Apologies if someone has already made this. I am surely not the first person to have thought of this.
TNG S2E16 “Q Who”
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
EDIT:
TOS S3E5 “Is There in Truth No Beauty?”
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe
Ah, nature’s perfect shape, providing maximum interior space in a minimum of surface area.
No, wait; I’m thinking of a sphere.
I hate that the basic polygons and their 3d counterparts are all people think of theyre so boring. Fuck Circles/spheres, Fuck squares/cubes, and no, hexagons are not the bestagons. You want to know what natures perfect shape is? Its a tie between the Mandelbrot Set and maybe Pascals Triangle if you consider that a kind of data structure shape. Your shape efficently packs interior space in a minimum surface area? Thats cool, mine encodes the entirety of combinatorics with fractal geometry and acts as an actual map showing the boundaries between order and chaos. Your shape aperiodically tiles the plane? Thats neat, mine geometrically encodes the logistic map which governs things like animal population changes over time.
Imagine a race of star treck aliens flying around in one of these things and tell me it wouldn’t be more visually interesting than a big technophile bondage cube.
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Now somebody needs to make a Borg cube skin for the Steam machine
dbrand already makes skins for the Steam Deck and other consoles. I’d expect they’ll do it for this.
And the Dark Circuit pattern they have, is pretty close already.How long until there’s a G4 Cube skin?
They have announced a Companion Cube skin already
Can I be 3 of 47?
Is that a Half Life reference?
That and the 47 references throughout Trek.
I was totally stumped about that part! I was not aware of that 47 recurring joke in Star Trek
Here’s a video on the topic.
“We wish to improve ourselves. We will add your console and controller distinctiveness to our own. Your HDMI cord will adapt to service us.”
I am surely not the first person to have thought of this.
The day the Steam Machine was announced, there were at least 3 Borg Cube memes at the top of my news feed. It’s a common association, but I gladly welcome more memes about it.
So your saying the way to make the year of the Linux desktop happen is through assimilation?
So how complete an operating system is SteamOS? Does it have LCARS?
It is likely more trouble than it’s worth, and I think you would have to apply the change every time the device updates, but you could probably install it as a desktop environment to use instead of KDE Plasma.
https://lcarsde.github.io/index.html
For a much simpler/practical way to pretend you are using LCARS, there are LCARS-themed boot videos for the Steam Deck. I presume a separate version can be made that doesn’t use the Steam Deck logo like this one.
https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/YJO1P/star_trek_lcars_boot_sequence
