mikerussell

joined 1 year ago
[–] mikerussell@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I deleted my account as part of the Great Reddit Exodus of 2023 but have periodically visited the site since without an account.

Many of the posts I see now seem really sensationalist and almost like they were created by bots. Of course, maybe Reddit was always that way and it just some time being away for me to realize that.

[–] mikerussell@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll give that a shot!

 

For a while now I have been wanting to play old episodes of TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT in the background in Spanish during the day to passively brush up on my Spanish.

Paramount Plus doesn't offer these shows with Spanish audio in the US, which is very odd considering that the US has the second-highest number of Spanish speakers in the world. I also tried getting a Mexican Paramount Plus account and VPNing in, which worked for a little while until they removed all older Trek content from Paramount Plus in Mexico.

I'd really hate having to resort to DVDs and/or BluRays, but at this point that looks like my only option. Before doing that, I thought I'd ask here and see if anyone has any other recommendations.

[–] mikerussell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

East Liverpool and Circleville are almost 200 miles apart from each other.

[–] mikerussell@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It looks like Lemmy.world communities do not get regularly indexed on search engines. Is this because of the system architecture, or is it for some other reason?

[–] mikerussell@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If memory serves me right, it wasn't long ago that many were well below $100.

[–] mikerussell@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's amazing how much batteries have increased in price since Covid.

[–] mikerussell@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Thanks for reminding everyone of this. The gas savings over time will probably end up being the same, or less, than a starter on an older vehicle. Of course, if you're not planning on keeping the vehicle until it dies, this is less of an issue for you.

[–] mikerussell@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We need to start posting.

[–] mikerussell@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So sort of create a read-only Lemmy instance that re-creates the accounts and posts from archived Reddit?

[–] mikerussell@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I deleted my Reddit account as well. People deleting 10-year-plus accounts will make a larger statement than a couple of days of silent subs.

Reddit has control over granting mod access to new people for rebellious subs. It doesn't have control over my use or non-use of the platform.

[–] mikerussell@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I actually don't mind the Pluto ads. If you put Trek on in the background while working, I think you'll find that they're so repetitive yet non-annoying that you just mentally block them out.

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