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Kebab , to Literature in What's Lemmy reading?

Currently I’m finishing the fifth book of the Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan. Next will be the sixth book of the Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan :)

StillPaisleyCat OP , to Star Trek in Strange New Worlds Season 2 early review round up
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Fair enough.

I too felt Picard season three was heavily overhyped, especially by many of the Star Trek specialty sites.

In general though, I welcome nonspoilery general early reviews, especially from less specialized professional reviewers.

In this case, I am noticing that the more mainstream reviews are the most positive and the specialized genre or franchise reviews are working for a more measured tone than with Picard.

Is it because the genre reviewers have felt the disappointment with of some of fandom with Picard, or is it because they are at heart TNG era fans? Makes one wonder.

In my own case, I can forgive much of the overly positive reviews of Picard because I really found the early episodes the strongest, with the writers doubling down on everything that most concerned me in the back half of the season. It was episode 6 where the wheels of plot and character began to come off and nostalgia was given the work of heavy lifting TNG fans through to the end.

With SNW being episodic, six episodes would seem to be enough to know if the shows continuing strongly or hitting a sophomore slump. No one yet has called slump. So it seems that those who liked season one should expect to be satisfied with season two.

tRFRmrNe8Nj2Kimc , to Seattle in I see there is also a Seattle WA sub on here

Hello fellow Seattlites!

BlastboomStrice , to Literature in What do you use to track your reading?
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Been using Openreads, an open source app for android.😅

gingerrich , to Star Trek in I recently finished all of trek

I’ve been on a marathon since April. In order I’ve watched Discovery season 2-4, SNW, TNG, DS9 and am at season 6 of Voyager. I’ve also broken up Voyager with the first 6 movies.

I did manage a couple of ToS episodes but I honestly find ToS hard to watch.

Voyager is feeling like a slog so it’s not background viewing while I work from home and I’ve switched to The Orville for my evening viewing recently with a plan to watch Babylon 5 after.

syntaxseed , to Star Trek in I think Voyager is underrated
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@catshit_dogfart Voyager was my main Trek when I was younger and will always be my favourite. Janeway was awesome, and it's location in the Delta quadrant, far from Starfleet, made for some unique story opportunities.

When Seven was introduced, I was already bitter about the move Sliders made to remove a beloved character and bring on a hot woman, so I was really upset that Voyager did the same. But grew to love the character over time.

Voyager was fantastic & made me a Trek fan.

GoatTnder ,
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I’m still really sad that Kes was written off. Got no problem with Seven, but Kes was a good character on her own.

But, Neelix was pretty crap until Kes was removed from the show. Without her to be constantly jealous of, Neelix finally started to be useful and interesting.

c0mbatbag3l ,
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I agree 100%, his spat with Tom was annoying, I liked him better once she was out of the picture.

Shut_up_Wesley ,

I think the character of Kes was very poorly written. It limited the acting range of Jennifer Lien, which is only really given a chance to shine in the episode Warlord.

astromd , to Star Trek in I think Voyager is underrated

I really enjoyed Voyager and still watch episodes regularly. For me it was the idea of being so far from the “known universe” and what that would be like.

uin , to Sysadmin in Tool for Monitoring Bandwidth in Real Time

So you want the available bandwidth to be monitored in “real time”, but you don’t want constant speed tests to happen. Then you mention a script doing a speed test.

You’re gonna have to choose: Either you run some kind of Speedtest on a regular basis, which will give you somewhat “real-time” results, or you don’t do it, and you don’t have real-time data as a result.

A very quick google search brought up this power shell script, that even formats the results for PRTG:

github.com/greiginsydney/New-OoklaSpeedTest.ps1

DonnieNarco OP ,
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Yeah, I am a bit scatter brained today…lol. I am not sure what I want, but I will check out that github and see what I can do with that. Thank you!

pete ,

So, a speed test can show bandwidth but so can a graph, when you see the flat line, you’ve hit your limit.

Use interface counter graphs to map out b/s and then you’ll be able to see where you’re actually maxing out. If you’ve hit a bandwidth limit on a connection but your graph is still spiky it’s not you it’s them.

uin ,

But if he wanted that historical data for, say, making sure an ISP delivers promised bandwidth, then unless he’s constantly maxing out the connection, the usage graph is going to be fairly useless.

pete ,

Yes, but doing a speed test while you’re using the link isn’t an accurate test, so it’s extremely difficult to be able to show bandwidth issues with anything other than a graph. If the ISP is not giving you your full bandwidth, you’ll flatline below the full bandwidth on the graph. If you are using half your link and do a speed test you will only get results for about half your link unless you drop all other traffic to do the speed test.

usualsuspect191 , to Home Improvement in new build, rock filled yard.

Are you able to include some pictures by chance?

Crone1701 , to Star Trek in Strange New Worlds Season 2 early review round up

The person from TV guide called it a “miracle”. Several times. tvguide.com/…/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season…

Neb , to Home Improvement in How do you texture drywall without it looking like hot garbage?

I have never done this myself (not a lot of drywall in europe), but I found this video which seems to describe exactly what you want youtu.be/FonedKgrP5U?t=224

hope it helps!

witten OP ,

Thanks, I’m watching it now!

EDIT: Looks like they’re using one of the spray cans. I’ve tried one of those before—with uneven results. Maybe I need to work on my technique though.

Billy_Gnosis ,
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Good find. Wish I had this video when I did my repair.

davefischer , to Literature in Who are some of your favorite "pulpy" authors?
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From the original “pulp” era: Sax Rohmer. Love that 1920s pulp fiction. He’s horribly racist, but it’s enjoyable if you just swap the “heroes” and “villians” in your head as you read. (Fu Manchu is the most evil man in the world because… he wants to free China from British colonial rule? Right. Go Fu Manchu!)

Also, Doc Savage. I like Doc in the same way I like the 60s Batman TV show: I don’t particularly like the “heroes”, I just enjoy the environment. (In one Doc Savage story I read recently, Doc’s plane is described as being so INCREDIBLY high-tech and bleeding edge, that the WHEELS RETRACT WHEN IN FLIGHT. Amazing. WHAT ELSE WILL THE FUTURE BRING!?!?)

I grew up on Lovecraft, but have discovered that what I like most in his work was done better, previously, by Lord Dunsany. (Particularly the Dream Quest stuff.)

I own a few magazines from the end of that era. These are issues #2 & #3 of Fantastic Magazine, 1952:

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Uniquitous , to Star Trek in Who cares, go back to reddit

Airlock’s to your left

leopardboy , to Star Trek in UPDATED 9-3: StarTrek.website - Lemmy info, FAQ, Patreon info, future plans, and more!
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I’ve joined the Patreon, but I won’t be opening an account on the instance since I’ll be following your communities from my own. Thanks so much!

Admin OP ,
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Counselor, I am happy to read this… and yet I am crying. Perhaps my emotion chip is malfunctioning? (thank you so much🖖)

shoephones , to Home Improvement in How do you texture drywall without it looking like hot garbage?

Just to add on, I’ve heard it’s good to practice on cardboard to get the right pattern

witten OP ,

Yup, that totally makes sense. I’m running out of cardboard though. :D

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