IcedRaktajino
@IcedRaktajino@startrek.website
- Comment on TIL that in 1996 they made a USS-Defiant CD player 22 hours ago:
I would love to have one of those. Couldn’t find any active listings, but old listings had them going for like $250+ which isn’t too bad for a collector’s item, I guess.
I did come across a TNG CD holder: www.ebay.com/itm/117030364928
Apparently you can only fit 4 compact discs in a Galaxy class ship lol
- Comment on They Don’t Make CGI Quite like They Used To 1 week ago:
I gotchu.
- Comment on Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story? 1 week ago:
I’d like to see some of the novelverse villains. The Grigari come to mind.
They’re kind of like the Borg but turned up to 11.
- Submitted 1 week ago to risa@startrek.website | 7 comments
- Comment on Forgive me, Doctor, for I have sinned: I haven't watched anything Trek in almost 2 months 2 weeks ago:
I’m similar but it’s a side effect of my general gluttony. I’ll watch one episode and immediately want more. I didn’t intend to wait until the season was over to binge it all, but it just sort of happened because of life being hectic right now.
- Forgive me, Doctor, for I have sinned: I haven't watched anything Trek in almost 2 monthsstartrek.website ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to risa@startrek.website | 31 comments
- Comment on What happend with the the new and old Borg after Picard season 2 and 3? 1 month ago:
They’re separate queens and separate collectives/cooperatives.
The Jurati Cooperative is, as of the end of Season 2, guarding the spatial anomaly that formed in the beginning of S2. They’re completely absent from the third season. Which I can understand since S3 was a fan-service reunion (which I loved).
The queen from S3 is the same one from VOY: Endgame and part of the same collective since they were first introduced in TNG.
The new one affected the other one?
AFIAK, no. The alternate timeline queen was not the same queen seen in S3 or elsewhere.
- Comment on Shower Thought: The man, the legend, the one-man show 1 month ago:
Good catch. Fixed!
- Submitted 1 month ago to risa@startrek.website | 8 comments
- Comment on Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’ve got all those turned off. Actually, they came disabled by default (one of the OS customizations Minimal does in their base image). I usually turn those to at least .5x on my other phones to make things feel faster, lol, but in this case, they were already off.
But there’s still subtle transitions and some animations that aren’t affected by that. One of the latter is the animations on the lock screen when you’re entering your pin. Those have to be disabled separately in the security settings (and weren’t disabled by default by Minimal).
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 2 months ago:
Look at it from a new user’s perspective; someone who has not curated their feed or otherwise “made the fediverse what they want”. e.g. They land on Lemmy World or another big instance and their default sort is “active”. Doing that now in an incognito window, and half the front page is rage, same on the second, and the rest some random shitposts and Linux.
Truth be told, looking at that, I probably wouldn’t want to sign up. Especially if I didn’t know that different instances have different cultures, etc.
Assuming they’re a normie (which we desperately fucking need here), I just don’t see that they’d want to stick around. Aside from trolls and spammers, the only people we seem to consistently attract here are the “Wah wah I was banned from Reddit” types and, while there’s certainly a sizable pool to draw from, I wouldn’t exactly consider them the pick of the litter for growing the fediverse.
The point of OPs post is that usage here is declining, and I am simply pointing out that I feel all the rage and politics is not particularly inviting.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 2 months ago:
We had the same thought. Right before I saw your reply, I added some hobby communities to my comment as examples.
This place is so flooded with politics and raging over the news that I’m about to choose a random hobby community that’s active and pick up said hobby just to be able to have something besides Star Trek and Linux to talk about here lol.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 2 months ago:
Just my two cents, but there’s just no reason for people to come here when it’s 80+% political shit and rage bait and virtue signaling. Hell, I’ve got 80% of the content here filtered out as it is, and I want to be here.
Find your nearest non-political hobby community and start posting things people actually want to see and maybe we might see some growth or people sticking around. My current hobby is Meshtastic, so I’ve been pretty active there.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 months ago:
I’d love to see the keyboards and trackballs manufactured again if for no other purpose than having them available for other projects.
There was a project a while back called Beepberry that was a little handheld Linux thing that used Blackberry keyboards. Among other reasons, the supply of the BB keyboards dried up so the project died.
- Comment on Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android 2 months ago:
Quite possibly. I don’t think I have anything running below A11 that still functions so that’s been my baseline. Most recent was my OP3 that had LineageOS’s A9 but the battery finally gave up the ghost a few months ago.
- Comment on Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android 2 months ago:
Yep, to all of that.
disable that annoying “you haven’t used those apps in a while so permissions were removed” thigny
AFAIK, you can only do that on an app-by-app basis.
Settings -> Apps -> {App} -> Permissions -> Pause app activity if unused
That’s on Android 14, so YMMV if they took that away.
- Comment on Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android 2 months ago:
AFAIK, it’s just the base Android UI because it’s the same in LineageOS and vanilla builds.
- The quick actions have gone to hell. There’s nothing quick about them anymore and customizing them is even worse than it already was.
- Every UI element is oversized and seems made for the hot doggiest of hotdog fingers
- The organization of the settings, especially the network/mobile settings, somehow makes even less sense than before
- The wallpaper / background config is just awful nowadays. I don’t know if that’s “Material You” or what, but just let me pick an image or no image or a solid color. Don’t present 3 different apps to handle changing the background, two of which do nothing.
- On the Google side, they’re shoving more Gemini shit in
- Now Google is gatekeeping even the apps you want to sideload
- Even with animations disabled, there’s still too many animations.
- Gesture navigation is just terrible but at least you can dig through the settings to re-enable 3 button nav
- A litany of other small gripes
- Submitted 2 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 months ago:
I pre-ordered last June and got it toward the end of July. It seems to ship directly from the factory in Hong Kong, so you have to use the tracking link they send you until it clears customs in your country.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 months ago:
I had the LG Genesis that was the spiritual successor to the enV. Loved the form factor but the battery life was abysmal at like 2 hours of use. Yay Android 2.2 lol.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 months ago:
Gemini PDA
Is that the one from PlanetCom? I’ve been looking at both their Gemini and Cosmo Communicator. Both were out of stock when I ended up going with the Minimal.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 months ago:
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 months ago:
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 months ago:
I’ve been rocking a Minimal Phone for about 6 or 7 months now, and man am I excited to have options for QWERTY phones again.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 160 comments
- Comment on Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard 2 months ago:
Nice. I’ll look into that one.
- Submitted 2 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 3 comments
- Comment on No Ship, No Adventure, Just Poker. Honestly, I'd watch that. 2 months ago:
No offense taken at all, haha. Just making an observation and trying to be funny.
- Submitted 2 months ago to risa@startrek.website | 0 comments
- Comment on No Ship, No Adventure, Just Poker. Honestly, I'd watch that. 2 months ago:
Ah. I’ll admit, my TOS lore is lacking. Was trying to deflect with a smile and nod, but you caught me lol.
