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Corgana

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/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021

Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website

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Corgana,
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You just reminded me of a bingo card Reddit Risa had during Disco S1:

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/2aad0797-4b29-49e3-86ef-03e8aac4f15f.jpeg

Corgana,
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“Unnecessarily emotional falling out with his father” 😂

Can we add /c/AIBI to The Website please

Possible to have different desktop folders for different workspaces?

I am a “messy desk” person and like to have a big open visual space for all the pseudo-temporary files belonging to whatever project I’m working on at a given time. It would be nice to have a workspace specifically dedicated for “work” and still be able to create a fresh one when needed, without having to “put all...

ajayiyer, to linux
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Gentle reminder to everyone that support for ends in about 90 weeks. Many computers can't upgrade to Win 11 so here are your options:

  1. Continue on Win 10 but with higher security risks.
  2. Buy new and expensive hardware that supports Win11.
  3. Try a beginner friendly distro like . It only takes about two months to acclimate.

@nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

Corgana,
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Yep, when you make a Windows installer USB with Rufus it has the option to disable TPM requirement and the need for a Microsoft account.

Corgana, (edited )
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With startrek.website we’d hoped creating a Star Trek themed instance might encourage other ex-moderators to start topic-specific instances too, and it would kick off a flourishing of myriad communities run by devoted moderators, a Lemmyverse so diverse and inspiring that not even Reddit could further justify it’s own existence in the presence of such an obviously superior system.

Instead it turned out “Star Trek and Linux” was enough to satisfy nearly everyone’s tastes (both subtle and gross).

Corgana, (edited )
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this? http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120425000301/memoryalpha/en/images/9/9a/Galaxy_class_holodeck_arch.jpg?

Corgana,
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The best cold intro is:

“Counselor Deanna Troi, personal log, stardate 44805.3. My mother is on board.”

Empty corridor with Picard peeking around the corner

Corgana,
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I always laughed when someone called us a “janitor” after we banned them. Like you understand in this analogy you are the trash being taken out, right?

Corgana,
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“X12” got a laugh from me. What I don’t get is that nobody is stopping you from working on X11 if you want, so why complain?

Corgana,
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Cory Doctorow has a book, “Walkaway” that is basically exploring the politics of FOSS on a societal scale. It’s pretty nerdy obv but I enjoyed it and it doesn’t overly glamourize any political system the way you’d typically see in political fiction.

Me vs my ISP

So I was looking into getting port forwarding set up and I realized just how closed-off the internet has gotten since the early days. It’s concerning. It used to be you would buy your own router and connect it to the internet, and that router would control port-forwarding and what-have-you....

Corgana,
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Apologies if you’ve answered this elsewhere but I’m assuming there’s a reason you haven’t bought your own router?

Corgana,
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I use it. It’s great. I’ve tried Linux many times over the past decade but it never stuck until Zorin. If you’re coming from Windows it’s a very friendly (and polished) way of being welcomed to Linux while also showing off Linux’s strengths, things that are often hidden to the user unless they want to explore the terminal.

For Mac users who are Linux-curious I would recommend Ubuntu because it’s much similar, whereas Zorin seems clearly designed with people who liked Windows 10 but not Windows 11.

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ubuntu is fine lol especially for a newbie. Zorin is really familliar for a windows user.

Corgana,
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how do I manage audio AND ebooks?

You need two versions of Readarr. Yes, that’s just how it is. Just like if you wanted a 4K and non-4K radarr.

Corgana,
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https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/288e6dd0-1821-419d-967c-66f1cd208e93.jpeg

Corgana, (edited )
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Reddit also gets a little bit worse every spike, too. There are few mods remaining on Reddit who are doing anything more interesting for their communities than basic spam removal. Automod does all the work when all the largest subs just repost the same content and fake stories anyway.

It’s not like going to implode or anything anytime soon but the quality (from my perspective at least) has totally flatlined since June because why would anyone in their right mind invest creative energy into cultivating a unique community? I think that eventually a Lemmy community will pop up that simply couldn’t exist on Reddit and will serve to illustrate why I believe this model is better.

Corgana,
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I’ve always wondered if people like you existed! Fascinating.

Not criticizing you, just personally I don’t want any recommendation algos in any of my media.

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