Rip, I havent seen the latest season. That’s funny though.

I bet you he played pranks on them with Trelane.

Apparently there is a holiday edition in the US that uses cane sugar. https://youtu.be/UC6bv6Ies3A

Maybe Q will rub off on Janeway a bit and make her less murderous.

i haven’t seen academy yet, have they explained how the Jem’Hadar were able to breed? In DS9 they were grown synthetically by the Changelings afaik.

this is so cursed

to get something as flexible as my android tv i’d need an nvidia shield and those are going on ten years old at this point. maybe if/when they do a hardware refresh, assuming sideloading isn’t completely impossible by then.

Yeah. To be honest on the DNS side it would probably be far easier to just do a whitelist instead, block everything except your specific service. and yeah, its a stupid amount of work. i hate smart tvs but i’ll be damned if im gonna pay extra for a streaming box =|

just saying its possible

Not sure if you mean hardcoded DNS IPs or hardcoded “phone home” IPs. Hardcoded DNS addresses in devices are annoying, the only way i’ve found to get around that is using destination nat rules (DNAT) which requires more than a consumer router typically. hardcoded phone home IPs would get blocked by your firewall. you’re right that most firewalls are set up by default to implicitly allow outbound traffic. you set up a rule that explicitly denies all outbound traffic from the TV, then only allow port 443 (or whatever port your streaming service uses) on the specific IP/IPs that your service uses. Here’s Netflix’s published IP info for example.

edit also i’m fully aware it’s fucking ridiculous that we as consumers have to go through this much rigamarole. you shouldnt have to be a literal network engineer to do something as simple as have an internet-connected tv that doesnt spy on you.

no it helps to block everything that isnt just netflix or whatever streaming service you use. you combine a DNS adblock along with blocking all the unused ports and it severely limits the communications. you could also add a vpn to add another layer of security. idk about jellyfin but most streaming services i know use https/443 to stream to your tv. so youre only allowing the specific service you want and only on a specific port. buncha great dns blocklists here https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists, and a smart tv specific one for pihole here https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/SmartTV.txt

It’s relatively easy to restrict a smart tv to TLS/HTTPS traffic only using your router and a dns adblocker.

Man, you aren’t wrong but I feel a bit bad for Keiko’s actress. She was probably just brought in for a one-off thing (Data’s Day) but then the writers kept bringing her back even though she has like no on screen chemistry with Colm Meaney. And then Miles gets promoted to a regular cast member on DS9 so they had to bring her in even more.

Right? They should be making them watch the entire Lord of the Rings extended trilogy instead.

Outer Wilds vibes

lol and he injures his leg jumping off the stairs in quark’s bar because he forgets he cant shapeshift mid-air anymore

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no but barbossa does

too dark?