CrabAndBroom

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CrabAndBroom,

I think the A031 Tumbleweed logo is actually my favourite there. But the winner’s not bad either.

CrabAndBroom,

TBH I dislike Appimage purely because I can’t be bothered to go and check them all individually for new versions all the time, it feels like being on Windows again. I don’t mind a little bloat for the sake of convenience. But that’s just personal preference of course.

CrabAndBroom,

SPOILERS BELOW!

As far as I can tell:

William Hartnell to Paul McGann are Doctors 1-8 in standard order. John Hurt is the 9th incarnation of the Doctor, but is called the War Doctor. Christopher Eccleston is the 10th incarnation, but called the ninth. David Tennant is the 11th, 12th, 16th and possibly co-17th incarnation, but is called 10 or 14. Matt Smith is the 13th incarnation. called the 11th. Peter Capaldi is the 14th (or possibly first of a new regeneration cycle), called 12. Jodie Whittaker is the 15th (or maybe 2nd new) incarnation, called the 13th. Ncuti Gatwa is the co-17th, or possibly third of the second set of Doctors, but is called the fifteenth.

Jo Martin is also some incarnation of the Doctor, but nobody (perhaps even including Chris Chibnall) knows what that’s about. Also the rest of the Timeless Child stuff makes this somehow even more of a clusterfuck, but I’m not even going near that one. Also the Curator exists in there somewhere.

CrabAndBroom,

One of the best quotes I heard about the sonic (I forget who said it) was that it should never be used in the second half of the episode. It’s for opening doors and getting the Doctor into trouble, not for getting them back out of it again.

CrabAndBroom,

It is going to be interesting seeing how they balance it (and actually in the main Doctor Who show as well) when there’s literally an entire second Doctor just sitting there doing nothing. Like anytime they escalate things to world-threatening stakes, it’s going to feel weird that there’s a version of the Doctor there who could absolutely help but just… doesn’t for some reason. Like I know this Doctor’s supposed to be recovering and taking it easy, but it seems a bit out of character for any version of the Doctor to not help when people are in trouble.

CrabAndBroom,

Yeah I’ve got like 5-10 people I like, everyone else can get fucked lol

CrabAndBroom,

This is the 4th time the Doctor has regenerated into David Tennant (Eccleston -> Tennant, Tennant -> Tennant, Whitaker -> Tennant, Tennant -> Tennant again) out of 15 lives, so anytime the Doctor regenerates there’s about a 26% chance of him turning into David Tennant lol.

CrabAndBroom,

The hand I think was a callback to Last Of The Time Lords where a hand with red nail polish retrieved the Master’s ring after he died to bring him back to life. The Toymaker mentioned that he beat the Master and trapped him in his gold tooth, so this is some sort of Master shenanigans I think.

CrabAndBroom,

Also he stole 14’s floor mallet!

CrabAndBroom,

As I understand it, in the previous episode the ship was on the edge of existence, with big parts of the universe now missing because of the Flux. With the salt he invoked a superstition at the edge of reality, where the boundaries are weaker which let the Toymaker get through somehow.

CrabAndBroom,

I feel like Big Finish is gonna have a field day with this lol. Infinite room for David Tennant box sets!

CrabAndBroom,

Also, I’d say install Windows first, then Linux. Windows assumes it’s the only OS in the universe and tends to steamroll over the whole boot setup, so I’ve found it much easier to just let Windows do whatever it wants first, then fix it with Linux afterwards.

CrabAndBroom,

Also hats on cats and dogs!

CrabAndBroom,

Darwinism in action I guess…

CrabAndBroom,

Well it was written by Steven Moffat so the vibe probably carries over a bit lol.

CrabAndBroom,

IIRC they had originally written more for him, but after shooting that one scene he was too ill to come back and do more.

CrabAndBroom,

Someone elsewhere pointed out that the aliens were going to become a horse person to enter the universe, like a trojan horse. Also that’s why every button was big and round on the ship, it was made for hooves!

But anyway… Wilf!

CrabAndBroom,

Also Georgia Tennant’s mother is Sandra Dickinson, who played Trillian in the 80s Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. And her son is Ty Tennant, who is Aegon in House of the Dragon.

So Christmas dinner at their house has a better line up than some conventions I’ve been to lol

CrabAndBroom,

I haven’t found anything I like as much as Latte Dock yet, but it refuses to work on my system these days and it doesn’t seem like anyone wants to fork it and fix it up so I’m just back to the built-in KDE docks & panels these days TBH.

CrabAndBroom,

If it counts, definitely the Steam Deck. With that and emulators, it’s like having almost every game I’ve ever owned in one portable machine.

CrabAndBroom,

Microsoft has been trying to make me hate computers since the 90s lol

CrabAndBroom,

You don’t choose to run it, God appears to you in a vision and commands it and then you have no choice.

CrabAndBroom,

Nothing TBH. I find Windows too stressful, Macs are too boring, and I can’t use TempleOS because I don’t have schizophrenia.

CrabAndBroom,

I loved it, personally! David Tennant and Catherine Tate felt like they’d been away for a month or two rather than 15 years, and it’s so nice for Doctor Who to just be fun and funny again.

I know some people didn’t like the “let it go” resolution, but also that’s just Russell T. Davies I think. You get utterly bonkers ideas (Beep The Meep on primetime TV as a big comeback monster!) a political point of view that he’s not afraid to completely smash you over the head with, and an out-of-nowhere hand-wavy resolution that fixes everything (remember when the Doctor became flying space Jesus and then they erased the human race getting genocided back in the day?)

Also I loved the conversation in the cab:

“How’s Nerys?”

“She’s fine.”

“Since the accident?”

“She’s not fine.”

“It was her fault.”

“She’s been fined.”

ALSO I really like the new TARDIS interior. Someone on another site described Tennant running around it as like a dog with the zoomies lol.

CrabAndBroom,

One of my first thoughts watching it was “these opening credits look expensive” lol

CrabAndBroom,

Oh yeah I didn’t mean that as a dig at the inclusivity at all, I loved it. I just meant I really enjoy how much RTD does not fuck around when it comes to making a statement lol.

Also it’s a very TARDIS move to have a coffee maker built into the console, and also have the console violently explode on contact with coffee.

CrabAndBroom,

I didn’t mind it too much. I read a quote somewhere once (I forget where, maybe one of the writers discussing the show?) which said something along the lines of “The sonic is for opening doors and moving the Doctor towards the trouble, not for getting him out of it.” which I think is a good way to use it. I mean it did get them away from the shooty bug guys, but it moved them along to the bigger trouble and he didn’t use it to solve the whole episode so I think it still works!

CrabAndBroom,

Maybe that’s why the Doctor doesn’t go to America very often, all the houses are made of wood lol

CrabAndBroom,

Also, I think 14 is the first regeneration since the show came back who didn’t immediately blow the TARDIS up upon regenerating, so it had to take care of it by itself!

CrabAndBroom,

If you’re bored, a fun activity is to show the headline (and sub-header) to a non-Linux person and watch their face lol.

Ubuntu Budgie switches its approach to Wayland

Elementary OS going full speed ahead, but Parachutist Parakeet considers a new, post-Enlightenment glide path

CrabAndBroom,

The EA Launcher seems to have really fucked Linux users over, and I haven’t seen any fix for it so far. I started a new playthrough of Mass Effect on Steam Deck which I had to abandon also.

CrabAndBroom,

Ooh I hadn’t thought of that! While I do feel a bit bristly about running Steam to run Heroic Launcher to run the EA Launcher to launch a game, I’ll give it a shot anyway. That’s gaming in 2023 I guess lol.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Stupid question– is Blood Meridian meant to be comedic at times?

…Because I only just read the first chapter, and I know it’s gonna throw me for a loop, but come on. This whole sequence of events feels like a parody of Westerns– Specifically the “everyone in a bar gets into a fight” trope. I feel like it’s playing out like a Three Stooges sketch....

CrabAndBroom,

No spoilers, but yeah Blood Meridian is a strange book. It felt like a sort of apocalyptic fever dream or something. I pretty quickly stopped trying to apply the logic of our world to it and just went wherever it was taking me lol. It’s a story from some other place I think.

CrabAndBroom,

I actually don’t mind this, but I imagine it’ll set of a bit of a… lively discussion.

Also I’m really looking forward to seeing what all the people who complained about Chris Chibnall’s era being “too woke” are going to make of RTD’s second era. From what I’ve seen so far, he’s really not fucking about this time lol.

Question to those not in the USA, and who have lived outside the USA.

I’ve been thinking about something and want to check an assumption I have. I only hear directly from other people in the USA, and interract with the global community through memes. How are the gun regulations/laws different from yours in terms of strictness, and do you wish there was more or less where you live?...

CrabAndBroom,

Yeah in the UK we had a school shooting in the 90’s, then they really cracked down on gun ownership and there hasn’t been another one since.

There are still other types of shootings sometimes of course, but it’s pretty rare comparatively.

CrabAndBroom,

One I just discovered recently - in KDE, holding the Super Key & right mouse button lets you resize a window from anywhere so you don’t have to hunt around for the one corner pixel to resize it.

No idea if it works in Gnome or other DE’s, but might be worth a try!

CrabAndBroom,

Only this, two more remasters of part 2, then the third game and two more remasters of that and then I can get the whole thing on Steam!

CrabAndBroom,

I’m picturing something like a CD changer in the car that just rotates them out, and each one had a piece of tape with a mood written on it lol.

CrabAndBroom,

This actually led to a scene being cut from the 50th anniversary special! For those who don’t know the story:

In his novelization of the 50th anniversary special, “The Day of the Doctor,” he added an exchange in the UNIT Black Archives between Kate Stewart and Clara Oswald that puts the movies in canon, kind of. According to Radio Times, the Doctor (presumably the First Doctor) allowed movies based on his adventures to be made in the mid-60s, and he became friends with Cushing. They were such good friends he took the aging actor to the future, well after the time of his death, to appear in a movie, a nod to Cushing’s CGI resurrection in Rogue One.

Moffat has mentioned he wanted this scene to be in the original TV special of “The Day of the Doctor,” but the BBC couldn’t, amazingly, secure the rights to the posters for the two Dalek movies.

CrabAndBroom,

Fun fact! The nudes on Voyager actually got censored because people complained about the nudes on Pioneer, but then they snuck them in anyway with the scientific documents.

From Wikipedia:

After NASA had received criticism over the nudity on the Pioneer plaque (line drawings of a naked man and woman), the agency chose not to allow Sagan and his colleagues to include a photograph of a nude man and woman on the record. Instead, only a silhouette of the couple was included. However, the record does contain “Diagram of vertebrate evolution”, by Jon Lomberg, with drawings of an anatomically correct naked male and naked female, showing external organs. The person waving on the diagram was also changed: on the Pioneer plaque, the man is waving, while on the “Vertebrate evolution” image, the woman is waving.

CrabAndBroom,

It’s so ridiculously short-sighted! Like who’s it going to offend, the endless screaming void of space? Also, imagine if we found a probe from an intelligent alien civilization full of data about them, except for what they looked like which was mysteriously blacked out lol

CrabAndBroom,

Using a file manager without split panels feels like going back to the 90s for me now. You mean I have to open two different windows?!

CrabAndBroom,

Yeah every once in a while I see a screenshot of GNOME that looks really nice and get tempted to try it again, and usually within a day or two I’m back to KDE lol.

No shade to people who like to use GNOME, but it’s really not for me.

CrabAndBroom,

Oh yeah that’s what I meant, I’m so used to split panels in Dolphin now that other file managers feel old-school.

CrabAndBroom,

We’d have two Mondays. Nothing good can come of this.

CrabAndBroom,

I haven’t trusted Kaspersky for a long time, ever since I read this interview.

If you had the power to change up to three things in the world today that are related to IT security, what would they be?

Internet design–that’s enough.

That’s it? What’s wrong with the design of the Internet?

There’s anonymity. Everyone should and must have an identification, or Internet passport. The Internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the U.S. military. That was just a limited group of people–hundreds, or maybe thousands. Then it was introduced to the public and it was wrong…to introduce it in the same way.

I’d like to change the design of the Internet by introducing regulation–Internet passports, Internet police and international agreement–about following Internet standards. And if some countries don’t agree with or don’t pay attention to the agreement, just cut them off.

CrabAndBroom,

For an antivirus? I’d say just defender & don’t open sketchy .exe files for Windows. Otherwise, Linux and don’t really worry about it. Keep regular backups either way and you can’t go too far wrong.

For the design of the internet, I’d say the opposite of what Kaspersky wants lol

CrabAndBroom,

I am too. Well, dual-booting. My PC doesn’t have TPM and I’m not upgrading my hardware just to accommodate Microsoft’s nonsense so I’ll just keep running 10 until the wheels fall off.

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