If you need a good read, I highly recommend “Deep Space Nine: Millennium” trilogy. Weyoun is the big bad, naturally, and he’s got all the smarm we know and love with a heaping helping of religious zealotry on top (he’s literally Kai Weyoun in the book and is the combined worst parts of Kai Winn and Weyoun (except Weyoun 6).
I’ve always joked that coding as a hobby is just digital knitting lol.
Literally me for decades. My astigmatism wasn’t diagnosed until 2-3 years ago despite yearly (or semi-yearly) visits to the optometrist. Thought that was just how lights looked in the dark lol.
I’ve gradually weaned off of smartphones over the last 18 months. Currently daily-driving the Minimal Phone and loving its distraction-free (or at least distraction-lite) ways.
I may not be analog like the article is highlighting, but I have basically eliminated the doom scrolling and have reignited my passion for reading (the one “distraction” the Minimal Phone does well is being an e-reader since it’s got an e-ink screen).
Roughly 1,600 TikTok posts were tagged
#AnalogLifeduring the first nine months of 2025
I’m just going to ignore the irony of that and appreciate it at face value 😆
It was, and I remember that too. Was just being farcical…
…to balance out the downer ending.
They actually did follow up, and the episode was one of the better ones:
Spoiler: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Course:_Oblivion_(episode)
Though between “Demon” and “Course Oblivion” that’s a good question. We don’t see Voyager itself getting duplicated, so I guess they spent the time building it out of rocks and then forgetting they were duplicates.
Update: Yes! Seems to be. Calipers confirm the diameter. TYVM!
Thanks. I’ll grab my calipers and confirm if the measurements are correct. Specs say MHF4 is 1.13mm.
Those letters probably wouldn’t be very helpful, so it’d basically be a $25,000 dick joke lol.
(Or whatever the grand-prize value is these days)
For sure. My shower thought is just that they won’t be anything like the simple pleasure of the DVD screensaver. It would probably ads that cycle through.
I know right? If you can find a better one that pays out, send me a link and I’ll happily update the post. I couldn’t find one that wasn’t forced and only went in the corner.
A totally appropriate reaction!
I felt that. It took me 3 overnight sessions to download the “Throw a pie at Bill Gates” screensaver over 14.4 dial-up back in the day.
Spoiler: The GIF doesn’t. Will spare you the time I wasted waiting for it lol.
If I could get that in a thinner profile, I would totally and proudly hang that on my wall as art.
Can you, like, just post the YouTube link so my browser extension can re-write it to the Invidious instance running in my basement instead of one that’s slow, overloaded, and halfway across the world?
Anyone who cares is already re-writing Youtube links, and posting links to random Invidious instance is just inconveniencing us.
And the same goes to anyone else posting Invidious links and thinking they’re “sticking it to the man”. You’re not. Most people don’t care, and you’re only sticking it to the people who do care by forcing us to use a non-preferred instance.
Just 👏 post 👏 the 👏 Youtube 👏 link.
This allows for seamless communication with biological cells
Smartphones in 2040:
Whatever. As long as I can run LineageOS or Debian on it.
Constantly. Usually it takes the form of reducing topics to binary choices and/or purity tests.
Pretty decent unless there’s a lot of animation / video in them. Calling, texting, looking up something on the internet, bank app, auth app, etc all work great. Some of the stock Android components don’t work super great with it, though, like the quick action buttons (though, arguably, they don’t work great on any Android phone either lol).
Feels sluggish at times but that’s just the e-ink being what it is. I mostly treat it like a dumb phone that’s also an e-reader.