Ugh, enough with the James Kirk already. This show has such a nerd hard-on, they’re contradicting the original series just to crowbar very specific pet TOS elements in.

1. In “The menagerie”, pt 1, Kirk explicitly states he only met Pike the once when he was made Fleet Captain.

2. In “Arena”, Kirk first meets “a creature apparently called a Gorn”. He has no idea what they are, nor does Spock, McCoy, Chapel or anybody else who (according to SNW) met them before bother to give him advice.

Not that it matters, it’s clearly a completely different species from the alligator Xenomorphs in the current show.

Twice already they’ve concocted absurd time paradoxes so that Kirk could become vErY iMpOrTaNt to SNW crew without breaking canon, but by now they don’t seem to care anymore.

I’m at a point where I’m watching current Star trek once only for the occasional, non-TOS related character moments, and then never again. I could live with the Disco Klingons, but this is utter bullshit.

Oh, that’s a lovely easter egg for those who read through to the footer. And if the Internet Explorer banner wasn’t obviously sarcastic before, it sure is now, three years after the browser reached end of support 🤣

Same thing happened to me. If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they’re blocked. Because that part of the Fediverse was built by people who had been harassed and doxxed off other platforms.

Here? Blocking just means you don’t see the troll, but they can continue to inflict all kinds of havoc on your post scores. Ironically, “karma” isn’t a thing on Lemmy like it is on Reddit, but votes are still used to rank your posts.

I guess there are a hundred great folk on here for every preteen edgelord, but that kind of nonsense really spoils the fun of this platform. Sorry to see you get downvoted for a perfectly reasonable post.

I mean, good for them. Now, if anyone has actual mental health issues, please get in touch with a trained, human therapist.

I’m not a developer either, but I would say PHP is the bare minimum if you want a dynamic site. You’re not going to go from scratch to anything presentable without putting time and some coding into it.

Don’t take this as discouragement, just a bit of realism going into this project.

Then you’ll love being able to read a description of Android Authority at the same time.

I’ve only used Newpipe, and I’m quite happy with it. Saved me so many commercials, tracking, and probably rage baiting recommendations as well. TBH I just turn off recommendations and comments, I’m only there to watch the videos.

That actually sounds interesting, yeah. Thanks for clearing it up, I was obviously out of that particular loop 👍

Okay, I’ll stop (what even is it?)

Edit: if you’re at all concerned about privacy, maybe provide something else than Play Store link for alternatives. Google bad.

While a fully functional version is available on F-Droid, the Play Store edition is subject to Google’s imposed limitations.

I think that’s the cause and solution rolled into one sentence right there. Use F-droid instead of Play Store.

Oh, let me wish 🙂

Upon which, logically, users just stop using Chrome?

“LOL”, I guess?

While true, doesn’t have anything to do with my comment?

I use markdown for pretty much everything, and I agree with the overall notion of this rundown, but —

Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses.

Yeah, maybe that’s not the gotcha the author thought it would be.

Markdown — so stupid simple even stochastic parrots can figure it out is a slogan that will age like milk.

And there Sam was, face to face with journos and unable to have his AI assistant come up with a burning retort 😰

Yes… In society… What else?

You all are obsessed with Elon, that’s your job — like, more power to you

Not at all passive aggressive or insincere there.

Most of their operations are now running with money as the motivation

Let’s be real, that was always their end goal. They were never “open” except in name. Their free services were only to a) build a user base, and b) use it as unpaid beta testers.

Seeing hos much the update looks like it was made at Fisher-Price, they probably do: