gnuplusmatt

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[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the money is drying up, gotta find new ways to monetise

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If governments the world over were as obsessed with solving things like the climate crisis and cost of living as they are with undermining encryption techs, we'd be living in a utopia by now.

They tried this here in Australia, luckily for us it got voted down. Iirc there's been other countries trying the same BS

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey Beavis.. Eheheh, I'm a skull now. This kicks ass!

It doesn't even need to be a script you could just alias the 2 commands on a single line to a command in bashrc

[–] 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 26 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

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