I hope that Lower Decks goes on to be as un-killable as Futurama.

Near perfect summary.

I just want to tack on that Tawny Newsome looks destined to be Trek’s next Jonathan Frakes - dipping in and out of Trek projects and leaving entertainment excellence in her wake.

(P.S. Dear Tawny and Jonathan, please don’t have done anything deeply horrible to someone while I composed this. Thanks.)

I want Miles x Bashir to be cannon so bad.

Miles x Bashir is canon. It’s just the exact details that are left to the imagination.

That is so speciesist that i’m reporting you to Humanoid Resources.

I miss that department before it was just Odo disguised as the table.

Bashir sighs with relief that nobody’s caught on

He’s just fascinated with frontier medicine!

Gay assassin spy with daddy issues who is also an excellent tailor.

Many of these points are merely allegetions.

But one time it wasn’t Jeffery Combs.

Edit: I looked it up - it was Jeffery Combs, that time, too. Nevermind.

What happens in Quark’s holosuite stays in Quark’s holosuite, for a very reasonable privacy surcharge.

Edit: Now I’m thinking about how even an imagined obnoxious behavior by Quark is still somehow dramatically more ethical than average corporate policies in 2025…I need to go sit down.

True. But what about as an over the top art exhibit?

Oh no!

Edit: You uave brought pedanticness, rather than value to the discussion. You can do better.

Yeah. I just mention it because I’ve generally just used VNC myself; and wondered what the fuss with fancier tools was about.

But then I realized home Internet has getting worse for some folks, and so folks might be using a service to get VPN-ed together, or whatever.

Last time I set it up, i3wm basically does run “on top” or rather mixed in with componenets of other desktop environments.

Tehnically, one can run i3wm alone, but really, it wants a bunch of parts from another desktop environment to be loaded, and it’s not particularly opinionated about which ones.

If I recall correctly, picking it (a friendly i3wm meta-package) on Ubuntu gave me i3wm with a bunch of pieces of Mate pre-loaded to fill in the edges.

The previous time I set up i3wm, there was no friendly package (yes, I’m old), so I looked up the names of about a dozen Gnome services and applets, and added them to the i3wm config to launch them on i3wm start-up.

(Edit: missed an important not)

But he made up for all that by breaking the chronological prime directive, losing control of his ship to mutineers, and allowing his racism to nearly start a war with the Klingon empire.

So really, who are we to judge.

I could do the same analysis for Admiral Janeway, but I’m afraid she would shoot me, Tuvix me, or write me out of history.

The “or some such” was pretty wild.

I’m also a big VNC fan, but I imagine RustDesk is solving for CGNAT better? I’m not aware of anything in VNC that solves CGNAT being a PITA.

Yikes! You can’t just tell people about the

i3wm is my favorite window manager, but I find I can get a good 90% out of either Gnome or KDE Plasma, with a bit of settings fiddling.

I think I added “Metacity” plugin to Gnome, to get proper tiling. It was okay.

In KDE Plasma, I just poke the settings to maximize windows by default, and enable keyboard shifting windows into half screen increments.

It’s an annoying compromise, but it’s nice not to have all the jank that comes with tuning my i3wm setup to add basic features that KDE Plasma ships with.

Edit: And I’ll be reading along, hoping someone else has a better answer than mine!

I’ve watched Doctor Who in the wee hours of Sunday night on broadcast TV, on rented VHS tapes, animated on the BBC iPlayer, purchased as mp3s from Big Finish Audio, purchased from random providers in the early days of digital media, streamed through complicated VPNs from BBC iPlayer, and purchased or borrowed from the library on DVD.

But Disney’s shit-tier steaming (and streaming, sometimes) app for Android is what managed to kill my Doctor Who fandom.

I’ll catch up using my DVD player - which still works reliably - whenever I happen to catch a sale on the latest seasons at a used book store.

Long live Doctor Who.

And may Disney Plus rot in infamy.

Great points.

My family watches as a group all the time, and Doctor Who features prominently.

But my DVD purchases probably aren’t being accounted for in their stats.

Also, Disney almost certainly lied to the BBC about streaming popularity, to save on license fees or something.

I think I just read “we’re spending big on AI because it maximizes our profits. Now we aren’t as cost competitive. Let’s talks about what else we can cut to save money.” before I stopped reading.

Let me take a wild guess: It’ll be about using AI to deny claims to recoup the money spent on AI…

Whether the article goes there or not, that’s the playbook.