gnuplusmatt

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[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (4 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 12 points 1 year ago

It's a joke from The 40 year old virgin

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the 2015 from Back to the Future

Bluesky confuses me, how do I discover anything without hashtags? Maybe I've been on mastodon too long?

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Prodigy has been removed from Paramount Plus.

Technically yes they do own Star Trek, but the way the accounting works is they sell the broadcast/streaming rights back to themselves. It's a bit convoluted, but taking the rights away from their own service means CBS as a studio can either resell it to another broadcaster/streamer or failing that write it off for tax purposes.

It sucks, but all the studios rig it up this way

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 25 points 1 year ago (12 children)

People who hate them have never driven them

Yes... Microsoft hearts Linux... When it runs in azure selling CPU cycles or maybe WSL

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

Move to silverblue/kinoite and when the urge to use another DE just rebase the OStree to the other branch - Silverblue for Gnome, Kinoite for KDE, Sericea for sway, Vauxite for xfce and there are some other not yet official branches for other DEs on Quay

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 42 points 1 year ago

So in Nebraska a two men with a measurable difference in size and strength in a relationship are actually heterosexual?

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 12 points 1 year 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

Similarly if nvidia wanted me to buy their cards they'd get their drivers sorted out. While plugging in an amd card just works with literally no setup from me, nvidia will get no money from me

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