• Blackout
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    no cost

    I think the head of a CEO somewhere just exploded.

    • @Jackthelad
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      3281 year ago

      Space: The final free tier.

    • originalucifer
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      and every conservative congresscritter, for some reason. ‘couldn’t this be done in the private sector’

    • oce 🐆
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      221 year ago

      CEOs are usually not relying as much on taxes. That’s why it’s free, this is a way to justify tax usage by developing public outreach.

      • FeminalPanda
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        71 year ago

        Walmart CEO definitely relies on taxes, food stamps, WIC, and other programs. ISP CEOs took tax money for Internet upgrades and did nothing. Multiple bailouts for business that they squandered on stock buyback.

      • FeminalPanda
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        31 year ago

        Walmart CEO definitely relies on taxes, food stamps, WIC, and other programs. ISP CEOs took tax money for Internet upgrades and did nothing. Multiple bailouts for business that they squandered on stock buyback.

  • Chozo
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    With this being a free service, I feel like calling it NASA+ is a bit misleading. To me, I feel like the “+” indicates a paid, premium service. If it wasn’t for the title of this post that clarifies that it’s free, I probably wouldn’t have even considered installing the app based on the name, alone.

    Either way, this is great news! I’m probably gonna check this out once it’s available. I wish they’d have a release date, though. The official page just says “Coming soon”.

    • @MysticKetchup
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      Feels very much like they’re just following the trend of a bunch of streaming services that just add a + to the end. As long as it’s good though I don’t think it matters much

        • @ItsMeSpez
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          131 year ago

          I much prefer Paramount#

          • Collective
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            11 year ago

            i dont know. the garbage collection is buggy and keeps removing objects before they finish running

      • @ItsMeSpez
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        221 year ago

        Strikes me as tongue-in-cheek.

    • @Jackthelad
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      101 year ago

      The release date is November 8th.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      It may mean, NASA content plus other content they feel is appropriate to the service.

      I don’t usually think “paid service” when I see the plus symbol added to something.

    • [email protected]
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      Ever since Canada created the elegantly named “Canadarm”, NASA and Canada have been besties.

      To say nothing of possibly the greatest Astronaut to fly to the Space Station: Chris Hadfield

      • Toaster
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        141 year ago

        THE DAY I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

    • Chetzemoka
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      101 year ago

      The US federal science agencies are generally pretty happy with sharing things. If it’s free to the US public, it’s free to the world and I love that. Best possible use of my tax dollars.

      (We also share weather and hurricane data with the Caribbean countries, for example. None of them could individually afford what the US is doing, so I’m happy we share.)

    • Obinice
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      41 year ago

      I’m still using a particularly excellently implemented Matrix screensaver from XP, hehe.

      And what’s that (less authentic looking but still great) one for Linux terminals? cmatrix I think?

      • @[email protected]
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        Yeah it’s cmatrix. You can get it pretty legit if you tweak the settings enough.

        I remember that XP screensaver like it was yesterday though.

  • @IronpigsWizard
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    1111 year ago

    I posted on Lemmy about needing recommendations for movies to watch on shrooms…and then minutes later stumble across this article.

    Talk about perfect timing, lol.

    This is really starting to feel like a perfect replacement for that…other website.

  • @Jackthelad
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    NASA+ will be available on most major platforms via the NASA App on iOS and Android mobile and tablet devices; streaming media players such as, Roku, Apple TV, and Fire TV; and on the web across desktop and mobile devices.

    What’s the betting it won’t be on LG’s WebOS though? 😭

    • @474D
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      701 year ago

      My deepest sympathies to all 3 of you.

      • @dlpkl
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        201 year ago

        Lol you joke but that includes every LG OLED tv sold to date

        • @ABCDE
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          61 year ago

          Don’t most with one have a better box?

          • LUHG
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            61 year ago

            Usually yes, Plex is slow as shit but honestly iPlayer is still fantastic even on a b7 2017 oled.

            • @ABCDE
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              That’s good; it stopped working on my aunt and uncle’s Sony (although I guess it’s a bit old now, it still works well) so had to get them a Fire stick instead.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I have a C3 and don’t use WebOS for anything. I have a PS5 and Roku connected to it instead.

    • @harry_balzac
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      71 year ago

      Don’t say that… I’m planning on getting an LG

      • SeaJ
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        171 year ago

        Get a streaming stick. The hardware TV manufacturers use to run their OS is generally bottom of the barrel and is sluggish as hell.

      • appel
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        121 year ago

        Their OLED panels are top notch, so don’t sleep on it. Just get a separate streaming device as the experience on Roku, Android TV and Apple TV is just miles better.

      • thanevim
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        As others have said, don’t buy TVs for their smart features. Just use a streaming stick. They are easier to replace as software changes, and there’s practically no real benefit to ever putting a TV online in the first place.

        Also, LG panels are the best visual quality. You’re doing good going the LG route. Just keep it offline.

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        LG OLEDs are amazing, worth the price. Their OS is also very good compared to other TVs, I used it for years without an outside player. Now I have an Apple TV, which is better, but I still miss the LG’s magic controller.

      • @[email protected]
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        Bro just get an external player and don’t worry about the garbage OS built into the screen.

    • MrScottyTay
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      11 year ago

      I bit the bullet and got a Google tv with Chromecast because webos always gets left behind (and there was no homebrew YouTube alternative like smarttube on it)

        • MrScottyTay
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          11 year ago

          My tv didn’t allow the exploits that currently exist, i remember trying and failing. That’s why I ended up with just using something externally. Shame, i enjoyed the magic remote

    • @ilinamorato
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      I’m not sure if US government IP is legally allowed to be DRM’d.

      • @grue
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        Not only is it not allowed to be DRM’d, “US government IP” is itself an oxymoron: stuff published by the government is Public Domain, so it doesn’t even count as “intellectual property [sic]” to begin with.

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          Edit: I realize from the replies that my point was off base and actually opposite of the debate here. I’m going to leave this in its place, but thanks to the responders that showed me this wasn’t the right place to make the point I was trying to.

          • @RedAggroBest
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            Govt research grants are not videos literally being published by the govt. They aren’t particularly comparable siuations. It’s why I can’t just buy a stock of Disney and suddenly have free access to their IP. Meanwhile I can rehost whole programs put out by NASA with zero issue.

            I get the anger and it’s justified, but man is it misdirected here.

          • TheMurphy
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            In this case, free in the rest of the world as well.

            They could geo-lock it if they wanted, but that’s not the road NASA likes to take in general.

          • @[email protected]
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            Good question. I think as long as you can already access the NASA app, NASA TV (it’s on YouTube, too), and NASA’s websites, then this should be no different. IIRC one press release said they wanted to share their content “with the world”, so it sounds like that’s a yes, but again I’m not 100% sure. Hopefully we find out in a few days :)

    • @[email protected]
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      451 year ago

      Most NASA stuff is published under non affiliation free use license - you can do what ever you like with it.

    • @Alteon
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      I wouldn’t be surprised if a majority of the content is already freely downloadable from somewhere…

      • @Sanyanov
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        A budget that goes into space exploration, development of groundbreaking science that has its use both in space and on Earth, popularization of science among masses, democratizing access to cutting-edge knowledge, making it free for everyone, including kids and the poor, to access at any time? Yes, please.

        • @aidan
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          I think monetarily supporting people would help them more.

          • themeatbridge
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            We can afford to do both. We choose not to.

            • @aidan
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              Probably true to some extent. Though, at what point do you decide it’s better to just directly give the money to people?

              • themeatbridge
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                There’s no situation where it isn’t better to just give the money directly to the people who need it.

              • @[email protected]
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                Considering it is such a small percentage of the budget and they have developed so much useful technology (https://www.howtogeek.com/831363/these-nasa-innovations-are-all-around-us-everyday/)

                I would say, take the money from other things that suck, like handouts to the rich and wasteful military overspending which would easily cover the things we need to cover. Defunding NASA would contribute to the dummification of the country and is a terrible idea.

                • @aidan
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                  Considering it is such a small percentage

                  Currently, but during many of the innovations it was a much higher percentage. And why do you assume there wouldn’t be other, maybe more impactful innovations, if NASA money and NASA researchers weren’t working on something else?

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            That would be great, but that’s not NASA’s department. Try Congress first. Then the DOD. Edit: and then the morally bankrupt billionaires.

            • @aidan
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              I’m not advocating NASA donate the money, I’m advocating considering cutting NASA’s budget

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          Especially if you don’t live in the shitty country. Yes please, sacrifice the physical and mental wellbeing of Americans for an indepth knowledge of the Universe just before you regress into full facism. Your war crimes won’t be overlooked though.

          • DarkenLM
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            I am not even American, but I do know that the US Army budget makes the NASA budget look like pocket change.

            I’d say you’re focusing on the wrong sector…

            • @[email protected]
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              Seriously, I’m always confused by people complaining about NASA’s budget. It’s peanuts in comparison to the other stuff our Government wastes money on. Also doesn’t help that the government itself is responsible for a lot of the money wasting that happens at NASA. The Artemis program being the perfect example, which is basically just a glorified jobs program at this point, as mandated by the government, instead of actually being a smart way of building a rocket.

              • @[email protected]
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                US americans are complaining for nasa, public schools if they don’t have kids, public health sector, even for bike lanes because they use no bikes, but almost never for all the military expenses on the other side of the earth.

                • @[email protected]
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                  People who are so uneducated that they think funding public education is a bad investment are great proof of why we need better public education…

          • @GeneralVincent
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            NASA isn’t sacrificing American’s wellbeing, regressing into fascism, or committing war crimes. That’s multiple other branches of the government. Despite whatever media you’re consuming the US gov isn’t one unified dictatorship, as much as a certain political group would like it to be.

            NASA is one of the few branches of our government that’s actually somewhat decent and doesn’t need a complete overhaul to benefit our country or world. It’s already paying us back the relatively small budget allocated to them in several ways. So your comment is basically a whataboutism.

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        Oh fuck off.

          • @dag__
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            God you’re so dumb it’s incredible.

      • MrScottyTay
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        Maybe you’s could do a similar thing for healthcare and get healthcare for free, like this new nasa+ thing. Wouldn’t that be wild

        • @[email protected]
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          But what about the profits of insurance companies that act as gatekeepers to your healthcare?? Are those people just supposed to get different jobs? Bet you didn’t think about who you would be hurting

          Sarcasm

      • @dellish
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        The funny thing with tax is you don’t get choose how it’s spent. Tax money is public money that ought to be spent in the public interest, and NASA is a perfectly good example of this. Other good examples are infrastructure, parks, public healthcare and free education. Bad examples of tax expenditure are the ridiculous military complex, massive corporate subsidies and contractors doing poor work that the government should be directly controlling.

  • @SygheilB
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    *Previously on Desperate Spacewives…

    Sam has just kicked out of the airlock apartment by his wife Karen. Would his other woman save him from radiation and lack of oxygen? Tune in to this episode of Desperate Spacewives

  • Obinice
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    If it’s called NASA Plus, how is it free? The “plus” means it goes a step beyond their free content and into a paid tier.

    Don’t get me wrong this is absolutely fantastic I adore NASA and space, but they’re just be some hidden cost? Otherwise it wouldn’t be a streaming service called NASA Plus, right?