No conflict of interest, I only saw the poject via Mastodon.

From the website:

> Fediverse, Mastodon, and beyond

> Gorgeous album pages

> Audio streaming

> Tour dates and tickets

> Music discovery? Online sales? Analytics? There's a lot more in store as the community grows.

>From the tense landmine of Boom to uncovering the events of the night that Ruby was born in Empire of Death, this season of Doctor Who certainly had it all – but which episode was the best? > >Well, we posed that exact question to RadioTimes.com readers, who have responded in their droves. > >With the likes of Space Babies, The Devil's Chord, Dot and Bubble and all the other season 14 episodes to choose from, there was one clear winner. > >After more than 4,000+ votes in total, [redacted] was the winner of the best episode in our exclusive poll.

The Doctor's granddaughter has been teased on screen throughout this recent season, fan theories abound and original actor Carole Ann Ford has stated she'd be happy to reappear on the show.

Let's assume that there is a reunion with Susan coming up; that would be exciting in itself, but narratively, how do you think it will be set up? Does the Doctor seek her out or will Susan find her grandfather first?

More to the point, "the Doctor finally sees Susan again" is just a story beat — how do you imagine the larger science fantasy story context surrounding it? Feel free to fanfic an entire episode plot or season arc if you want 🙂

I've used Openbox as a minimal DE replacement for years, with Tint2 as panel and pseudo launcher. When I switched to EndeavourOS a couple of years ago Rofi came pre-installed along with those as window switcher, search and app launcher.

At the time it seemed superfluous and I just flat out uninstalled it, but now I'm coming around to maybe ditching Tint2 (and the stodgy old JGmenu that EndeavourOS uses) in favour of using Rofi as a search based launcher and menu.

I can imagine it'll be an abrupt transition but my question for the more seasoned Rofi users out there is, what should I look out for and what are your immediate caveats?

In amongst the exciting teasers and promo tidbits ahead of the new season, for some reason I find this deep cut of production lore one of the most entertaining:

Ncuti Gatwa was adamant that he grow his moustache back for the part of the Doctor, having shaved for years to play a teenager in Sex education. But there was a short overlap where he was filming both shows simultaneously — so he would have to be cleanshaven for the first shoots of Doctor Who, too. Barring the weird Henry Cavill CGI upper lip retouch, how would the crew solve this?

> "Bella [Arghiros], my make-up artist, would present me with a little bag of pubes every morning," he explains. He doesn’t mean this literally, but he and Gibson are now laughing so much they can barely get the words out. "I went through the process of sticking them on for two months," he says. > > "Trimming them," whoops Gibson. "Between every take," adds Gatwa. "As they flap off in the wind. I’m chasing a monster and the director says, 'We’ll have to go again because his moustache is half off.' So when it grew back, I felt very liberated."

The actors' giddiness goes a long way selling this anecdote... If the new season is half as fun as they seem to have had making it, it'll be [Eccleston impersonation] fantastic!

“I knew instantly you can never play Beatles songs on screen because the copyright is too expensive. So I’m thinking, ‘How would you do a Beatles episode without Beatles music?’ And that becomes the entire plot,” Davies explains. “That’s where the idea came from – copyright law!”

This one has a little less of the timey wimey temporal paradoxes than the Disney trailer a week ago, but it still manages to span a wide section of time and (relative dimensions in) space.

We get a bit more of Jinkx Monsoon here, another Bridgerton name check — and I think we can confirm the Doctor taking the mic for another song and dance sequence in the 1960s... All fun and games on a background of some apocalyptic, spacey wacey goings on. Honestly, the Doctor's promise to Ruby's mum that he can keep her safe is starting to sound a little strained.

The season episode titles have also been released:

1. Space Babies
2. The Devil's Chord
3. Boom
4. 73 Yards
5. Dot and Bubble
6. Rogue
7. The Legend of Ruby Sunday
8. Empire of Death

Other notes:

• Episodes 1 and 2 will air on the same day, 11 May.
• Episode 2 seems to be the one featuring Monsoon as a musically themed baddie.
• Episode 3 is penned by Steven Moffat, and RTD has given the cryptic teaser "Antelope. Moment. Drums." The director of the episode adds "Hitchcockian" as the writer's cue to her.
• Episode 6 is our Regency period story, written by Kate Herron and Briony Redman (both coming off Loki, so anybody want to bet they have their time travel right?)

This new trailer from Disney+ gives us a lot more to look forward to — and speculate about!

Looks like the RTD/Bad Wolf team aims to blow viewers' minds. I'm not going to spoil anything here, but go nuts in the comments 🥳

[Edited the subject to correct the season number. This is season 1 of a new show (same continuity as the old show), not season 14 of the previously-new show which is now the less-old-but-not-entirely-new-Who.]

Just released to the Doctor Who youtube channel, with the announcement (excerpted):

>Are you ready for this? 😉 Watch Doctor Who from the 11th May on BBC iPlayer in the UK and stream on Disney+ where available. Find out more here: https://bbc.in/4a5c1vA

I guess this is what RTD was teasing the other day on Instagram...

A short while back the BBC added a batch of new/never before seen scripts to their Doctor Who database, including the 60th specials. Tucked away at the tail end of "The giggle" is an alternate ending scene featuring Wilfred Mott that the late Bernard Cribbins didn't shoot before his demise:

>THE DOCTOR > And Grandad, where is he? > > SYLVIA >He’s off, shooting moles. > >From offstage, a BANG! > >SYLVIA (CONT’D) >There he goes. > >And all TURN to look. > >There’s WILF, in his WHEELCHAIR, buzzing across the lawn, with a SHOTGUN. > >WILF >I’ll get ‘em! Don’t you worry, Doctor! You stay there! I’ll get the little..! > >ALL laughing, except Rose. > >ROSE >Leave them alone! > >WILF >I will never surrender! > >And Wilf glides away. All turn back to each other. > >THE DOCTOR >Don’t worry, I gave the moles a forcefield. Love the moles.

Here's to things left undone, Mr Cribbins. You live on in our hearts.

>[Tom] Baker, who famously played the Time Lord from 1974 to 1981, will be reprising the role this April. His Doctor joins the Paternoster Gang as they fight intergalactic crime in the latest entry to the Trespassers series. > >He joins the cast made up of Neve McIntosh as great detective Madame Vastra, Catrin Stewart as her spouse Jenny Flint and Dan Starkey as their loyal valet Strax.

>McIntosh added: "Acting with Tom Baker has been something I've wanted to do for so long. He was my Doctor growing up, from when I was hiding behind the sofa."

I'm thrilled TBH, I thought the chemistry between McIntosh, Stewart and Starkey made the previous Paternoster Gang sets some of the most campily enjoyable BF work I've heard. Add Tom Baker, even in his old age... Woof, this'll be good!

> The podcast, which will start releasing weekly on Saturdays from March 2024, will showcase fan-favourite stories from Big Finish’s back catalogue, presented in episodic, 30-minute instalments. > > Each episode will feature a brand-new introduction read by Sixth Doctor star Colin Baker, and will also include behind-the-scenes interviews, with the podcast being available via all podcast platforms, with listeners able to stream it for free with ads.

• Device: Oneplus 6 (enchilada)
• Android version: 10
• ROM: LineageOS for MicroG v17.1
• Rooted with Magisk

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Apparently the latest Magisk update somehow crippled my WiFi. AFAICT this mainly affects Android 10, and since I probably need to go into ADB anyway to fix the WiFi issue, I might as well perform a long overdue OS upgrade.

So clearly I don't routinely do maintenance on my phone via CLI. LineageOS used to have fairly involved instructions on how to upgrade between major versions, some including unpacking Oxygen OS updates and selectively installing firmware modules through a terminal... That's not a trivial series of operations for a dappler like myself. Let me just run another idea by you all, please let me know if it'll work:

Suppose I flash an Android 10 OOS to my phone. Dirty flash preferred, I want to preserve my apps and settings. Could I feasibly let the official ROM perform as many kernel and firmware updates as possible via OTA to get to the latest (presumably last/end of life) supported Android version?

After that I would flash the latest LOS/mG back on the device, probably rooting with KernelSU this time.

I appreciate any comments and advice! Thanks in advance 🙏

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/3668164

> I've only made one system change to my phone today, allowing the Magisk app to update to v27.0 — and now my WiFi returns "IP configuration failure" to all networks. > > Maybe I'm seeing a correlation where there isn't one, but I'm curious if others have similar experiences and — more to the point — have any suggestions for fixes.

I've only made one system change to my phone today, allowing the Magisk app to update to v27.0 — and now my WiFi returns "IP configuration failure" to all networks.

Maybe I'm seeing a correlation where there isn't one, but I'm curious if others have similar experiences and — more to the point — have any suggestions for fixes.

Actors come and go in the part of the Doctor, it's a revolving door by nature. But it struck me just now how long Nicholas Briggs has been doing the role as his nemeses, the Daleks.

Or rather, I'm wondering exactly how long he has been turning the knobs on the old ring modulator? IMDb gives his earliest Dalek credit as 2000's Doctor who: The apocalypse element, but surely they aren't listing all of his audio plays?

Big finish got the rights to produce Doctor who audios in 1999, were there any Dalek bits by him there — giving him an early silver jubilee this year — or perhaps earlier in unlicensed fan works?

I hope somebody better versed in the extended universe can help answer this. Either way, the fact that Briggs has played the same part in Who productions longer than the entirety of the revived series has been on the air is... monumental.

The link is just one recent example of the wild entertainment it it to follow fan conjecture going off the rails from the most spurious of information. So it went like this:

1. Ahead of "Wild blue yonder" one of the announced bit parts was played by Susan Twist. Fans be like "Holy shit, there'll be a TWIST involving SUSAN!"

2. Turns out there was no such storyline in the episode, and Susan Twist is an actual actress who just happens to have the name. Fans quiet down until

3. Susan Twist emerges again in "The church on Ruby Road" as a contemporary concert goer. Fans: "She requested an odd song from the same era that her previous (possibly unrelated) part was from. TIME TRAVELER!"

4. In background footage from the "Imagine..." portrait of Russell T Davies, a framed, fake magazine cover captioned "Susan Triad" seems to feature Susan Twist again. Needless to say, this sparks even more speculation.

I'm not condescending to the people who engage with Who like this, after all RTD is actively teasing fans with snippets of advance information. I just want to let you know that I'm enjoying your fan labour from the sideline. With no new Doctor Who on screen for 4-5 months, I'm lapping it up 🙂

In fact, my own theory is that "Susan Triad" means Susan returns in a coming season as three distinct regenerations — and that we've seen two of them already this December:

• Susan Twist in several centuries-spanning cameos;
• Anita Dobson as "Mrs Flood";
• and finally, obviously, Carol Anne Ford returning for a (last?) appearance as the Doctor's long lost granddaughter.

Oh no, I've been Stockholm syndrome'd. I'm part of the game now!

In my household we've rewatched the latest four specials several times already, and May still feels like a long time away 🙂 So what do you all watch to tide you over until there are new Doctor who episodes airing again?

For a baseline, here are some of the things we've sought out to fill the very specific DW flavour of soft science fiction entertainment:

• Old episodes of Doctor who, obviously. Plus the noughties spinoffs.
• It's almost lazy to mention Star trek, and although we easily and often fall into that comfort rabbit hole I think there are other shows that are more in the Who vein:
• Fringe was an US show that borrows fairly heavily from both Who, X-files, and loads more. I don't think it'll be spoilers to say that specifically the image of Zeppelins to signify parallel worlds is an obvious callback to "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel". And there are a group of characters that seem to be a cross between Time Lords and the Watchers from Marvel comics.
• The ministry of time was a Spanish show about a covert time traveling agency. It has a lot of Who feeling, and time travel of course, but with its own premise that centres it on the rich history of Spain and good humouredly makes fun of Spanish national and regional stereotypes.
• The Lazarus project is along the general outline of The ministry of time — secret time travel authority that keeps history on the straight and narrow — but with its own, convoluted tangle of changing timelines. Only on its second season, this show' time travel shenanigans nearly did my head in, sort of like Dark when that was still good, but at a breakneck, Mission impossible pace.

Those are off the top of my head. What are your timey wimey or otherwise Who-alike go-to shows?

Some media outlets still use Twitter/X as a source for news and opinion, otherwise I wouldn't go near the site. Seeing some of the replies to a trailer for the upcoming Doctor who xmas special, I wonder why somebody feels the need to actively shit on a show they so clearly dislike:

> Like most #DrWho fans, I won’t be watching. #DrWho is dead. The doctor is now black and gay, Sir Isaac Newton is now Indian, and the character of Rose is being played by a man wearing women’s clothing. #RIPDoctorWho #DefundTheBBC #DiversityHire

That quote alone has too many levels of wrong to pick over, but it will never not surprise me how little of the show's humanist messages these people have taken to heart.

Edit: Thanks for the "duh, Twitter" responses. I do think it's low hanging fruit to just blame the platform (which is, inarguably, a dumpster fire). Let's talk about reactionary fans instead, yeah?

TL;DR — at age 14, Peter Capaldi was so miffed that another teenager had been appointed by the BBC to run Official Doctor Who Fan Club, he ran a one man letter writing campaign to take over the post and club himself.

An analog era keyboard warrior, Capaldi sounds like he was a bit of a pest in his teens. The appointed Fan Club coordinator, Keith Miller, recalls that Capaldi "haunted my time running the fan club, as he was quite indignant he wasn’t considered for the post."

The linked 2013 article has some letters from show producer Barry Letts' secretary, Sarah Newman to Miller that reflects this portrayal of the Who star as a young pup. Miller ends by quoting a phone call with Sarah Newman following the "exterminated by Daleks" letter:

> I asked how things were going with Peter Capaldi. ’Oh god, I wish someone would sort him out.’ Then she paused. ‘Actually, he lives in Scotland too – could you pop over to Glasgow and sort him out for me?’

By all accounts Capaldi was fairly terrible back then, but fortunately he channelled that deep fandom and knowledge of the show rather more constructively into one of the most layered and complex renditions of the Doctor that has graced the screen.