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Pictured: The first vibe coder, Geordi La Forge, about to discover the dangers of natural language programing.

I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it still was like this. Let me tell the story:

I was 25, the channel members were like 20 to 30 years old. Somehow this young girl found her way to us. She was 14 when she joined the channel. >>

that's right

why can't we just have a new show with a new crew on a new ship now?

why can't we have a new Chief Engineer, a new Doctor, a new Captain? ones that DON'T reference old characters or shows except sparingly? with their own histories, cultures, and ways of seeing things? that's what Star Trek's main strength always was!

but now Paramount is basically shoehorning this bullshit nepotism into everything and even when the acting is good, it fucking sucks!

and basically it just boils down to "nostalgia and family lineage is all that matters".

which is a far cry from the forward-looking utopia that ST used to embody, where social mobility was the name of the game and you could prove yourself worthy despite not having a famous parent or sibling. in fact, Nu Trek's storytelling and world building is downright conservative and regressive in that respect.

ST:Picard was focused 100% on old crews (from TNG, DS9, VOY), their offspring, and nostalgia ("a new Enterprise! staffed by offspring of the TNG crew! wow!")

Brave New Worlds is a prequel and inherently relies on characters we've already seen or heard about (Pike, Spock, Kirk, etc)

Lower Decks does it a bit better since the Cerritos has an entirely-original crew, but it absolutely cannot help itself in referencing or bringing back old TNG/VOY/DS9 characters and references every single episode

one of the fundamental problems with the new Star Trek shows is that they've fundamentally switched from an idealized "meritocracy" to just full-on nepotism and cults of personality

until recently, each Star Trek series showed a different ship with a different, completely new crew doing interesting and new (or at least showing how different people react to old) things or concepts

but Nu Trek basically... doesn't do that (except for Lower Decks... sorta)

that's right

tedious but necessary job today

taking apart the hand controls, such as the starter button, turn signals, etc. and cleaning them out, as well as applying more dielectric grease (non-conductive, electrical-safe)

turn signals were sticking and hazards/starter button weren't working right

also ran a compression test, and the numbers are all within spec, so that's nice and comforting

cleaned up the trailer wiring harness, gave it a proper harness wrap, and installed it on the bike

:neobot_nom_blob: :neobot_woozy:

So uh, what’s this called?

synchronizing involves making the throttle plates open and close at the exact same angle when you twist the throttle, which involves measuring vacuum pressure at each of the intake manifolds with a special vacuum gauge

tuning involves sticking a bendy screwdriver deep into the lungs of the best as it's running and twisting a tiny fucking screw very precisely and god it fucking SUCKS how did they not make that process ANY easier? UGH

anyway, it's done now

today involved calibrating the carburetors

the GL1500 has two big carbs which feed two separate intake manifolds, and three cylinders each - for a total of six cylinders, hence "1500/6", and the name of "flat 6"