Although the Enterprise in The Next Generation still takes the cake for nearly leaving the universe.
Voyager might also count if you include them jumping billions of years of time-distance thanks to Q meddling getting them tossed back and forth.
Look, their cure for the cold only evolved you into a spider once.
Mechanical Windows
As opposed to what, wireless windows?
The initial learning curve is very rough, since people might be used to commands from a newer editor like Notepad++, which doesn’t work in vim.
nano at least says which button combination you need to exit, for example.
It is easier past the initial hump, though.
You can also use :x to write and quit, from memory.
They’re also fairly versatile. y-i takes any symbol after. Space, comma, the letter p, you name it. If you can type it, it’ll generally work.
Which can be a bit faster than some graphical editors at times, where you might have to find and select the contents by hand. That can be a bother if there’s a lot.
It’s also an 8 gigaparameter model. That’s pretty tiny, even if they use it heaps.
50 GB in memory for a visual studio/programming project being a bigger project seems like rather an understatement, unless you’re working on machine learning, simulations, or something of that nature.
On regular YouTube, the fact that they automatically make anything with music into a mix-playlist also isn’t great.
A lot of the time, I just want to listen to one track of something, and end up having to strip out the playlist argument from the actual link because I don’t want to get everything similar to it.
…But I sure DO miss storage media that makes a satisfying “Kachunk” when loaded, and could be forcefully ejected like a spent artillery casing.
Older computers just have a nice mechanical ambiance that newer machines don’t replicate quite as well.
I don’t miss having the time to go make a cup of tea whilst waiting for the computer to turn on, or having the monitor scream the entire time it’s on, but I do miss hearing the hard drive spin-up, and all the POST beeps and drive stepper noises when the computer’s booting up.
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They were also presented as being cheaper and more ethical. You didn’t risk being roped into paying a higher price because the cabbie deliberately took a long route, or be surprised by the price being different in person. You could order an Uber, and you’d pay only what was in the app.
On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it’s clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It’s dastardly, dystopian, and frankly, quite sad. How many children’s media show rich children as being quite miserable sods whose parents think that not having friendship can be resolved by buying their kids a friend?
You could easily see that being in a cyberpunk story, where you can rent a friend or partner from a megacorporation, but if you don’t pay the rent, they’ll be repossessed and deleted/destroyed. The data would be collected and used regardless.
It doesn’t help that a lot of it is simply so out of date now, that it’s considered the norm now.
We don’t exactly think all that much of Picard being bald, or Janeway being Captain of the Voyager. For us now, they’re normal, ordinary things.
Whereas back in the day, it was an unusual choice. There were many jokes about it being natural the Voyager would get into a space accident on its first voyage, because Janeway was in command, for example.
I don’t know if it was only a part. The world has moved on from the day, so a lot of what would have been in-your-face bleeding-edge progressivism back then no longer is.
The women could wear miniskirts. No-one was smoking. Uhura (African American) was not a maid or cook, but a well-respected competent peer, along with Chekhov (Soviet Russian), Sulu (Japanese), and McCoy (Caucasian American).
We may not think much of it now, and in the miniskirt case, think poorly of it, but back in the day, they were bleeding-edge social stances.
The translator tech is not very far ahead of what we have today.
I would disagree with the translator. On the surface, yes, but it is incredibly far removed from how any of our translation technologies work.
The universal translator works by scanning your mind/brain signals, finding universal constants within it, and then constructs a translation that way. In theory, a novel alien could be parked next to a universal translator, and it would still be possible to translate for them, in the absence of a linguistic database.
I also think the medical tricorder will some day inspire/shape new tech similar to the communicator with cell phones.
It sort of has, but more in the other way, where the devices are inspired off its functions instead of its form. Going off of wikipedia, there’s some speculations that a smartphone might well become our equivalent of a tricorder thanks to the massive amount of sensors that they have in them.
In the original Star Trek, that Alcubierre was inspired by, it wasn’t explained at all. You just had warp engines and impulse engines. Warp engines made it so the ship could go at warp speed, but go too fast, and they could come off the ship, or the ship would explode.
It was later series that tried to have an explanation for how they worked.
Although I don’t think the writers cared particularly much for whether they were theoretically possible or not, anyway. They work through subspace, and that doesn’t exist in reality, so a lot of oddities could just be brushed under that.
But since we’ve already got the fictional construct of subspace, the notion of a mycelial species that can extend through it seems…within the realm of truthiness, all things considered.
Especially since TNG already had creatures that lived within subspace, in Schisms. If humanoid-ish beings can live in subspace, fungal life doesn’t seem that much of a stretch.
The part I’ve never fully grasped is how one travels along the network, but then, I’ve never fully grasped how the warp coils are supposed to work, either.
IIRC, it’s like the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Hyperdrives. Once you get into spore-space/hyperspace, you get an infinite amount of choices to navigate through, but if you can figure out how to figure out your path, you can exit where you want. Though unlike the Heart of Gold, which tests every single possibility and impossibility simultaneously, the later iterations of the spore drive take a bit more after Dune, where a navigator can commune with the mycelial network and divine the way the ship should go, rather than needing inordinate amounts of computing power to brute force the solution.
How the ship is moved along the network after the navigator figures out the route is left as an exercise for the reader.
They’re going when no-one has gone before, clearly.