have gotten about her and data developing a close friendship over years. her routinely calling picard out like everyone did to him in picard s3. but at that time in tng her personality was as present as picard and that just wasnt allowed.

everyone loves faciest space lizard man because we got years of him and dr twink boyfriend being awesome on screen. his character had room to devlop.

i dont think the franchise will run out of new stories. its about infanite possibilities and hope, there will always be room for more of that. i do think a lot of trek fans miss that not all trek shows are aimed at all of trek fans. tng and ds9 had wildy different vibes. theres peace between those fandoms now, mostely, but people thought ds9 ruined trek. people though voyager and discovery ruined it. personally i think one of the coolest things about trek is that it will run different shows with their own tone. discovery made a lot of people feel connected to trek in a way older trek never could. new worlds i still havent started because episodic isnt my favorite. and picard was hard for me to finish because the fan service was from tng which is my least favorite trek.

give me ds9, voyager and discover on repeat. someone else in here is gonna be a dire hard enterprise fan. its a universe built on exploring differences, makes sence it’ll do that in different ways for different audiances too right? if you’re not feeling the current in production trek its a great chance to binge some old trek.

oh yeah ipados is limited. the windowed gui option in 26 makes it more usable for keyboard/mouse if you’ve got a large screen model. but it still seems geared to sidecar usage not a standalone tablet computer. which makes the removal of sidecar a hilariously apple thing to do. honestly gnome on an old surface is a very solid competitor to ipados if you don’t need to do any creative work. and the issues i had when testing gnome and krita could have just been the cheaper 2nd hand hardware i used.

a touch screen macbook is already a thing, it’s just an ipad pro with a ‘magic’ keyboard. I used that set up as a daily driver at work for a couple years before getting to work remote. unless the failure to innovate continues on and they just make the macbook screen detachable like a surface book clone. before apple laid off all it’s vendor relations staff a few years ago they were constantly talking about the push to unify macOS and iOS UI. I suppose the default experience between macOS and iPadOS is pretty close now.

i play about the same way. want to build things and become way too attached to the little blob shaped people. if that wasnt a way we’re ‘allowed’ to play the game it wouldn’t have been included as a way to play the game.

tahoe is definitely the worst i’ve seen things since leopard. maybe we get lucky and apple does another “ok sure, maybe that one was an oops” and anounces another snow leopard style rewite of everything. pause a year to clean up the flashy bloat that only kinda half works. not like they’ve been innovating, they could at least stop slipping and making lazy mistakes regularly.

startrib isnt local news anymore, its just another corp holding that reposts the same mediocre shit as the nytimes

it’s a recording of a live talk they did durring a monthly meetup. first one in this format and first recorded. so best guess is no one thought to have a mic for the q&a. theres also a priority to respect anonymity in mspmesh so i suppose rhe editor could have cut the questioners voice out for that.

i agree the q&a transitions were awkward though. it sounds like the group wants to do more sessions like this to dive deeper. i’ll pass the q&a feedback to them.

“for reals this time everyone. its not like the last two times we said this. you should stop all that organizing now. no need to keep recording us”

vanilla trump

they are a great example of over engineering just to over engineer. lots of neat ideas that dont serve a purpose in the end. the only personal complaint i have is i dont like the trackpad. they tried to look like an apple trackpad but the button resistance wasnt considered. so its uncomforable to me with extended use. ive also had to replace two dead trackpads.

battery life is average. screen is flimsy but looks nice. lots of things are ok, not bad, just ok. without the hype of being repairable its just another macbook air clone you’d only buy after it goes on sale. if they’d allowed the design to be a little bulkier and used stronger parts instead of gimmicks, it could have been something worth its price.

i do like the aspect ratio and keyboard. the magnetic bezel is a great fidget. getting it without ram and ssd was nice. didnt have to toss the preinstalled ones when i put in 32gb and a 4tb ssd. but its not a ‘great’ laptop its just a laptop.

their lack of response to all this was emphasised by leaving all the racist and terfy comments up on the community forums for days. it was like browsing twitter.

they’re fine. im not throwing out my first get 13" but im also not upgrading it. i’ll use it till it dies and replace it like any other laptop*. it turned out to be a perfectly fine device. i knew going in i was spending extra for the chance it’d be my “last laptop” that’d be periodically upgraded. it’s definitely fallen short in daily use. decent enough computer that i dont regret having tried it. but i’d stopped suggesting framework to people long before we found out they’re a bunch of assholes.

meshcore is licensed the way you do it if you plan to go freemium down the road. its fine to use if your area has already gone that way. but meshtastic fits better in a foss standard and does the same thing.

either way you go its best to see these as fancy pagers not diy instant messagers. they have some great potential in a world where govs or nature can knock down cell service, if you’re purposeful and realistic about it. but they are not as easy to build as youtube would tell you. and they’re not gonna replace your phone full time.

yeah we don’t need leaks to know this. they raided the dorothy day homless shelter in st paul today while the new “reasonable adult” tom was meeting with walz. same guy just a different mask.

what they should be afraid of is people wondering how many other bodies ice has left along the border. if that agent was confident enough to shoot a restrained man in the back while being filmed by multiple people. thats not his first.

peak of his career really did turn out to be prancing around at a few gas stations in an ugly coat trying to look tough.

time for more local organizing while they try a new tactic.

this right here. every news source is refering to that crowd as “thousands”. most protests dont even get a mention in local papers.

im sure most of whats happening here isnt getting past the geofencing and content mods in regular social media. but they have not had enough resources to control even individual neighborhoods. even after bringing in more agents than the entire combined police force of the most populated metro area in the state. every increase in violance by ice drives more volunteers into community patrols. the administration cant subdue one medium sized midwestern city. they’re weak and its showing.

its not about directly harming ice. its about community building between the various labor unions, neighborhood groups and small businesses. giving people in the area a way to participate who are not in a position to do so in other ways.

nobody is avoiding the small deli with an ice out sign that has to be open today. people get that weeks into this they likely cant afford to miss even a bad days worth of business. its a reminder to hotels, large grocery chains and national resturants that when ice leaves we’ll still be here and we’ll remember who was silent or even profited from the siege.