Surprised no one’s brought up Futurama yet.

Only Mac OS 10 and later, based on BSD, uses ‘/‘. (And, I guess, A/UX.) Classic MacOS used a ‘:’, but it wasn’t regularly exposed in the UI. The only way most users would know is that the colon couldn’t be used in a file name.

Read mana cost, reads power and toughness, read first ability. “OK, but feels mid of expensive.

Read second ability. “Oh, that’s broken.”

Both of those mice have weights you can add or remove to your liking. Maybe you took a few out of the old mouse so it was lighter?

The data brokers can still sell your data, it’s just a lot less useful to the marketing teams or scam artists that are buying it in bulk. For identity thieves, it may become more valuable, at least until word of your death works its way through the system, as there’s no living person to contest the impersonation.

Terry Pratchett wrote, “Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” but I don’t think he had data brokers in mind when he wrote it in 2004.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom OF SCIENCE!

The city government spinning up its own instance makes sense. You could then have accounts for the various departments, transit, road and highway, parks and rec, the library, the mayor’s office…

Shortesy is a spin off of Letterkenny. Great show, so long as you’re comfortable with some blue comedy.

I’ll take the UK version any day. Robert Llewelyn did a great job as host. Did anyone ever have a successful build using hydraulics?

Voyager’s computer, at least, works on quaternary (4 state) data rather than binary (2 state) data. They keep referring to data storage quantities in quads rather than bits or bytes.

I don’t understand the appeal of a wireless mouse or keyboard in most situations. You still have it on the desk right next to the computer, it’s not like you’re using it from far away, and now you’ve got to think about keeping the battery charged. Wireless headphones make a bit more sense, because you’re wearing them.

Sadly, I’m not even joking.

* Kate Bush music intensifies *

Jack Black stared in a movie this year with exactly this plot.

Lt. Kim says, “Everybody gets promoted before OPS.” In addition to Harry never getting promoted on Voyager, Enterprise D / E operations officer Data was a Lieutenant Commander from his first appearance in “Encounter at Farpoint” all the way through his final appearance in “Star Trek Nemesis,” a period of 15 years both in-universe and real world.

They’re able to recycle 93% of the water on the station. The leftover high concentration waste water, along with the poop bags, are loaded into a Progress or Cygnus cargo ship that burns up on reentry.

They did a remake on the 3DS, but I’d love one for the Switch or Switch 2. Rationalize the controls for modern gamepads (two joysticks, but only 4 face buttons), update the graphics, but keep the gameplay. Nintendo being Nintendo, they’ll feel obligated to add Amiibo integration, but at least that’s always optional.

I think the did it because that’s the platform the game Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was released on.

I believe the collar pips are based off the rank stripes on the dress uniforms of US navy officers. They appear on the shoulder boards of the white summer uniforms or the jacket of the dark blue winter uniforms. A hollow pip is the equivalent of a thin stripe, a full pip is the equivalent of a thick stripe. The thin stripes are only used for Lieutenant Junior Grade and Lieutenant Commander.

I don’t think the single hollow pip O’Brien wears in the early seasons of DS9 has any real world equivalent, though, especially considering he wore two full pips on TNG before he got retconed into a Chief Petty Officer, the only NCO we ever see in Star Trek.