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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!
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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
Starting from the beginning is the absolute best, in my opinion. The original series is so much fun, and as much as I love TNG and others, I know that nothing will come close to the cultural impact that the original had. It was prime time, mainstream, and riding the energy that the country had for space in the 1960s, with a message of hope and cooperation. That being said, prepare for a decent mix of goofiness too, lol.
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If I'm only a fan of the OG Star Trek does that still count?
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I look at it in the reverse. I want this platform to stream at home. If it's a pain to use at home without internt then it's lost the plot. I'd setup Plex with the trusted local network in the config file and all of that, but then I still have reconfigure my clients and then they all get admin access so all my parental controls are gone. Jellyfin and Emby get this right and Plex does not, so I dropped Plex. I ended up on Em by instead of Jelly because Direct Play/Stream just wasn't really working for me in Jelly (that may well have been due to my hosting on a Synology NAS).
I’m in the same situation as you- I have a Synology NAS and I want to set up some sort of streaming for my old home movies. I would like to be able to view on mobile and at home. Is Emby possibly a better option than JellyFin for that scenario? I wasn’t even aware of them.
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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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Setting up remote access for Jellyfin felt pretty trivial for me like 2 years ago when switching away from Plex. No hiccups that I can recall whatsoever. Except for maybe the nginx reverse proxy configuration, but the documentation made it decently straightforward, but that step isn't strictly necessary to get remote access working; that was just something I wanted for my particular setup.
And I wouldn't call the Jellyfin UI janky at all. I use it every day and can't think of any common issues I encounter when using it. There surely are quirks with some features, but I find them few and far between. I recall Plex having its own UI quirks back when I used it.
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FYI DS9 isn't really a "skip around" series. Plenty of long plot arcs as the series goes on.
It's really not but I've been watching on Pluto because that's what I have access to
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But are you at least a socialist?
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
The ferengi were a terrible idea done terribly.. until DS9. They really find their stride
Although I think they are best in the ep where quark sells weapons. Something about his cousin is peak Ferengi
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FYI DS9 isn't really a "skip around" series. Plenty of long plot arcs as the series goes on.
It's absolutely a slip around series
the plots you're probably referring to really only kick in the last half of the series. -
I used to love Star Trek until I hit that Tuvix episode. That triggered some things in my personal background. I tried to get over it but I can't.
Hahaha
It's half the reason everyone treats Janeway as a criminal. Like yeah overall she's a fantastic captain. But she did straight up murder tuvix! He begged for life!
If it's any help, that show is a hot mess. There are some absolute banger eps, I absolutely love most of the cast, but on average it's underwhelming.
The guy who made BSG ranted a bit about working on Voyager. Apparently they weren't allowed to change anything. Everything had to reset by the end of the episode. In a series about being stranded.
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That reminds me. I need to rewatch DS:9
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I’m in the same situation as you- I have a Synology NAS and I want to set up some sort of streaming for my old home movies. I would like to be able to view on mobile and at home. Is Emby possibly a better option than JellyFin for that scenario? I wasn’t even aware of them.
Overall I do like Emby more than JellyFin. Emby is commercial, like Plex. I believe the client applications (ie everything but the web) needs a licensed server but they have a free trial period. There is a remote option
And they have a service they call Connect intended to simplify the remote access.
Caveat, I've not really used the remote capabilities at all, I can't speak to how it compares to Plex's. I have streamed remotely through a VPN connection, rather than setting up public access. But only once or twice, and mostly to test the VPN rather than for the purpose of streaming.
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It's absolutely a slip around series
the plots you're probably referring to really only kick in the last half of the series.only kick in the last half of the series.
That's what I meant by "as the series goes on."
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But are you at least a socialist?
At least?
This implies there are levels or grades, here. What's at the top of the pyramid?
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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.
Interesting. I switched to jellyfin from Plex because the Plex interface was fucking terrible after the redesigned it and jellyfin was so much better even when unfinished.
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The ferengi were a terrible idea done terribly.. until DS9. They really find their stride
Although I think they are best in the ep where quark sells weapons. Something about his cousin is peak Ferengi
wrote on last edited by [email protected]The rewrite of the Ferengi rules of accusation might also be my favorite episode
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So you’re a BSD user and Stargate fan?
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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?
