In some ways the Board being the same is a good thing, since it means they remember that they can’t try to pull this shit again.

Of course it also means they had (or supported) the stupid idea, so they’ll probably try to pull something similar again.

Really no matter what it means keep an extra eye on Unity. When it comes time to evaluate engines this incident should always show up on the con side.

+1 to Trevor Noah. I think he, like many late night shows (maybe just Sett Meyers) really had a reset during COVID and built some of their best shows. Working from home gave him a much more relaxed and personal feel. It likely is what ultimately caused Trevor to leave the Daily Show. I think once he returned to the traditional studio setting he realized he wanted the ability to do more. You can do a lot with the Daily Show, but you’re still stuck in a particular frame. Hell Stewart had similar issues which ultimately caused him to leave as well.

I hope Stewart sticks around after the election. He doesn’t need to be on once a week, just give him an open invitation. Same with Trevor, give him a few slots to come back. I like the rotating host thing they’re doing at the moment. (I wish Roy Wood Jr stuck around.) So I hope they keep things rotating.

Oh I agree, you just want to believe that even the world’s stupidest person could eventually learn something. It’s not like this is a case of him being deliberately obtuse, which we often see, he truly believes his own nonsense.

It’s honestly madness.

The former President, running a multi-million dollar campaign, with access to the best information in the world, has nothing to say but rambling “but the TV said, but the TV said!”

Just an absolute fool.

In short, yes, it is a show worth watching. Take it season by season, stop when it’s not worth it anymore.

As a show you can binge I expect it will be better than the ratings reflect. The weaker episodes will just be forgotten.

Luckily that’s a problem for later on as the show starts strong. Maybe by season 4/5 are where things start to fall off, but you’ll have plenty within the first three seasons that are great. Even 4/5 have their moments, it’s just that the show has shifted dramatically by then.

So the community (users) can move, but I just realized that when an instance shuts down the community (posts) limps on, preventing the community (posts) from actually dying and the community (users) from moving on.

For instance, if you asked me, a lemmy.world user about moviesandtv@lemmy.film I would see, https://lemmy.world/c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

But if you ask a sh.itjust.works user they see, https://sh.itjust.works/c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

And lemmy.ml users see, https://lemmy.ml/c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

We all see different versions of the same community (posts).

I think https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4619 would fix this.

To extend this a little further, computers also don’t actually store books, they store blocks.

For example, you have a computer that can store 50 blocks of information. You store “Moby Dick”, taking up 20 blocks & “Tom Sawyer”, taking another 20 blocks.

Next you decide you don’t like “Moby Dick”, so you delete it. You also decide you want to store an ice cream menu, taking up just 1 block.

That menu will be stored based on where the computer thinks the block fits best. So you might have 20 blocks that still contain “Moby Dick”, or you might have only 19 blocks that contain most of “Moby Dick”, but it might be missing the beginning, middle or end.

If I were doing data recovery I might not be able to provide you with the complete “Moby Dick” story. I might only be able to give you part of it.

Looking into why blocks, let’s say you’re writing up the first draft of a book report, it might take up 4 blocks. Then later you edit, improve and add to that that book report, and now it takes 5 blocks. The computer took care of making space, even though your report got larger. It didn’t know if you were going to add 1 new block of information, or 1000 new blocks of information, it figured it out and did the rearranging for you.

However when it comes time for you to look at it, it automatically knows how to put it together. (And usually it does group things together if it can).

This is important to keep in mind when it comes to data recovery because the more you use your computer the more likely blocks are allocated and data gets moved around.

If you delete important photos, then spend the weekend surfing the Internet, those photos might be gone. Or if they are available, might only be partially available.

Re Concentration I’m not concerned that it is as of yet a problem. However I do think it is also a larger problem for Mastodon and other user-centric platforms than it is to Lemmy and other community-cetric platforms.

If a Mastodon user wants to leave their server there are migration pains. If your server makes a controversial change, you may have to migrate. As a follower if something goes wrong I have to remember that I was following Ada & Bob, but maybe Bob now goes by Bobby.

However as a Lemmy user I can just abandon my server and be done with it. If my server makes a controversial change, I can just leave. As a community follower can watch as Star Trek Memes becomes Risa, or Risa becomes Ten Forward. The names changed completely but it’s easy to find my community again.

I definitely missed this. As someone who was a huge fan of Doom Patrol I was excited for a spin off and continuation. I was bummed when I learned about the recasting, but still excited.

I’ve been waiting for it to appear on HBO, only to find out it was on Netflix.

Dunk & Egg only works if people are excited about the world. After Game of Thrones that excitement dropped, heavily. Luckily HOTD has dragons, big exciting dragons. It also happens to have a story, at least in season 1, that brought back the excitement and intrigue that GOT season 1 had.

Season 2 of HOTD was still enjoyable, but ended two episodes early. That was a huge unnecessary gamble by HBO in order to save a few bucks.

Dunk & Egg are going to start at a disadvantage as a result. It’s a small scale. Luckily the first story, the one they are adapting, is the best story and should be able to keep folks interested.

That’s terrible. If I’m paying then I expect no ads.

While I’m not a fan of ads and don’t mind paying a reasonable price for ad free services, I suspect the reason many folks don’t mind ads is that we’re all dicking around on our phones anyway.

Ads started off quick and short. A 15 second or less gap, I probably kept my eyes on the screen. Now? 90+ seconds? I’m gone. Hell I was probably already on my phone during the show, I didn’t even notice the ad start to play until it was halfway over.

Sure Reddit and Lemmy are different technical stacks, but neither is doing anything particularly unique or complicated.

If Reddit wanted to federate it could. It would take some work but it would be an achievable task in a reasonable amount of time.

Perhaps scaling or stability issues. I’m not sure the Fediverse is ready to handle the number of actions a site like Reddit handles. Then again I’m not super well versed on that part of the Lemmy software, so maybe it would be fine.

I’ve not read the books and after watching part 1 I was left confused why everyone loved them. I didn’t dislike the film, it was just fine, but it didn’t get me excited for part 2. Sure I’d watch it, but if it were delayed or cancelled I wouldn’t have minded.

For me part 2 is everything I wanted in a film. I would nearly go so far to tell someone unsure about the films to skip part 1 and just watch part 2. In reality I think doing that would be a bad idea, but part 2 is better than part 1 in nearly every way.

If you want to keep the space theme going, Star Trek Lower Decks is lighthearted an fun. It probably helps if you’ve seen lots of Star Trek, but I’d say give it a shot.

I’d also recommend Bob’s Burgers. It’s not going to give you much in terms of long term story arcs, but each episode is its own self contained story. The family in the show is just great and fits your lightheaded criteria.

So peak Ahsoka is the Clone Wars cartoon final four episodes.

It’s worth watching some before the finale just so you get a sense of character growth that leads into that finale, but if you only ever watched the finale it’s fine.

Chronologically speaking I do need to acknowledge Tales of a Jedi. It’s a great watch but we’re talking live action so I’m moving on.

Anyway did I say live action? Sorry I meant Rebels. Rebels is the next character arc for Ahsoka. It’s a great story for her but given that she isn’t the main focus isn’t really her story. It’s still a big role, but it isn’t her story.

Then we get to live action Ahsoka, but not her own show. First she shows up in The Mandolorian. It’s here that we get her next arc. This arc is a precursor to the live action Ahsoka show. Mando is worth watching no matter what, so watch that, get a little extra Ahsoka.

OK. Wow. Now it’s time to put the Ahsoka show in context. If you’re feeling a little exhausted right now then the show might not be for you. If you’ve followed along with me, either in full or in part, now things get exciting. The show gives us the beginning of a new arc for Ahsoka. Eventually I’m going to be able to just say “Give it a watch, you won’t regret it”, but we’re not there yet. Season 1 gets us started, but the season is going to end a little weak. It feels both a little slow and a little rushed, but it’s a good start.

So should you watch Ahsoka? If you feel like it, but if you want to wait that’s fine too.

Rather than a Starfleet lecturer I’d prefer if he was the author of a “Things they don’t teach you at the Academy” type book.

Something like “Per Starfleet regulations dilithium crystals should be set to a quarter inch technobabble. However in a pinch you can technobabble but be warned this can cause more babbling”

Is the problem account making or data having persistence/backups?

Or is the issue having an account on service A, service A dieing and then when you create an account on service B you have to start over again, so we need to improve account portability?

I guess I also wonder… Is that a real problem for Lemmy? For Mastodon where you follow users sure, but does anyone care about their Lemmy account?

And what’s stopping that from happening now?

I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that servers die because they are difficult to maintain. This is perhaps especially true for kbin/mbin based servers.

I suppose for enough money some might be willing to maintain, but I’m not sure it’s that simple.

Is there a solution to make the whole ecosystem mature and professional?

Certainly having everyone on one instance isn’t the way to go.