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spoilerVoyager S7 E20: Author, Author

The doctor (an EMH computer program) writes a holonovel titled Photons Be Free

The above screenshot is from that holonovel, when Captain Jenkins murders an injured crew member during medical triage.

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    They have silly outfits because it’s fun to make your friends laugh and be goofy, and also because it protects privacy and creates a cohesive world.

    The story I heard behind the costumes is that they used to play at a venue that only let a band perform once per day. They put on the outfits to appear as a different band and get paid for an extra set.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Fucking DHL is double-dipping: They charged me a tariff inspection fee to import my packages, and now they charge a fee* to request tariff refunds of eligible shipments.

    *Or I can make an account on some inscrutable government website, write letters to DHL to get paperwork about my shipments, and try to figure it out myself.

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    Plenty of people just want an appliance to play games.

    I build my own, but that's because I want to save money. Actually picking the parts and figuring out compatibility, specs, etc is my least favorite exercise. Luckily I have a friend who cares way more about that, so I tell them what I want to achieve and they give me a shopping list.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    He sewed offensive Gorn messages into the clothing of three Romulan diplomats who stopped off at DS9. Because the Gorn can see different spectrum from Romulans, nobody noticed the hidden insults until they landed on Gornar.

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    The difference is small and pedantic:

    "Once" means "A single time"

    "Nonce" means "Used a single time"

    Nonce carries extra information that something is being used.

    Wikipedia claims this term dates to middle English:

    Nonce is a word dating back to Middle English for something only used once or temporarily (often with the construction "for the nonce"). It descends from the construction "then anes" ("the one [purpose]").

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    Red Sonja (1985)

    I like that it's a definitely-not-Conan movie with a bit more humor. Maybe people don't like the kid actor, but I thought that Prince Tarn and Falcon added a lot without being overbearing. It could rate even higher for me if they'd gotten Basil Poledouris to do the soundtrack.

    Cool World (1992)

    Things really start to fall apart in the third act once Holli transports to the real world and from a technical side, Who Framed Roger Rabbit beats it by miles. However, the idea of Cool World, a mix of childish and sleazy animated characters all living in the same universe, is compelling. Bakshi's animation style really brings it alive.

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    cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/18604056

    I'm playing for the first time in my life now.

    I've recently had my first kid, and as such, I need a game that I can quickly pick up and put down. Ideally, the game is also playable in long form as well.

    Enter openmw for android. The only on screen controls that have ever been usable. Convenient quick save. Minimal load times.

    I can hop on, play a little, and get off in a hurry if I need to. I thought I'd be stuck playing old Pokemon ROMs with save states until she hit an age of independence.

     

    I generally let my server do its thing, but I run into an issue consistently when I install system updates and then reboot: Some docker containers come online, while others need to be started manually. All containers were running before the system shut down.

    • My containers are managed with docker compose.
    • Their compose files have restart: always
    • It's not always the same containers that fail to come online
    • Some of them depend on an NFS mount point being ready on the host, but not all

    Host is running Ubuntu Noble

    Most of these containers were migrated from my previous server, and this issue never manifested.

    I wonder if anyone has ideas for what to look for?

    SOLVED

    The issue was that docker was starting before my NFS mount point was ready, and the containers which depended on it were crashing.

    Symptoms: journalctl -b0 -u docker showed the following log lines (-b0 means to limit logs to the most recent boot):

    level=error msg="failed to start container" container=fe98f37d1bc3debb204a52eddd0c9448e8f0562aea533c5dc80d7abbbb969ea3 error="error while creating mount source path '/mnt/nas/REDACTED': mkdir /mnt/nas/REDACTED: operation not permitted"
    ...
    level=warning msg="ShouldRestart failed, container will not be restarted" container=fe98f37d1bc3debb204a52eddd0c9448e8f0562aea533c5dc80d7abbbb969ea3 daemonShuttingDown=true error="restart canceled" execDuration=5m8.349967675s exitStatus="{0 2024-10-29 00:07:32.878574627 +0000 UTC}" hasBeenManuallyStopped=false restartCount=0
    

    I had previously set my mount directory to be un-writable if the NFS were not ready, so this lined up with my expectations.

    I couldn't remember how systemd names mount points, but the following command helped me find it: systemctl list-units -t mount | grep /mnt/nas

    It gave me mnt-nas.mount as the name of the mount unit, so then I just added it to the After= and Requires= lines in my /etc/systemd/system/docker.service file:

    [Unit]
    Description=Docker Application Container Engine
    Documentation=https://docs.docker.com
    After=network-online.target docker.socket firewalld.service containerd.service time-set.target mnt-nas.mount
    Wants=network-online.target containerd.service
    Requires=docker.socket mnt-nas.mount
    ...
    
     

    I recently got a nice deal on a stereo microscope, and leapt at the chance. I've had a few projects in mind that would entail SMD soldering, and now all I need is a proper soldering station.

    My current iron is pretty basic, but gets the job done for splicing wires and DIP work. Now I want something with temp control and a good supply of tips.

    It seems like hobbyists are all talking about affordable Chinese T12 stations from brands like KSGER and Quecoo. There are just so many different models, it's hard to understand the features and differences. It also seems like there's a lot of "Reddit folk knowledge" where people just keep repeating what others have said. Eg: People say that some KSGER stations have no case grounding, but nobody says which models do or don't have the issue. All of them? Then people talk about the microcontrollers STM vs STC, but nobody says why it matters.

     

    In our house, we generally go for variety in our coffee beans. That means when we are finishing one bag, we're going to open a different bag with totally different beans inside.

    What do you do if there aren't enough old beans to make a full serving of coffee?

    It may be heresey, but I mix the final old beans with a few beans from the new bag and call it my "bonus blend".

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