I started LD after that episode. In retrospect I wish it was the other way around, I feel like I missed a little joy from seeing their manic ‘animated’ personalities in the real world without having known them animated first.
I thought they did a great job keeping their voice actor styles and understood the gags surrounding it, but I think it would have hit better had I seen LD first.
I loved Lower Decks. Always been a big Trek fan but never gave it a go until a few months ago, same with SNW. I kind of gave up on Trek after Discovery and gave LD and SNW a go on a whim and thoroughly enjoyed both.
Privacy and anonymity are two different things. Proton doesn’t market themselves as anonymous, they market as a privacy service, as you said. And as for the info given to gov’ts, they were legally required to do so. No company, including Mullvad, will break the law for you. Mullvad/IVPN/AirVPN, etc, will all abide by law and give up info if required.
Awesome that’s what I thought, thanks. I’m gonna start with something basic to learn the ropes but your mention of celestial coordinate systems has already piqued my interest so I expect that’ll be something in my near future lol.
There’s not much in my area for used but I did find a once-used Celestron NexStar 90SLT which retails around $830 CAD. Not sure I want to drop $600-700 on my first telescope tho lol. Might just check to see what he wants for it first just in case tho.
Yeah I’m already looking for similarly priced telescopes without smart connection features. I didn’t even think of second hand, I’ll check out my area!
Will most new telescopes will be able to connect to a laptop though? Looks like Stellarium has an option to display directly from a scope and I see most scopes make mention of software so I’m guessing they all pretty much have a connection option?
Will do! I’ll be taking my time on this to research and save up, there’s so much info and technical specs with telescopes!
I’m very much a tactile person so I’m thinking of going this route.
Yeah that’s where I’m leaning. It’s a situation where I can’t see how smart features would be a benefit, and could just be something extra to break. That said, I don’t know much about telescopes yet so I wanted to get some real-world opinions.
Generally I would avoid any smart features if possible, just not sure if they’re actually a benefit for telescopes. I’m definitely leaning dumb
John Oliver’s team, and to a lesser extent I suppose John Oliver himself, are a beacon of ridiculous light in these dreary days. Shine that light Last Week Tonight.
I’m guessing they’re talking about the 2020 miniseries. IMO, yes, it’s worth watching though from what I remember as it jumps through eras it wasn’t what I expected lol. Haven’t watched it since it came out but I recently rewatched Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell so I’m in a bit of a Victorian era vibe and gonna go through this Dracula again.