gnuplusmatt

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

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

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

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

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 9 points 2 years 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 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 1 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 1 points 2 years ago

People who hate them have never driven them

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 12 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (8 children)

Totally not robots! Am I right fellow HUMANS!

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

It is... It is green

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 0 points 2 years 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

view more: ‹ prev next ›