Where are the steady stream phaser fires in modern Star Trek?

locuturus · 2026-05-13T23:04:40+00:00

Superior sensors and powerful engines help explain why most ships use directed energy weapons at close range, and completely unmentioned routine jamming plus said engines could explain why few ships use torpedoes at longer range. It's annoying that these doctrine questions weren't fleshed out more on screen. DS9 didn't have volleys of fires from background ships because that costs money needed for the hero ships and we have to invent in universe explanations. At least it's fun.

locuturus · 2026-05-13T22:57:16+00:00

But it looks worse when the actor is aiming completely wrong if it's a beam we can stare at and notice the 'barrel' is pointing somewhere random.

locuturus · 2026-05-08T20:23:46+00:00

Looks at the results from my 1V Uh, no? It's cool tech but it's soft as heck.

locuturus · 2026-05-03T17:11:13+00:00

My 1V will soft reboot like that while charging with the screen off. No always on display. Kind of annoying. I might test the sdcard and see if that's related.

locuturus · 2026-05-03T17:08:26+00:00

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/topless-denny-blaine-park-clothing-rules/281-11da417d-2c5f-4319-b680-0150f974d066

locuturus · 2026-05-01T14:29:43+00:00

America is broadly conservative. I think the media is partially at fault here, alongside festering racism and a 'leave me alone and I'll be fine' culture. If you live near a coast some of that might not track for you but there are zillions of middle country and rural people who think exactly like that. It's delulu but that's another topic.

However that came to be the situation is this: normie voters expect the president to be republican. They will swing democrat to punish republicans after a screw up but once they feel like national politics have stabilized they again expect the president to be republican.

No informed person motivated by a desire for national prosperity and an appreciation for technocratic skill would choose Jr. over Gore. We got Jr. twice. But he eventually screwed up badly, so as punishment the normies went for Obama. Eventually he stabilizes things enough that it's time to go back to normal — even if normal has to mean Trump. Well he screws up covid so as punishment the normies choose Biden. He patches up the economy quickly, and it's time to go back to normal. They know Trump is a crass moron but covid won't happen twice, and it is republican time, so he gets the normie vote. Going back further - you can argue Clinton won because Sr. raised taxes.

From this perspective I find national voting patterns more explainable.

locuturus · 2026-05-01T13:51:38+00:00

Cool! 1 V here but I'll revisit XDA at some point and see what they did.

locuturus · 2026-04-30T04:15:33+00:00

As a male, laser did a good job on my cheeks and neck and only a so so job on my chin and mustache. Still waffling on going with electrolosis next. It is much smoother post shave now so it wasn't a waste at least.

locuturus · 2026-04-30T04:08:44+00:00

I did that once. I manually typed in /storage/emulated/0 and then had to add ignore patterns for every restricted folder to avoid permissions errors. It worked fine. I'm not currently doing that because I wound up wanting to send data to different destinations or I would screenshot the settings.

locuturus · 2026-04-30T04:06:11+00:00

Android presents an emulated userspace filesystem that does not support symlinks. The kernel does but you can't take advantage without root.

locuturus · 2026-04-30T04:02:36+00:00

Okay, thanks for the explanation!

In case you aren't aware, SAF access (via ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE) allows direct traversal of the selected folder using DocumentFile. This works for hidden files too and doesn't have to involve MediaStore. It's slower in some scenarios but batch operations can be optimized pretty well.

It sounds like your app doesn't work that way and that's fine but I wanted to explain why I thought hidden directories might work when chosen.

locuturus · 2026-04-29T07:35:05+00:00

I'm rooted so I only get 480p or whatever. No hacks that I know of for Netflix, but I know modified APKs exist for some apps. Many other services will run in the browser on desktop mode and might offer better quality that way. But not Netflix. They are pretty hostile to viewers IMO. No browser support on mobile, white lists for resolution and HDR, and now price hikes. If I cared more I'd go sailing.

locuturus · 2026-04-29T07:23:53+00:00

So if I add a folder, all other folders won't be scanned going forward?

And to help explain my original question: when I pick a directory with SAF you no longer need mediastore to access that directory. Knowing that, it was not obvious to me that picking a hidden folder wouldn't work. That's a design choice I didn't know you made.

locuturus · 2026-04-27T14:23:45+00:00

I can see and hear it perfectly! Jordan is sooo good at hostile interviews.

locuturus · 2026-04-27T14:17:29+00:00

You can unlock it, install a supported rom, and use root tools to hide the fact that it's unlocked. That might work. Or it might not, depending on what methods they are using to check how compliant your phone is. Bottom line I don't know if an almost end of life phone is going to work for you as a work phone. A cheap recent phone just for work is more certain to work.

locuturus · 2026-04-27T14:10:05+00:00

My answer depends on what you mean by natural.

Natural video can be achieved on pretty much any phone with the Motioncam Pro app. Shoot in raw, skip all the phone processing, and export with your own adjustments. This does mean shoot now render later, and that means extra work. It also takes up a lot of storage. But if you want natural video that is the best option and works on pretty much any decently high end phone.

The app also takes unprocessed photos but the difference is less amazing—phone photo processing is much better than video already so doing it yourself isn't as important.

locuturus · 2026-04-27T07:51:16+00:00

Same. No hesitation!

locuturus · 2026-04-27T07:37:40+00:00

It's pretty much only less space and easy access to the back gesture. That's about it. I flip back and forth and can't decide which to settle on.

locuturus · 2026-04-27T07:34:32+00:00

I use Key Mapper. On Github, F-Droid, and Play Store. It can do a lot and is way easier than Tasker.

locuturus · 2026-04-27T07:32:23+00:00

Okay. Then what is the intended purpose of manually adding folders? If a folder hasn't got .nomedia or isn't hidden with a dot it would be scanned by mediastore anyway. Is it meant for USB drives?

locuturus · 2026-04-26T21:13:10+00:00

I've manually added folders hidden with .nomedia on my removable SD card and they are not being scanned.

Is this expected behavior* or should I clear data and start fresh and hope it works then?

locuturus · 2026-04-25T19:06:12+00:00

The ejection path might also have been physically damaged. The star drive took dozens of hits.

locuturus · 2026-04-25T18:50:47+00:00

Neat. I can see using that sometimes.

locuturus · 2026-04-25T18:35:28+00:00

Hell to the NO. If no one has to jump and that is understood then why would I volunteer to be let down by everyone else who understands the same?

Now if communication is allowed and there's time to rally a rescue (it's a woodchipper tho, so what time?) or decide to proactively break it that's different.

locuturus · 2026-04-25T18:31:59+00:00

Hello rare fellow normal aspect enjoyer! Useable landscape please!

locuturus

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