I’m going to assume you meant Grand Admiral Thrawn, but he had nothing to do with the Sun Crusher or the Maw installation it was built at. That was Admiral Daala, and the Maw installation was built by Grand Moff Tarkin.

Thrawn, meanwhile, was not a fan of super weapons. He didn’t need them. In practice, they’re impractical outside of generating fear, but they can’t be everywhere.

Thrawn could probably defeat a Borg cube with a standard Imperial Star Destroyer, though. Although… the Borg lack anything you could consider “art”, but they’re not particularly creative in their tactics, relying more on their superior technology and adaptability to overcome adversaries, so i don’t think he’d find them overly challenging from that perspective

Honestly, I disagree. The shields may adapt, but you’re still talking about a weapon made to destroy a planet being pointed at something that’s maybe 4 or 6 times the size of a star destroyer (don’t really fell like calculating that precisely, but memory alpha lists the cubea as roughly 3 cubic kilometers while a star destroyer, from memory, is about 1.6 kilometers long and much less for height and width; for comparison, the first death star is listed as 120 kilometers diameter and the second as 160 on wookieepedia)

I think a better head-to-head would be a Borg cube vs a super star destroyer like Executor (8 kilometers length, powerful but not planet cracking weapons)

It’s like if the Enterprise were to shoot phasers at a single drone on the ground. I don’t care how much those shields adapt, that’s simply too much raw power for a shield generated by a humanoid sized suit and set of implants. I don’t remember specifics but i vaguely remember at least one instance in Star Trek where they managed to overpower a Borg’s shields. They are not perfect, no matter how good the tech is it still runs on energy and it still uses energy to absorb energy.

And for my biases: I love both, but I’ve always had a preference for Star Trek. My opinions on this aren’t based on a preference for Star Wars at all.

I don’t know if I’ve ever heard the initialism AMV or not (though I’ve watched plenty of them), but even not knowing what it was it was pretty easy to figure out from context (though i thought “animated” instead of “anime”, but close enough anyway)

Some acronyms and initialisms, I don’t really get why they’re so hard for people, especially in context

Honestly, if they didn’t charge extra I’d probably not be so annoyed, but the theaters around me all add like a $3 “convenience” fee for booking online, which is complete bs since it’s actually saving them money not needing to keep as many people working

Capitalists will capitalist, though

I actually kind of dislike the assigned seating at movie theaters myself. It now doesn’t matter if i go early, the theater might already be nearly booked. The only way around this is to either make two trips to the theater or pay extra to buy online.

On the other hand, it does eliminate any rush to get there early once you have the ticket

Depends on what airline you’re taking, Southwest doesn’t assign seats

But most will anyway. Why leave extra money sitting on the table?

Great, so now we get to pay for the privilege of having our data harvested by 814 “partners”

Remember: “if you aren’t paying for the product then you are the product” is no longer accurate, you’re the product regardless of paying or not now.

I think i would legitimately just leave the site and block it at my pihole if i saw that

Sure

But why would I care if I’m not going to use it?

Honestly, I don’t care if all my phones going forward start having the port again, I’m sure it’ll make a lot of people happy, but I’ll still likely be using Bluetooth because it’s just more convenient for me

Which was the point. That I feel like you missed. Or misinterpreted. Either way… Cool?

I prefer the headphone jack to be Bluetooth, honestly… Haven’t had a physical port in many years and found I didn’t miss it at all

I’ve seen a lot of people, including servers and diners, defending tipping culture.

Sadly.

I’m on the side of tipping while in a tipping culture, but only because of the crap way servers are payed and they’re the only ones hurt by protesting through refusing to tip. Otherwise, it’s a practice that needs to die.

It’s okay, I’ve already switched to Linux

Shouldn’t have to, it should be something to enable or better yet install

I asked it how to get rid of it.

It decided my aggressive language was not okay and kept ending the “conversation” which only managed to piss me off even more.

If I want to curse at my f$king computer, I’m going to curse at my f$king computer. I paid for the damned thing, and it is a thing, not a person, I can yell at it all I want and not hurt it in any way so this policing of what we can say to it is all the more bizarre to me.

I disagree for 3 things: UAC, PowerShell, and general driver abuse loopholes being closed and making security not a joke

I will also say from my personal experience there are a fair number of QOL improvements in the UI, but they kind of threw most of them away with 11, but hey, at least we get tabbed explorer… Which I still can’t figure out any real use for, especially the way it’s implemented…

Win11 got me to finally get off my ass and switch to Linux… it’s just so invasive, and the way it eats up resources is flat out irresponsible.

Starfield, which I don’t get the sheer magnitude of rancor it gets… It’s not perfect, but it’s still a good game, and none of its issues are “unfixable”, no matter how much its haters want to believe they are

Genuinely had a lot of fun with it and looking forward to content updates, as well as yes bug fixes and gameplay improvements (I did say it’s not perfect, but none of Bethesda’s games were really better at launch and most of them got slammed initially too)

Joking aside, I have a lot of respect for quality QA, and developers who actually listen to and work with their target audience and operations teams

As a sysadmin, the sysadmin parts are 100% true