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Ditto. But from the looks of it I’ll have to learn Linux eventually. The upside is that there is enough information online for a noob to do it.
The problem for me was the time sink, sure I could customize the entirety of my OS, but it’d take me a few years! ADHD hell. Wasn’t willing to devote all my freetime to that just yet.
I hear you. I’m pragmatic. I don’t care about customization as long as I can do the bare basics I’m good. Makes life simple and less stressful.
I honestly don’t know what Linux is this has inspired me to ask in [email protected]
It’s a toaster
If this was your joke then apologies, but it probably is in a load of ‘smart’ toasters. If they exst of course, I assume they do.
It’s a joke. Linux is an operating system
Well linux is the kernel of many operating systems, including many ‘smart’ devices.
Kernel? Stop making up words!
If I’m only a fan of the OG Star Trek does that still count?
I’m only a fan of linux, not a user. Does that count?
I started getting into Star Trek last week and I’m planning to use Linux as soon as I get a laptop of my own. Lemmy has finally consumed me.
One of us, One of us
Go deep! Go CachyOS!
And if you get an Nvidia laptop, welcome to hell :)
I just discovered Ubuntu Touch is an option for my next phone and am seriously considering a Volla Phone!
Unfortunately you’re going to have to rewatch every episode of Star Trek you previously watched, but this time use Linux to do it.
I assume Das Kapital is already on your bookshelf?
Damn, that box I haven’t checked yet.
Almost on 2 years now…
Yep, great API exodus.
Blocking the Linux communities is like playing whack a mole here. Nothing against Linux but Linux bros are insufferable
I have been a Trekkie long before I joined.
Pretty much my thing.
Better not mention that you don’t use Firefox
Twice is a coincidence, thrice is a conspiracy
But are you at least a socialist?
Standing next to mass grave
“But what kind of socialist are you?”
Fed posting
Alex Garland, Yuk.
As bad as Kathryn-Von Riefenstahl-Bigelow.I have mixed feelings about the movie, but that was a good line and Jesse Plemons delivered it well.
Lol in the original thread, I mentioned that I forgot to add communist to the meme.
At least?
This implies there are levels or grades, here. What’s at the top of the pyramid?
Begin leftist infight in 3… 2 … 1…
This thread really pinning Lemmy down.
Ah leftist infighting goes all the way back to the French Revolution in fairness but… Yeah I can’t disagree. Like I’m a male shiny white western Linux user who loves Star Trek.
I’m like those lads you see in cargo shorts and sandals on holiday. FML.
Absolute basic Lemmy user.
That’s starting to sound like a hierarchy 🏴
So you’re a BSD user and Stargate fan?
They use Haiku and watch Farscape.
TempleOS and BSG
So say we all.
Babylon 5, and I multi boot.
GASP
Just switched to Linux for Plex.
Ubuntu by the way.
And now you have to move away from Plex?
If you’re still using Plex after all these years of them doing shady shit, that’s on you.
That very post highlights that that confirmation is only if you stream the stuff Plex streams. If you use it for your own library as most do, then it’s a non issue.
Jellyfin < Plex. No matter how you try and spin it. Just on ease of remote access and the UI alone
I look at it in the reverse. I want this platform to stream at home. If it’s a pain to use at home without internt then it’s lost the plot. I’d setup Plex with the trusted local network in the config file and all of that, but then I still have reconfigure my clients and then they all get admin access so all my parental controls are gone. Jellyfin and Emby get this right and Plex does not, so I dropped Plex. I ended up on Em by instead of Jelly because Direct Play/Stream just wasn’t really working for me in Jelly (that may well have been due to my hosting on a Synology NAS).
I’m in the same situation as you- I have a Synology NAS and I want to set up some sort of streaming for my old home movies. I would like to be able to view on mobile and at home. Is Emby possibly a better option than JellyFin for that scenario? I wasn’t even aware of them.
We each have our own requirements and so I try not to judge which is what the comment I replied to seemed to do.
I need remote access for my users.
We each have our own requirements and so I try not to judge
Cheers, but you did say this
Jellyfin < Plex. No matter how you try and spin it.
So I spun it in my own different priorities under which Plex is not superior.
Look into jellyfin. I used to run Plex but I find jellyfin way better.
Each to their own but think you should highlight the failings of Jellyfin.
Mainly:
- Remote access is not a trivial feat, especially when compared to Plex
- The UI is janky.
Interesting. I switched to jellyfin from Plex because the Plex interface was fucking terrible after the redesigned it and jellyfin was so much better even when unfinished.
The first point is valid, but it only applies to you as the server admin and not the remote users. And honestly it was stuff worth learning for me, as somebody who is not on the IT/web end of things.
But the UI being janky? I don’t know about that. Static images of the screens may look better to you on the Plex side, and that’s just preference. But when it comes to lag, hitching, did that click register, having the server scan the media library, and just about every other performance thing I can think of, Jellyfin seems SO much better to me.
And that’s why I do Emby instead. Cloud connections are not that difficult to setup, though not as streamlined as Plex. However, I refuse to go back to Plex because of some serious privacy concerns from the last couple years. I have had a lifetime membership with them since like 2014 and it was great for a long time, but I don’t need it tracking activity of my friends.
Ubuntu
Why tho?
We all start somewhere, even if it’s the smelliest pink taco.
Smelly you say? May I recommend you apply some Mint with Cinnamon to spruce up that computer of yours?
Take the most popular (for now) distro in Ubuntu, remove the proprietary Canonical stuff that makes people say eww, and give the UI some polish and you basically have Linux Mint. And if you REALLY want to reject Ubuntu in its entirety, they do have LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).
one thing i’ve noticed since switching to linux, or before that to be honest, is that when someone says “which distro should i use” the universal reply is “any of them will work! just pick one!” but then when someone mentions which distro they’re using, there’s always 100% without fail someone who chimes in with “ewwwwww why?!?”
Unless it’s Arch, then everyone seems to agree it is the best Linux.
At which I will point out it’s the second linuxiest Linux. Real penguins use Gentoo
i’ve noticed that as well. arch users are to linux as gowron is to star trek memes. i haven’t tried arch or gentoo–honestly i don’t have the ambition i had when i was 12 trying to figure out how to run ultima 7 on my 386 “pc compatible” CLI DOS machine
My kid installed Arch once upon a time. I was impressed and pleased with him, but also thinking that was way more work than I wanted to do to not use Windows. So I bought a Steam Deck.
I mean, if you’re not using LFS, are you really using linux at all?
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Just tell everyone you use arch, even if you don’t.
eEeEwWwWwWw
i think i’m getting it!
Pretty much, haha. The amount of elitism among some Linux users is quite potent.
they take themselves very seriously
… it’s the smelliest pink taco
Weirdly enough that’s my mom’s high school nickname!
oh hey I remember her
Because it’s fine, and it’s one of the more “normal” options for first-timers.
it’s not “fine”. i recommended a friend start with ubuntu because it’s the easiest one and tte issues i have had to help with in the past year…
they switched to endeavourOS and i’ve heard no complaints since.
I oddly started watching star trek of because of all the fire memes on lemmy
ONE OF US
ONE OF US
ONE OF US
I have considered not only figuring out how to setup Linux on my computer but also considered starting to watch Star Trek. It’s been almost a year since I’ve been on Lemmy and I haven’t caved yet… But my time may be coming soon…
I switched to Linux (not arch btw) around the same time as joining Lemmy. And I’ve still not seen any trek apart from a couple of the movies, which I quite liked. We’re contemplating starting at the very start
OG star Trek is a product of it’s time. While revolutionary and a great source of solid sci Fi, it’s also got the old tv style to it. Extremely long pauses, close ups forever, agonizingly long just to get out one line then repeat.
Would recommend… After you’ve watched a more modern star Trek :)
TNG is a favorite for a good reason. Maybe from season 3 on to start. It’s also going to seem extremely slow / no music compared to modern TV. But it’s overall quality shit.
There is some really terrible original Trek, whose only defense is being a product of the time. That said, you will still see the first interracial kiss on broadcast TV. The first season of The Next Generation is pretty stilted, but is still decent in my opinion. And, as is the overarching theme for Trek, questions about who, what, and why we are will be asked, and sometimes answers will be proposed.
The Gorn was laughable, but in SNW they are legitimately terrifying. The fact that every series has ties and often callbacks to others in the timeline is one of my favorite things about Trek, like Doctor Who it’s been going for decades but every part of the history is fodder for more exploration. DS9s Tribble episode is a great example, editing Sisko and Dax in behind Kirk and Spock
Yeah, the Gorn were so ridiculous, but also gave rise to Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock. The Tribbles were also ridiculous, but so fun, and a great nostalgic nod to TOS in DS9.
Starting from the beginning is the absolute best, in my opinion. The original series is so much fun, and as much as I love TNG and others, I know that nothing will come close to the cultural impact that the original had. It was prime time, mainstream, and riding the energy that the country had for space in the 1960s, with a message of hope and cooperation. That being said, prepare for a decent mix of goofiness too, lol.
nothing will come close to the cultural impact that the original had.
That’s part of the reason why I probably wouldn’t recommend old trek first to somebody. We don’t have the benefit of being able to go back to the cultural moment of the '60s Trek.
I compare it to how Wizard of Oz is a great movie, but you can’t really experience the transition to color that happened in the movie the same way someone in 1939 did. Plenty of TV shows were still in black and white all the way into the '60s.
How’d you like it?
I’ve just skipped around episodes in Next Generation, DS9 and Voyager but I love most of it.
Homefront and Paradise Lost might be some of the best television I’ve ever seen. The fact that those episodes came out before 9/11 might be the craziest piece of foreshadowing I’ve ever seen.
Little green men was my favorite though.
The ferengi were a terrible idea done terribly… until DS9. They really find their stride
Although I think they are best in the ep where quark sells weapons. Something about his cousin is peak Ferengi
The rewrite of the Ferengi rules of accusation might also be my favorite episode 😂
FYI DS9 isn’t really a “skip around” series. Plenty of long plot arcs as the series goes on.
It’s absolutely a slip around series :) the plots you’re probably referring to really only kick in the last half of the series.
only kick in the last half of the series.
That’s what I meant by “as the series goes on.”
It’s really not but I’ve been watching on Pluto because that’s what I have access to
That’s awesome! Lower decks and Strange New Worlds are going to be a treat for you, save them for later
Lower decks is simply the best trek ever.
Just got Kubuntu set up, quite happy with it so far.
Kinda hit or miss on Star Trek. Lower Decks is just about the best show ever though.
(Mint is good, don’t like Cinnamon all that much, and it’s an Ubuntu derivative anyway, so figured Kubuntu would have KDE ‘native’)
(Tried Fedora, couldn’t get codec/video stuff to work right)
(Steam is generally easier and more supported on Debian derivatives, at least for now)
i tried mint as my first ever linux, not counting whatever it was that i tried for like a minute in the late 90s, and it was fine, but i was looking for a gaming linux. manjaro worked ok for a while before i somehow borked it beyond recognition, and then i tried garuda which i was somehow laughably 50x worse with. now i’m on POP_OS! (eEeEwWw) which has a lot of things that suck, but has worked the best for me so far. i built a brand new pc specifically to ditch windows for linux
I put Mint on a 2010 iMac a few months ago and just today put Kubuntu on a 8th gen Intel dual booting Windows 10. Both seem to work well, though kubuntu didn’t find the audio driver for the PC and gives a Wayland error on boot (Fcitx something or other, I believe).
I don’t watch star trek. A bit too “outdated” for my liking (am Gen Z).
I like The Expanse, The Orville, and Dark Matter (2015)
I don’t watch star trek.
I like […] The Orville, […]
xD
but The Orville is just Star Trek with Family Guy jokes
500 cigarettes was pretty good.
I’m Gen z too, you are wrong, StarTrek is awesome, specially the original series.
Eh maybe I’ll give it a try
I’m not a huge fan of most of the Treks, but I love Enterprise
Faith of the heeeeeaaaaaaaarrrrt
Enterprise has a lot going for it, if season 3 didn’t ever happened, and the executives allowed the writers to use less technology and have that first season on earth they wanted to do, it would have been incredible lol.
i like a lot the “pioneering” feeling the show has, the crew still is astronaut-y.
And hoshi Sato is one of the few redeeming characters, alongside Dr Phlox.
Overall 7/10 enjoyable, even if the executives half-ruined it.
The expanse is so good, and the books, and audiobooks are even better. I’m just finishing 6th audio book and while I loved the show the audio book (and book) are on another level. Highly recommend to anyone who likes space and sci-fi.
Start with Strange New Worlds. If you like The Expanse (and I love The Expanse), you’ll like it. It’s gorgeous, it’s brand new, it feels modern, but it’s as Star Trek as the original series.
Then go to Deep Space 9 once you’re used to the water.
Please don’t ban me Lemmy admins, but… you’ll have people tell you to start with TNG. Don’t. It does feel old, heh.
