Teen shows with 30 year olds by the fourth season... so that Steve Buscemi bit in 30 Rock will now be the norm.

I want to believe...

Nah, fuck it, I believe.

If true, I'll rejoice, if false, nothing changes. Sort of like Pascal's Wager... Gaben's Wager if you will.

I'm not the OP but have a little collection of mini pcs (5 of them) so, if you'll allow me, I'll comment on why I have them...

The form factor is very convenient, two of them are my mother and my wife's "desktop" pcs - they're both attached to their monitors and, with wireless keyboards and mice they stay discreet and don't take up a lot of room but are very good desktops for daily email reading, recipe browsing and facebooking. My mother and wife don't complain about them - they're more interested in the the compact size and staying out of the way than the performance.

Two of them are small servers that I run stuff that my Raspberry Pis can't handle (I still don't have a Pi 5, WAY too expensive around here) - quick, low noise and isn't too power hungry. Runs linux perfectly and I never have a problem with software (the n100 is a great little CPU). I have 2 because of some weird sale on Aliexpress - 2 for the price of 1-and-a-half was something I couldn't pass up on.

The final one is attached to our main TV, it's a converted TV box (running Armbian) that's an amazingly powerful piece of cheap hardware. It's our main movie viewer (off of our DLNA NAS) it can hand 1080p video just fine on a crappy 5V power supply.

I'm interested in your TV box. What OS are you using? I assume it has a remote control of some kind? I'm guessing it doesn't run apps like Netflix? Do you have a browser or something for that instead, or do you just run local media?

I ask all this because I'm sick of my android tv boxes locking up about once a month, and I'd like something a little more powerful.

Somewhere in the US Midwest, Jeff Geerling suddenly decides "nah, I don't wanna recompile the kernel."

Not gonna lie, this is awesome.

Cybergoth Dance Party and Techno Viking are now even more important parts of our collective human heritage.

Edit: It seems Cybergoth Dance Party was shot in Dusseldorf, my life is now even more full of lies.

Jeez, it's already hard to get answers from Gemini (the free version at least) without it passing judgement and whining about what I'm asking.

Hey! Thanks for the heads up, signed up and now I'm going to do what I did when I signed up to Twitter in the deep past... lurk.

The examples are Nice numbers, nice.

Exactly my thoughts 10100111001!

If NASA can't contact it again and it has bravely gone into the great darkness alone with a piece of us, let's hope it's eventually found by a race capable of understanding the fragment of memory it carries.

If you're lost V'ger, safe travels.

The Voyagers also carry the Golden Records, which are full of information about Earth, its species, humans, samples of different languages, and music. It also has a description of our solar system, and details how to listen to the record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

So we're going to end up in an Awesome Mix Tape situation, with our lost V'ger rocking out to the music of its homeworld?

> If NASA can't contact it again and it has bravely gone into the great darkness alone

Perhaps not now, but this is definitely the case.

>let's hope it's eventually found by a race capable of understanding the fragment of memory it carries.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture showed the danger posed by your wish.

Movies aren't real

Should be a few hundred years until the Borg upgrade it I think.

A race?

I think the Asians would be able to do it.

That's a relief.

We just swapped out our old webmail system (made from twigs, mud and spit) for a nice and elegant Roundcube install with custom plugins and I was already dreading having to change it.