gnuplusmatt

joined 1 year ago
[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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

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

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (1 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 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the 2015 from Back to the Future

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

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.

People who hate them have never driven them

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

We still get our share of toxicity here. I mused recently that if you're assessing the success of lemmy/kbin on how close an experience to reddit it is - I've been attacked in the same ways by hyper fixated debate lords here too

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 56 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Totally not robots! Am I right fellow HUMANS!

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

"Computer! Taffy, honey, shrimp, soda, corn, steak, chicken nugget, crispy lemon rock candy, chili, gravy, chocolate sundae! Hot!"

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is... It is green

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Things like androidpay/apple pay type functions require a chain of security checks, on Android it's levels of safety net. some banking apps require similar

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