Actually it’s gnu/star trek
That is awesome. Yoinked for my avatar!
Everyone hates on gnuTrek
Discovery sucks but all the rest are fantastic, Prodigy is a kids show and still fits right in while continuing Janeway’s story
I like to call it GNU plus Trek
I oddly started watching star trek of because of all the fire memes on lemmy
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
FYI DS9 isn’t really a “skip around” series. Plenty of long plot arcs as the series goes on.
It’s really not but I’ve been watching on Pluto because that’s what I have access to
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.”
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 😂
And In the Pale Moonlight. I hope you didn’t skip that one!
Yeah, skipping around ST is reasonable. I skipped around Voyager a ton and still haven’t filled in the gaps TBH.
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…
ONE OF US
ONE OF US
ONE OF US
You just posted it to a server hosted on linux. You use Linux friend. One of us one of us gooble gobble one of us.
It’s the year of the linux server.
Always has been.
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
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.
He’s a good actor, he shouldn’t do garbage movies.
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 🏴
Lol in the original thread, I mentioned that I forgot to add communist to the meme.
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.
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.
One of us, One of us
I assume Das Kapital is already on your bookshelf?
Damn, that box I haven’t checked yet.
Go deep! Go CachyOS!
And if you get an Nvidia laptop, welcome to hell :)
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).
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.
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.
Overall I do like Emby more than JellyFin. Emby is commercial, like Plex. I believe the client applications (ie everything but the web) needs a licensed server but they have a free trial period. There is a remote option
And they have a service they call Connect intended to simplify the remote access.
Caveat, I’ve not really used the remote capabilities at all, I can’t speak to how it compares to Plex’s. I have streamed remotely through a VPN connection, rather than setting up public access. But only once or twice, and mostly to test the VPN rather than for the purpose of streaming.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Setting up remote access for Jellyfin felt pretty trivial for me like 2 years ago when switching away from Plex. No hiccups that I can recall whatsoever. Except for maybe the nginx reverse proxy configuration, but the documentation made it decently straightforward, but that step isn’t strictly necessary to get remote access working; that was just something I wanted for my particular setup.
And I wouldn’t call the Jellyfin UI janky at all. I use it every day and can’t think of any common issues I encounter when using it. There surely are quirks with some features, but I find them few and far between. I recall Plex having its own UI quirks back when I used it.
Ubuntu
Why tho?
We all start somewhere, even if it’s the smelliest pink taco.
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?!?”
Pretty much, haha. The amount of elitism among some Linux users is quite potent.
they take themselves very seriously
Just tell everyone you use arch, even if you don’t.
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i think i’m getting it!
I mean, if you’re not using LFS, are you really using linux at all?
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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 “IBM 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.
… it’s the smelliest pink taco
Weirdly enough that’s my mom’s high school nickname!
oh hey I remember her
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).
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.
(…to the Star Trek fandom. We’ll get you eventually.)
I used to love Star Trek until I hit that Tuvix episode. That triggered some things in my personal background. I tried to get over it but I can’t.
Maybe the lower decks parody will help? It might equally make it worse though, you might want to read or have someone else read a synopsis
Hahaha
It’s half the reason everyone treats Janeway as a criminal. Like yeah overall she’s a fantastic captain. But she did straight up murder tuvix! He begged for life!
If it’s any help, that show is a hot mess. There are some absolute banger eps, I absolutely love most of the cast, but on average it’s underwhelming.
The guy who made BSG ranted a bit about working on Voyager. Apparently they weren’t allowed to change anything. Everything had to reset by the end of the episode. In a series about being stranded.
He begged for life!
I’m mixed-race but it wasn’t just seeing a mixed-race person sent to the death chamber. What really got to me was the way the character just wanted to get their work done but they were dragged away in a cold and bureaucratic way. They whimpered like a child being dragged from their parents. The kid was terrified but they still wanted to be obedient. It wasn’t that they were hoping to be saved by obedience, it’s that they were just an obedient kid, even when scared. The way when they begged to go on living, everyone else just stared and didn’t even move or react. They never really cared for that person anyway, the character’s kinda funny-looking anyways. If they made a fuss there might have been trouble. It’s not like any of them is some kind of hero. The only one to object was that holographic doctor, who was always treated as a joke. Because only a crazy person or a clown would go against the group. I looked it up online and the situation is never referenced again in any series. It was not an issue to anyone. All those people, the whole organization, the whole perspective of the show, to me is repulsive.
But I was kind of a nervous kid, so I recognize it’s just my point of view.
Okay, no Linux, no Star Trek. Cool cool. But you’re a femboy furry, right?
If so they’d be into Linux by default.
Since I’ve started using Lemmy,
- My primary desktop OS has become Linux
- I have began identifying as genderfluid
Lemmy pipeline real?
I mean, honestly it’s been something I’ve been considering for ages (Linux). It’s just that I needed a new OC to play games (old CPU is from 2009 lol). And Windows 11 is ass and Proton works so well for games on Linux now. I’m very happy.
Also genderfluid, happy pride heh, but that’s been a good thing too.
I use Star Trek and watch Linux, but I am really missing the obligatory “There are dozens of us”-comment here. Well, now it is kind of here.
Hum… There are certainly way more than dozens. Both of those are on the millions, in a population of billions that means there would be thousands of people with both interests even if they were independent.
And let’s face it, the only options for cutesy interfaces like in Trek would be Linux or MacOS.
Ehhh.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcars-system-3/
LCARS (Library Computer Access and Retrieval System) is the GUI from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Voyager, and Deep Space Nine. This is a rainmeter suite that transforms your Windows GUI into LCARS.
It’s okay, BSD, Haiku, and even Amiga users are welcome too.
Temple OS user here, I’ve been welcomed as well.
I paid for winrar on windows, I’m going to make it every penny’s worth
I wish I could give you a medal, you deserve it
You paid?
You’re weird.
… I mean, we’re all l weird, so that’s not really saying anything.
Seriously. That star Trek sub is like a cafeteria table of high school girls that are constantly giggling. I don’t understand it at all. I understand less why it’s so funny. It is fucking funny though.
I think Star Trek lends itself well to memes, because it’s already a show where obscurities are questioned.
Just old trek, nutrek is nothing like it
Oh shut up. Nutrek is great. TOS is 70% terrible, 30% brilliant, 90’s trek is life.
I don’t understand why a large part of adults of the word are so into that other space franchise, far in the future the time when characters have to fight with pink glowsticks for some reason.
Now that’s funny.
