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Daystrom-Institute

From the perspective of the Borg, the Federation is terrifying

2022-02-27 00:00:00

From the perspective of the Borg, the Federation is terrifying So. Imagine. We are the Borg. We are happily assimilating the Delta Quadrant. Resistence is futile as species after species is added to our collective. One day we receive a subspace message sent from the past from the other side...

Shitty-Daystrom

Damar is misunderstood

2022-03-01 00:00:00

He never wanted to be a military dictator, his dream was to host a show on the Cardassian food channel: “Kanar with Damar” wherein he would discuss fine beverages Damar: Welcome we have quite the show for you tonight, the theme of this show will be non-Cardassian … Audience: Boo...

Technology

Printing on Arch Linux

2025-11-21 00:00:00

Printing on Arch Linux is easy and plug-and-play for the most part. Install these packages: cups cups-browsed lib32-libcups ipp-usb colord logrotate Enable cups in systemd: sudo systemctl enable cups --now sudo systemctl enable cups-browsed --now And tada! All printers will work by USB. Also for remote printers, any printer supporting...

5 GHz best settings

2025-08-09 00:00:00

If using U-NII 3 bands: Power Spectral Density Limit around 30 dBm (500 kHz) 1 Watt total power output Channels 149 to 165; if 80 MHz then set channel to 149. If 40 MHz then 149, 157 and 165 should be preferred. Needs more power for obstacle traversal (hence why...

Why as a Linux user I don't recommend Linux for the disabled

2025-08-08 00:00:00

I use Arch, btw. And I even adhere to the principles of FOSS; but I ain’t an evangelist. Because GNU/Linux tooling for the disabled especially when using Wayland is so debilitating that you should seriously lobby to keep X11 around, and if X11 dies, then I actively encourage you to...

Why I am okay with Windows 11 but you need the right edition

2025-08-07 00:00:00

Windows 11’s consumer editions are ABSOLUTE CRAP. There’s no sugarcoating it. Even Windows 11 Pro is a pile of dogsh*t all around. But when you delve into the Enterprise, Server, and Education SKUs, man alive, these are just so great. Your GPOs to disable Telemetry and the Web Search on...

Using Microsoft Edge as a secondary browser

2025-08-06 00:00:00

My main browser has always been Firefox, and as you probably know, using Firefox isn’t always the best. So usually, people like me - and perhaps you too - tend to have a second browser in hand, a Chromium-based one. I used to use Google Chrome for quite some time...