Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.

Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.

Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.

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  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websitetome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    2 days ago

    I once had a long-time friend (through her shirt/sleeve holes) take her bra off and throw it at me and then sit on my lap at a party once.

    It was another 3 years before I found out she had a huge crush on me and was hoping I would do literally anything other than sit there awkwardly






  • Only if you participate in an instance that tracks such things.

    I know startrek.website tracks individual comments and posts, but not overall. So I would have to go back and check each individual comment and add up the total if I cared to find out how many points I have accumulated.

    I know some don’t track any at all.

    I know lemmy.world tracks at least comment votes.

    I understand that a basic point system allows people to sort comments a little easier, but it really can reinforce echo chambers.

    I am guilty of often sorting posts with dozens of comments by top vote ranking, but I try to just do oldest to newest comments.




  • Ah yes, the super duper high honor of checks text “still being banished from Minas tirith, his home for way longer than aragorn had ever been there”

    “And the King said to Beregond: ‘Beregond, by your sword blood was spilled in the Hallows, where that is forbidden. Also you left your post without leave of Lord or of Captain. For these things, of old, death was the penalty. Now therefore I must pronounce your doom. ‘All penalty is remitted for your valour in battle, and still more because all that you did was for the love of the Lord Faramir. Nonetheless you must leave the Guard of the Citadel, and you must go forth from the City of Minas Tirith.’ Then the blood left Beregond’s face, and he was stricken to the heart and bowed his head. But the King said: ‘So it must be, for you are appointed to the White Company, the Guard of Faramir, Prince of Ithilien, and you shall be its captain and dwell in Emyn Arnen in honour and peace, and in the service of him for whom you risked all, to save him from death.’ And then Beregond, perceiving the mercy and justice”

    The “mercy and justice” for saving someone’s life from men who were “just following orders” was “oh the law says you should be dead but since I’m king and can say no to that I’m banishing you instead” isn’t exactly an “honor”, especially if you disagree with the very concept of monarchies in the first place.





  • I am someone who is interested in rc planes, multirotors, and automation in general. Not an expert by any measure, but have some experience.

    A hybrid quad-rotor/plane would be much better for this. They can VTOL, hover, do all the quadcopter stuff, but there’s still the usual plane motors to push the whole thing forward. The wings provide tons of lift and reduce the overall power usage of the system. Have it circle above an area until you don’t need the pop-up mesh network.

    I’ve seen a few content creators like rctestflight make full solar planes, running ardupilot to fly way point missions and circle around for as long as possible.

    Combining the two might reduce the overall efficiency when compared to either separately, I imagine the extra grams from the mesh radios would still allow for very long flight times.

    So theoretically you should be able to toss a couple out that can circle overhead and act as super long line-of-sight relays and provide coverage over a huge area, all of which couod be deployed and packed up in minutes.




  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websitetomemes@lemmy.worldWTF
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    For my regular headphones, not much. I can use the buttons on them to cycle through sound modes (no modification, sound canceling, and external mics) as well as the normal things like switch volumes, tracks etc.

    Once I got the update, I deleted the app and got an older one. If they make it mandatory somehow, I’ll just not use the app and get different brand headphones when these break.