@renice#Discovery is red team. #DS9 is the beleaguered #neteng that keeps getting told there's no funding for a dedicated blue team. Except sometimes #section31 comes along claiming to be blue team, but they're really a bunch of self-motivated charcoal-hat cowboy coders on shadow projects. You're pretty sure most of them couldn't pass the company code of conduct policy tests. There's a persistent rumor they're going to get formally recognized as a skill team any quarter now.
#Voyager is that startup that never quite lands their IPO, and keeps having to seek new sources of VC funding along the way. They keep picking up new people, and the old hands can barely remember what it was like before seven years of 24/7 crunch time.
#Prodigy is that code #bootcamp that gets away with not charging for their services because the parent company accidentally bundled them with a datacenter's electric bill, where they're just noise in the budget.
#Picard is the local #Solaris users group that's all gung-ho about #Illumos. They've got some good points and originated some iconic features, but they're principally about nostalgia these days.
#tos is the retrocomputing club. Spectrum Sinclairs and Altairs line the walls, but are mostly for show. Someone converted an old IBM POWER workstation into a #Hackintosh so they could show Kid Pix to the kids. Everybody else spends their time showing off their DOS savegame files on the club's file server. One guy is playing DOOM in the corner with the music coming from an external Roland MIDI keyboard. Another guy figured out how to launch old DOS door games under containerized #dosemu instances via inetd, but people stopped talking to him once he solved the sandbox escape problem by having systemd launch the containers on-demand in a deprivileged chroot.
#StrangeNewWorlds is the club founded by that guy from the retrocomputing club that got DOS door games running via systemd; Now he's porting his door game collection to run in #webassembly, and has managed to reach a new generation of people respinning the classics.
#Enterprise is the #beos users group. Really a subgroup of the local retrocomputing club. They hate it, because people keep confusing their interests with Mac OS Classic and Linux.
Started off watching the 1st 2 eps of #Enterprise which I remember as a kid seeing marketed as a gritty no-nonsense reboot that stripped all the fun #StarTrek stuff out to focus on po-faced bore-bags with a dingy submarine ascetic instead.
Watched the next two #StarTrek#Enterprise eps last night. Spooky ship of dead aliens and a wacky rock monster hallucination camp out. Still enjoying it. The rock monster one was good fun. The abandoned ship one made me miss #Firefly.
Still haven't memorised the names of the rest of the crew that aren't the Captain. I did notice it seems like they all start with T for some reason. Hoping for a big reveal where they're all secretly long lost siblings. 🤞
Pecan pie! What a fantastic bit of growth for T'Pol (looked the spelling up lol) great slower ep, lots of fun moments for the cast to show their personality & snowman building skills.
Recapping out of order just because I loved that ep, but the blue man group invading the Vulcan spy temple in the prior laser-fest episode was great too. Saw the twist ending coming but even so I thought it was well done.
Last night's #StarTrek#Enterprise wasn't bad, but the ep Civilization was a bit bland. I liked the malfunctioning translator leading to Archer getting some action. Also the lasers. The novelty of laser fights has not wore off as yet.
The rip roaring rampage of pirate revenge in the ep afterwards was just okay, it took a while to get going, and featured a lot of Travis (who I find a bit of a bore) but again the lasers helped.
Starting to really fall for #StarTrek#Enterprise. Ep 11 goes hard with time travel and expanding the lore, but ep 12 was the best of the two tonight. Sinister super shielded-up bug-face alien stalkers harass the ship, and it's a legit good bit of tense storytelling with the extra laser power being tested, but my favourite part is all that drama is running alongside a quest to figure out a nice meal for the British dude's birthday. Weirdly adorable.
A Dr Phlox centric ep of #StarTrek#Enterprise last night, finally, and it was so well done. Epistolary narration, a great touch, made it easier to spotlight his alien thought process without sacrificing how sweet and relatable he is. That shot where he's sitting alone in the canteen broke me a little bit. Sit with him, you stupid humans!
Great stuff, unfolds around a traditional Trek style moral conundrum too. Probably my fav ep so far. Dog remains super cute also.
I was tired sadly and fell asleep partway through ep 14 so I'll have to finish that one later. Still really enjoying this show. I do have to skip through the theme song though. Oof. #StarTrek#Enterprise
#StarTrek#Enterprise ep 14 aka the horny sweaty underwear on a spaceship ep was fun, best look yet at the Klingons and their sensorily satisfying foreheads. Not to mention a good look at some of the crew ahem 👀 for a 1st season this show is coming in thirsty lol
& why is Trip becoming my fav character?? Expected to hate the guy! When he teases Archer about the Klingon captain killing him to take control of the ship with a little fist of solidarity he legit cracked me up.
A pair of #StarTrek#Enterprise eps focused on 2 of the cast ending up stuck together. 1st T'Pol/Archer then Reed/Trip.
Fun banter in both eps + a much needed showcase for Reed (fka British guy). Feel like he's really earned his spot now, especially with his thing for T'Pol (lol) . He'll be gutted if he finds out how up close and chesty she and Archer got the ep before!
Only complaint is ep 16 was so good it deserved a less rushed ending. Really warming to the crew.
Poor T'Pol. Another great (though triggering) ep, this show surprises me once again for how well written it is. I always hear classic #StarTrek took risks, well hand it to #Enterprise for that gruesome mind meld scene, I'd say a risky choice right there.
Not that I have a wide pool of Vulcan mind melds to draw on but, for me, jesus christ, that shit got dark! Also props to Archer for exposing the creepy Vulcan & being the good dad figure we all needed for T'Pol in that moment.
Oh my god they did a Die Hard! And (sorry Dear Doctor) it's the best ep yet! Safe to say I'm becoming a little bit smitten with this show. Not much to say about the actual ep - it's Die Hard on a spaceship, it's awesome! Fun intro to the Ferengi, whom I didn't know too well.
#Enterprise is such a good gateway drug to #StarTrek as a whole. Thought I'd be eager to move on and get to the more famous shows but how can you not love something that gives you Die Hard on a spaceship?!
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Great Enterprise episode demonstrating that even enemies can put aside their differences and work together
TOS (8ET): Is There In Truth No Beauty
TNG (9ET): The Hunted
DS9 (10ET): Homefront, Part 1
VOY (11ET): Fair Haven
ENT (midnight): Dawn
By chance does anyone have a link to a recording of the #enterprise#Linux panel from #FOSSY today? I'm very interested to watch it, but sadly couldn't make it to the conference this time.
For those needing to work with TAR.BZ2 files and using SUSE, the solution, though simple:
sudo zypper install bzip2
Or if using SUSE's transactional distribution, such as Micro OS, for example.
sudo transactional-update pkg install bzip2
Then reboot.
Every mainstream distribution from Debian to Ubuntu to Red Hat to Arch Linux has this setup out of the box, but SUSE wants to be "different" for no reason. 🙄