Keychron has some good entry points for getting into the mechanical keyboard scene. Lots of layout options, some open source keyboard firmware support, and you can buy a lot of them barebones if you want to bring your own keys and caps.

Looks great! I love the choice of keycaps!

Weird, this isn’t a picture of Ro Laren.

“Lisa Simpson” got me. Good job.

Are you looking to build a keyboard from a kit, or design one from scratch?

SplitKB.com has forked a few popular open source keyboard designs like the Corne or the Sofle. Even if you don’t end up purchasing their kits, they have some excellent build guides and documentation. If you’re a keyboard or DIY electronics beginner, it’s a good way of seeing what sort of techniques and tools you’d be in for when soldering things like microcontrollers, switches, and diodes. https://docs.splitkb.com/product-guides/aurora-series/build-guide

If you’re interested in designing a keyboard, I’d recommend looking into the keyboard layout editor Egogen. https://github.com/ergogen/ergogen

Refried black beans are criminally underrated. Looks good!

You know Riker does an insufferably good classical Cake cover of Short Skant & A Long (Captain’s) Jacket.

♫ We know of an ancient radiation,

That haunts dismembered constellations,

A faintly glimmering subspace station,

While Frank Sinatra sings Stormy Weather,

The Xindi and Tholian get along together,

Cobwebs fall on an old captain’s record~ ♫

The internet used to scream at you when you went online. Now it’s the reverse.

It’s Linux designed around modern containerization and microservice technologies. The “cloud” naming is a bit of a misnomer, but the same abstracted technologies that help run a modern data center will help make sure your handheld’s launcher doesn’t break because a game or comparability layer wants to use a different database version. https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/DEFINITION.md

https://electrek.co/ is a decent source for EV news. Beyond that most of your typical car sites have a halfway decent reviews section.

Honey, do.

Potentially take a look at Sling TV. They’re selling the same streaming TV service that YouTube TV and Hulu + Live TV are, but they’ve structured things slightly differently. They have a “Sling Orange” and “Sling Blue” package which roughly translates to, “Do you want sports or cable news?” They both have an 80% overlap of channels like HGTV and Food Network, but Orange has ESPN and Blue has CNN. If you buy both it costs about the same as YouTube TV, but you save a decent chunk of change if you can forgo one of the packages.

The only big catch is they don’t carry local stations. If you sign up for 3 months in advance though, they’ll ship you a network connected TV antenna that you can use inside the Sling app to watch local TV. It’s probably not the most parent-friendly solution, but it works for watching one or two event programs a year like the Super Bowl or a debate.

“One day I’m going to be a 70 year old man named Zac.”

It’s no use!

The Universal Translator is basically magic. TOS came closest to describing how it works, and it boiled down to, “IDK man it does some brain scans to detect your language structure”. There’s no satisfying answer as to why it knows the “Washington State Bridge” is a combination of a proper noun, a geopolitical concept, and a general noun.

In Enterprise, the Universal Translator is generally depicted as a modern miracle of technology, but one without useful internal intelligence. If it hears a few snippets of Romanian, it’s just going to start brute forcing a translation matrix with every technique it has at its disposal. More speech gives it more data to work with, but it’s still just cycling through its options.

Sato’s familiarity with xenolinguistics allows her to aid the Universal Translator by narrowing the system’s options or directing it down specific paths. She doesn’t know or learn the alien languages in the traditional sense, but she’s shown for having a knack for picking up on patterns and syntax. Again with the Romanian example, she’s doing the alien equivalent of saying, “This sounds European, skip trying to translate this as an Asian language for now”. The Universal Translator has fewer options to run through and gets to a successful translation matrix faster.

But again, it’s plot contrivance space magic.

Saru actually passed the Kobayashi Maru. Mind you he wasn’t the one taking the test. A pyrotechnic went off early in the simulator and knocked out the cadet going through the program. Saru had to take over as acting captain and managed to save everyone.

It’s a few doors down on the same deck. Folks like taking breaks and a change of scenery. The few times she really did want to hold up in her office she definitely had the capacity to hide away in there.

Which programming language is this a book cover for?

I think you’re dramatically overestimating how much people want to discuss politics with a stranger who slides into their mentions pointing out logical fallacies.