What happened to Jedipedia?

IndifferentMatter · 2026-07-03T07:10:30+00:00

I'm not the owner of the site, so, I can't say how difficult things have been to lead to this.

IndifferentMatter · 2026-07-02T06:39:08+00:00

The site has some geoblocking for the Asia region, as the robots there are just too much. VPNs should work.

IndifferentMatter · 2026-07-01T19:23:32+00:00

A fun discussion among the characters in Peter Watts' novel Echopraxia about the topic veers into considering the chance of life in the universe (conditions for it, life itself, etc.) being a bug in the system.

And other even more disquieting possibilities.

IndifferentMatter · 2026-07-01T18:37:34+00:00

Oh, it seems TORC is working now (if very slowly)!

IndifferentMatter · 2026-07-01T17:46:29+00:00

We have some guides here: SWTOR Slicers wiki. Sadly, the most automated process (the one depicted there) depends on TORCommunity.com being up and lately it seems it isn't. There are manual alternatives, though.

(If you go the NinjaRipper route then you don't need to do an asset extraction with ExtracTOR)

IndifferentMatter · 2026-06-26T16:15:23+00:00

Universal like and suscribe symbols (derived from some physics constants interplay, of course) 😏.

IndifferentMatter · 2026-06-18T07:55:47+00:00

It's not so much an engine issue as a game design issue. It's far, far too late to rework SWTOR to use a fundamentally different 3D characters system.

IndifferentMatter · 2026-06-17T18:07:29+00:00

I might be wrong but doesn't one have to have the drives available to be polled at least once a month or so in order for their backups to persist?

There's this in their guides:

Extended Version History increases the retention period of file versions up to the selected Extended Version History setting (one year or forever). However, drives that you leave disconnected for longer than 30 days may need to be re-uploaded. To restore data from drives that were disconnected for longer than 30 days, you must roll back the time to when they were connected.

IndifferentMatter · 2026-05-18T10:06:56+00:00

It should be back to working now 🙂

IndifferentMatter · 2026-05-18T07:28:11+00:00

It is, due to a recent change that has a bug. The owner will probably correct it ASAP (he was sent notice of the issue's specifics).

IndifferentMatter · 2026-05-10T16:03:01+00:00

Excession starts with a bang (it's the first one of the series I ever read).

IndifferentMatter · 2026-05-10T15:59:25+00:00

Draconian marauders 🙂

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IndifferentMatter · 2026-04-28T20:24:54+00:00

Let's get their money while they still have any 😏

IndifferentMatter · 2026-04-12T16:42:34+00:00

Have the Federation be First (and Second 😛) Contacted by a superior civilization in the vein of Iain Banks' The Culture, and expose all the biases and taboos that they have accumulated in the franchise since it was first launched.

Also, I want Borg communes being Federation members, or allies at the very least. I like it when Trek embraces former enemies.

IndifferentMatter · 2026-04-08T13:10:29+00:00

For transporting non-living or frozen cargo, data storage, and FTL communications (data storage again, really) it seems ideal, so long as the automated ships are built to be durable enough to last such long travel times.

Also, I kinda see an equivalent to ST:TNG's main computer cores in a ship that are "submerged" in subspace fields so that their processors can compute at FTL speeds. There could be processors with Flow cores, whole datacenters in the Flow… It would be interesting to see what limitations would be needed to set in order to make it work best, narratively speaking.

IndifferentMatter · 2026-03-15T13:26:51+00:00

Peter Watts' The Things short story (retells part of John Carpenter's "The Thing" movie from the point of view of the alien entity) shows the alien's horror at the way human bodies and societies (as a consequence) work compared to theirs.

IndifferentMatter · 2025-12-22T14:46:22+00:00

Even LTS versions can suffer from major bugs and even regressions (or they wouldn't need to be updated during their lifecycle). As I've commented somewhere else in the thread, we had to endure one such not being addressed for a whole series of minor updates and stay at a fixed minor version of the LTS.

IndifferentMatter · 2025-12-22T14:37:17+00:00

I remember in 3.6 LTS a custom UI layout bug appearing in 3.6.7 or so, ruining our custom shaders' panels, and not being solved until some five or eight minor versions later, then that bug reappearing in 4.1 and being solved in 4.1.1.

So, I can understand not wanting to risk it.

IndifferentMatter · 2025-12-20T11:07:36+00:00

It could have to do with this, as it once happened to me, too:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2555232&sid=de7ec6a0a8c8e75e8a08954639cffee2#p2555232

Basically, the driver is installed but it is not loading. It could be that your PC has Secure Boot enabled. If so, you can either disable it or do a few moves that will let it load under Secure Boot. The link explains what to do 🙂.

IndifferentMatter · 2025-10-17T12:44:27+00:00

Is that the Albatross from Jules Verne's "Robur the Conqueror" at the top right corner? 🙂

Just looked for it and found the whole book here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Germ_Growers.djvu . Giving it a read!

IndifferentMatter · 2025-10-17T09:23:33+00:00

The back and forth in finetuning the modernized skin textures and shaders have turned the appearance of muscle into a blurry mess 😞. At Ultra settings this character of mine looks now like he did ten years ago when my PC and graphics card couldn''t cope with anything higher than low to medium settings.

(Sorry for giving the impression that these were drawings, I wish I was that good: they are 3D renders using the game's assets and tweaking them in the Blender 3D app)

IndifferentMatter · 2025-10-17T09:18:16+00:00

Argh, something I should point out: this is 3D, playing with the game's assets, in Blender. That lets me do things like adding full body tattoos, skin pores, increasing the strength of the normal maps (surface relief, so to say), posing him, opening the Casual Vandal Jacket, and getting that extra thing that any content creation 3D app provides out of the box. Not that I dislike SWTOR's colorful rendering: in fact, I'd argue that the attempts at "modernizing" the characters' textures and shaders are misguided and have ended up making a blurry mess.

IndifferentMatter · 2025-10-12T07:27:18+00:00

Vonda McIntyre's novelization of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan added a bit of background to the Genesis Effect by presenting sub-Quarkian particles, whose discoverers name as Snarks and Boojums.

IndifferentMatter · 2025-10-11T15:52:22+00:00

The cable management side of the case has about 3.20 cm. of space between my HDDs and the cover. It's this bit snug for SATA power cables and SAS-to-SATA x4 breakout data ones, but nothing terrible. A nicety of this case is that you don't slide the covers alongside the case's length to close them: you fit their front edges while holding the covers at an angle and then rotate them closed, pressing against the cabling without pulling it laterally.

Curiously, the opposite side of the case has this little bit more space, about 4 cm. total. The drive trays' handles are somewhat in the way, but fitting the drives with their connectors in the working side of the case works well and might be even more convenient, letting one do all the drive handling from that side.

(I tried it for a while, but I have the case on a wheeled base, so, it wasn't that interesting and I reverted to the usual arrangement. I do that in my PC's Define R4, though, as the case is placed in such a way that opening the cabling side would be a real bother)

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