data1701d (He/Him)

“Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?”

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

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  • The KMS timeouts almost make me wonder if the graphics chip is snorting some sort of crack.

    Just to be safe, maybe try booting a live USB and see what happens. To be very sure, you could even try multiple distro/DE combos on the live disk.

    If it’s RAM, it should be easily replaceable on a laptop of that age. If it’s the graphics chip, then it’s probably time to find some other laptop. You can probably still press this to service in a homelab, though.



  • Old isn’t necessarily bad. Also, as far as I can tell, distros are still patching 1.32. Based on my personal usage of LightDM and the fact that the project is still developed (based on commits to main), I’d say it’s more of an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” dynamic. As for security, the active development suggests the developers would respond if there was a vulnerability - a big if, considering its last CVE was in 2017.

    Personally, I love LightDM - it has just enough features while mostly sticking to its name (I mean, you’re probably using GTK anyway).



  • The appearance of the D once again brings me back to the question - is each reality also in the year 2382, or is there a temporal differential that randomly varies?

    There are a couple other instances begging this question:

    • Captain Tersal is wearing a TNG-era uniform. It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to just say the uniform was never retired in her timeline and are intended to be kept largely the same like the monster maroons, but it still presents a possibility.
    • Boimler is able to read about alt-Boimler’s missions on the alt-PADD. Does this mean alt-Boimler’s timeline is a bit ahead, or is the PADD somehow maintaining its connection with the alternate timeline?

    I might also add that it being a Galaxy Class Enterprise alone does not mean it is the D - we only know it’s the Enterprise D because of Ransom calling it “the purple D”.