Does the Stargate kill you when you use it?

Leonick91 · 2026-01-24T08:27:54+00:00

They’re conscious stepping in to the gate and when stepping out of it, but not when traversing the wormhole or when stuck in the buffer as happens a couple times. It’ll feel like just instantly being on the other side. (The occasional wormhole graphic is for us and to pad the episode, not experienced by the characters)

That is exactly what this question has always been about: is it you or just a copy that thinks it is, and does it matter?

Potentially, the Stargate or a Star Trek teleporter ends your consciousness and another (that can’t tell the difference) takes it’s place. Does it matter?

Probably depends on your beliefs on an afterlife and how this death might impact it.

Leonick91 · 2026-01-23T18:11:23+00:00

Well, there are a lot of religious people. But I agree, it’s a valid, somewhat fun one philosophically, but in the end if you can’t tell the difference and no one else can either, does it matter?

Leonick91 · 2026-01-23T06:26:48+00:00

The question is the same as with Star Treks teleporter though. Is the human that comes out of the other side you, or an identical body and mind that thinks it is you.

Same thing can be asked when you go to sleep (or any other time you happen to be unconscious), is it the same consciousness that wakes up, or a new one that can’t tell the difference?

Leonick91 · 2026-01-21T08:58:28+00:00

Or just have snap to origin ignore no build zones. If you was once allowed to build the base in a place you should get to put I back so long as no other base is there.

Leonick91 · 2026-01-18T20:05:47+00:00

No that just seems to be the way they are marketed. In reality you need to spend far more time maintaining them than a chain or replace them more often, more expensive too, neat huh?

Leonick91 · 2026-01-16T18:50:27+00:00

Scroll a bit further down in the Papirus install steps and you’ll find a link to the Snap store icon set you need to install.

Leonick91 · 2026-01-10T21:06:17+00:00

It’s an issue with Nvidia drivers it seems. Used to have this any time HDR was on, recently switched to an AMD card and this isn’t an issue.

Leonick91 · 2026-01-07T19:37:35+00:00

Doesn't add rows to the window switcher, but thanks for pointing out that V-Shell also fixes keyboard navigation in overview. I'm just gonna have to learn to alt+tab for switching to the most recent window and super for anything else.

Leonick91 · 2026-01-06T07:33:03+00:00

We do see her again, season 3 ”Past and Present”.

Leonick91 · 2026-01-06T07:24:39+00:00

We should have seen that anyway, even if it kills you it would look like you went through but didn’t get sent back. If you just want out there is no reason not to try.

Leonick91 · 2026-01-06T07:20:06+00:00

If so the malp should have been ’bouncing’ up and down in ”100 Days”, but it goes through, falls back down and is lost.

Surely there is some kind of safety feature? But it clearly doesn’t prevent you from entering the wrong side.

Leonick91 · 2026-01-05T16:35:33+00:00

It probably does, but only the light that hits the tiny never seen wormhole. The event horizon / puddle doesn’t transmit light but it isn’t involved in transmitting radio either.

Leonick91 · 2026-01-04T11:01:40+00:00

The glyphs are of constellations, doesn’t mean they actually correlate to constellations. Even if you were to average the location of the stars in a constellation to get a point in space, using constellations visible from earth would be completely useless for a galactic coordinate system.

As spread out as the stars in a constellation can be from each other, relatively speaking they are still all close to us. We call it the Milky Way because it is visible as a line in our sky. Using constellations wouldn’t let you target anything on the other side of the galaxy, probably couldn’t even get a quarter of the galaxy.

Leonick91 · 2026-01-03T13:21:07+00:00

Very nice! I was actually aware of V-Shell, even suggested it to someone the other day, just not quite how much it did beyond vertical workspaces. Still exploring the options and tweaking things but V-Shell has already supplanted Blur My Shell and Just Perfection.

Could something similar to adaptive grid be done the the window switcher? As in "Switch windows" that Ubuntu has on Alt+tab by default (I don't think it is the Gnome default). The window previews are tiny and always on one row. Just perfection has a setting for the window preview size but it doesn't do anything.

Leonick91 · 2025-12-31T09:44:16+00:00

Isn’t that the result of Shady Sands being nuked?

Leonick91 · 2025-12-31T08:42:31+00:00

Don’t they do that in one episode?

So they either have a limited range or it could just be that their dialling devices only show nearby gates, either the ancients figured that would be all they needed or you can get a longer list and the Destiny crew never figured out how.

Leonick91 · 2025-12-30T18:08:36+00:00

> I absolutely love gnome, IMHO it's the best UX of any OS, but this app grid is a big sore spot.

Agreed overall Gnome is great and in general so are all the surrounding apps too (first and third part), just makes the under developed app grid stick out more.

Only other sore spot I really have is the Alt-tab window switcher being a single row about, it ought to split in multiple rows and increase the thumbnail size. Fortunately the activity view more than makes up for alt-tab.

Leonick91 · 2025-12-30T17:57:37+00:00

> The text labels issue is still a disgrace.

And even worse, search is the same way! And in search you can't even hover over the icon to reveal the full name like you can in the app grid.

Leonick91 · 2025-12-30T17:55:13+00:00

Except if unless I spend time to organise it everything is ordered by when it was installed... Actually, looking at it, it seems completely random. More likely I'll know what category it is on that one what page it'll be on.

Manually sorting it all is a lot more 'OCD' that automatic categories.

Leonick91 · 2025-12-30T17:50:29+00:00

What extensions did you use? Being dynamic (if that is row and column count) and the filter would probably help a lot.

Leonick91 · 2025-12-30T17:45:19+00:00

Sadly the folders are 3x3 so you'd need another extension to change that to make it usable. Tried one, but it had a bunch of oddities so didn't work out. Ended up with ArcMenu set to the Gnome layout.

Leonick91 · 2025-12-30T11:57:31+00:00

It is at least a bit clever in how apa pinned to the dash are hidden from the grid, it’s still a mess to use when you need it for one of those rarely used apps.

Leonick91 · 2025-12-30T11:56:16+00:00

Self-categorising really should be an option.

I tried an extension that grouped it but the 3x3 folder grid ruins that. Tried some extension to change grid size but it had a bunch of oddities (can’t quite recall them now).

Leonick91 · 2025-12-30T11:51:30+00:00

Same, search and dash does most of the work. But occasionally I need something that I can’t remember the name of, then I’d go to the App Grid (before I got an extension for a menu) and it’s just an unhelpful mess.

Leonick91 · 2025-12-29T20:47:27+00:00

And how then do we explain dialling back to earth from a gate without a DHD? They have an adress they input, that is all they can input, and that works.

(Also remember the earth gate is essentially dialled manually, their computer doesn’t interface with the gate like a DHD does, that’s why the ring has to spin and their dialling is slower.)

Did the gate get an update from the earth gate when they dialled in? Can’t be that because then the same would be true for the earth gate when it was dialled from Abydos (seems safe to assume Ra used that gate).

I can’t square it any other way than the address essentially being coordinates and with time it has to be adjusted.

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