Too expensive. It’s easier to just ban electricity, and go back to the good ol’ days of natural gas powered appliances.

will the unpowered hub run into power issues if I plug high-power-consuming devices into it?

Yes, since it’s limited by how much power it can draw from the other hub, and would have a limit on how much power the unpowered hub can pass to its own ports.

And does it make any difference if I switch the hubs order?

Yes. Putting the powered hub second means that it doesn’t need to pull power through the unpowered hub, and it should be fine right be used as normal.

It’s also Google. You probably shouldn’t put anything on it that you’re not expecting to go away in a few years when the service shuts down.

At the very least, have a spare copy somewhere that isn’t likely to get wiped out.

It does make you wonder whether someone has cooked the argument up with a language model along the way, and it’s just fabricated a citation as they are wont to do.

To be fair, it might be unwise to publicise the issue if it was still a major problem. That might just cause copycats.

YouTube might just not offer those for mobile browsers.

Seems like if you’re on an away mission to, say, a desert planet, sunglasses might be useful.

To a degree. Not all species need them, and it might not be considered necessary. Particularly since it adds the risk of you losing them, and inadvertently causing a violation of the Prime Directive.

Species like Vulcans have innate defences that are just as good, if not better than 21st century sunglasses, and they may rely on those instead.

You also have the waste heat being converted into useful heat, which only helps the efficiency. A standard resistive heater is almost all waste heat, so if you can use some of that energy to get more heat from elsewhere, that’s how you can get 100%+ heat efficiency.

This seems like rather an optimistic headline, seeing as the article also says that the results from the study were “not statistically signifiant”.

Considering how meat is in most things, you’d think that it would just oversaturate people with warnings, and they would just end up ignoring it. Similar to how people more or less ignore California’s Proposition 65 in the USA, because it’s so broad, and the thresholds are so low that basically everything has a label saying “This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer”. Anything significant gets lost in the noise.

Not on newer phones. Similar to the headphone jack, most phones got rid of it to expand the bezel. You do get some phones that fake one by using the display, but an actual notification LED seems to be a thing of the past.

Does a new widget have the same issue?

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The second paragraph reads a lot like what would end up becoming the Talosians in the cage, although the device sounds like the neural interface they had on the Equinox, in place of the Holodeck.

Maybe it’s a maladvertising popup?

At that point, that’s less of a camera bump, and more of a camera knob.

The replication of life seems to be more of a technological limitation than much else. One of the main roadblocks for 24th century Federation replicators creating life is that they lack the resolution and reliability to create error-free copies of complex molecules like DNA, and those errors are typically incompatible with life.

A theoretical perfect replicator may be able to produce a copy of a person, to some degree. The experimental gentronic replicator was capable of replicating a fully functional Klingon spine, and assuming that a Klingon spine is at least as complex as its human counterpart, it’s not far off from being able to replicate a whole entire brain.

According to DS9 4x10 (Our Man Bashir), during transport, someone’s “neural energy” pattern is stored within the transporter buffer. The energy pattern occupies a huge amount of memory and so cannot be stored for a long period of time. In the same episode, they also establish “neural energy” to be separate from the physical form. They use the word “store” instead of “save”; I think that’s because it’s literally something like a battery, not a photocopier. You can only move around the consciousness.

It’s also worth noting that the neural energy pattern is what is being stored, not the neural energy itself. The station’s computers would not need to be cleared if they were simply storing the energy, since they could just bottle it up in a battery.

Logically, it would follow that if they are capable of storing the neural energy pattern on the station’s computers, then it could be copied by a sufficiently advanced replicator, not unlike the replicator patterns that they normally use, or the data stored on the computers copied like conventional data.

Data’s positronic network is also designed to mimic the living neural system, using positronic neurons instead of the standard ionic ones in fleshy brains. He might have a neural signature, but the difference in brain function just makes it harder/impossible to detect, since you might normally be searching for the biological equivalent.

Similar to how Ferengi brains are thought to be resistant/immune to telepathy because they have a vastly different structure compared to most humanoid brains.

We know that at the very least, Data’s brain is completely capable of supporting a transplanted human consciousness. Ira Graves was able to transfer his over to Data and run without issue, with the only problems arising when his consciousness started conflicting with Data’s, whereas his transfer to the isolinear computers on the Enterprise only stored his memories, with the implication that he effectively died as a result of only his memories being stored.

Conversely, we know that the Enterprise’s computers are technically capable of hosting an active consciousness with no modifications at all. The Nth Degree has Barclay transfer his consciousness to the ship’s computer, which would not be possible if the computer could only simulate a consciousness. Logically, it might be able to develop a soul of its own, if given enough time to develop a consciousness, but the timeframe might be impractical, seeing as Discovery needed centuries to do the same in Calypso.

As for the bar tabs, I don’t think they ever really explained how starfleet officers paid for stuff on DS9. I always just assumed they had some kind of credit account through Starfleet or something when they were posted there.

They probably do, since the Federation deals with civilisations that use money on the regular. They likely have an allowance/stipend specifically for that.

“Farpoint Station” has Dr Crusher ask for some cloth to be put on her tab on the Enterprise, so DS9 isn’t the only station using a similar system, which might be the same system, it’s just that Quark’s is a Ferengi business on a Bajoran station, so the issue comes up more often compared to someone who might be living on a starship, or on Earth Spacedock.

How exactly do the Klingons justify using cloaking ships, a strategy which necessarily involves sneaking up on an enemy and catching them unaware? Wouldn’t sneak attacks conflict with their notion of honour?

As another Klingon points out, the only honour is in victory.

The Klingon code of honour is pretty flexible, and there seem to be a lot of different interpretations of it. Some more dogmatic Klingons, like Worf, might find it dishonourable, and avoid cloaking if they can, but there are other Klingons who are less adherent to tradition, and would freely make use of cloaking as they wished.