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I've always liked the "Go Away" door mat Slappy Squirrel had in Animaniacs. I'm legit surprised I don't actually have one.

Who approved this?!

I always forget that's J.G. Hertzler. It's like....the less elaborate prosthetics he wears, the less I recognize him. See also: Laas in DS9.

(At least, until he speaks)

Laptop-style speakers may be just enough. It would be tight and maybe the badge would have to be enlarged slightly to accommodate it, though.

I did a deep clean of my laptop not long ago and was surprised at how tiny and flat the speakers actually were. They won't fill a room, but they're enough for light music or a Teams call at arm's length. Granted, it might not be good in a noisy area, but that would be a problem for the mic as well (not to mention public speakerphone use is kind of frowned on lol).

What BIOS setting are you changing? Secure Boot?

Would love to have one of those. Guess I'll have to settle for 3D printing one and hacking up a Bluetooth headset/speaker to make it work.

I saw that, but it's November 19 already. So they've either not restocked or have sold out already.

I clicked a few of the "Where to buy" links from the bottom, but only the non-Bluetooth ones were available.

I have an old rotary phone / bluetooth "headset"! Though it's only technically portable.

It's a 50's wall-mount model that the phone company would have hardwired (no RJ-11). I've got it hooked to a Bluetooth -> POTS adapter that will decode the pulse coding. It rings when my cell rings, you can answer/place calls from it, and you can dial 0 to engage the voice assistant. Technically speaking, I can absolutely text people from a rotary phone.

Is it practical? No. Do I use it? Rarely. It's mostly decorative, but if I'm going to have retro tech as decorations, I like to make it work. Next "wish list" is an old payphone.

not amazing as a Bluetooth device. Microphone didn't pick up super-well

That's disappointing. Seemed to work well in that video, though it was quiet; I did wonder how it would fare in the real world, though.

A Bluetooth version of the TMP communicators might have better success albeit at the cost of having to hold your arm up for the whole conversation.

I've used smart watches for phone calls like that, and it was pretty annoying after not very long at all.

I could probably easily make a Bluetooth TOS communicator, but that would be two roughly phone-sized things to carry around, so not really practical.

OTOH:

Reminds me of a still from Portal 2.

I always assumed that ships would be outfitted with enough concentrated anti-matter to last the expected lifespan of the ship, or at very least the mission they're on

I was thinking something like that, too. Kind of like how nuclear submarines are outfitted today.

I'm more curious how they store the antimatter

That one we do have answer for. There are antimatter pods that have built-in containment fields to prevent it from reacting with normal matter. In today's tech, it would basically have the antimatter inside a magnetic field in a vacuum chamber.

That's dark matter rather than antimatter, but I still lol'd. Unfortunately, joke answers aren't allowed in Daystrom (otherwise I'd have posted to the main Star Trek community).