[-] GuyFleegman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Mint is very good. Seriously. If I had to daily drive Linux on the desktop, I’d use Mint. But even Mint is a far cry from a Mac in terms of usability and software compatibility.

I’d also have to go back to x86-64 to use Mint, and that’s a big step in the wrong direction. I’m sure that won’t always be the case, but at the moment, the ARM Linux situation is still quite fragmented.

[-] GuyFleegman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

If you're aware of public and social housing then why are you asking how community ownership and management works?

In any case, yes, of course all rental housing should be publicly owned. Vienna's Gemeindebauten and Singapore's HDB, among others, have proven that pretty definitively.

I'm not certain that all housing should be public, though. Privately owned primary residences are probably fine, in the grand scheme of things. But rental housing for profit should obviously be abolished.

[-] GuyFleegman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

Public housing is not a novel concept.

[-] GuyFleegman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree it would be nice if people would post there more, which is why I’m suggesting it

[-] GuyFleegman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for looking into it!

[-] GuyFleegman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

It’s extremely easy, you just install AdGuard.

[-] GuyFleegman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's it! Thank you!

[-] GuyFleegman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

None of the startrek.website folks have been in contact with me, and even they were I'd tell them to go pound sand—it's great that VS & BT are finally experiencing some actual consequences for their poor conduct. Selfishly, I want a place where I can talk about Star Trek because I like Star Trek and those two keep ruining the places I want to hang out and talk about Star Trek in.

This has happened before, both on Reddit and Lemmy, but the problem with a bunch of loudmouths who make a splinter community is that you never know if those loudmouths have legitimate grievances or they're just reactionary dipshits who want to bitch about wokeness. Every previous time this has happened, the reactionary dipshits flooded in and ruined the splinter community before it could get off the ground. Things got stuck in this reinforcing loop where the situation was "well /r/startrek (and later startrek.website) are run by petty tyrants but at least they keep the bigots in check."

I was really hoping that I could steer startrek.website into being a fairer community than what came before, but there was just no receptiveness to feedback or open discussion over there whatsoever. I tried to warn them about how bad their reputation had become, but they didn't want to hear it and I got iced out pretty much immediately. I had just about accepted that Lemmy would be a repeat of Reddit in this regard and the largest Star Trek community would suck. So, this is great. Seriously.

Along those lines, serious question: is /c/TenForward going to host episode discussion for Discovery season 5 and future Star Trek? I saw you mentioned that the Lemmy.World admins cleaned up lemmy.world/c/startrek, do you know the new mod over there? Any plans to coordinate with them?

To put a finer point on it: you successfully rescued /c/risa from startrek.website, can the team you've created here extend that success and rescue /c/startrek as well?

[-] GuyFleegman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think Discovery's general story convolution and continual escalating of stakes is largely a consequence of production staff turmoil from the first two seasons. It was Fuller, then Kurtzman, then Berg/Harberts, then back to Kurtzman, before finally settling on Paradise. No one was clearly in charge for more than one full season during the first two, and so it's kind of a mess—there are really 4 full arcs in the first 2 seasons with very minimal connection between them. Keeping the stakes high is an easy mode way of driving the story and that kept things together as people were rotating in and out.

Seasons 3 and 4 are far more coherent, but by that point "something threatens the entire galaxy and it's up to Burnham to save us" had calcified as Discovery's shtick, so we got two more of those. I'll be pretty surprised if season 5 isn't one final go at that story.

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