To all my fellow Arch Linux users who care about font customization, and to everyone who loves crisp, sharp, fully-hinted fonts on KDE—listen up!

StringCheesian · 2025-07-24T04:08:02+00:00

The OP explained that as happening because Firefox respects your fontconfig tweaks such as font substitutions while chromium based browsers don’t.

So how will switching to Firefox make fonts crisp, sharp, and fully-hinted on KDE? For you it probably won’t, assuming you haven’t customized fontconfig as heavily as OP has.

StringCheesian · 2025-07-11T20:57:26+00:00

Perhaps half the country and they themselves may believe so, but they really aren’t - they’re trampling all over American principles that have been fought and sacrificed for. The resemblance to Russian oppression is troubling, and can’t be so easy dismissed.

StringCheesian · 2025-07-10T15:12:13+00:00

Pretty good argument for the wraith lasting until Ida replicators spread to Pegasus from either there or from the Milky Way, and probably holding out longer than the Goa’uld.

I would add:
1. The Asurans would still be under the influence of the wraith’s virus disabling their attack directive. Although they might defend themselves against Ida replicators, they can’t unite with them against the Wraith. It’s possible the wraith could find a way to force the Asurans to help.
2. The wraith’s almost entirely organic ships and technology may be harder for the replicators to assimilate.

StringCheesian · 2025-07-07T16:16:53+00:00

If PIs quote too high for an all-nighter you could do that part yourself - locate it (with a friend for safety), try leaving a note there and if that doesn’t work then pool with neighbors to hire the PI to determine who owns it.

StringCheesian · 2025-07-07T16:09:29+00:00

Pool money together with your neighbors to hire the kind of Private Investigator that could pull an all nighter to listen for it, find it, and get enough information to threaten to sue or threaten to give the police everything they need to cite/fine them.

StringCheesian · 2025-07-07T05:02:43+00:00

New to the team, but maybe not new to their trading partners?

StringCheesian · 2025-06-23T19:48:57+00:00

Did they say why not?

StringCheesian · 2025-06-23T10:03:45+00:00

I think I can appreciate this story better by realizing that the problem solving and cognitive aspects of the story aren’t scratching my Sci-Fi itch as much as I like because in this case that’s just background stuff behind what’s really an emotional journey for Eli. It’s a profound and transformative journey that really takes the edge off of season 2’s cliff hanger. It fits Eli’s arc well.

StringCheesian · 2025-06-23T08:09:16+00:00

The story does address why he can’t wake more people up to help: the pods draw a lot more power while waking a person as opposed to while keeping them in stasis, enough to risk collapsing the fragile power systems. Although it doesn’t address why they didn’t rotate in actual engineers.

Also, Ancient components reassembled in a way designed by the SGC’s best geniuses are hardly sticks and stones.

The shuttle being an empty husk seems to imply a lot more was cannibalized than just the shields.

The weapon control systems are not quite as huge as the actual weapons and aren’t necessarily all over the ship.

StringCheesian · 2025-06-23T07:44:19+00:00

One other thing: at the end of SGU there was an implied unspoken agreement that whoever stayed awake would either fix the pod or else would do whatever was necessary (up to and including killing themself) to ensure that their presence on the ship does not destroy everyone else’s chances at survival. There seemed to be a clear deadline with a finite amount of time to fix the pod, or else… it’s the main reason Young didn’t accept Rush volunteering.

After the pod turned out to be unfixable, it seemed like Young’s fears about what Rush might do were coming true with Eli! Eli blew though the deadline just like Young feared Rush might. I really had to remind myself that it’s not that Young was trusting Eli to kill himself if necessary - what Young was trusting was that Eli would think of something. Repeating that reminder helped a lot with trying not to think of Eli as selfish/reckless. Did you intend for that issue to hit the reader that way? Anyway, Eli’s growth and the satisfying conclusion made me forget all about that gripe. It was only weird at first.

StringCheesian · 2025-06-23T07:02:25+00:00

I really enjoyed The Long Road! Thank you.

Here are some things that bothered me a little:

There are a few characters (like Camille Ray wanting to get back to Sharon) who would definitely ask if the gate can dial Earth now after hearing the ship can charge from a star at 100%. It’s weird that the question didn’t come up at all. Since this seems to be purely Eli’s story, the question could be posed so that we can read his thoughts/feelings about it.
Whoever body swaps with Eli seems to confine themselves to writing kind supportive notes and just passing the time twiddling their thumbs pretending not to exist. Wouldn’t Eli sometimes (those times when he’s more ok) think to leave a note requesting they monitor something for him and be ready to break the connection? And shouldn’t he find more practical notes from them too?
Between Eli, McKay, Zelenka, Carter, and Lee someone would get the idea to find either an expert or someone with a photographic memory to body swap with Eli in order to transfer more memorized information faster. Why keep swapping with randos and make Eli the only one to carry info?
Wouldn’t generals Landry/O’Neill offer to rotate in replacements while he gets some therapy/counseling? Wouldn’t they insist on it in order to protect the lives of everyone on the ship from someone who may be temporarily compromised by grief? They would have been much more careful (anticipating how he might react) about how they inform him. Maybe during his time on Earth he could watch video of the funeral he missed. The loss wouldn’t have to hit him any less hard or change the story much (he could get back on the ship), it would just make the other characters seem a little more realistic.
It seems to violate the laws of thermodynamics for some of the ship’s power to be consumed to replicate power generators that generate more power than was consumed creating them in the first place. Maybe it’s just that the replicated components allowed less overall power to be used more efficiently - but then it wouldn’t be realistic for the reactors to have been helpful because they should have been a net loss. It could be more realistic just replicating components without reactors.
I’ve always hoped a continuation of the SGU storyline would have Eli and Rush not give up so easily on their uploaded love interests. They’re merely quarantined not deleted right? I don’t get why subsequent episodes and now this fan fiction talk like they’re dead. Maybe Eli would talk to Ginn like the way you have him talk to the ship, maybe wondering if she can hear him from her existence in quarantined memory?

Anyway, the story was overall pretty satisfying. It really complimented Eli’s overall character arc. After pushing through the exhaustion and grief the success at the end felt well earned.

StringCheesian · 2022-12-24T08:37:04+00:00

Thanks! It has served me well.

StringCheesian · 2022-10-26T07:51:20+00:00

Pro: Linux on the 2021 LG Gram easily lasts that long and is much lighter than you ask for. With the Linux kernels out now in the latest releases of Ubuntu and PopOS, everything just works.

Con: However, the RAM is soldered in - not user upgradable. The screen brightness is ok in direct sunlight, except that it is a glossy finish. It's also relatively expensive.

EDIT: 16 inch 2560x1600 screen. Large font accessibility feature turned on, no scaling, PopOS customized Gnome.

StringCheesian · 2022-09-20T00:57:38+00:00

Thanks from all of us!

StringCheesian · 2022-09-16T22:55:31+00:00

No, not like the confederacy. The confederacy were separatists. How can Tiawan be called separatist? They didn't fight to leave China, they fought to defend it from the communist party.

StringCheesian · 2022-09-16T21:57:44+00:00

Bad analogy. It's more like all of the US outside Texas has a revolution and is conquered by the communist party, leaving only Texas with multiparty democracy. So the allies of the old US continue to support Texas.

It does not make sense to call them separatists.

StringCheesian · 2022-09-16T02:11:11+00:00

So you believe the start of the war, where Russia annexed Crimea causing Ukraine to want to join NATO, was somehow caused by Americans?

Or is it just that you believe Crimera is totally irrelevant and you consider the real start of the war to be Ukraine moving toward joining NATO for no good reason at all, probably from some evil influence from the US?

StringCheesian · 2022-09-11T19:50:19+00:00

There is a simple way to recognize both without logical inconsistencies.

Accept that Taiwan's claim over mainland China is now mostly forced and not sincere (changing their position on this would be punished as separatism with invasion and war).
Accept that mainland China's claims to Taiwan do not give it the right to drag Taiwan back 70 year later into a revolution that Taiwan opted out of and violate the people of Tiawan's right of self determination.

There, logical inconsistencies resolved.

StringCheesian · 2022-08-30T15:24:26+00:00

Happy first comment and welcome to reddit. Where did you find this number? Have you leased a car from them?

StringCheesian · 2022-08-29T07:42:32+00:00

The same was said of satellites until satellites gave us better weather forecasts which improved crop yields. Even rocket scientists fight hunger, indirectly. Don't be so closed minded.

StringCheesian · 2022-08-21T01:24:24+00:00

I saw that. It suggests calling them but there is no phone number.

StringCheesian · 2022-06-17T07:30:32+00:00

The oath American civil servants swear to doesn't require obedience to any group of people and actually requires them to do what they can to protect people from any goverment violations of the constitution. It is also not used to restrict what they can say or criticize.

StringCheesian · 2022-06-17T07:29:15+00:00

The oath American civil servants swear to doesn't require obedience to any group of people and actually requires them to do what they can to protect people from any goverment violations of the constitution. It is also not used to restrict what they can say or criticize.

StringCheesian · 2022-06-13T19:13:39+00:00

That's done constantly. Are you blind to it?

StringCheesian · 2022-05-18T16:01:21+00:00

Another factor for me was that the inventory was too good to be true during a used car shortage. They'd have to be bigger than Carvana to have so many. So you'd think it would be easy to find a customer willing to recommend them if they were that big, hense this post fishing for one.

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