I see toasted tortillas? I upvote.

I still love how Jellico’s changes were all just stealth excuses for cast requests.

That being said, a four shift rotation is absurd.

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I’m running out the door, so sorry for keeping this a little terse. Just wanted to throw out some things for you to potentially look into with regards to your USB-C port in case you were about to send this PCB off for fabbing.

1 - Consider including an ESD Protection chip. It’s a small IC which you pass your data lines through. It can help protect your microcontroller in case there’s some static electricity in the cable you’re plugging in.

2 - There’s a variety of different detection mechanisms and handshakes in USB-C to identify the amount of power a USB-C device supports. Adding a pair of 5.1K resistors to the CC1 and CC2 pins on your USB-C port will definitively tell the device on the other end that your keyboard is a simple USB 2 device and should get a nice chill 5V. Some devices will default to providing 5V is CC1 and CC2 are left floating, but others are more picky. Adding the two 5.1K resistors will help make sure you don’t run into any trouble with a USB-C to USB-C cable.

3 - I’m less confident on the specifics of this one, so maybe do a bit of research yourself. Most of the USB-C implementations I’ve seen on keyboards tie the redundant pins on the USB-C port together. I believe some of these are only connected when the cable’s face up, and others are only connected when the cable’s face down. Routing them together on your board will make sure you don’t run into any trouble with cheap USB-C to USB-A cables.

Here’s a quick example of those three items in action. (Ignore the weird vias and disconnected ground nets. I deleted the fill to make it easier to read.)

Sorry to post and run. Hope that helps!

“Years ago, the ideals of Starfleet called a young girl from the far side of the galaxy to service.” “Find those ideals inside yourself.”

I still can’t get over how good a job Strange New Worlds did with “Ad Astra Per Aspera”. It’s a brief moment during the closing statements, but I like how distant they framed Una. The show clearly knows how small and helpless one can feel when their existence comes under scrutiny of the law. Depicting Number One in that position was incredibly striking.

I’m sorry you fell off the series. Everyone’s got their own tastes. Ironically enough Strange New World’s holodeck episode was a huge love letter and homage to classic Star Trek.

It’s been pretty enjoyable so far. Caleb, Jay-Den, Sam, and Genesis all have good chemistry as a main cast. Not every show needs to be TNG: Season 8. There’s some nits one could pick, but I’m looking forward to see where it goes once it’s out of character introduction and exposition mode.

Either a sriracha mayo with a bit of a kick, or HP sauce.

Her name is Dr. T’ana!

You ever been trapped in a sentient cave? That’s a dark place that knows things.

I typically stick to recipe websites with a good reputation rather than random blogs that come up in search results. But that can be tricky if you’re looking for a specific dish.

< CMO asking persistently enough until they can become Acting Captain and hijack the ship.

Naming the writer TK was such a fun touch.

Don’t you give me that sarcastic Vulcan salute!

I went off script a bit with the flatbread. My grocery store usually has a pretty good pita or naan, but they recently started carrying an onion missi roti that I wanted to try. I believe it uses whole wheat, so it started off darker than your usual pita straight from the jump. I may have left it on the grill for a minute too long, but rest assured it was far from cracker-esque.

Wait, so stories with completely new characters and ships are bad, but stories using existing characters and ships are also bad?

Ceiling Picard is watching you replicate.

Every sci-fi show with a budget eventually does, “Alien tech, but organic.”

If you want to talk about Star Trek borrowing from Mass Effect, the final threat from the end of Picard Season 1 is a way closer plot beat than the surface level Gorn aesthetics.

At the end of the day, fiction is a reflection of the time it was written in, and some elements are just going to echo throughout genre fiction.

Tea. Earl gray. Hot.