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Actually it's gnu/star trek
- That is awesome. Yoinked for my avatar!
- Everyone hates on gnuTrek
  
  Discovery sucks but all the rest are fantastic, Prodigy is a kids show and still fits right in while continuing Janeway’s story
- I like to call it GNU plus Trek

I oddly started watching star trek of because of all the fire memes on lemmy
- I switched to Linux (not arch btw) around the same time as joining Lemmy. And I've still not seen any trek apart from a couple of the movies, which I quite liked. We're contemplating starting at the very start
  
  There is some really terrible original Trek, whose only defense is being a product of the time. That said, you will still see the first interracial kiss on broadcast TV. The first season of The Next Generation is pretty stilted, but is still decent in my opinion. And, as is the overarching theme for Trek, questions about who, what, and why we are will be asked, and sometimes answers will be proposed.
  
  OG star Trek is a product of it's time. While revolutionary and a great source of solid sci Fi, it's also got the old tv style to it. Extremely long pauses, close ups forever, agonizingly long just to get out one line then repeat.
  Would recommend... After you've watched a more modern star Trek :)
  TNG is a favorite for a good reason. Maybe from season 3 on to start. It's also going to seem extremely slow / no music compared to modern TV. But it's overall quality shit.
- How'd you like it?
  
  I've just skipped around episodes in Next Generation, DS9 and Voyager but I love most of it.
  Homefront and Paradise Lost might be some of the best television I've ever seen. The fact that those episodes came out before 9/11 might be the craziest piece of foreshadowing I've ever seen.
  Little green men was my favorite though.
- I have considered not only figuring out how to setup Linux on my computer but also considered starting to watch Star Trek. It's been almost a year since I've been on Lemmy and I haven't caved yet.... But my time may be coming soon.....
- ONE OF US
  ONE OF US
  ONE OF US

You just posted it to a server hosted on linux. You use Linux friend. One of us one of us gooble gobble one of us.
- It's the year of the linux server.
  
  Always has been.

So you’re a BSD user and Stargate fan?
- They use Haiku and watch Farscape.
  
  TempleOS and BSG
- Babylon 5, and I multi boot.
  
  GASP

I started getting into Star Trek last week and I'm planning to use Linux as soon as I get a laptop of my own. Lemmy has finally consumed me.
- I just discovered Ubuntu Touch is an option for my next phone and am seriously considering a Volla Phone!
- Unfortunately you're going to have to rewatch every episode of Star Trek you previously watched, but this time use Linux to do it.
- One of us, One of us
- Go deep! Go CachyOS!
  And if you get an Nvidia laptop, welcome to hell :)
- I assume Das Kapital is already on your bookshelf?
  
  Damn, that box I haven't checked yet.

But are you at least a socialist?
- Standing next to mass grave
  "But what kind of socialist are you?"
  
  Fed posting
- At least?
  This implies there are levels or grades, here. What's at the top of the pyramid?
  
  Begin leftist infight in 3... 2 .... 1.....
  
  That's starting to sound like a hierarchy 🏴
- Lol in the original thread, I mentioned that I forgot to add communist to the meme.

Just switched to Linux for Plex.
Ubuntu by the way.
- And now you have to move away from Plex?
  https://feddit.nl/post/35184193
  
  If you're still using Plex after all these years of them doing shady shit, that's on you.
- Look into jellyfin. I used to run Plex but I find jellyfin way better.
  
  Each to their own but think you should highlight the failings of Jellyfin.
  Mainly:
  Remote access is not a trivial feat, especially when compared to Plex
  The UI is janky.
- Ubuntu
  Why tho?
  
  We all start somewhere, even if it's the smelliest pink taco.
  
  Because it’s fine, and it’s one of the more “normal” options for first-timers.

It's okay, BSD, Haiku, and even Amiga users are welcome too.
- OS/2?
  edit: I had no idea - it lives
- Temple OS user here, I've been welcomed as well.

I use Star Trek and watch Linux, but I am really missing the obligatory "There are dozens of us"-comment here. Well, now it is kind of here.
- Hum... There are certainly way more than dozens. Both of those are on the millions, in a population of billions that means there would be thousands of people with both interests even if they were independent.
  
  And let's face it, the only options for cutesy interfaces like in Trek would be Linux or MacOS.

I paid for winrar on windows, I'm going to make it every penny's worth
- I wish I could give you a medal, you deserve it
- You paid?
  You're weird.
  .... I mean, we're all l weird, so that's not really saying anything.

Okay, no Linux, no Star Trek. Cool cool. But you're a femboy furry, right?
- If so they'd be into Linux by default.
- Since I've started using Lemmy,
  My primary desktop OS has become Linux
  I have began identifying as genderfluid
  Lemmy pipeline real?
  I mean, honestly it's been something I've been considering for ages (Linux). It's just that I needed a new OC to play games (old CPU is from 2009 lol). And Windows 11 is ass and Proton works so well for games on Linux now. I'm very happy.
  Also genderfluid, happy pride heh, but that's been a good thing too.

Honestly, I have been using Lemmy since the Reddit API ordeal and the community here over Linux just annoys me. It is this all high and saving OS but why hasn't it done so yet.
Why does the community and answering questions about Linux suck. Linux great and I use it but people here act like they figured something out the rest of the world hasn't but when the rest of the world tries to figure it out the response is, "good luck, figured it out, go back to Windows loser." Just annoys the hell out of me.
I have also never watched Star Trek but it seems good.
- The original series is all I've seen but its legit hilarious and definitely still worth watching. Many of its storylines have been revisited/retold over the decades, but the plots maintain their charm and originality. It's campy as all hell, but the campy atmosphere of the show elevates it rather than aging it in a bad way.
- I too joined when the API shenanigans started. But...
  Honestly, I have been using Lemmy since the Reddit API ordeal and ....
  it's good to know I've got a million and one people to ask questions when I finally make the switch. It's inevitable. Honestly lack of free time (read home PC has not been prioritized) has been the only hurdle. I've dabbled over the years, just barely.
  I have an old Thinkpad tablet (X2___ or 4___ idk) that I want to switch over. It had a few offline duties w/ W7, but that's all done now. I settled on OpenSUSE and made a live USB to start. Works on my desktop but haven't gotten it to boot on the Thinkpad. I've found I need to go to the grub2 folder and can do so at the grub prompt (rescue, probably) but I still run into something about cannot validate cli...
  Yes, I'm chumming the waters while I'm stuck inline. Sorry to detour!
- I use Debian btw.
- I have been using Linux for 20 years now, as a main OS for at least 15. Linux isn't perfect in any way and I have fucked up my system many times. But in those 20 years I maybe have felt to need to ask for help 2 or 3 times, because al the other 999 times with some searching I found someone with the same problem and a solution. When you ask for help for something that can be found with 3 minutes of searching I totally understand people don't feel the need to help you out.
- I agree. Their solution for everything is FOSS and like... No sometimes people don't want an alternative for what they're talking about they want the actual thing they're talking about
- Its the same kind if vibe as when you hang out with certain Jazz musicians / fans and they start discussing chord substitutions, extensions, etc.
  
  I should add that while I'm not specifically a "Jazz Musician", I play piano , and utilise substitutions, extensions etc. :)

Seriously. That star Trek sub is like a cafeteria table of high school girls that are constantly giggling. I don't understand it at all. I understand less why it's so funny. It is fucking funny though.
- I think Star Trek lends itself well to memes, because it's already a show where obscurities are questioned.
  
  Just old trek, nutrek is nothing like it
- I don't understand why a large part of adults of the word are so into that other space franchise, far in the future the time when characters have to fight with pink glowsticks for some reason.
  Now that's funny.

Could always learn German
- Nein, scheint eine dumme Sprache zu sein.

Joke's on you, I use star trek and watch Linux.

Better not mention that you don't use Firefox
- Twice is a coincidence, thrice is a conspiracy

- "It's an older Star Trek meme, but it checks out."
  Admiral Adama
  
  As of this moment, we are at war.

My friend said the fediverse is the Linux of social media. Now I'm trying to get him on the fediverse, and he's trying to get me onto Linux.
- I always refer to Lemmy as "communist Reddit".
  
  It isn't even left.
  Horribly centre-right at best.
  Unless you're American who haven't got a clue what these political terms mean.
- I use Lemmy BTW

Or don’t speak German
- I speak some but I still block all of the German communities.
  
  Warum?

Almost on 2 years now..
- Yep, great API exodus.

I have no hatred in my heart for our BSD-using Star Wars-watching compatriots.
The !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org artist is a BSD guy.
It's okay to dance to the beat of a different drummer.
- I mean... Yeah. The fish.

Shit! I've been watching linux and using Star Trek!

This feels too real. But I'm still grateful for all of you people on lemmy even if I don't completely fit in

I honestly don't know what Linux is this has inspired me to ask in !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
- It's a toaster
  
  That's NetBSD https://www.instructables.com/IronForge-the-NetBSD-Toaster/
  
  If this was your joke then apologies, but it probably is in a load of 'smart' toasters. If they exst of course, I assume they do.

I don't use Linux or Apple. Just debloated Windows 11(Tiny 11).
I also don't watch Star trek or even watch TV.
We are out here. Enjoy your stay.
- I watched Star Trek in the 80s and 90s. Not since. I used Linux in the 10s. I still put it on other people's PCs, but not mine.
- Tiny11 is awesome, I use it for gaming when Wine fails
  
  I use my computer for gaming. Never a problem. Wine fails once in awhile. I end up having to dual boot and then spending all my time on the windows side. Then I wondered why I tried so hard to make fetch happen.
  
  Question, why are you still using Wine for Linux gaming? Steams Proton is far more capable and ProtonGE enables access to even more video codecs.

I don't know much about Linux, but it's the system on the computer I share at home. I think I've become spoiled to it.
I recently started a new job and was issued a PC laptop. The amount of obnoxious pop-ups and AI crap that I can't seem to find settings to disable are infuriating. It's like the computer and the Google apps we use assume I can't do or figure out anything on my own.
Also, tangential, Gemini needs to stop suggesting itself - yes, I know you're there. I'm ignoring you because I can't seem to block you, but I wish you'd just leave me alone.
- Is it a Chromebook? PC stands for personal computer. So a PC laptop could have any OS on it. The usual assumption is Windows but you said Gemini keeps harassing you and not Copilot so it sounds like it could be a Chromebook. Those used to be locked down horrible machines, but I haven't used one recently.
  
  Ah yes, it is a Chromebook. Sorry, I didn't realize it was a whole separate thing. I'm not hip to new/modern computer stuff, haha.

That reminds me. I need to rewatch DS:9
- Currently rewatching as my bedtime show, still great

Just got Kubuntu set up, quite happy with it so far.
Kinda hit or miss on Star Trek. Lower Decks is just about the best show ever though.
(Mint is good, don't like Cinnamon all that much, and it's an Ubuntu derivative anyway, so figured Kubuntu would have KDE 'native')
(Tried Fedora, couldn't get codec/video stuff to work right)
(Steam is generally easier and more supported on Debian derivatives, at least for now)
- i tried mint as my first ever linux, not counting whatever it was that i tried for like a minute in the late 90s, and it was fine, but i was looking for a gaming linux. manjaro worked ok for a while before i somehow borked it beyond recognition, and then i tried garuda which i was somehow laughably 50x worse with. now i'm on POP_OS! (eEeEwWw) which has a lot of things that suck, but has worked the best for me so far. i built a brand new pc specifically to ditch windows for linux
  
  I put Mint on a 2010 iMac a few months ago and just today put Kubuntu on a 8th gen Intel dual booting Windows 10. Both seem to work well, though kubuntu didn’t find the audio driver for the PC and gives a Wayland error on boot (Fcitx something or other, I believe).

If I'm only a fan of the OG Star Trek does that still count?
- I'm only a fan of linux, not a user. Does that count?
  
  It counts.

I thought I was a nerd until I got here, now im still a nerd but not a super nerd.

Im sure you do use linux in some way unknowingly :D
Phone, car, smart devices, kitchen appliances, whatever
- I actually maintain a few apps hosted on Linux servers at work. I'm just not nearly as ~~fanatical~~ enthusiastic about Linux as most people around here.

Dozens of us! Dozens, I say!
(But I do like Star Trek and use Linux, I just don’t make my presence here revolve around that.)

I use plenty of Linux on server side, just that I use Windows as my daily desktop OS for some godforsaken reason.
I actually got back to watching Star Trek recently!

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I've only installed Mint once, and I've only seen two of Abrams' Star Trek movies, both things happened about a decade ago. Do I still fit in?
- But you have of course seen TNG, right? What's your opinion on the Schisms episode? What about Frame of Mind? Which one is your favorite?
  
  Eh..... The inner light is peak and I'll fucking fight anyone who says otherwise.
  I'm two episodes away from it on a nightly ritual watch with my daughter and trying desperately not to overhype that my favourite episode is coming up soon.

Ditto. But from the looks of it I’ll have to learn Linux eventually. The upside is that there is enough information online for a noob to do it.
- The problem for me was the time sink, sure I could customize the entirety of my OS, but it'd take me a few years! ADHD hell. Wasn't willing to devote all my freetime to that just yet.
  
  I hear you. I’m pragmatic. I don’t care about customization as long as I can do the bare basics I’m good. Makes life simple and less stressful.

I would thank you to start using Linux

I have been a Trekkie long before I joined.
Pretty much my thing.

Why are you even here? /jk

I don't watch star trek. A bit too "outdated" for my liking (am Gen Z).
I like The Expanse, The Orville, and Dark Matter (2015)
- I don't watch star trek.
  I like [...] The Orville, [...]
  
  xD
- I'm Gen z too, you are wrong, StarTrek is awesome, specially the original series.
  
  Eh maybe I'll give it a try
- but The Orville is just Star Trek with Family Guy jokes
  
  500 cigarettes was pretty good.
- The expanse is so good, and the books, and audiobooks are even better. I'm just finishing 6th audio book and while I loved the show the audio book (and book) are on another level. Highly recommend to anyone who likes space and sci-fi.
- Start with Strange New Worlds. If you like The Expanse (and I love The Expanse), you’ll like it. It’s gorgeous, it’s brand new, it feels modern, but it’s as Star Trek as the original series.
  Then go to Deep Space 9 once you’re used to the water.
  Please don’t ban me Lemmy admins, but… you’ll have people tell you to start with TNG. Don’t. It does feel old, heh.

They’ll never suspect me

It's alright, there are many of us who like SeaQuest DSV, too.

Shhhh....

Hey its not my fault, im computer illiterate and star trek is for needs. Also i got banned from reddit.

Don't kid yourself, we can tell. Oh yes, we can tell.

Call me when I can play ALL the video games I want to play on Linux and I'll happily ditch windows.
Hard mode: you aren't allowed to mention Proton or tell me to abandon video games I like because "Well kernal anticheat is bad and was invented by satan" (it is, I know, I still want to play fortnite occasionally or whatever).
- Dual boot would like to enter the chat
  
  Dual boot is great until a random windows update borks it :/
  
  As well as Lutris and Heroic Games Launcher
- As a Linux-only person I can totally acknowledge the need for Windows if you want to be a regular player of specific popular games. And maybe VR. I haven't tried it recently after playing a ton of VR a few years ago.
  But I can also point out the fact that I probably already own more games than I will ever finish in my adult life, and just in case I do there are also more games released every year that work on Linux that I could ever play. So if a game will not work in Linux even with proton and whatnot, my life is not negatively affected by that game not existing in my world. (I'll admit I probably didn't always think this way, but for a long time I still ran Windows and didn't think about it either way)
- You can dual boot.
  I find that ideal. I strip Windows down to the bone, turn off defender realtime and some other security measures (which I don’t worry about since Windows can’t read my Linux partitions), and it makes games fly.
  And use Linux for basically anything else.
  No messing around with stuff that doesn’t want to work on either OS. And Linux is so much easier/faster for so many things (like anything GPU compute, or dealing with media, or Java games like Minecraft/Starsector).
- ring ring: This is your upcoming Steam Deck purchase calling from the near future.
  :)

And you don't use ai.
But for reasons you don't understand.
- Over on programmer.dev, we're allowed to use AI, as long as we occasionally complain about how bad it still is.
- My hope is that localllama-style use grows on Lemmy once the corporate apps start to really enshittify.

I watch old trek clips to reminisce, but not nutrek crap

i hate star trek but i love linux

Blocking the Linux communities is like playing whack a mole here. Nothing against Linux but Linux bros are insufferable