JWBananas @ JWBananas @startrek.website

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no dramas where the events in the episode are less important than the character development

VOY. What you're looking for is VOY. The character development always reset at the end of the episode, just like the damage to the ship.

You certainly aren't describing TNG.

Once upon a time, a prominent YouTuber released an entire video rant about the fan backlash he was receiving.

He had spent years building up his channel and producing quality content of a very specific type. He had almost a million subscribers, and he was previously received very well.

Then one day he decided to spend months producing and releasing content of a closely related – but different – type. At first it was mostly received well, but it ultimately wasn't what people wanted from his channel. And it just kept coming.

Enter the rant. The short of his argument was that he was producing quality content with high production value. And that should be good enough for his fans.

But it wasn't. Because it wasn't the content that they wanted.

And he kept going. So his views went down. And his subscribers went down too. And he got so frustrated that he ended up just walking away for months.

This week's episode of Strange New Worlds was objectively good. It was well written and well performed.

But I still squirmed through it. And if I hadn't suspected that it might be very important to the long-term plot, I probably would have just skipped it altogether. I'll certainly skip it on any rewatch.

And that's okay. We're allowed to like some things and not like others. Strange New Worlds seems to be on a path du jour, and there's nothing wrong with that.

But when people give a simple star rating, they aren't leaving a professional review. They aren't considering production value. They're saying they liked it, or they hated it, or something in-between.

From IMDB instructions on leaving ratings:

Our ratings are on a scale from 1 - 10. 1 meaning the title was terrible and one of the worst titles you've seen and 10 meaning you think it was excellent.

That's it.

That's why you're seeing those one-star reviews. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Frankly of the 19 episodes released so far, this is the only one I can say that I really didn't like. All in all, I think that's a pretty good average.

For all we know, it was a temporal paradox in which Boimler was always the reason Spock changed back in the first place.

O'Brien La'an must suffer

How many hardware RAID controllers have you had fail? I have had zero of 800 fail. And even if one did, the RAID metadata is stored on the last block of each drive. Pop in new card, select import, done.

There's a reason TruNAS and such use ZFS now.

Do you mean for the boot drive?

This might be controversial here. But if reliability is your biggest concern, you really can't go wrong with:

• A proper hardware RAID controller

You want something with patrol read, supercapacitor- or battery-backed cache/NVRAM, and a fast enough chipset/memory to keep up with the underlying drives.

• LVM with snapshots
• Ext4 or XFS
• A basic UPS that you can monitor with NUT to safely shut down your system during an outage.

I would probably stick with ext4 for boot and XFS for data. They are both super reliable, and both are usually close to tied for general-purpose performance on modern kernels.

That's what we do in enterprise land. Keep it simple. Use discrete hardware/software components that do one thing and do it well.

I had decade-old servers with similar setups that were installed with Ubuntu 8.04 and upgraded all the way through 18.04 with minimal issues (the GRUB2 migration being one of the bigger pains). Granted, they went through plenty of hard drives. But some even got increased capacity along the way (you just replace them one at a time and let the RAID resilver in-between).

Edit to add: The only gotcha you really have to worry about is properly aligning the filesystem to the underlying RAID geometry (if the RAID controller doesn't expose it to the OS for you). But that's more important with striping.

Lithium batteries

Munich

Thankfully this one doesn't require AI. You can generally find the most important sentences in an article by counting the occurrences of every unique word, throwing out the common articles (e.g. a, an, the), and then extracting the sentences which contain the most frequently used words.

🎵 They got the mustard uncertainty out! 🎵

Dab, don't wipe

Or they don't, but 23rd century medicine isn't sophisticated enough to detect/understand the damage.

I am not a vet, and even I had to turn it off and come back to watch it later when I was prepared. That was super triggering.

🎵 Through early morning fog I see

Visions of the things to be

The pains that are withheld for me

I realize and I can seeeeeee... 🎵

M'Benga: I can live with it

FYI whatever is going on with language settings seems to be significantly affecting kbin as well. Most of the posts here aren't showing up over there at all; and the ones that do show up have no/few comments.

There are definitely longer story arcs in Lower Decks :)

Try starting with season 1 episode 9, Crisis Point and watch forward from there for a few episodes. If you enjoy it, go back and watch the rest.

Is M-5 here yet? This should be nominated.