th_in_gs

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canon Connections: Star Trek: Section 31⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We learn that Alok was born in the 20th century, and fought in the Eugenics Wars against the augments before being captured and made an augment himself. As per SNW, we know that the Eugenics Wars didn’t begin until the early 21st century.

  This kinda got me - I assumed until now that the Augments were genetically engineered from conception, not ‘augmented’ afterwards. I wonder if there’s anything to support this elsewhere?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No elements can be replicated. Replicators rearrange existing atoms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your go-to "Bang for your Buck" filament brand?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  "Jinos 3D Filament” is pretty cheap. I started using them during the pandemic when it was hard to find PETG. Seem to be a small place in North Carolina that manufactures mostly for their own use? Sometimes they take a couple of days to ship.

  They sell mostly on eBay: www.ebay.com/itm/382556327412

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Last day for September 2023 Star Trek ebook deals - Oct 1st - 23 books available at $0.99 each⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone got any recommendations from the books on the list?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea is still around! Apple’s APFS file system (and HFS+in its later days) support sort-of transparent compression, and on all its platforms most system files - the ones that don’t change much - are compressed to save space for user files. There’s surprisingly little documentation about this.

  There’s a third party tool you can use to compress files yourself: github.com/RJVB/afsctool

  It looks like the technical details are in this pdf: …apple.com/…/Apple-File-System-Reference.pdf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voyager and Paramount Plus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two subscription prices - the more expensive one has no ads, the sharper one has ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Confirms an Underrated TNG Crew Member Is Destined for Command⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t quite imagine how the TNG -> Picard timeline for her works out given this, presuming this is meant to fit into the same timeline. Can someone who knows the comics universe lay it out?