Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.

Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.

Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.

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  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websitetoStar Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Why aren't all rooms holodecks?English
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    16 hours ago

    1 the things that have extra holodecks that I’ve seen are just space stations, which can have larger power stations. The ship in insurrection was purpose built to trick people into thinking it was their small village that they don’t leave often. It can have all the power it needs dedicated to the holodeck and be slow with a Son’a escort for protection.

    2 with you on that one.

    3 also with you on this one. It just makes sense. Two people on opposite sides of the system could have dinner together in a holodeck. Easiest sell in the world after the holodeck itself.

    4 the only issue I have with medical areas being holodecks is how often we see power issues in star trek. If they lose power, no med bay, no holo-docs. But if you’re already doing it, I see no reason there can’t be all the holographic doctors you need, and if the entire interior of the ship is filled with holo-emmitters then the EMH isn’t an issue.

    For the record, I’m with you. I think by the end of the 2380s they should definitely be having entire swathes of ships dedicated to holographic rooms.

    In Voyager, The USS Prometheus had holo-emmitters all over, so the EMH was able to walk around and take the ship back from romulans.

    Incidentally I was listening to some Certifiably Ingame ship breakdowns and they touched on a ship that has holographic interiors for a lot of spaces, but since I was falling asleep at the time I am unsure which ship it is. I’m trying to peruse the Playlist to see if anything looks familiar.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websitetoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•[SWE] Swedish government wants a back door in SignalEnglish
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    4 days ago

    At least you all can get your family to use it.

    I can’t even get my spouse to use it unless she thinks what we are talking about might be illegal where we are (it usually isn’t)

    I’ve tried convincing family to use it, but all that happens is I just never hear from them until I see them in person or they call me.

    They don’t even feel the need to back up their Amazon Kindle collection before they get cutoff from it… Thousands of dollars wasted if they ever lose access to the account.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websitetoFunny@sh.itjust.works•sure way to get a manEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I have a picture of my wife posing in the children’s cutout in the back, I jokingly asked if she wanted a picture with it and she got excited and ran over to pose.

    I mean, we were dating at the time, but one of the first dates I took her on was the Wright pat airforce base museum.

    This would absolutely have worked on me when I was younger. You know, if I had enough confidence to talk to women when I went to museums alone…

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websitetoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•How Docker was bornEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Calling out reposts obsessively is weird to me.There’s more people who have not seen something than who have seen it, at least on the internet. I think most people have seen the moon…

    But if I ever have a problem where the vast majority of the posts I see are reposts, I’ll simply block the channel for awhile. It costs me nothing, and takes less effort than typing out a comment complaining in every repost.

    It’s the “STOP LIKING WHAT I DON’T LIKE” meme, come to life. And I’d rather let people have their fun. Doesn’t cost me, nor anyone else, a thing.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websitetoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•UK’s first use of city-wide facial recognition in CardiffEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Weird, I just had a bunch of mls tell me just the other day that a comment I made was strawmanning a hypothetical tankie telling me I’m wrong.

    And here we see yet another ml strawmanning.

    Super Weird.

    All I see is a bunch of people saying this is dystopia nightmare shit, and so far the only person I’ve seen do anything other than call it what it is is the ml comparing this to China.

    Surveillance states are bad anywhere, you won’t get many people arguing that city wide government facial recognition is a good thing.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websitetoFunny@sh.itjust.works•Getting in touch with your rootsEnglish
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    5 days ago

    In no particular order, I have French, German, Dutch, Scottish, Irish, and a teensy tiny bit of “my great great great great grandmother was native American and we actually have the proof but nobody could ever tell without a DNA test so it only gets brought up when talking about obscure family genetic lineage”

    Maybe it’s because my family is super midwest-usa-bible-belt, and I never even found out about most of it until a genetics test when I got married to my now wife (we wanted to know if kids would even be a medical possibility with our various issues), but I don’t identify with any of the places my ancestors lived in, so there isn’t a particular culture I’d like to be part of. And to be perfectly frank I’m not sure I want to be part of any culture, I just want to tend to my forest with fair Goldberry my wife.

    You do make a good point though, if you’re looking to be part of something or feel particularly drawn to a culture after being immersed in what you think it’s really like, I could absolutely see this happening with 100% sincerity.