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I don’t want to have to pay a registrar, I would like to submit my domains to registers directly. There is a business layer of middle-men who do not need to exist.

You’re in luck! You can do this! You can become your own registrar. Cut out the middle man! You only have to pay $4000/year to talk directly to ICANN.

Thats because of how you set it up. If you want individual IP addresses for all your resources, you can get a huge chunk of IPv6 addresses just for yourself. You can get a /48 (65,536) addresses if you set it up with your ISP.

Okay, I agree with you that you’re not wrong to be upset at Seagate customer service. Its also perfectly within your rights to stop using Seagate. I just want to point out that if you continue to follow your policy of “one and done”, and the continued deteriorating customer service experience all companies are providing these days, you’ll soon be left with very few places to do business with.

There are only 6 or 7 airlines that fly out of my local international airport. I’ve had disappointing customer service experiences of one degree or another from every single one of them. If I was following a “one and done” approach, I’d have no one to fly commercially with.

Specifically with magnetic hard drive manufacturers, there are only 3 left in existence: Seagate, Western Digital, and Toshiba

If you’ve sworn off Seagate, that means all of your future purchase have to be accommodated by the remaining two. I hope that is enough.

What was Seagate’s excuse for not honoring the warranty when you filed a claim?

My logic was that in 2008 when I bought a brand new seagate hard drive, and it was dead before I plugged it in, they refused to honor their warrenty.

If it was a new drive bought from a retailer, why didn’t you return it to the retailer?

Responding to your edit:

Didn’t get into Trek until long after TNG was off the air, and don’t know if I could sit through the dated production quality of TOS (nothing against it; it was a product of its time and budget).

Some years back the production company replaced all the exterior physical model shots with pretty tasteful CGI. They also cleaned up the image quality and sound of the live action. It was a gentle but successful attempt at addressing some of those production value concerns you have. However, it does nothing for the inherent misogyny in the stories or costume design. I don’t have much of a problem with that because it was progressive for its time.

First couple seasons of TNG were pretty rough. If someone told me the first episode of something I should love was “Encounter at Farpoint”, I think I’d drop the show after the first episode.

I’m going to suggest something different: Enterprise Season 1 Episode 1.

A new watcher would be on nearly equal footing with the crew in discovering the galaxy beyond Earth. Many of the same frustrations about being held back or being naively altruistic would be genuine human responses new viewers could identify with.

Mitsubishi’s first EV in the USA was launched in 2011, the i-MiEV:

It certainly never won any beauty contests.

I think you’ll find that in most value segment vehicles. Its what makes them value segment.

…in the USA. They did in Canada because the law required it.

If anything it would be the other way around. Remember the “kia boys” that could steal cars with a USB A cable? That only happened in the USA and not Canada. Why? Because Canada mandates electronic security on the ignition switch. The USA doesn’t. So Canadian Kia cars were never stolen in droves like those in American.

Are all these actors from the various Trek shows really going to be on board?!

https://startrekthecruise.com/the-crew/

👍 got it!

I’m OoTL. Doesn’t Paramount+ have the TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, and all the movies?

I’d never seen that one!

I find it funny that the game itself looks and sounds like it is for the Kelvin universe Star Trek, and the video game “kirk” is Christopher Pine.

They missed a great joke for Shatner to say “that doesn’t even look like me!”