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The Lemming formerly known as /u/SatyrSack@lemmy.one

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  • You might be surprised at just how many actors were in both franchises

    https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek#Behind_the_scenes

    Table
    Actor/Actress Stargate character Star Trek character
    Tony Amendola Bra’tac Chorus #3
    David Andrews Se’tak Lorian
    Rene Auberjonois Alar Odo
    Erick Avari Kasuf Jamin, Vedek Yarka, B’iJik
    John Billingsley Simon Coombs Phlox
    Jolene Blalock Ishta T’Pol
    Ron Canada Quartus Martin Benbeck, Ch’Pok, Fesek
    Frank Collison Keturah Gul Dolak
    Ronny Cox Robert Kinsey Edward Jellico
    Steven Culp Henry Wallace J.Hayes
    Nicole de Boer Alison Porter Ezri Dax
    John de Lancie Frank Simmons Q
    Louis Ferreira Everett Young Trevis
    Robert Foxworth Ashwan V’Las, Admiral Leyton
    Willie Garson Martin Lloyd Riga
    Vincent Hammond Ruax, Unas Elder, Big One Huge Alien
    Christopher Heyerdahl Holling, Todd, and others Wen
    Elizabeth Hoffman Catherine Langford Bhavani
    Robert Knepper Simeon Gaul, Wyatt Miller
    Rod Loomis Osric Paul Manheim
    Scott MacDonald Golan Jarlath Dolim, N’Vek and others
    Brian Markinson Lotan Elias Giger, Pete Durst, Vorin
    Dakin Matthews Maz’rai Patterson
    Christopher McDonald Alan Armstrong Richard Castillo
    Paul McGillion Carson Beckett Barracks leader
    Colm Meaney Cowen Miles O’Brien
    Obi Ndefo Rak’nor Drex and Kelemane
    Robert Picardo Richard Woolsey Lewis Zimmerman, The Doctor, and various other EMH’s
    Leon Rippy W. O. West L.Q. “Sonny” Clemonds
    Saul Rubinek Emmett Bregman Kivas Fajo
    Alan Ruck Adam Fletcher John Harriman
    Dwight Schultz The Keeper Reginald Barclay
    Wallace Shawn Arlos Kadawam Zek
    Armin Shimerman Anteaus Quark
    Marina Sirtis Svetlana Markov Deanna Troi
    Eric Steinberg Netan Paul Porter, Ankari captain
    Scott Smith Unnamed Officer in Stargate Doyle
    David Ogden Stiers Oberoth Timicin
    Tony Todd Haikon Kurn, and others
    Connor Trinneer Michael Kenmore Charles “Trip” Tucker
    Musetta Vander Shan’auc Derran Tal
    Gwynyth Walsh Kelmaa B’Etor, Nimira
    Derek Webster Brown Lt Sanders
    Doug Wert Hadden Jack Crusher
    Marc Worden Ronan Alexander Rozhenko
    Rick Worthy K’tano/Imhotep Jannar, and others





  • I think your question is related to this part:

    It’s also important to remember that syncing services like DropBox or iCloud are NOT backups. If a file is deleted or damaged in one location, that change will sync to all the other locations and the previous version of the file is very difficult to recover, even by the engineers running those services.

    In your hypothetical scenario: no, your Dropbox files would not be lost. After you lose your laptop and HDD, if you were to buy a new laptop, you should be able to download your files from Dropbox just fine.

    What that comment is talking about is how when your local files are synchronized with Dropbox, any changes locally get synchronized out to your Dropbox version. If you delete the file locally, a request gets sent out to the Dropbox servers to delete it there. If your file gets corrupted locally, that newer corrupted version gets sent off to the Dropbox servers to overwrite the intact version.

    But if your laptop burns up, it doesn’t send off a request to delete or corrupt the file on the Dropbox servers or anything. You just lose your local copy.





  • APNG files start to get large - a dozen or few dozen megabytes

    I just messed around with using ffmpeg to convert that MP4 to both APNG and WEBP, and the size difference was substantial, but definitely not that bad.

    • MP4
      • 60.4 KiB
      • klingon-jump-rope.mp4
    • APNG
      • 1.6 MiB
      • ffmpeg -i klingon-jump-rope.mp4 -plays 0 klingon-jump-rope.apng
    • WEBP
      • 110.9 KiB
      • ffmpeg -i klingon-jump-rope.mp4 -loop 0 klingon-jump-rope.webp
    • WEBM
      • 59.9 KiB
      • ffmpeg -i klingon-jump-rope.mp4 klingon-jump-rope.webm

    EDIT: Oh, right, “few dozen megabytes” probably refers to some other animation you had made. Still, you are right, WEBP seems to be the way to go.