Kirk

I thought npr had 10 times fewer listeners

If you want to be depressed, Joe Rogan has 10 times that for single episodes.

fwiw I agree, but it doesn't appear to be considered mainstream by the guy I was replying to.

Sad that NPR is not considered "mainstream" these days. Maybe Joe Rogan will post something to Facebook about it?

That is correct and echoes what I said

The Remote Watch Pass is only needed if neither you nor the server owner have a Plex pass: https://support.plex.tv/articles/requirements-for-remote-playback-of-personal-media/

When using an affected platform to stream personal video content remotely from a Plex Media Server, then one of the following needs to be true:

1. The admin account for the Plex Media Server has an active Plex Pass (which also allows remote playback for any other user streaming from that server)
2. Your account has an active Plex Pass
3. Your account has an active Remote Watch Pass

The remote playback restrictions do not apply to streaming music content to Plexamp or photos to our Plex Photos app.

I agree with your overall sentiment but also literally 100% of BlueSky users are on one instance.

BlueSky is not federated. Also German users have outsized representation on Mastodon but most of the network is outside Germany.

I love the moments when it's demonstrated that Ferengi can be actually very astute when it comes to diplomacy/interplanetary relations... their culture just has a completely different set of values.

Yeah it's certainly not the worst series of episodes and as you implied it does some good world building. It just doesn't do it for me the same way that "why is everyone treating O'Brien like he's shady?" does.

Those look like a forbidden snack! I also didn't know about that book thanks for sharing.

People are talking about privacy but the big reason is that it gives you, the owner, control over everything quickly without ads or other uneeded stuff. We are so used to apps being optomized for revenue and not being interoperable with other services that it's easy to forget the single biggest advantage of computers which is that programs and apps can work together quickly and quietly and in the background. Companies provide products, self-hosting provides tools.

I'm very familliar with the "Year of the Linux Desktop" joke but I also can't remember a time previously when Linux was getting this level of mainstream attention.