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How much do you blame the people who voted for Trump or other fascists?
I blame them completely. Voters are not children. You're responsible for your own actions.
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How much do you blame the people who voted for Trump or other fascists?
I blame them completely. Voters are not children. You're responsible for your own actions.
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Hard Drive Encyption
Depends on what sort of underlying file system you want to use on the drive. For Linux filesystems (ext4, btrfs, zfs etc), here's a good start: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt
For NTFS, BitLocker is already baked in to Windows.
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Which bartender do you feel was better utilized in their show, Guinan or Quark?
Yeah I mean it's gotta be Quark and it's not close. He also became the de-facto representative of life outside the Federation & Starfleet, which was one of the things DS9 really leaned in to.
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If I start a Roth IRA in a couple weeks, and keep contributing $7k per year to it, for years & decades, When will it pay off? When can it be money for me to spend?
Overview is here https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/roth-iras , but generally 59 and 1/2 is when you can start taking distributions without penalty.
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What do miss from pre-Reddit?
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The era of personal websites was something else. I remember the weird and wonderful creations you could find on GeoCities.
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Interview: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ EPs On Spock’s Arc, Klingon Design, Gorn Canon & Season 3
Worf had the best explanation of the forehead situation all the way back in DS9. "We do not speak of it with outsiders."
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DIY vs pre-build NAS for home use
I think as a turn-key solution, the prebuilt enclosures are fine. I have a two-bay Synology that works well. If you've already got components though, DIY is probably going to give you a lot more granular control. I'm planning on building out a home server rack including a TrueNAS VM or something similar.
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Trump says there will be a blood bath, civil war and others if he loses. In your opinion whether in the US or not what do you think will happen if Harris wins?
Ideally? He flees the country like a coward, and the Republican party implodes under the strain of infighting to be his successor.
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Ricciardo to replace De Vries at AlphaTauri from the Hungarian Grand Prix
He's back in the game! Hyped.
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You can finally try out Old School RuneScape’s first new skill in nearly two decades right now
Played through the alpha and really enjoyed it. As an Ultima Online boat enjoyer from way back, I'm pretty hyped about this.
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What Podcasts do you listen to?
In order of listening frequency:
The Greatest Generation
Behind the Bastards
Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend
Linux Unplugged
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What are your plans for the weekend?
PAX West in Seattle
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If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose?
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My daily driver is Arch running sway. Would be hard to go back from the simplicity and elegance.
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The Future of the Ruinous Power - New Prayer Book Scrapped
Unfortunate, but I think the reasons were well laid out, and it's good that they're thinking about this stuff so carefully.
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Lemmy upgraded to 0.18.2
Definitely yes. I enjoy seeing the technical and administrative updates.
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Star Trek viewing party
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I've been burning through their DS9 episodes. Love Greatest Generation.
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I'm deGoogling. What's my new Podcast app?
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AntennaPod has been working really well for me.
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If you were a starfleet captain, what would be your "engage" saying?
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I always liked this one from Kelvinverse Pike. "Let's rock and roll" from Cochrane would also be a contender.
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New TrueNAS server custom build
That's awesome. Thanks for posting the pics and assembly.
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what's your favorite thing to put on fries that isn't ketchup?
I hate ketchup, so almost anything else. That said, mustard or some sort of flavored/spicy mayo are top choices.