Einar @ original_reader @lemmy.ml

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I just launch Firefox with this option:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -ProfileManager

Always launches with the profile selector. Then install a profile switcher extension. Done.

Unfortuntaley 1) it doesn't really come out of the box and 2) the extension must be installed on every single profile. Not the most obvious or user friendly.

Looking at the world getting worse every single day and realising that so few people care that we're essentially doomed unless some miracle happens.

Or double click into the picture.

Here is the reference.

Better overwrite with a message than delete. And do it twice to be safe. That seems to make it harder for Reddit to restore what you don't want there.

Here is an alternative: Comment on OpenStreetMaps.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a free, editable map of the world, created and maintained by millions of volunteers. It includes data about roads, buildings, shops, points of interest, and more.

Many of the benefits of Google Maps without all its spying and advertising.

Bonus in line with this: OsmAnd.

The "wanting" seems to be the issue. Both with the consumer and the producer.

Ideas for alternatives

As long as we buy and companies sell, change will be extremely slow. Probably too slow.

That's a far cry from what Ditto can do.

This article might help answer that question for you.

Waxed paper, maybe? There has to be something better than this.

Not sure if that's OT, but what stops such companies from packing with paper? All this plastic is just... 😦

My last comment was deleted because it wasn't constructive enough. Let me try to remedy that.

I completely agree that the confession part was not done in a way that fulfilled it's possible potential. It felt forced and rushed. It was such a prominent plot point that had been built up for a while. IMO it would have been better for her to talk to a friend like Uhura who knew what was going on anyways. This could have made for an intimate character development moment. Like so we had more of an "alien of the week" moment.

Would be great to have sources for the less obvious answers.

I meant TNG. In the time period of TNG, it is the 24th century and they have learned the first contact procedure.

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” - Carl Sagan (in No Man's Sky)

"Sometimes people make choices that leave them alone." - Bastion

"The Old Ones perished because they didn’t embrace change." - Aratak, Horizon Zero Dawn

Doesn't seem likely. By the time Picard takes over, the Federation has gone to great lengths to get first contact right. I am thinking of TNG episodes like The Big Goodbye, First Contact, Who Watches the Watchers or Darmok as examples.

And to push this further, chronologically before SNW, Enterprise already put some effort into first contact beyond Hi. Cogenitor is just one of many examples.

I will try to resist using the Beyond opening scenes as a reference, because they were just ridiculous.

It's not wrong, but it's not the best approach. Hi is casual and usually reserved for people that are familiar with each other.

Go to a dignitary and greet with Hi. Chances are it will not be perceived as showing the respect that could - and likely should - be given. In a first contact setting, a formal approach is surely the way to go.

It's funny how both Pike's and Uhura's first word with a totally unknown species is "Hi!"

You're Starfleet! Come on!

OK... they will have learned this lesson by the 24 century. 😂

Also, why treat the aliens like idiots? Why say: "You made him easier to talk to" instead of "He is now a different species." This seemed to just have served as a plot point to make Chapel admit her feelings openly.

These minor quibbles aside it felt like an average TNG episode. And for me that means it is a successful episode.