North Korea, China and… Oh yeah, the effing United States, come January.

Winter is coming

VOICEOVER: Captain’s log, star date 571.204. As we are unable to transport through the energy field, Commander Riker, Commander Data and I remain trapped on the strange asteroid, which continues to fall ever faster into the black hole. As we have no way out of our predicament, it seems we have no choice but to attempt to solve the strange murder of the mysterious hotel guest.

PICARD (knocking on hotel manager’s door): Hello! Is there anyone in there! We demand to speak with the manager at once!

ANNOYED VOICE: Go away! I’m busy!

PICARD: Your guests are being murdered! If you are the manager of this place, that must matter to you!

ANNOYED VOICE: Oh, very well. Come in, if you must.

PICARD: Q! I should have known you were behind this!

Q: Inspector Jean Luc. How nice of you to drop by. You have a warrant, I assume?

Points for the correct answer. I work on systems for spacecraft and podman is what we use on those for containerization (better option for a couple reasons)… but we literally just SAY docker to the suits, because that’s what they’ve heard of. Which is why I said docker to this guy.

Docker and Podman are both free. Podman is the lighter weight, more FOSS, also slightly more DIY option, they are intercompatible - I work on systems for spacecraft and Podman is what we use on those because it’s lighter weight. If you want to run something in docker, ChatGPT is actually pretty good at talking you through the specific setup (at least that’s been my experience).

Docker can absolutely run desktop apps.

People HATE the company, for good reason, but it consistently scores top marks for actual privacy implementation.

Why not Docker?

Fast forward the world of His Dark Materials 400 years and you get this.

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Since it’s a wall art project, now get it to run Minecraft and run a redstone computer on it.

Yep. As a Gen Xer with a teenage son, when I hear my peers freaking out about our kids and technology, I remind them what our parents said about MTV.

That went well.

This was the most informative thing I read on the internet today. I can’t wait to go start a blog.

SNW’s scientific accuracy and technobabble are so bad, it often pulls me right out of the story. I feel like Next Gen era at least tried a little bit. Yeah, it was awful, but it was watchable. I’ve gone back and watched some to verify it’s not just in my head. It’s not. Does SNW have science and technology consultants? If so, if the problem is them they should be fired, but I suspect the problem is the writers / directors not giving two fucks what the consultants have to say. Be better guys.

• Theoretically Yes, if your Linux partition is not encrypted, any OS can read it. Password protecting it doesn’t do anything to conceal your data, just keeps people from logging into your system while Linux is booted. If this is a security / privacy related question, there is nothing to stop a program running under Windows from reading the data on your Linux partition except

• Practically No, depending on the filesystem you chose (if you went with the default, it’s likely ext4 but could be something more exotic). Out of the box Windows lacks the software / drivers to read most Linux filesystems. If this is a “can I access my files” question, you probably need to install something like this to read your data from Windows. Note that the reverse is not true. Most distros other than light weight distros like Alpine are perfectly able to read the NTFS file system out of the box. Sometimes they can’t write to it unless you install additional tools (like OOTB Debian probably can’t, but I’m pretty sure OOTB Linux Mint can if you change a setting and IDK about OOTB Ubuntu / Fedora / Arch).

The easiest way to share data between Windows and Linux is with a 3rd partition formatted to FAT32, as both Linux and Windows have no problem reading from / writing to it without additional software.

EDIT: The other poster is absolutely correct. The modern way to do this is with exFAT. What can I say? I’m a crusty old engineer.

It’s very likely that adware / spyware / malware targeting Windows users will NOT be able to read Ext4 or other Linux filesystems, unless it’s specifically targeted to do so, so you do have that added “security through obscurity” protection.

My TV set is a 7 year old Dell All-in-One PC running Linux Mint. It works great. It doesn’t try to sell me shit. Ads be hella blocked.

This is awesome and there is gonna be so much fraud! All the fraud.

“A high resolution photo of a bag piper in the style of Doctor Seuss.”

Evolution be like…

“I can only keep this cell line going for so long, if I want it to specialize in all these ways… this is fine!”

Then evolution be like…

“Hey bro, as long as you’re gonna die anyway, 'cause of that decision I made X to the million generations ago, I’m not gonna spend resources maintaining this other thing you’ve got going on. Sorry not sorry!”

THEN evolution be like that 10,000 more times.