me too!

admittedly imo they are being overused now though

Mixed IMO. I think the intended audience is teens? Has a bit of a Prodigy vibe, so if you’re into that it might be up your alley.

IMO “woke” is a red herring when it comes to criticism of newer star trek. Some people hate things for this reason, but it obscues a more interesting discussion.

The real dimensions of value are the writing, the vision, what each series considers “action”, etc. I think it’s a distinction between what you’d expect from a Star Trek movie and a Star Trek TV show. They’re for different audiences, and I think Discovery, STA are going for a much wider market appeal (in varying degrees) and it changes the narrative structure, pacing, etc. I think they’re exploring the audience space with variations on Star Trek themes to grow the francise, and sometimes it’s to the detriment of what some people like about Star Trek - and sometimes it brings in new people.

I like Star Trek to be ethics porn about IDIC being more powerful than raw power. About the value of an education, team work, structure, and trust. I like it when the most tense action scene is a walk down a hallway - but I also like a bit of space pew pew sometimes. The new shows alienate me when they focus too much on physical action, individual exceptionalism, and a grimdark future.

I like the captain. The show is alright; I think I’m too old to be the target audience but that’s ok. Seems to be directed at teens.

Every scene is so busy and glossy. The robots going around bear an uncanny resemblence to the Star Wars prequels (“it’s so dense; every single frame has so many things going on”). The teen angst and romance doesn’t exactly fit into what star trek means to me, but we did get a bit of that here and there in earlier series. Like in Discovery, IMO there’s too much focus on exceptional individuals and less on teamwork. To me it seems like it’s trying to be many things at once. Star Wars, Marvel, and Harry Potter mixed up in a Star Trek setting. I’m a bit sad we aren’t pretending Discovery was a bad dream, but I can live with it.

… but, there is some star trek here, and I like those parts.

I forgot that it was playing about halfway through, it’s quite bland.

e: the show is less bland, don’t let my snarky comment or this intro stop you from trying the show

Beau. Maybe we could get a story about his targ when he has a good hand.

Dr. Crusher could get everyone a little hot under the collar with a ghost story

Please seek psychological help. The LLM chatbots are giving you false confidence in your ideas. They are flawed tools that will stroke your ego for the most outlandish, nonsensical ideas. Your closing sentence regarding self-harm and the wasting of a marriage are concerning. Please talk to professionals instead of chatbots.

It could be a little story anthology series, with each player taking terms sharing an embellished story to distract from the strength of their hands.

I’m not qualified enough to say anything conclusive - I only have a bachleors in mechanical engineering - but this is giving real time cube energy. This is written more like a religious text than a mathematical one. Five separate LLMs are credited in the Acknowledgements as not just tools, but collaborators, and I can’t find any record that you’ve studied physics. I’m concerned that you may be operating under delusions amplified by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot_psychosis

you smashed your little ships

My partner hates this mug with a passion. Maybe I should get one 😅

App/platform separation is crucial. Finding the same thing for Lemmy. The official Reddit app is hot garbage.

I like this idea! There might be an increased danger of a battery explosion: it’ll be near bright sunlight, away from where people will see it, with an old battery. I wonder if there are battery diagnostics that could provide an early warning?

I’m sure most of us have a fistful of old phones somewhere, the idea of using them for something is appealing.

i’ve been too plugged-in to trump news. i’ve banned myself from my primary source of that unhappy chaos, and will get it from a news outlet instead which is much slower and less ragey

i’ve gotten into audiobooks again, and that has done a lot to lift my spirits. i’ve plowed through the lord of the rings and am now listening to the silmarillion. i’ve found the silmarillion difficult to read, but much more accessible as an audiobook - and it’s giving me a deeper appreciation of the lord of the rings

eucatastrophe, where art thou?

if i did two big social things in a week like that i would be pretty burnt out and possibly snippy with people. i’d need a bit of solo time to recharge before i could wear my social mask again

the statement by your friend here looks unkind without context

Same, workspaces are great!

Exhibit A: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/firefox-deletes-promise-to-never-sell-personal-data-asks-users-not-to-panic/

Exhibit B: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

I don’t agree to this as written; and I am not inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt given Exhibit A. I think an argument could be made that selling my data to advertisers would help me “experience” and “interact” with online content. Perhaps it would be a difficult argument, perhaps not. I think skepticism is warranted.

Firefox has struggled to find a profitable business model outside of Google paying to be the default search engine, and it looks like these changes are a pivot to address this. I don’t think it will be good for users.

It’s still Firefox, so it’s the same. I installed uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, no different there.

I’m trying https://zen-browser.app/ now. It’s an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.

Librewolf has some trouble with some websites. For example, it won’t load one of my own that makes a GRPC request over TLS, stating that the certificate issuer is unknown despite it being the same certificate used on the accepted-as-secure page the request is made from.