Luckily, I know he's probably fine because he literally just toured, although crazy non-health-related things can still happen; John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants was this close to getting taken out in a car crash back in 2022. He broke multiple ribs and their already-delayed-from-COVID tour got pushed into 2023; he's doing better now (although I imagine still dealing with crap) - I saw TMBG in 2025, and am hoping to see them again in 2027.
Weird Al and the TMBG Johns are all about the same age, so I'm really worried they'll all die at about the same time some time in the 2030s or 2040s and leave me devastated; mostly hoping that Al's vegetarianism means he lives longer than TMBG so I don't have to face it all at the same time.
I turned in my early ballot back on October 30th.
Mostly glad for the national results (holy frick, Texas!), although a few bad propositions passed in my state, and my congressional district stayed red where most of the rest of the state went more blue than usual. At least I kept an idiot out of the governor's office.
I think I have a prototype of a browser extension somewhere on my computer whose only function is to hide the comments button on Phoronix.
Honestly, in the age of Flatpak and containerization (as well as Debian often being well-supported by upstream projects for script or package-based install), I feel like the age of Debian packages isn't that annoying anymore; anything important gets security patches, and it's easier than ever to use 3rd party software without breaking your system. I will add that Debian seems to be much better these days at making sure either a reasonably up-to-date version ships with a release (and can be kept secure during a stable cycle) or not shipping it at all as to allow the user to install it themselves.
I remember back in just 2021 when it took months after Firefox ESR 78 went EOL for them to update Bullseye to 91; recently, it only took them a few days after 140's EOL to switch to 153 (and 91-115 and 115-140 happened without much note either), which isn't perfect, but much better than it was.
If you need to install it on a new laptop, backports often has you covered. I ran a backports kernel for about a year on Debian Bookworm to get my laptop's Wi-Fi modem working; I was able to quit using the backports kernel once Trixie came out.
No, not until 2027. I don't really know why this meme was posted at this exact moment.
Eh. They’re actually pretty on top of security patches for pretty much any internet-exposed server software.
The OpenSSL incident was a long time ago at this point.
Will Riker is going to have a bad time, then.
Honestly, if we’re going to commit war crimes, let’s at least do it in style.
For Seven's sake, too bad Jellico didn't get stuck in the Delta Quadrant.
Gosh, I love that quote; just rewatched Generations last night as part of my memorial activities.
Indeed, the bermagot does slap.
I'm a recent ex-Mormon, so that's why I've never had it before.
Made myself some Earl grey (my first time drinking tea) and watched Generations (my favorite TNG film, and second favorite Trek film) as well as “The Inner Light”.
Edit: also, my Linux User’s Group is having a Halloween rice competition, so I last minute updated mine accordingly.
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/45944705
Based on my experiences meeting other Trekkies at Phoenix Fan Fusion and Tuscon Comic Con.
Like, once you get past this part, most of the original Trekkies are fun to talk to, but combined with that subset of gen X TNG guys who talk about their college years and give you unsolicited life advice while probably a bit inebriated, you probably lose an hour at whatever convention to hearing this same flex over and over again.
Also, yes, at Fan Fusion I found out Gen Alpha Trekkies do exist; saw one wearing a DS9 uniform commenting at a panel.
Based on my experiences meeting other Trekkies at Phoenix Fan Fusion and Tuscon Comic Con.
Like, once you get past this part, most of the original Trekkies are fun to talk to, but combined with that subset of gen X TNG guys who talk about their college years and give you unsolicited life advice while probably a bit inebriated, you probably lose an hour at whatever convention to hearing this same flex over and over again. 
Also, yes, at Fan Fusion I found out Gen Alpha Trekkies do exist; saw one wearing a DS9 uniform commenting at a panel.
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/32667508
Alternatively, the whales' musical sequence from the 2005 film.
Alternatively, the whales' musical sequence from the 2005 film.