Yeah I don’t really like that aspect, because it kinda hints that the cab and the bed share a bulkhead and a non-permanent one at that like a Chevy Avalanche. That kind of thinking reminds me of Nintendo. That first Switch commercial, they show the guy playing Breath of the Wild on his TV at home, then it’s time to go so he slides the controller apart, slides the joycons onto the console and lifts it out of the dock, and now he’s playing on the bus/train/whatever it was. Then the next 2/3rds of the commercial are “Yeah! Yeah! And…” with people having rooftop parties playing two player games holding the joycons sideways like little controllers, which has happened precisely 0.0000 times since the launch of the console.

"It’s a reasonably priced, reasonably sized, barebones little electric truck, and for the sake of simplicity we’re only making it in one color and trim level. But we’re planning on offering a bunch of aftermarket options, and we’ve compromised the dry chafey B-cup tit fuck out of the design to accommodate the 3% of this shit that we’ll actually make before the company folds.

I remember not that long ago, there was a Silverado commercial where they threw a toolbox in the bed of an F-150 and a Silverado. Toolbox punched through the F-150’s aluminum bed, and bounced off the Silverado’s steel bed.

As the owner of an S10 with 20 years worth of dents in the welded steel bed, I have to wonder how soon I’d put a board clean through an injection molded plastic body. I could see making most of the cab and engine bay…well, “engine bay” out of maybe fiberglass panels but injection molded plastic with no reinforcement?

Pretty sure they’re parodying Close Encounters of the Third Kind there. The one where an alien ship is approaching blasting out these tones, and Fry thinks he remembers it, they build this huge elaborate keyboard setup and Fry plays two notes on it and it turns out it’s Nibbler shenanigans? That’s parodying Close Encounters.

I think I can almost recommend going and watching Star Trek IV on its own, the plot is mostly self-contained for being the third in a trilogy, but I think it does stand on its own. It also has a profoundly good soundtrack, like, even for Star Trek.

The plot of the fourth movie, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, is a slightly off the wall plot.

A giant alien space probe arrives in orbit of Earth making weird noises, it sucks up all the power from ships in orbit and power grids on the surface and starts evaporating the oceans. Turns out it wants to talk to humpback whales, which in this timeline were hunted to extinction in the 20th century, so there are no humpback whales on earth for the probe to talk to, and it’s literally tearing up the oceans to find them.

Meanwhile, Kirk and his crew of main characters are on Vulcan (Spock’s home planet) in possession of a stolen Klingon warship which they’ve been preparing for the flight back to Earth to face court martial, because of the events of the previous movie. They learn of the problem before they reach Earth, they figure out that the probe wants to talk to whales. “can we pretend to be whales?” “we can make the sounds, but we don’t speak the language.” So they just casually decide to time travel by doing a high speed lap of the sun. No shit they just fly really fast around the sun and arrive in the 1980’s, where it just so happens the Bay Aquarium has a breeding pair of captive humpback whales on display. Meanwhile, the trip through time ran them out of fuel. Cue a LucasArts style multi-problem plot where they have to figure out how to refuel their ship, modify it to carry humpback whales, find and acquire the whales, and then get back to the future.

Spoiler alert: They do. They crash their ship into 23rd century San Fransisco bay and release the whales, which do this whole new age thing with the probe, which then goes “Understandable, have a nice day” sucks in its volleyball and floats away. Then that court martial scene which is actually part of the previous movie not this one ensues, where Kirk is punished with a reward.

TL;DR the main plot of the fourth movie involves the Enterprise’s crew, but not the Enterprise, going back in time to bring humpback whales back from extinction.

The plot was originally written as a plague that could only be cured with a plant that’s extinct, but they went with the whale plot because it’s more visual.

Another factor about a fuel-burning plane getting lighter with flight time: Many airplanes have a heavier takeoff weight than landing weight. Taking off is fairly gentle on the landing gear and wings as the load is transferred fairly gently. Landing can be an event; you may not be able to stop above your max landing weight, or the force of hitting the ground could overload the gear or the wing spars.

Battery powered planes don’t get lighter with time aloft.

I have very little experience with Arch. I ran Mint for a decade before coming to Fedora KDE for Wayland’s wider support for variable refresh rates and such.

A lot of my opinions on the matter have more to do with KDE vs Cinnamon. But as for Fedora vs Mint/Ubuntu/Debian, I have one major one: Software availability is nowhere near as good.

On Mint, a shit ton of stuff can be found in the APT repos, plus Flatpak is there. If the package you want isn’t in either of those two places, there’s probably an Ubuntu-style PPA (remember those?) or, if you’re resorting to downloading and compiling from Git, they always include Ubuntu instructions and they work.

On Fedora, the standard repos via DNF have half a moldy butt in them. They maintain their own Flatpak repository, and there’s Flathub. There have been a number of times where I’ve had to just give up having a piece of software I was used to because it’s not packaged for Fedora. Build instructions are rarely written for Red Hat/Fedora, and “Well I’ll just say DNF install instead of APT install” is usually “cannot find package.”

I’ll probably be moving on at some point, but it’s working for now.

The Northeast Corridor already has high speed service.

And eventually paint over.

Physical switches? Is your dad Tom Paris?

“The basis for most other math and physics” they do a complete fucksewage job at demonstrating that in school. I remember several years in math class “And here’s the quadratic equation, the one that’s all over 2a” and it was an exercise in plugging and chugging.

Math is a useful, powerful and allegedly beautiful thing. it’s such a shame it’s illegal to teach it competently.

I could see having lights on a somewhat sophisticated timer. Like having bedroom lighting that simulates dawn, fades on etc. Maybe making a thermostat a little bit more sophisticated. I’d like to live in a world where I could trust the power company to tell me when electricity is abundant and scarce but we’re gonna have to win Civil War 2 before we get that. My toilet and faucets do not need any digital technology at all.

If I recall correctly, it was installed questionably, drew too much power and caused a fire.

does it only effect privates? what about officers, like, say, captains?

I wonder how much of that has to do wtih chromebooks.

I still haven’t tried to use Lemmy in a mobile app, I just use the web interface.

I do not know what those are.

I do want to use that machine for gaming, though more demanding games will be played on my main desktop machine. One thing about that GTX-1080 is it’s a blower-style card, and the Node 202 case …kind of needs it. Not a lot of ways for hot air to escape that case especially in the GPU bay, and I haven’t seen a retail blower-style GPU since the GTX-10 series.

Docker also isn’t available in the package manager for this thing, probably for similar arbitrary reasons; unless it would need to be side loaded.

I’m not buying another commercially made NAS after this one dies/is remotely bricked by Synology.

It’s a Model DS218. I don’t see Container Manager in the software center for it. Apparently there’s some hack workaround for this but…meh.