gnuplusmatt

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[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

without hashtags, I cant discover anything on bluesky, its made discoverability so much harder than mastodon imho

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

the money is drying up, gotta find new ways to monetise

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If governments the world over were as obsessed with solving things like the climate crisis and cost of living as they are with undermining encryption techs, we'd be living in a utopia by now.

They tried this here in Australia, luckily for us it got voted down. Iirc there's been other countries trying the same BS

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey Beavis.. Eheheh, I'm a skull now. This kicks ass!

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

It doesn't even need to be a script you could just alias the 2 commands on a single line to a command in bashrc

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The video is from Paramount Plus, who don't currently have the rights to Prodigy, even though the parent company does. If they included it in their promotional material it would effect their ability to either sell those rights to someone else or write the show off for tax purposes.

It's convoluted and stupid, but running your streaming service as a separate entity is how all the studios have it rigged up. Accounting ftw

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 12 points 2 years ago

It's a joke from The 40 year old virgin

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's the 2015 from Back to the Future

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

Bluesky confuses me, how do I discover anything without hashtags? Maybe I've been on mastodon too long?

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Prodigy has been removed from Paramount Plus.

Technically yes they do own Star Trek, but the way the accounting works is they sell the broadcast/streaming rights back to themselves. It's a bit convoluted, but taking the rights away from their own service means CBS as a studio can either resell it to another broadcaster/streamer or failing that write it off for tax purposes.

It sucks, but all the studios rig it up this way

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

I was similar, almost monthly releases over the years kept me engaged.

I would add to those recommendations the Cold Equations Trilogy and if someone enjoys that, Mortal Coil (as a prequel to cold Equations) and The Light Fantastic as a sequel.

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 26 points 2 years ago (12 children)

People who hate them have never driven them

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