Corgana @ Corgana @startrek.website

/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021

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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!

If you told me r/RedditAlternatives was operated by Reddit employees it wouldn't completely shock me. But a more likely explanation for why there is no "Fedi consensus" there is that because Lemmy/Piefed is the best option, the people who try it out are more likely to actually leave Reddit.

In short, there are people trying to "make Discuit happen" because unlike Lemmy it's well, not happening.

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

"Different developers but can still access the same content" is a great succinct way of describing it.

Still shocking to me that /r/RedditAlternatives isn't just one big "USE LEMMY/PIEFED/MBIN" sticky post but on the other hand there are a lot of Fedi-resitant people there so maybe it's a good thing to give that illusion of choice.

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.

This comment does a good job of explaining federation without it being scary:

a decentralized net of social media platforms which shares content among each other.

Definitely saving that for the future.

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.

Mastodon also has a Weird And Scary reputation because journalists didn't understand it. It's interesting how they now regularly tout Pixelfed as an "Instagram alternative" but Mastodon still has the stench of "too techie". I'm starting to think it's a good thing Lemmy has not yet had it's moment in the sun because it means the Mastodon team did the heavy lifting for the entire Fediverse.

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.