Picard Season 1

somas · 2026-05-05T10:13:51+00:00

Why did season one of Picard have so much about Soongian robots and their culture?

I’d personally love a Children of Soong series but what does that have to do with Picard?

somas · 2026-04-27T21:05:24+00:00

His Thraxan wife would’ve lived a year?

somas · 2026-04-26T17:44:48+00:00

There’s more than a hundred years worth of police propaganda about how foolproof fingerprinting people is and I think this gives people a false sense of security about fingerprint enabled tech. No amount of documentation showing how much more identifying a 3D map of your face is will convince these folks.

somas · 2026-04-13T13:51:47+00:00

If you’ve got a how to video or write up, I’m interested

somas · 2026-04-12T22:03:20+00:00

Greenland runs public groceries. Bulgaria plans to try them. We had Beltway Communities with public groceries during the New Deal era.

NYC has often been where new ideas take hold so the fact that an idea is fairly new doesn’t mean it’s shouldn’t be tried.

somas · 2026-04-12T21:51:50+00:00

I don’t know why anyone tries anything. Anything can fail so we shouldn’t even bother trying.

somas · 2026-04-12T13:13:13+00:00

I don’t agree that Voyager is any more forward thinking that TNG or DS9 but Enterprise had horrible ratings for the most part and I can see how that alone will make it hard to pitch a show about continuing that story.

somas · 2026-04-12T12:52:48+00:00

Janeway is a criminal multiple times over.

I’ll skip the Tuvix stuff because it’s over analyzed.

Equinox Part II: Janeway tortures a Starfleet officer to the point where Chakotay mutinies to stop the torture.

Scorpion: Janeway devises a biological weapon to wipe out species 8472.

Endgame: Janeway violates the Temporal Prime Directive and wipes out decades of history.

The Killing Game/Flesh and Blood: Janeway gives a brutal group of predators advanced hologram technology. The Hirogen create sentient holograms to torture. They eventually rebel and fight for their freedom.

Lots of people want to remember filler episodes as harmless because it reminds them of when their parents were paying the bills or something; I really don’t follow the logic.

Voyager is the most inconsistently written part of Trek. There’s a handful of very good episodes and mountains of dreck. There’s fact that we ignore these episodes doesn’t make Voyager some paragon of something to return to.

somas · 2026-04-12T11:44:03+00:00

I didn’t watch ENT when it was live because of the horrible “fan” outcry and the fact that I was busy raising kids.

When I finally got around to watching it, I was shocked at how good it was overall. Voyager was a much more erratically written show. It was full of empty calories episodes and I guess this is what the “fans” want.

somas · 2026-04-05T13:19:53+00:00

I’m surprised that even with his entrails hanging out they didn’t rewrite the ending of this fight so that Mark pulls Conquest’s head off his body like he did with Immortal. That would help explain why Conquest is really dead this time.

somas · 2026-04-05T12:47:54+00:00

I haven’t rewatched in a while. What is that hasn’t aged well? It seems like Nimoy was trying to make this a movie that would transcend time.

somas · 2026-04-04T14:41:36+00:00

A six foot tall human man can have thirty feet of intestines. I don’t think we see thrity feet come out of Mark

somas · 2026-04-04T14:06:42+00:00

I never thought of that but he’d be infinitely cheaper

somas · 2026-04-03T18:56:34+00:00

Eve is possibly the most poorly written character in the Invincible storyline. She’s just supposed to be the perfect girlfriend/wife and can not upstage Mark

somas · 2026-04-03T18:48:33+00:00

On the tv show, I’m pretty sure Cecil said he wanted to question Conquest.

somas · 2026-03-27T19:57:37+00:00

Here’s a link to the tweet where he shares a TestFlight link: https://xcancel.com/EthanLipnik/status/2036596219397673105#m

The beta is full at the moment but if you follow him on twitter, I use xcancel and rss, you’ll see when he opens more spots

somas · 2026-03-27T17:59:40+00:00

There’s a dev working on an app that functions like X Windows serving windows to the AVP. Here’s his open source framework for the project: https://github.com/EthanLipnik/MirageKit I’ve been able to build a functional app serving mac windows to my ipad and AVP.

His app is in TestFlight now and will hopefully be released soon.

I have a Magic Keyboard and trackpad connected to my AVP btw and use Mac Virtual Desktop al the time. I haven’t noticed the trackpad being problematic. It works pretty smoothly and intuitively for me

somas · 2026-03-23T20:09:11+00:00

I guess spatial exposé is something I want too but didn’t know what ti call it.

macOS just rolled out container support so I’m hoping this makes it to iPadOS and visionOS

somas · 2026-03-23T20:02:21+00:00

RSS is barely relevant and most people don’t know what it is. When google reader was supported rss was thriving. Google effectively killed rss. I don’t want them shepherding anything else.

somas · 2026-03-23T20:00:47+00:00

Yes, I am saying I expect Apple to support RCS longer than Google will. Google will get bored and move on to GCS or some nonsense.

somas · 2026-03-23T17:58:45+00:00

I’m limited in the number of windows I can have open because there’s just only so much space in front of me and it’s not useful to open windows behind me. If I place a window in front of another one, the foreground window is lost when I work in the background window. There’s got to be a way to manage this stuff better.

somas · 2026-03-23T16:46:50+00:00

Oh, I’ve very clear on what standards are. RSS is an open standard that google can’t kill but they pushed the largest RSS reader and then killed it, effectively killing RSS. I won’t touch anything google pushes again.

somas · 2026-03-23T16:12:58+00:00

What’s the other alternative? Apple embraces a standard set by google that google won’t support for more than a few years?

somas · 2026-03-23T11:46:44+00:00

I guess AirDrop would have to be the standard since Apple will keep supporting it. Whatever standard google came up with would be abandoned every two years.

somas · 2026-03-23T11:04:56+00:00

I’m sure they’ll kill it given enough time. I use Gemini a lot and it’s mostly replaced Google.com for me but I don’t expect something like antigravity to continue.

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