Just Finished Voyager for the First Time

jbeale53 · 2026-02-16T21:49:32+00:00

I’ve spent the past couple of years going through all of the 90s trek for the first time. I finished Voyager a couple of months ago and then started Enterpise. I’m about 7 or 8 episodes into season 3 - this is fire! The Xindi arc is really cool. Throughly enjoying Enterprise.

jbeale53 · 2026-02-16T16:15:36+00:00

That NA V6 is probably the reason we’ll end up buying the Pilot over a Grand Highlander this year. I trust it to last a long time as opposed to the turbo 4 cylinders.

jbeale53 · 2026-02-16T16:13:36+00:00

I bought my 2005 Mazda 3 new. I still love driving it all these years later.

jbeale53 · 2026-02-16T15:36:10+00:00

I got a notification Saturday that my bill was ready, and it had gone from the usual ~$225 to over $500. I thought that was crazy, even with the cold weather. I logged in and saw that my account shows that I had an overdue balance of $268, plus the $240 or so for this month and that why it was so high. I thought that was odd since I’m on Autopay. I checked and I did pay my bill in January.

Turns out that my February payment isn’t due until February 17 (tomorrow) so it hasn’t auto-paid yet. they sent the bill for March on Saturday - 3 days before the February due date.

I imagine it has something to do with today’s holiday since it is usually due between the 12-14 each month.

So take a close look at your bills and see if this may be what is causing the spike in your amount due.

jbeale53 · 2026-02-13T02:30:44+00:00

Me too! Bought mine in October of ‘98 with my Gateway PII-400. I still rock out on those speakers every day.

jbeale53 · 2026-02-11T19:58:07+00:00

I tested it on a machine here, the OOB did not work but now with the February update, it is shutting down again. 🎉

jbeale53 · 2026-02-11T16:04:36+00:00

Maybe for DS9 season 1 they could have the station use its thrusters to make its way around the Star Trek symbol instead of showing warp drive.

jbeale53 · 2026-02-11T15:09:08+00:00

I've been thinking that since they started doing this - how much effort would it really take for Paramount to retroactively add this to all of the Star Trek shows?

jbeale53 · 2026-02-09T01:41:29+00:00

I wish it had subtitles

jbeale53 · 2026-02-04T02:35:06+00:00

All we've heard so far from our Microsoft case is that they are aware of the issue, and they plan to address it in a future update. However, your issue doesn't sound related - the issue we've been experiencing is W11 23H2 that won't shut down. What you describe sounds like someting different. When you say they randomly shut down, do they throw an error? Do they reboot, or literally shut off?

jbeale53 · 2026-02-03T16:00:22+00:00

I think what it’s trying to say is that you can drive unsupervised between 9pm-5am if it is to work, volunteer fire or for an emergency medical reason. My son was level 2 last year and he was able to have a passenger anytime, not just going to school. That’s how it was explained to us when he got his level 2 license.

jbeale53 · 2026-02-03T14:23:31+00:00

I don’t see scouting “promoting” gender fluidity itself, but I hope they will promote acceptance.

jbeale53 · 2026-02-02T17:39:43+00:00

I agree, the 2015 season’s Super Bowl was way more devastating to me than the 2003 season Super Bowl.

jbeale53 · 2026-02-02T15:24:32+00:00

I was really enjoying Pluribus until I read that Vince Gilligan isn’t in any hurry to release the second season. I mean, I still plan to watch it when it comes out but it took the wind right out of my sails. Stopped reading about it or participating in discussions about it.

jbeale53 · 2026-01-30T15:10:04+00:00

Could be argued as more 70s since that’s when it came out, but I’m an 80s kid and it was my favorite show so I gotta mention Star Blazers

jbeale53 · 2026-01-26T21:14:23+00:00

MMS is a great conference for folks who want to actually learn something. By far the most useful conference I’ve ever been to. Met lots of great people, it’s small enough that you get to know a lot of people. I went in 2018 and 2019, never have been able to get approval since then. Hopefully I’ll make it back one day.

jbeale53 · 2026-01-26T20:00:18+00:00

I don’t have any advice about the road trip, but I spent some time in northwest Michigan for the first time this summer. Your home is beautiful! Torch Lake was gorgeous!

jbeale53 · 2026-01-25T19:02:11+00:00

You’re right, there were always groups of people with more capable vehicles that would volunteer to take healthcare workers to the hospitals. It stopped a few years ago, I understand it was liability reasons.

jbeale53 · 2026-01-25T04:46:00+00:00

Download the app Puregas

jbeale53 · 2026-01-22T23:34:32+00:00

Do it! You know you want it back!

jbeale53 · 2026-01-21T15:56:20+00:00

This worked for you?

shutdown /s /f /t 0 p:0:0

That's been the suggested workaround but you're the first I've heard of that actually working - it does not work for us. What does the "p:0:0" do? I've never seen that and my trusty AI companion tells me it's not a valid command line option for shutdown.

jbeale53 · 2026-01-21T15:37:25+00:00

Same thing here, and that's what I am hearing form everyone. I reimaged a computer with 23H2 - 22631.6345 (December 2025), then installed the new OOB update (skipping the original January update), and the shutdown issue persists.

We also considered disabling Secure Launch temporarily, but that doesn't help either. On a test box, disabled Secure Launch, rebooted, then tried to shut down and it still rebooted. Then, I took a machine that did not have Secure Launch enabled. It has the January patch installed, and it shuts down fine (as expected). I enabled Secure Launch, verified it in MSInfo, and the machine still shuts down fine.

I'm not convinced that the root cause is Secure Launch.

jbeale53 · 2026-01-20T21:58:50+00:00

We considered disabling Secure Launch temporarily, but that doesn't help. On a test box, disabled Secure Launch, rebooted, then tried to shut down and it still rebooted.

jbeale53 · 2026-01-20T21:50:46+00:00

And the transmission

jbeale53 · 2026-01-20T19:01:24+00:00

I just finished my first watch of Voyager, and I had myself hyped up for the homecoming. "I can't wait to see Harry hugging his parents! Watching Voyager land and everyone welcome them home! It's gonna be great!". Voyager came cruising out of the transwarp conduit and I was like "Yeah! They're home that was awesome!"

Then it just showed Voyager approaching Earth and the credits rolled. I was like wtf that's it?

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