thetrekkersparky
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- Comment on 2 days ago:
I agree. Gaming has gotten to the point that its honestly better just to wait the 6 months, let the studio debug and actually have a finished product and then buy it when its 20% off.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 2 days ago:
I had some concerns going in, but enjoyed them a lot more than I expected. Good to see some familiar faces, especially Vance as he was one of the better Disco s3 additions.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 6 days ago:
I went myself about ten years back when I worked for a small electronics store. It was literally 70% slop and 20% cell phone cases. There was only one company there that we actually got excited about and looked at bringing in their products. Their products were much better than what we currently carried and our current supplier was a pain in the ass to deal with.
They were imeadiatly bought out and closed by the company we already dealt with before we could even place an order. We only ever received a demo unit.
- Comment on Watch: New ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Promos Reveal Surprising Deep Cut To TOS & More 1 week ago:
Yeah, I know. Its just frustrating. After Ent we went a long time without any Trek TV shows and then we got Discovery. Although it wasn’t perfect it scratched an itch for a lot of people. Then we got a lot of shows. We were told that there was going to be Star Trek all year long, and that there would always be a show airing all year long. Now it seems that every current show is coming to an end or already ended and we’re left with a lot of unknowns. A young adult college Trek and maybe a non Starfleet workplace comedy (as well as the last 2 seasons of SNW I guess too).
I’m honestly going in hopeful. I wasn’t sure about Lower Decks when it came out and now its one of my favourite shows. I really hope it does turn out good.
- Comment on [Spoilers] Highlights from the SFX "Starfleet Academy" feature 1 week ago:
So… on the first point, hasn’t every series had at least one character who has to find themselves throughout the series? Weasley in TNG. Nog and Jake in DS9, Harry was on his first posting after the acadamy I believe in Voyager, Tilly was a cadet in Discovery and later Adira joining the crew and trying to fit in, Uhrua’s whole story in SNW is that she doesn’t know where she fits in, Prodigy is about a band of misfit kids trying to find a place they belong, even Worf’s whole arc is about him trying to find who he is and where he belongs as well. This is something that Star Trek has always explored.
- Comment on Watch: New ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Promos Reveal Surprising Deep Cut To TOS & More 1 week ago:
I have some concerns. This kinda looks like a bad Degrassi rip off in space. I hope I’m wrong and it’s actually a great show. Just remember, we lost Discovery, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and will lose Strange New Worlds soon, for whatever this is going to be.
- Comment on Star Trek TNG Intro but with Enterprise Lyrics 1 week ago:
Thank you. It was somehow worse than I thought. The endless looping of “I’ve got” in the background while the enterprise slowly flew past was a great touch. Keep up the good work.
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 2 weeks ago:
Probably. Its most likely going to look like the steam machine except it’ll run on win11with an Xbox gui instead of linux. Probably be quite locked down in regards to software and store access as well.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 3 weeks ago:
Nope. Trust has been broken too many times. I don’t even buy anything anywhere near release anymore. I won’t buy anything anymore unless it’s either an indie game or its on sale and even then I deep dive the reviews and make sure I’m not wasting my money.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 4 weeks ago:
The regular price of Red dead 2 on steam is still the full release price even though the game came out 6 years ago. That way they can mark it 70% of and still overcharge.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Lol, I guess that is a thing. They also just jacked the price on that, didn’t they?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
No multiplayer paywall, but they’ll probably try to charge you some sort of subscription anyway that’ll end up costing more in the long run.
- Comment on Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown - Demo Out Now! 2 months ago:
I played the demo this morning and really enjoyed it. It seemed a little rough around the edges, I had some problems navigating the ship and finding rooms, but it seemed pretty good. Its on my wishlist now.
- Comment on PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC 2 months ago:
Man, I was soooo excited about the PS5, but then it turned into such a shit show to get one that I just put my money into my PC and I never even got around to picking one up when availability became more reasonable. I don’t think I’d ever really want to get back into the console gaming space anymore.
- Comment on Mary Wiseman’s Tilly Will Be In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,’ But Not As Much As Expected 3 months ago:
I honestly assumed that she’d be one of the main instructors. Especially with Micheal saying something about Tilly being the Acadamy’s longest serving instructor (or something like that) in the Disco epilogue.
- Comment on Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver 3 months ago:
Thanks for the recommendation. Once I found the “n” I mistyped as “m” in one of the file directories it actually went quite well. I looked at setting up sonarr & radarr, but its really just me and my partner using it right now, so I’ll put that on the back burner until I get more storage.
- Comment on Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver 3 months ago:
Thanks I’ll look into this tonight. I’m still trying to wrap my head around dockers and containers etc. I think I’ve a pretty good handle on it now, but it still hurts my brain after a while.
- Comment on Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver 3 months ago:
So, I already pay for Proton VPN, mostly for the E-Mail, but I do use the vpn currently on my main PC to torrent, which I then manually transfer to my server over the network, but I would like to eliminate the middleman and torrent directly to the server, while still being able to easily remote in. I run CasaOS on my Homelab and I was planning on installing qbittorrent in a container, probably through Portainer. I’m already running Soulseek on the server the same way (originally I was running slskd, but it was overly complicated to set up and once it was set up and working there were lots of upload errors and I didn’t like the UI, so I changed to a Nicontine+ docker), but that’s just open to the web.
- Comment on Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver 3 months ago:
Yeah, sounds about right. Server is on my home network and I’ve forwarded the applicable wireguard ports on my router so I can remote in. I just want to make sure that if I’m running a torrent client on my server or on my phone while I’m connected remotely then I won’t be getting angry letters from my ISP.
- Comment on Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver 3 months ago:
I was actually just reading about VPS’. So would I run into problems if I was torrenting on the VPS? My plan was originally to have my phone always connected to my network (I stream a lot of music at work and sometimes torrent on my phone, then upload the files to my server) and just set up my server on a vpn, but I really wasn’t sure that was possible or practical.
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- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 3 months ago:
I found four and a half vulcans the weakest episode in my opinion, but a friend of mine loved the episode. My biggest problem with the episode, other than why was it really necessary, was actually pointed out by Kirk in the episode. They didn’t actually even act like Vulcans they were just dicks, Pike especially was uncharacteristically rude and would have never treated anyone the way he treated Spock in the episode.
Most of the season scored between 5-7/10 for me. Terrarium was an 8.5, Vulcans was a 4, This is Starfleet was a 3, but if it was filmed differently could have been so much better. I really this that This is Starfleet had one of the better stories and checks a lot of “Classic Trek” boxes for me.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 3 months ago:
I mean… There was at least 2 years between season 2 & 3.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 3 months ago:
Yeah. I do think they did a great job btw. This season was such a ride and I can’t wait for season 4. I just meant that with so few episodes you really feel when one doesn’t hit right.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 3 months ago:
This is the problem with modern TV shows. We only have 10 episode seasons now vs the 20+ long ones from the TNG era. If these were all episodes in a season that lasted 20 episodes I doubt we would be seeing as many complaints, but as it is 10 episodes does not leave much room for any change of pace mid season. This season, while in my opinion was quite well written, was a little all over the place and didn’t really seem to have a lot of direction. It really bounced around a lot, which wouldn’t be a problem as much if there was 20 episodes to work with, but when you only have 10 its hard to justify some of the “fun” or experimental episodes.
As an aside. My least favourite episode “This is Starfleet” was also my favourite story in the season and if it was shot as a normal episode I think would have probably be my favourite of the series so far. It really captured the “Classic Trek” vibe for me.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 4 months ago:
A lot of people are also questioning why they even have a home PC now. Their Win 10 machine is “out of date” and they need to replace it or else, but their cell phone now does much of what their PC did. Instead of installing Linux and learning a whole new OS, they just cut out their PC and just use their phone.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 4 months ago:
Here’s the link to the docker I used. There are a few others on github, but this one seemed like it was the most actively updated.
github.com/sirjmann92/nicotineplus-proper
I liked slskd perfectly fine once I got it going, but I couldn’t get my partner to use it as she was used to nicotine and didn’t like the new interface. Once the Docker was set up in Portainer there was very little additional configuration and the rest was inside the nicotine webui app.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 4 months ago:
Instead of slskd I recommend using nicotine+. I found slskd worked fine, but was a pain to set up. I found a Nicotine docker that works just like the app inside a web UI. Much less of a learning curb for someone who’s not familiar with servers.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x07 "What Is Starfleet?" 4 months ago:
I feel like this could have been a great episode, if it wasn’t a documentary and was just written as a normal episode. Most of the quirks of the documentary really distracted me and I felt like they got in the way a bit.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II" & 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues" 5 months ago:
I really like this slightly more chill La’an. John de Lancie was not expected. So If Trelane is now implied to be Q jr, is this episode supposed to take place before we see him in Voyagers Q2? He does come off as more of an immature teen in voyager, whereas in this and in TOS he’s quite more childish, especially when he’s challenged in both Trelane episodes.