Can you give more info about what you tried (commands, GUIS, etc)? What does it say when it denies your request?

Also, timezones usually go by cities - I for instance, I’m on AZ time as well, and the time zone for me is called America/Phoenix.

To be fair, not everything is played for laughs - I’d say pretty much every season finale gets moderately serious. I also think the Orion world building was top notch.

I enjoyed the crossover before I watched Lower Decks and still enjoy it, but I also feel like the way the characters were written at times reduced them to their basic archetype without the character development they would have had at that point in Lower Decks. I mean, it somewhat makes sense - probably a good idea to assume not everyone had watched Lower Decks and give an idea of who these people are - but I wonder if it could have been executed a bit better on that front.

Suffice it to say, I think late Lower Decks itself actually contains better examples of their “toned-down” real selves.

The whole Gumato!

Mostly - I find a lot of these quite funny, but I think LD is the least accurate one. TOS also is one of the less spot-on ones, but I think late TOS and especially the TOS films, it becomes very applicable.

I think the LD one really only applies to the early show, and mostly just Mariner and Boimler. Later on, it’s often less they lack brain cells but often use them at the wrong time, but then their brain cells are good enough they actually make it out of the situation. I’d say none of the main characters are actually particularly mediocre except Boimler (not to hate on Bradward), as we slowly find out. Maybe some of the bridge crew stay within the box of mediocrity, but we still learn to love them as characters. I might put something for Lower Decks like “Pick one from each, and make it more dysfunctional”.

Considering both the description of LD and there being no SNW, this was clearly written some time 2020 or 2021.

To be fair, the Romulans only showed up because this was an alternate timeline version of a TOS episode.

SNW is decent. S2 E2 is an especially strong episode.

That’s nuts. I was just up in LA a couple of days ago to see They Might Be Giants. Stopped by the TOS cast signatures in the concrete in the walk of fame.

I’ll have to see if I can get that in next time, although it’s a bigger detour than simply jealously checking out the Micro Center in Tustin, which we have had nothing like back where I live since Fry’s Electronics shuttered (and frankly, Fry’s staff never seemed so nice).

It’s always a pleasure when Trek shark jumps and plops in a historical figure in an implausible way.

That’s half of what made the Amelia Earhart episode of VOY so fun. It’ll be really funny if we ever find out what actually happened to her.

I feel like the first five episodes will be “I’m crying because I dropped a cookie”, and then suddenly the Breen or something blow up half the Federation and crap gets real.

I feel like the premise would be much more interesting if we substitute a planet for growing up in a starship and what the heck the children do in a red alert.

OP explicitly said Mint isn’t what they’re looking for.

I think my very first exposure to Linux was when I got a Pi 3 for Christmas when I was 10; by next year, I was trying out Ubuntu 16.04 in a VM.

However, it took several years before I began daily-driving; I had thrown it on an old laptop during my sophomore year of high school that I mostly used from the couch.

I then did a “test install” of Debian Testing on my main desktop pater that year, which just became what I used every day and quickly just became my main operating system.

I soon installed it on everything else I owned and haven’t looked back.

Usually, I hate reposts of very common Trek memes, but Far Side’s just such a classic that I can’t help but love it.

Exciting, as always. I just hope they can eventually add CMYK support.

I get color spaces are hard and there are workarounds involving Scribus, but I wonder if one could just have a custom SVG attribute that would be ignored by a standard SVG renderer (we’d have a similar placeholder RGB color, which we maybe would allow to be manually modified) and read by Inkscape when rendering to a format for print like PDF.

I find that a bit funny - most people find it the other way around. In fact, coming from Illustrator, I found it easier in a lot of ways.

I think 3.0 is big just for finally adding some non-destructive editing.

I feel like 3.0 was a big step - we finally got non-destructive editing on most filters.

Still, the resize GUI drives me nuts, and Resynthesizer should just be a brush in the default install at this point, perhaps with greater optimization.

Stares in Debian Testing/Sid.

What’s the driver bug? Chances are I can’t help unless it’s one very specific one, but I figured I’d ask.

I’m personally a fan of Debian. Default KDE isn’t bad looking from what I can remember (I personally don’t use it - I neither hate or love it just because I love XFCE). I’m personally a big XFCE fan, but you do have to do some work to get it working good, and there are still jank parts here and there.

While no distro is completely set and forget, I think Debian Stable is as close as you can get. Once you install it and get it working the way you want (depending on your setup, you might encounter minor issues as with any distro), it will pretty much stay that way until you upgrade to the next version, and you can go up to 5 years before upgrading.

I would recommend you use the KDE (or whatever DE you want) live installer, though, as the default installer is quite unintuitive. You can find it in the list of installers at https://www.debian.org/distrib/.

I’ve never used Kubuntu specifically, but I would personally avoid Ubuntu these days if just because of Snaps. Also, Ubuntu is heavily bloated - base Ubuntu is almost unusable in a VM now, while vanilla GNOME and PopOS run well in VMs on the same machine. Personally, when I need to test Ubuntu builds, I always prefer working with PopOS.

Overall, I’d say if you don’t end up using Debian (I don’t blame you - while I like it, you might not), just please don’t use anything Ubuntu-based that isn’t Mint or PopOS.

Star Trek TOS, Season 3 Episode 1.5: “All at One Pantsuit”

Scotty: “Blast me bagpipes! Me eyes haven’t seen an outfit that tasteless since Starbase 41 back when I was on the Faerie Queene!”

Bones: “Jim, if we don’t replace Spock’s clothes soon, we’ll all be dead before we know it.”

Kirk: “Mr. Spock, for the safety of this entire crew, I’m ordering you to change your clothes immediately.”