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Cake day: July 30th, 2026

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  • Same, circa 2012-2014 somewhere. As soon as Netflix stopped focusing on making sure they gave you access to more and more titles and started making their own TV shows instead, I knew exactly what was up. I cancelled, ripped all my DVDs, built a Plex server and started collecting media using alternative sources. 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

    That was the last subscription I ever had and I cannot imagine a world in which I would ever have another. It would be like entering an abusive relationship on purpose. I’ve already collected more media than I could hope to watch/listen to/read.


  • Well, now you can’t say all the older not chronically online fans you know rave about it, because I’m older, not chronically online and I think it sucks.

    Edit: I’ve just found out that “not chronically online” means “too incompetent to do shit online” so my apologies for misunderstanding. I thought it just meant, you know, not being online a lot. Like me. I’ve posted to Lemmy about 10 times in the past 5 days. I have literally no other social media accounts on the Internet. I was on Facebook for like a week in 2014 before I noped out. BUT! I can make an account on Lemmy, so my opinions about Star Trek are clearly only informed by being a chronically online mouth-breather.


  • I really only need Elite Dangerous and I’ll be happy. I’m going from an OG Vive so having no tether and 150g less weight around my face is gonna be just great. But I’m also excited to try new stuff I wouldn’t have dreamed to try in the OG with the tether, like Beat Saber. Being able to do it anywhere, so I can pick the biggest room in the house instead of being limited to the one that has the computer is just like a whole different level.


  • The oil companies and their billionaire oligarchs are making bank on this. Note that the Feds dropped the EV tax credit in the US and Chinese EVs cannot be sold in the US, and the picture will begin to come into focus. Also note that the best selling EVs in a country with artificially few options to choose from are manufactured by a company owned by… yes, a billionaire oligarch. The US is a Klepto-Oligarchy with a veneer of Democracy.





  • Republicans pass up no opportunity to deride the post office and they defund it/depopulate it every chance they get. I was just at the post office, huge post office in a major metro that’s always been very busy. It now has only one of three buildings open, half the lights off inside it and one clerk at the counter. The line is always out the door. Meanwhile several people in line, quite obviously Republicans (old, white, obnoxious/noisy), are bitching and moaning about how shit the post office is. Republicans are stupid, shitty, worthless people.




  • Well, I mean, it’s twice the resolution (2160 vs 1080), half again more on the refresh rates (144 vs 90 Hz), weighs 150g less (409 vs 555 g) and it doesn’t have fresnel lenses - if the whole “completely wireless, lighthouse-free, works standalone or with your computer and can stream” wasn’t enough of an upgrade lol. It is for me, I put myself on the list for a 256.

    Aside from the tether, which is just a pain in the ass, I won’t miss the screen door effect and the god rays.