Tom Rini @trini@tenforward.social

I believe #introductions are in order. My name is Tom, my pronouns are he/him/his. I've been a Linux person since the late 90s. I've been a Sci-Fi reader since I could choose my own books. I've been a Sci-Fi watcher for even longer. I'm married and we have two kids. I'm in the US (North Carolina), I'm a liberal and I talk politics under a CW. Given the instance, I should mention my family watched TNG growing up and I really liked catching TAS when it was on.

So, as part of moving my workflow to Windows, the one thing I haven't solved yet is how to hot-key a floating app. In i3 for example, I have a terminal that's open, and I can hot-key to call it up or hide it on whatever desktop I'm in. It looks like the closest on Windows is to install WinDbg, run it, and then I can call up its scratchpad. That might be too heavy. Anyone have an idea on what I'm looking for?

- instapot refried beans last night went well again, and I do feel I've got this recipe down now as well and can mix around spices a bit more next time too.
- Pizza dough now proofing in the just turned off oven with a measuring cup of hot water in there for steam.

I never realized until just now that there's a pin that holds the top of my kitchenaid to the base, and it had been sticking out a quarter of an inch or so until now'ish when it popped out in the middle of kneeding pizza dough. Scared the shit out of me until I realized it was an easy fix at least.

One thing I like about gitlab-ci pipelines that I wish I could do in azure pipelines is to group tests and say that group A needs to pass before we try group B, and if it fails, just stop. In gitlab this means I run a handful of quick tests (1-2min each), if they pass, a handful of medium (10 minutes each or less), and if they pass, everything else (build the world, maybe an hour).

So I've played Star Traders: Frontiers a bit now, and it's a bit of fun, but also getting a bit tedious maybe. The trading economy seems pretty pointless compared to missions. Most of the required combat you just need to have upgraded your ship gear enough for, but that can be a challenge if you didn't get enough other missions done. I might start a new captain and see how it goes. But I think tonight I'm gonna check in on No Man's Sky.

Welp, looks like I need to go figure out VLAN stuff as it's looking likely that the thermostat for the new HVAC doesn't have a local-wireless-sensor-only option and a wired sensor might be stupidly annoying to do.

I'm pondering again trying Windows. If not in a browser, I'm on a full screen of 4 a bit over 80x24 terminals. Could I do less? Maybe, but it's easier to avoid distractions on a full screen of terminals. Any advice on how to recreate that?

My eldest enjoys Minecraft PvP. It's also a huge problem in that it's so (technically) unfair. Does anyone have any first-person melee (mostly, no snipers at least) combat game recs? Linux (or if I have to, Windows) or Switch for platforms. No VC being strongly desired (no one around here wants to *talk* with people).

All that aside, yes, I did enjoy ST:Picard.

One of those thoughts I've had watching the series, and I don't think the finale fixed it either really ("You were right" and not bringing back all of the old crew didn't cover it), was that Picard isn't as good as The Doctor about dealing with how they inspire people to sacrifice everything for them. Picard literally applauded Raffi burning a bridge to get them a step closer and The Doctor never gets that far away from worrying about their companions.