observantTrapezium
@observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Irrational 1 week ago:
The premise here is completely wrong.
- Comment on Learn long and prosper: U of T’s Fisher Library becomes ‘eternal archive’ on Star Trek: Discovery 1 month ago:
On behalf of UofT, what an honour /s
It caught me by surprise. When they filmed the short trek some years ago there was a university-wide email about filming going on, but this time nothing.
Both DSC and SNW are filmed in Toronto, and we’ve seen landmarks from the city before (e.g. Aga Khan Museum, Ontario Place); and of course “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” took place entirely in the city in the 2020s and featured it heavily.
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 2 months ago:
Hydrogen was made approximately 400,000 after the big bang in a process called recombination, as the universe cooled down enough for stable neutral atoms to exist.
- Comment on \_🫨_/ 2 months ago:
Egyptian hieroglyphs used to be painted, what we see now is usually (but not always) completely faded.
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- Comment on Ultimate Chronological Star Trek Viewing Guide 3 months ago:
It’s interesting, but I don’t think viewing order has to be chronological. If someone is adamant about watching everything, I’d recommend they go by production order.
- Comment on Self Hosted Calendar 3 months ago:
Not sure it satisfies your requirements but I’m quite happy with Baïkal.
- Comment on Backup solutions 3 months ago:
Borg is great.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 5 To Debut With 2 Episodes On April 4 4 months ago:
Maybe fifth time’s a charm…
- Comment on Splitwise alternative 5 months ago:
Abrechnung is really good and actively developed and improving. The UI is already pretty satisfactory, and there’s also an API which is needed if for example you want to bulk-import a spreadsheet, for now you have to code it a bit.
- Comment on Joplin alternative needed 5 months ago:
Came here to say just that. The WebDAV synchronization target is great.
- Comment on What's your favorite note-taking application? 6 months ago:
Joplin as well, syching my 3 devices with the WebDAV option. I checked a few other options about a year ago and Joplin seemed the best.
- Comment on i made this to express a recent self-hosting experience. 6 months ago:
A mid-late 24th century Starfleet runabout?
- Comment on Good free TTS (text-to-speech) options? 7 months ago:
Piper is my choice. Very easy to use from the command line, fairly good sounding voices. Prior to that, for years (decades?) I used espeak-ng, had a very robotic voice but articulated almost everything very clearly, and I got used to it so didn’t actually mind.
- Comment on PasswordManagement: which one of these options would you choose? 8 months ago:
I’m very happy with self-hosted Vaultwarden.
- Comment on What do you prefer for a self hosted calendar? 9 months ago:
Baikal is lean and great. I use it and sync to my Thunderbird (using the TbSync extension) and Android phone (using DAVx⁵).
- Comment on They also sound like the computer... 10 months ago:
Majel Barrett played both Nurse Chapel and Number One in the original series, but these two actresses in SNW look nothing alike.
- Comment on Why you might not want to use whatsapp anymore 11 months ago:
I joined WhatsApp after many years of holding out, there was simply no other practical way to keep in touch with many people. The ways I mitigate the privacy concerns are:
- I got an international eSIM, for the purpose of cheap roaming abroad but since I now had this extra phone number not tied to my identity, I used it for WhatsApp.
- I installed WhatsApp using Island so it has access to just the contacts in the “work profile”, that is, just people who have WhatsApp anyway.