I’ve read so many tutorials like this. func Func Myfunc()

If you write textbooks like this you and your family should be boiled in sewage.

Python has essentially usurped BASIC.

If you insist on watching TNG from the beginning, be warned the first two seasons are a bit rough and there’s that one “Then we went to the black people planet and got blacked at” episode which even the cast of the show hates that episode.

…And still gets its ass handed to it because they show up and are like “Well now what?” Because the Klingons are perfectly invisible.

fun fact: Undiscovered Country features the only instance of Kirk’s Enterprise arriving to a battle in fighting trim amd ready for combat.

Start with Wrath of Kahn.

Sure. It’s a sequel to a Franchise: The Movie. It is also a direct sequel to a random episode of the show. It is a self-contained story; I don’t think it bothers to mention the events of The Motion Picture, it does a good job establishing the antagonist because this movie came out in 1982, it’s entirely possible that even a Trek fan in the audience missed that one episode of a 20 year old TV show so there’s a whole sequence where Kahn puts Chekov on his knees and recites “I am the very model of a vengeful space antagonist, I blame the death of my wife on the deeds of the protagonist. I quote from Melville’s Moby Dick completely unironically. I grapple thee, I stab at thee, I spit to my last breath at thee.”

Beyond beating the audience over the head with its literary references (to the point of showing a copy of Moby Dick and Tale of Two Cities on screen YOU FUCKING HACKS) it does a reasonable job of world building, and the rest of the franchise refers back to this movie a lot…to the point of remaking it twice.

It’s a self contained plot that comes to an end…even though it has two direct sequels. Search for Spock is where we get fully formed modern Klingons complete with their language, and The Voyage Home is weird, but also kind of cool, and probably the most Star Trek of the TOS era movies…I also believe Voyage Home has the best soundtrack of a Trek film.

I’ve noticed he’s shied away a bit from machine learning in recent times and just does wacky shit like this.

Yeah that feels like the kind of smartass thing Python would do.

No, he’s a clean shaven 70 year old who has been a computer nerd since punch cards.

Why am I reminded of Monty Python’s Meaning Of Life?

“Doctor, what do I do?”

“NOTHING! YOU’RE. NOT. QUALIFIED!”

“PING!”

I see and acknowledge your /s, but the serious answer is Ventoy doesn’t but many Linux distros offer OneDrive support out of the box and the onboarding process will help you set it up.

This has happened twice now: I’ll build a new PC about the time my father will buy a tower from Dell.

Mine comes in 4 boxes from 3 vendors over the course of a few days. His arrives fully assembled with an OS installed.

I take 3 or 4 hours to put the machine together, boot into a Linux live session, let the installer run, I get up and do something else while that goes. When that’s done, I boot into the OS, run a big ol apt or dnf or whatever command to install most of the software I like, that runs for awhile, that installs my backup software. I restore a file backup from my old machine, that runs for an hour or so, gotta love spinning rust external hard drives. And then I’m moved in and up and running.

My father, meanwhile, will:

• Erase the copy of Windows that Dell included on the machine and install it fresh, which might be the only way to actually remove McAfee.
• Spend an entire week, full time, installing software. Downloading setup.exes from vendor websites, running install wizards, telling Windows “Yes, put these program files in the Program Files folder” several dozen times in a row, installing some stuff to include MS Office from disc, which Windows increasingly fights him about.
• Somehow also taking a rather long time manually restoring file backups.
• Tweaking settings for DAYS.

I’ll have an SSD fail. I’ll go to Best Buy, buy another off the shelf, pop the thing in, and either reinstall the OS and my software, which is a rather straightforward automatic process, or simply restore my most recent file backup, which is a couple clicks, depending if it’s my / or /home drive.

My father…look, some men build model train sets, some men paint, some men plant gardens, some men fish, my father backs up his computer. I have a cabinet full of HIS backup hard drives because he’s playing pretend he has “offsite backups.” When he suffers an SSD failure, he:

• Comes over to my house to monologue about it for 5 to 10 minutes
• Spends an afternoon on the phone with Dell. At some point he convinces them to honor the warranty he paid extra for.
• 1.5 weeks later the one service tech Dell has for this state arrives with an SSD and installs it.
• Engage the full manual reinstall business, because 1. he’s got his whole system on one drive, and 2. for some reason he isn’t willing to actually use the full system image backups he takes.

You know, you’re right.

I’ve had a UV-5R for over a decade now, and I’m just now learning of this. Mine didn’t come with any of the mossy oak black rifle coffee tactical sister fuck nonsense though.

I always somehow thought the distinction of “burning” a USB thumb drive was adding an MBR or setting something that ordinary file writes don’t do.

It’s closer to sending a PNG via slow-scan television. An analog to digital conversion takes place and if you convert back you’re not getting the exact image back.

explainxkcd.com gives the publication date as 2013‑02‑05.

Sort of, yes, but I’ve seen it mis-represented a lot.

I have seen headlines like “man stores PNG file on bird!” which categorically did not happen, the image was analog.

A common tool that is used in amateur radio practice is called a Waterfall Display. It works a little bit like the visualizer in Windows Media Player if you remember those, you get a window that shows a section of radio (or audio) spectrum. A signal (or sound) at a particular frequency will make that spot on the graph glow, the louder the signal, the brighter that spot will glow. The entire chart continuously scrolls to represent the passage of time, so you end up with kind of a graph of what signals are being made over a brief amount of time.

If you made a signal that swept up in frequency over time, it would be seen as a diagonal line on the waterfall. Using that concept, you can make all kinds of weird signals to draw pictures in the waterfall. Youtuber Ringway Manchester shows off several examples of this that he recorded that were played as part of the Ukraine/Russia conflict. this video. Here it was done out of jamming military communication frequencies, propaganda and trolling. See also UVB-76 for a tangentially related rabbit hole to fall down. If you play these sounds out of a radio’s speaker, they just sound like a strange warbling noise.

Play that strange noise to a bird that is good at mimicking, like a mockingbird or starling, and it’ll mimic that sound. Point a microphone hooked up to a waterfall display at the mimicking bird, and the bird will draw the image on the waterfall display when it sings.

Also…this is how every English teacher I’ve ever met teaches scholarly writing. Pick a topic, research sources about that topic that support your thesis, pad it to 5 pages with meaningless filler sentences and repetition.

Mind you, this is usually persuasive writing class, ie “Here’s what you should be doing and here’s why.” Which 1. pretty much is going to start with the conclusion and then back that up with cited studies, and 2. isn’t part of the scientific method in the way an experimental report is.

“Effects on manganese dioxide on the central and peripheral nervous systems of primates” is a scientific article, “Why You should be eating fewer AA batteries” is not a scientific article.

Or is it a “mode” of KDE? Like can you use a distro of KDE and then put it into Bigscreen mode?