Anytime someone is the first of their species to join Starfleet, they tend to bend some rules. Which seems pretty consistent across the franchise.

Even in The Orville (which is a love letter to the franchise) they do acknowledge that, especially when there’s a Xeleyan applicant. Xeleyans typically don’t join Starfleet the Union fleet due to their preference for academic and scientific endeavors. When one does sign up, they get fast-tracked.

I noticed that, too. I think it’s just the lighting, color balance (it’s got a heavy yellow tint), and the sharp focus only on Briones’s face that’s making it look off. Pretty sure it looked the same in the episode.

Or maybe Briones wasn’t available to shoot that scene and they filmed it with a body double and added her face on in post? I don’t think I’ve read that, but it wouldn’t be unheard of.

Lol, I was gonna say:

If you’re Worf, “Whil Whheaton” is also acceptable.

(Just paying this forward from the last time I made this mistake and someone had to correct me)

Wil Wheaton.

Damn it, Seven, those were my cheesecakes in the mess hall fridge. They even said “Janeway” on the side.

Weird. Other than how it used to choke when there were conflicts (and all uploads stopped until that was fixed) I haven’t had any issues like that. Guess I’m just lucky.

I’ve had pretty good experience with Nextcloud’s instant upload. The only time I’ve had it shit the bed was ages ago when it would occasionally get stuck on a conflict, but that hasn’t happened in a long time. Pretty much all of my image folders (camera/DCIM, Screenshots, Downloads) get synced. The only annoying thing was when apps would suddenly change where they download to and I’d have to reconfigure yet another sync folder, but I can’t really fault NC for that.

Mine is set to upload and keep a local copy and only do a one way sync (phone to NC). Not sure if that causes less issues than a 2 way sync or deleting the local copy after upload?

I suspect zram’s swap device only consumes RAM when it actually contains swapped pages, but I don’t know for sure. Can anyone link an authoritative statement on this?

I’m wondering the same. I haven’t read anything authoritative, but it definitely seems like it only consumes the RAM it’s using. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be able to create block devices that exceed the physical memory. I started to wonder when I had it set to 50% (4 GB) and gave it a stress test. The 4 GB it allocated filled up but was compressed to just about 1 GB, so I thought “surely this isn’t wasting 3 GB of RAM to hold 1 GB of pages.”

The guidelines I’ve read seem like there’s some guesswork involved in the planning. Basically you can make the zram device as large as you want so long as the compressed data is less than the physical RAM (not all pages compress equally as you mentioned).

I’ve since bumped it to 200% of system ram (16 GB), and I think that’s probably good enough for my use cases. I’m seeing about a 4:1 average compress ratio, so I could go higher, but 8 GB has been plenty usable up until now. :shrug: I also left the original swap file in place with a lower priority as a spillover (I’m not really missing the 4 GB of disk space that uses, so might as well keep it).

Yeah, I’m still tweaking things and just kindof came to the same conclusion I need to bump it up.

I was assuming that it thick-allocated the RAM for the compressed swap block device, but it seems to be dynamic now that I’ve read deeper into it. I just bumped it from 50% to 350% (basically one extreme to another).

I haven’t really watched usage since I dug it out and wiped it, but it mostly depends how many tabs I have open at a given time. It’s mostly used for web browsing, web apps, and basic productivity software (Thunderbird, Matrix, LibreOffice, etc).

When I used it last in late 2022, it was typically using most of its memory (excluding filesystem cache) keeping a bunch of browser tabs open.

You mean like how would the people native to the timeline know it was tampered with?

Unless they’re El Aurian, a Borg Queen (or any species with trans-temporal awareness) or otherwise insulated from time like the Krenem time ship, then they probably wouldn’t.

Yep. I think the actual episode name is “Blue Harvest” or at least that’s what I put in the post thinking it was called.

In my “Star Trek: Blazin’ Bev” universe, she takes the captain’s seat seriously. Only sparks up before coming on duty, after her shift ends, or if it’s, like, really stressful.

I was that guy lol

A few of my friends were in a band in college and played at a bunch of local/regional dives. I was the light and sound guy if the venue didn’t have their own, so I was at most of their shows.

It wasn’t part of their set, but they did keep Free Bird up their sleeve and would play it when someone shouted it. If no one did, I’d step up and yell “Play some Free Bird!” in my most exaggerated southern drawl.

I mean, she intentionally chose “Night Bird” because she knew he couldn’t play it. Even in the episode proper, she’s was trolling masterfully lol.

That’s amazing. I can’t believe that’s real, lol.

Eh, maybe if Riker belted it out in Spanish lol.

🎵Y en conclusion, tu eres mi ilusión 🎵

Just defederated from usagi [dot] reisen just in case federation starts working on that end.