Indeed. Active users (say, used within the past month) is a much better metric.

I often wonder about this for many (especially older) YouTube channels - your channel is 15 years old, how many of your 500k subscribers actually still watch or even have active accounts?

I wonder what subscriber growth rate a typical YouTube channel needs just in order to maintain a consistent level of watchers?

True. Although half the new characters were scrapped, or had their storylines ignored.

Picard's two Romulan... maids? Estate managers? went nowhere and disappeared

Space Legolas went nowhere and disappeared

Soji went nowhere and disappeared

Raffi is there still, but her entire story arc got scrapped I believe? They were going for a "I'm a recovering addict and I want to reconnect with my son and his pregnant spouse", and then it just completely disappeared as a plot line.

Seven is there, but I think you can go into S3 and just think "oh, Picard and Seven know eachother. I guess that makes sense actually."

It certainly helps to have seen the previous seasons, you're right. I'm pretty sure they reference that Picard is technically an android once, which would be a wtf moment if you've not seen season 1.

Crazy. Fears of Russian invasion is precisely what would encourage me to get closer to the west, not drive me into Russia's arms.

They didn't have any empathy when they were rewarding UK's crimes against humanity so they don't deserve any either.

...what

Eh, soap operas had been doing serialised TV for decades before the 80s and 90s. And if you look to outside of the US, in the UK serialised TV was extremely normal, and had been for decades - ever since TV started, really. And even before that it was common in radio plays.

Picard was fumbled hard overall.

They had some concepts that could've been deeply interesting, such as [SPOILERS] a dead Borg Cube in Romulan space, being studied by the Romulans, and looking for Bruce Maddox, the scientist who wanted to study Data in Measure of a Man (S1), Q dying and wanting to engage with Picard before he goes (S2), but they did a really bad job.

Season 3 is a lot better. A lot of the sound and cinematography is great, it feels more like a Star Trek film than a TV show in terms of how it's presented. That in itself isn't a good thing or a bad thing, but I personally liked it.

It's a bit fan-servicey - there were times when I liked that, but also times I rolled my eyes. I'd say Season 3 is worth watching, and you'll either like it or you won't. Thankfully, the show pretty much resets itself for season 3, and you don't really need any info from Seasons 1/2 going into it.

PC gaming peripheral RGB has now made it to F1 trophies

What a time to be alive

Contibutors in general were not "purged".

Maintainers (i.e. people who could push patches with very little oversight) from sanctioned Russian companies were removed from their roles.

They can still contribute.

Leave it to a lemmy.ml user to spread misinformation to make Russia look like the victim in this.

This sounds fucking wild. I've heard about doing this before, but I assumed we were far off actually trying it in any practical sense

I hope this actually happens

This would be a fair point if the members didn't set the rules.

But members do set the rules, and France, just like other countries, use their clout to get rules that favour them.

Report away. Anybody reading this will agree it's utterly insane to talk about drinking a glass of wine and fucking a toddler as of they are the same thing.

No, he thinks raping children is a good thing.

Saying "thought" implies he no longer does.

No I'm not

Yes you are.