That and Crypto/wallstreetbets is what I assume. But like most subscription services, the paid tier will start out as “bonus” content but eventually more features get locked behind the paywall.

If they’re foolish enough to paywall old.reddit it would force a lot of the olds out.

I have to imagine that a free Lemmy version of most communities would be more appealing to most people the paywalled subreddit. But I also have a feeling the paywalled subreddits are going to be crypto or meme stock related, where there’s a benefit to them being paywalled.

EDIT: As other have said, there’s an incentive for the porno subs to be paywalled too.

This was really cool, it’s nice that fans are saving smaller less famous props and things from the show that could have easily been thrown out. Thanks for sharing.

“any media outlet, no matter how big an empire it is, that is not owned or funded by the state” is not the common definition of “independent media” (it’s not even the definition given in the hyperlinked definition). “Independence” in this context refers to journalistic independence.

Seriously! I love the weirdo foss geeks but we need some fresh weird.

Zorin is another distro that (very successfully imo) does a windows-style taskbar with GNOME and is parent friendly, though like I said before, I think today I would go with something immutable for a non-techie because they’re very hard to break.

KDE is the easiest for coming from Windows, you almost never never need the command line or anything “extra” to customize it (beyond what even Windows will allow).

GNOME (especially in Ubuntu) by default is more Macintosh-like which might appeal to some people, it’s “simpler” but any customizations will require navigating the add-ons (and in my experience inevitably the command line too).

I think KDE is the one for most people who just want a functioning PC. GNOME could be good for the PC you might make for your parent. Bonus points for an immutable distro which are even harder to break.

“Always test your prototypes on the intended final target well in advance just to be sure”

I was not a fan of seasons 1-3 pretty much at all (3 was ok), but 4 was one of my favorite seasons of any Trek and 5 is also very good. I would be interested to read a follow up post when you’re finished!

This is still the best at capturing it, imo: https://xkcd.com/1732/

In another thread @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website described this plot as “Extremely TOS” and I went from not-hating-but-not-loving it to having much more positive feelings. Is it silly? Yes. Is it humanist? Also yes. And what’s more Star Trek than that?

If they were smart they would find a way to paywall all the years-old posts where someone is like “hey how do I fix this specific part on my 1992 sewing machine” and it has a single reply with the answer.

I just did earlier this week!!

I did too! Watched it on initial release but skipped the finale, then watched a second time with the finale. Like a lot of Trek it is even better the second time, there is a shocking amount of attention to detail for a silly cartoon.

My favorite aspect that LDS really nailed was that it regularly turned a Trek trope on it’s head, and the “twist” in so many episodes turned out to be a positive well-intentioned misunderstanding instead of an ulterior motive.

Bing and all Bing-based engines stopped being able to show Reddit results.

Not accurate, actually!

Great point about Mariner’s bridge comment. One of my fav LDS moments.

Subscribed! Thanks for sharing. I have been considering creating a new reddit account to help spread the good word to the unsaved masses.

I’m inclined to agree, and the series from the past decade have definitely attracted a younger audience, though I’m guessing probably not to the degree the producers were hoping and also without holding onto as many of the olds as they were hoping.

I also think the latter half of the 20th century was a unique time where families were sitting down to watch family-friendly (it’s true don’t deny it) TV like Star Trek together.

I see this take a lot, but it frankly just doesn’t reflect what I see on the screen. Can you give some examples from the shows that influenced you to form that opinion? I agree DS9 could probably be correctly be considered “dystopian , brooding and militaristic”, sure, but Discovery, Picard and SNW are (if anything) cloyingly optimistic and positive!