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klemptor, to quarks in StarTrek.Website has upgraded to Lemmy v0.19.5!

Thank you, thank you, thank youuuu!! šŸ––šŸ»

ValueSubtracted, to quarks in StarTrek.website will be down for about ten minutes June 25th at 10AM CST while we do some maintenance in anticipation of updating to Lemmy 19.4
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But my takes will be lukewarm by then, at bestā€¦

Admin,
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This update should increase the thermal capacity of your takes by .05%

poki, to operating_systems in best resources and tips for a newbie to linux?

First of all, if youā€™ll be using Bazzite, then become familiar with its documentation. Other sources may not necessarily translate that well to Bazzite due to Fedora, Atomic, OCI and SELinux (to name a few). Though, some other sources may benefit you as long as it doesnā€™t contradict with Bazziteā€™s own documentation.

so, what are your tips and tricks for a new linux user?

Bazzite is on Fedora Atomicā€™s model, hence you should become familiar with the built-in rollback mechanism. Furthermore, itā€™s possible to keep deployments around. Therefore, if anything, consider utilizing this on your first deployment; just in case.

Pinning said deployment is possible with the sudo ostree admin pin <insert number> command after installation. The number can be deduced through the rpm-ostree status command. The first deploymentā€™s corresponding number is 0 and for each deployment found below you just have to increase the number by one to find its corresponding number. So, the 4th deployment corresponds to the number 3. Btw, you can pin multiple deployments. So thereā€™s no opportunity cost involved. Finally, you can unpin a deployment with -u. So sudo ostree admin pin -u <insert number>

as a final question, what got you into using linux over windows or mac?

I was never a mac user in the first place. As for Windows, a hardware failure was causing more issue on it than on Linux. So that was the direct cause. But the reason I got interested into Linux initially and what has kept my interest are privacy and freedom respectively.

DreamyRin,
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hey, sorry this is coming late! thank you for this. I was already looking at their documentation (I have a few times, as well as read their discourse forum) and joined their discord in preparation.

I think this is a super good tip because I have been trying to parse what all Iā€™d need to get familiar with before I touch anything install wise. I knew about the pinning a deployment thing, but I didnā€™t fully understand how, so thank you for laying it out for me!

poki,

It has been my pleasure!

and joined their discord in preparation.

That will definitely help out a lot. Well thought!

Welcome on board šŸ˜‰.

Kory, to operating_systems in best resources and tips for a newbie to linux?
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DreamyRin,
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this looks amazing, thank you!

korthrun, to operating_systems in best resources and tips for a newbie to linux?
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Donā€™t follow tutorials, understand them. Iā€™m so tired of seeing useless uses of cat because some asshole writing a tutorial 20 years ago decided to illustrate how pipes work with a good ol cat file | grep string as if grep didnā€™t take a file name as an argument.

The more time I spend being mad about this the more I notice people using horrible practices in tutorials because theyā€™re too lazy to setup a legit use case.

A new user sees this and thinks this is how grep works.

Loops are another common one. People going around not knowing you can pass a glob to a shell for loop. Because the tutorial they read was lazily written and they didnā€™t bother to understand the bits of what they were being shown, only how to reproduce/mangle the command until they manage to get close enough to what they want out of it.

DreamyRin,
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Iā€™m absolutely going to do my best to understand and not copy/paste without doing that. I donā€™t like doing things to my computer that I donā€™t know what is happening, so that makes sense to me! I already ran into that issue plenty of times with my servers, so Iā€™m trying to go all in now.

thank you!

BlueEther, to operating_systems in best resources and tips for a newbie to linux?
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A little tongue in cheek and showing my age alittle ā€¦

https://no.lastname.nz/pictrs/image/0da44636-fcfe-431a-8282-0bb45d4e8dba.jpeg

but there are some good youtube channels around, then there are resources like Archā€™s wiki and for the hard liner there is the Gentoo docā€™s

DreamyRin,
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thank you for the resources! I think I have VeronicaExplains noted down already, but the other ones are new to me. Iā€™ll give them a look!

recursive_recursion, to operating_systems in best resources and tips for a newbie to linux?
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For new Linux users a good start would be YouTube vids

after that Iā€™d personally recommend the Arch Linux Wiki as itā€™s a well regarded and well known encyclopedia for anything youā€™d need/want to know about most Linux related things

beyond the Arch Linux wiki, youā€™d probably be looking at the Linux kernel documentation or Gentooā€™s docs/wiki

poki,

Solutions found on either of these wikis may work perfectly fine on other distros, but itā€™s not a guarantee. ā€˜Seasonedā€™ users should be able to distinguish this.

recursive_recursion,
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yup and for disambiguation purposes,

  • users can ask their questions here or any other related community that they wantšŸ¤—

thereā€™s also the option to ask users directly for help tooāœØ

brbposting, to quarks in Season one of StarTrek.website is in the bag! So we've added "V'ger", as a treat.

Very nice!!

Voyager developer @aeharding is unbelievable. What an engineer. Dat UX šŸ¤¤ (no shade but will say) srsly hard to use the default interface from web when youā€™ve experienced e.g. Voyager iOS.

aeharding,

Thanks šŸ’œ

ValueSubtracted, to quarks in Season one of StarTrek.website is in the bag! So we've added "V'ger", as a treat.
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Time to start growing that beardā€¦

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Corgana, to quarks in Episode Discussion | Doctor Who | 1x01 "Space Babies" and 1x02 "The Devil's Chord"
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Space Babies was very RTD but I actually thought it was charming and pretty fun. Ncuti has a lot of promise, too.

angstrom, to quarks in Episode Discussion | Doctor Who | 1x01 "Space Babies" and 1x02 "The Devil's Chord"

ā€˜Space Babiesā€™ was a classic RTD dumpster fire. It felt like a first draft and the exposition dump at the beginning was very badly done. The script editor should have pushed back hard on this one.

ā€˜The Devilā€™s Chordā€™ was better although hamstrung by the fact that they couldnā€™t afford the rights to any Beatles music.

Ncuti and Millie have quickly established themselves and Iā€™m looking forward to seeing what the rest of the season brings.

jordanlund, to quarks in Episode Discussion | Doctor Who | 1x01 "Space Babies" and 1x02 "The Devil's Chord"
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So far, itā€™s better than all of the Whittaker run and probably 1/2 of Capaldi.

Only 2 real complaints:

  1. Did he really need to say ā€œSpace Babiesā€ every few minutes? Seemed excessive.
  2. Is it wise casting a drag queen as a villain given all the anti-drag queen sentiment? I know, I get it, maybe itā€™s not as bad in the UK as it is here, but do we need to further demonize drag queens?

+1 noteā€¦ LOLā€¦

I was convinced the lost chord was going to be the mystery chord that opens A Hard Dayā€™s Night.

www.beatlesbible.com/ā€¦/hard-days-night-chord/

ValueSubtracted,
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Is it wise casting a drag queen as a villain given all the anti-drag queen sentiment?

Gosh, what a loaded question! I think it ultimately boils down to a question of representation - these things shouldnā€™t be a problem in isolation, but they can be a problem if itā€™s part of a greater pattern. It does sound like Davies is intent on weaving queerness throughout all aspects of this series, so that will probably make a difference.

I was convinced the lost chord was going to be the mystery chord that opens A Hard Dayā€™s Night.

I had the legendary chord from ā€œA Day in the Lifeā€ in mind, which of course isnā€™t really possible on a single piano (at least, not to its full effect).

Corgana, to quarks in Introducing c/DoctorWho!
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You have a problem.

ā€¦subscribed.

ValueSubtracted,
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Guess what! Iā€™ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell sci-fi discussion spaces!

SpaceScotsman, to quarks in Episode Discussion | Doctor Who | 1x01 "Space Babies" and 1x02 "The Devil's Chord"

I could not get into the baby episode. The talking babies just put me off. Might have been scarier than the actual monster.

But the devilā€™s cord was better. Great concept. Good mix of fun and serious and a nice follow up to the toy maker. I didnā€™t feel it really made the most use of the beatles though, the maestro could have been in any time period with any musician. I was pleasantly surprised by the twist at the end.

RTD likes his recurring threads, so I guess the pantheon is going to anchor this series. So far weā€™ve had masters (gods?) of toys and music. What next - the different parts of what makes being human? Love? Food? And how does Ruby fit into it.

So far ncuti and millie are fitting in well. A bit different, bringing their own flair, but still capturing the right feel.

ValueSubtracted,
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It does seem that RTD is going harder into serialization this time around - the Ruby story reminds me a lot of Claraā€™s tenure with Eleven (which wasnā€™t the best, but what can you do?).

ValueSubtracted, to quarks in Episode Discussion | Doctor Who | 1x01 "Space Babies" and 1x02 "The Devil's Chord"
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ā€œThe Devilā€™s Chordā€

All right, itā€™s hard to make the case that this one was less silly than ā€œSpace Babies,ā€ but I enjoyed this one more, largely on the strength of Jinkx Monssonā€™s delightfully unhinged performance as Maestro, and the fact that I love The Beatles (not that they get a lot to do).

This is one of those high-concept episodes built around an interesting premise (ā€œthe world would end if there was no musicā€) that DW often does really well. I think in this case, they could have done a little more to show the lives of the people in this music-free world, but it worked well enough.

Having Lennon/McCartney finish the Maestro off with the lost chord was blindingly obvious, and extremely perfect.

Iā€™ve got to say, Chris Mason did an amazing job capturing John Lennonā€™s mannerisms while singing. I happened to watch ā€œLet It Beā€ the other day, and the guy did his homework. Pour one out for George and Ringo, though - they really didnā€™t get anything to do.

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