Honestly, GIMP feels like it’s been getting rapidly more livable as a photo editor recently.

Like, I still wouldn’t call it suitable for professional use, but it’s been causing me noticeably less pain since they finally introduced some non-destructive editing.

Funny, but I personally prefer in in the original Klingon:

Surely that’s got to be in the replicator database; I mean, I think it would be a big mess up on the part of the Obsidian Order if Seska didn’t at minimum have an opinion on jumja sticks, if not eat them frequently enough to get it programmed into the replicator.

I’m tired of multiverse plots, but I might make an exception if it allows them to bring Hemmer back without too severely messing up the overall plot of the show.

ffmpeg can use several different AV1 codecs, with varying levels of performance.

What do you use Photoshop for? I ask because if you’re just having fun with it or making simple edits like saturation or color curves, it’s probably easier to find a replacement. GIMP still has a bit of a clunky interface, but has become much more livable since it got some non-destructive editing in 3.0. Personally, I use a combination of Inkscape and GIMP for a lot of stuff.

However, if you’re using Photoshop in a professional capacity as say, a photographer or a graphic designer, I’m not sure you can effectively abandon Photoshop. As much as I hate Adobe, Photoshop is unfortunately an industry standard, and it’s rather difficult to get running reliably under Linux. There are ways, but I wouldn’t call them reliable. I thus can not in good conscience recommend you switch all your machines to Windows, though perhaps you can run Linux on one device and keep a dedicated Photoshop box if that’s possible for you.

Everything else should probably be fine. Depending on what you play, you might lose a few games to kernel-level anticheat, but honestly, my thought is “Why should I give a company access to an important part of my operating system just to play a video game?”

As others have said, you should probably use LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice; the latter isn’t really developed anymore, and the former maintains compatibility with your old files while having vastly better maintenance and feature updates.

Spotify and Discord both have native apps for Linux, so you should be good. I don’t really use VPN services (I could rant about why, but that’s best left for another time), but there’s probably ways to get them working.

I wasn’t intending to convey this timeline could be a dream; I was moreso saying I thought my mind had made up this Microcenter to distract me from this dreadful reality.

I could have worded my initial post better.

Personality-wise, I feel like Grunkle Quark is more accurate.

Also, Bill is just a Q that got kicked out of the continuum.

All I was thinking about watching this video is “I wish they’d open a MicroCenter in Phoenix”; I’d had a blast visiting the Tustin location after seeing TMBG in LA this May.

I then googled it for fun and found out they announced they’re opening one a month ago! I checked national news to see if I was in some jolly alternate timeline (unfortunately, no) or dreaming, and it appears not.

Just curious: which AV1 encoder were you using?

I ask because librav1e and libaom performance is dismal, but libsvtav1 can at least do ~1.00x speed, which is impressive considering how complex the codec is.

That’s not to say I don’t welcome improvements, though I think AV1 Vulkan requires hardware support I don’t have on my RX 580; it wasn’t until the RX 7000 series that AMD cards started getting hardware encoded support for AV1.

Cute little Arex!

Now the question is, if they can do Edosian makeup, will we get Cadet/Ensign Arex cameo in SNW?

In canon, it was described as an implementation of “variable warp geometry”.

I think I actually prefer the Ritos; it takes what’s good about the TNG warp core and makes it feel a bit more spacious without turning the ship into a Tardis - looking at you, SNW Enterprise warp core and DISCO turbolifts!

EDIT: Tardis in the sense it’s bigger on the inside - I think wibbly wobbly timey wimey has always been a given in Starfleet.

Just to keep it a bit up to date (though for the record, Ceroptesian is probably my least favorite Debian theme in recent years).

Thank you for saying this before people started crying, “Linux is getting encrapified!” without understanding what the article was actually about.

At the same time, I can’t imagine how many knives are to Grand Nagus Rom’s throat, so Nog might have it relatively good. I’m sure someone would be bound to try and kidnap him at least once, but he’s an experienced Starfleet officer and can probably make it clear early on how foolish taking him hostage actually is.

Like, it’s kind of a miracle Rom made it to 2381 without at least ending up exiled from Ferengi society.

I guess Ishka may have used Zek’s social influence to keep Rom in power.

Still, I think it would be fascinating to have “autobiograp

Technically Raspbian Jessie, I think- I was gifted a Pi 3 in ~2016 and fiddled around with it for a while. I also made some cursed choices, at one point running Windows 10 IoT Core on that thing… though luckily not for long.

In 2017 or so, I started toying around with Ubuntu in VMs. It wasn’t really until 2020 or so that I started trying other distros; Debian Buster was probably the first non-Ubuntu distro I’d tried (excluding RPi stuff), and I mostly stucked to Debian besides one Arch install.

At a certain point in 2022, I found myself using Unix tools so much I was starting to wonder if I should just use Linux instead of Windows. It was at this time that I tried NixOS in a VM for the first time and thought, “Wow, this is cool… I’m sticking with Debian, though.”

Around that time, I threw Debian Testing (then Bookworm) on a second 256GB drive, ostensibly as a “test run” for daily driving Linux, and by “test run”, I mean I de facto quit using Windows; a few months later, I opted to use dd and copy that “test install” over my Windows install on my bigger 1TB drive (of course with sufficient backups so I could copy my Windows files over). That install is still the one I use on my desktop today and has just transitioned into Debian Testing/Forky*

*A name I quite honestly hate, mostly due to the fact that Forky represents everything wrong with America today the Forky Asks a Question shorts beat out Steven Universe Future for an animation Emmy, though honestly, I don’t know else what I was expecting to happen.

Reminds me of the time I made a tier list of all the canon alternate reality Janeway variants at the time… though that was made before I watched Prodigy S2, which added another alternate version of Hologram Janeway due to all the time shenanigans.

The big 2⁵!

Oh, yeh! In the CD pregap that’s really hard to rip and didn’t make streaming!

It was supposed to be on a compilation, but it got scrapped after he left Prophet Records for Pah Wraith Entertainment, unfortunately.

Jaresh-Inyo, Sylvia Ront, Cardassian Union, Vic Fontaine
Gamma Quadrant, Jake Sisko, Buck Bokai
Norah Satie, Benny Maxwell, Miranda class, Holoprograms
The Maquis, the Federation, Deanna Troi

T’Pel, Photons, Chakotay, Deep Space Nine
Kullnark, “Frame of Mind”, and “Something for Breakfast”
Chancellor Gowron, Voyager, Bajor’s got a new Kai
Ben Sisko, Sonny Clemmons, Sarek of Vulcan, goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, like the Bajoran Fire Caves
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it