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Tom Rini

trini@tenforward.social

<p>Father, reader (scifi/sci-opera), whisk{e,}y drinker. Possibly actually Benny from The LEGO Movie.<br />For technical things <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@trini" class="u-url mention">@<span>trini</span></a></span></p>

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    I didn&amp;#39;t even realize Mercator was anything but niche these days. (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/4/un-votes-to-adopt-new-world-map-that-reflects-africas-true-size for context)

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    Why did they have to ruin a perfectly good &amp;quot;This guy went a bit too far during the war, that&amp;#39;s not how starfleet sees itself&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;Ah, nope, he was drugged and so lost his shit, nevermind&amp;quot;. Would have still had a good backstory for George Kirk for James to lean in to and be proud of (George curbed the excesses and was hindered for it, but did the right thing).

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    People dump on Lower Decks for being too much fan service And yet, here&amp;#39;s Strange New Worlds and all the little things they throw in? Including but not only all the background / minor characters in the season finale.

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    Since Libby has a huge number of magazines, I&amp;#39;m trying to get in the habit of reading (flip through, read an article if it looks interesting) a few, regularly. Is there an equivalent of Popular Science/Popular Mechanics, but for Art? or other topics? Or, just any magazine people here do read regularly (of any topic) ? Boosts welcome.

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    @Gustodon@mas.to I love my system, and I hope battery tech and cost catch-up soon. Both individual and industrial levels are the next big hurdle.

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    Being good and doing the adbreak thing for my wife&amp;#39;s Kindle now. It&amp;#39;s not so old that it&amp;#39;s going to be ewaste next month, and for once I&amp;#39;m happy we got the &amp;quot;ad&amp;quot; version since that&amp;#39;s how the jailbreak starts.

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    New desktop background picked, finally: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e012090

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    Another nice thing about a programmable keyboard? (with #1 being turning that knob in to a mouse wheel), there&amp;#39;s two other buttons that why yes, I can just make be normal mouse left/right....