Unless we go for the SNW retcon/Temporal Cold War shenanigans, in which case we still have a chance.

I have a pair of socks and pants with this on it.

Why does that look like Alexander Rozhenko but middle aged and with a drinking problem spurred by his traumatic childhood?

Is this xfce-winxp-tc? I ‘ve played with it before and it’s awesome.

However, I don’t use it because while the XP start menu replica is cool, I need a Win7-style search bar, and Whiskermenu sticks pit like a sore thumb here.

I think a 7 replica would be awesome, but I think some parts of Aero can only truly be replicated with a new WM and DE, such as the color changes in the taskbar for different applications. Many themes just fall short - proportions and effects are slightly off and such.

I think the main other distro I used in that VM at that time was Fedora 37 at that time, which should have also been using Wayland. I had made the VMs because I was working on Debian packaging for an application I liked and wanted to make sure the modifications I made didn’t break it on other distros.

I’m not necessarily a “Wayland is the embodiment of evil” kind of guy, but I love XFCE and pretty much won’t leave it unless it dies, meaning I’m on Xorg until they port XFWM4.

Not really, but I switched from Qwerty to Workman years ago, though I can live with Qwerty if I have to when it’s on someone else’s machine.

I use Workman because I found Colemak rather hard to learn, mostly because of the position of S being one over from where it was on Qwerty.

In order for them to be allowed on exams, I ghink they’re required to have a non-QWERTY layout.

Linux (and I think maybe even macOS) can do Ctrl+Shift+U, and then you type the Unicode hex number.

Discord also has an app from Linux - you can get it as a Flatpak (an official one) or as a native package, although they don’t provide a repo for native packages and expect you to manually download a package file every time there is an update.

For the native packages issue, someone created an apt repo on Github, and if you look in the CI routine, you can tell they’re using the official Discord packages and not modifying them.

Honestly, I should probably be sandboxing it more.

It’s annoying to use a proprietary service, but the This Might Be a Wiki community is rather enjoyable.

It’s not just packages. Ubuntu performance is terrible - it runs so much worse than other distros in VM. I don’t know about spins, but main Ubuntu takes 30 seconds to respond to some button presses whereas it’s nearly instant in other GNOME-using distros given equal or less resources.

Part of me wants to create a content fork of Memory Alpha that’s independently hosted. A couple years ago, I was messing with creating an LCARS skin, but didn’t get beyond a really janky proof of concept (https://gitlab.com/dexcube/lcars-mediawiki-skin); knowing more about MediaWiki skins now and wanting to redesign this for usability, I would probably rewrite this from the ground up now.

However, part of me also wants to do a wiki for the band Cheekface, since it doesn’t have much in the way of online documentation and their back catalog is getting larger. Also, even relatively in-depth coverage of the band is a much smaller undertaking than managing decades of canon.

Wasn’t sure how good this would be, but that was rather fun.

I was tempted to diss the banjo ship for being too generic a space ship, but it’s just so well executed I can’t.

Now, I what I really think we need is a full orchestra arrangement of “Faith of the Heart” done in a full orchestra arrangement like a classic theme. All there is right now is the crappy MIDI where they just changed a few instruments but didn’t change the arrangement.

Second result for search terms “O’Brien must suffer meme”

I thought for a split second this was just a repost of the one with Chief O’Brien, but was pleasantly surprised.

Frankly, I lack an understanding of the disdain for “All I Want For Christmas Is You” - I have heard much more annoying Christmas songs. It may be a bit cloying and heavily pop, but I think it’s well executed, at least compared to almost any Christmas song put out by a major artist in the 21st century. Also, I think My Chemical Romance pulled off a rather good cover that perhaps beats the original.

Maybe part of it is I have a 5 hour personal/family Christmas playlist that reduces the amount of repeated listens to a more manageable degree. In addition to more well-known ones and several covers, it is also filled to the brim with alternative and indie Christmas music - Jonathan Coulton especially is good at making atypical holiday songs that don’t get annoying.

You’re a top tier OC maker.

I’ll look into that. Thanks.

I swear Ubuntu does something - I have run different distros in equally-specced VMs, some with GNOME, and Ubuntu by far performs the worse. Sometimes, it’ll actually take 30 seconds to respond to a simple button click.

When I have to test builds with what’s in Ubuntu repos, I usually avoid using Ubuntu directly and opt for a derivative like PopOS (which has unfortunately fallen behind on getting to Ubuntu 24.04).

Firmly agree with you on that.

I would agree calling it a web crawler is inaccurate, but disagree with the reasoning; I think it’s more in the sense that calling an LLM a web crawler is akin to calling a search index a web crawler; in other words, an LLM could be considered a weird version of a search index.