Yep. Parks and Recreation was an amazing show, but I almost gave up on it during season one. So glad I powered through.

Yeah, I never got that. I mean, I got what they were going for, but the realist in me always sees what goes into a “digital afterlife” as being a copy with no continuity of consciousness. The copy could still miss her husband, though, and I wasn’t even thinking about that TBH.

I guess the way I saw it was that “If there is an afterlife, that wouldn’t have been ‘her’ in the machine and she’d have been able to have both.”.

The grammar pedant in me is annoyed they’re not called “The Beverlys Crusher” lol.

The elderly are still being shoved away in a simulation of their golden years, because I guess that is easier than trying to make room for them in the real world

Yorkie kind of had it bad in the real world her whole life. I can sympathize (though mercifully not directly relate). And I’d much rather San Junipero myself than live out my days in a nursing home. YMMV, obviously.

afterlife" still places everyone’s continued existence at the mercy of real-world infrastructure that could decide to just turn them off at any time.

In a lot of ways, Upload is something of a sequel to San Junipero lol

I’m an American, and I agree. It’s not so much the American cast, but the tone shift that came along with the move to Netflix.

Brooker via https://movieweb.com/charlie-brooker-responds-to-black-mirror-criticism-netflix/ :

“Arguably the happiest [episode] I’ve ever written was San Junipero and I just did that off my own back. I was aware we’re going on a global platform now, so we’ve got to make these stories a bit more international. And I wanted to mix it up a bit, as in not just keep doing bleak-a-thons.”

That said, “San Junipero” is one of my favorite episodes. Probably because, at the time, it was the rare happy ending.

But at the end of the day, it’s still a great show that wonderfully extrapolates current tech trends into varying “10 minutes into the future” dystopian scenarios. Sometimes we need to think everything will work out. :shrug:

Most of the last mile fiber network is passive (doesn’t require active electronics to pass the signal like DOCSIS/cable internet or ADSL).

Cable and DSL typically have the equivalent of UPSs in their neighborhood nodes, but they often go unmaintained.

By Grabthar’s Hammer, what a bargain.

I almost gave up on the dairy free cheese because Daiya was supposed to be the top-tier one. Tasted like vaguely cheese-flavored plastic strips, and I was not a fan. Also refused to melt until it was just below the temperature of the surface of the sun, and when it did, it was like a pile of glue.

On a whim, I bought the Kroger store brand (Simple Truth I think?) and it’s pretty damn good. Tastes like cheese, doesn’t feel like a mouth full of plastic, melts at a reasonable temperature, the whole works.

Season 13 aired in 2009, so it’s been 16 years IRL, but I don’t think that matters for the time jump.

Bobby was what, 12, 13 when the first run finished? Also, did they say how long they were in Saudi Arabia? If Bobby’s 21, and they were there 10 years, they’d have had to have left when he was 11 which doesn’t check out.

But I did wonder about the aging. Boomhaur looks like shit but he also tans a lot, so that makes sense. Dale looks almost exactly the same, but he’s kind of a basement-dweller/opposite of Boomhaur, so I guess that makes sense.

There’s no way Bill dropped his shut-in weight that fast, but I’ll let it slide. He should definitely be graying though.

Peggy, Kahn, Minh, and Nancy, and the Wassanasongs all look about right, IMO.

Hank, though, doesn’t look like he aged a day.

Very good. I’ve seen too many random Google Forms going around just harvesting emails / info to plug my details into any that I don’t click into from a legit/verified site. Not that I’m accusing OP of that, just that I don’t know where they got that form link.

Is that an official Google form and/or who am I providing my (required) email address to?

Is there an official Google page that links to this? Sorry but anyone can share a Google form.

So it’s not just me. Okay. Of the group, I was the only one who experienced that.

I’ve only tried salvia twice, and it always made me feel like my body was being twisted clockwise. Not for me.

I like how I was courageous enough to not fix the actual typos/failed commands in the actual history lol.

Pretty much, yeah.

Rather than jot down in a text file the various ffmpeg commands I use frequently…

Raktajino@laptop:~/Downloads$ history | grep ffmpeg
   12  sudo apt install audacity gimp ffmpeg mplayer
  184  history | grep ffmpeg
  215  ffmpeg -i source.mkv -ss 629 -t 7 out.mkv
  217  ffmpeg -i out.mkv -s 0.5 -vf scale=1280:720 out.mp4
  218  ffmpeg -i out.mkv -ss 0.5 -vf scale=1280:720 out.mp4
  231  ffmpeg -i out.mp4 -vf "subtitles=out.srt" final.mp4
  503  ffmpeg -i toofat.wav toofat.mp3
  ...
  682  history | grep ffmpeg
  684  ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[1:0] [2:0] concat=n=2" out.gif
  685  ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[1:0] [2:0] concat=n=2:v=1" out.gif
  686  ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[1:0] [2:0] concat=n=2:v=1" -map '[v]' out.gif
  687  history | grep ffmpeg
  688  ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[0:0] 12:0] concat=n=2:v=1" -map '[v]' out.gif
  689  ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[0:0] 1:0] concat=n=2:v=1" -map '[v]' out.gif
  690  ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[0:0] [1:0] concat=n=2:v=1" -map '[v]' out.gif
  691  ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[0:0] [1:0] concat=n=2"  out.gif
  694  history | grep ffmpeg

NuTrek does not seem to like the curmudgeon characters, does it? lol

I’m currently reading “Star Trek: Destiny” and the Borg are the big bad. Enjoying it so far (only about 1/3 into the first book of the trilogy).

I don’t really have a solid answer, and have only recently gone down the TrekLit rabbit hole, but I’d venture a couple of guesses:

1. Many of them utilize existing characters, so that might be problematic given the age of the cast and/or their availability.
2. I vaguely recall that existing characters for different series have to pay royalties to the writer who invented the character. I think this was the case for Nick Locarno and why Tom Paris is basically “We have Nick Locarno at home”
3. Probably some other IP legalese mucking things up as it is wont to do

When I posted yesterday looking to get some book suggestions, many of them involved existing characters. I think the “The Fall” series is all original characters, so it would probably be a good candidate. There’s probably others, but I’m not familiar enough yet to name any more.

The actor age / availability problem is probably solvable if the series was animated, though.

The Destiny trilogy by David Mack

Bought that one yesterday and am literally reading it now. Loving it so far; the pacing is fantastic.

Not long after the end of DS9. Garak remained on Cardassia Prime helping to rebuild after the end of the Dominion War. The framing structure of the book is a series of journal entries and letters from Garak to Dr. Bashir, so it covers a lot of time periods.