Well, that timeline has already been derailed.

Thanks.

Viewing above in Lemmy (Alexandrite), still no sound, although a small plus symbol appears when I hover over “orion”.

TOS S01E04 “The Naked Time”

Where the crew contract an infection that brings out Irish stereotypes :)

Maybe nominate it for #Monsterdon and show it to dozens/hundreds of people at once. (Live cast on https://miru.miyaku.media/ )

Looking here, it doesn’t seem to have been shown yet.

• https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/

I like it rather than love it, but wow! 16%!

Lost River (2015)

I went into it with zero knowledge or expectation and was held by it from beginning to end (even when I knew it was blatantly emulating David Lynch etc, I didn’t care, I was gripped). Only to look it up online afterwards and find out that critics and viewers kind of hate it.

• IMDb: 5.6
• RT tomatometer: 30%
• RT popcornmeter: 38%

:)

Saw that whole special a few year ago. Love him.

Ricky Gervais.

Liked him ~ The Office, Extras, podcast period, even some of his Golden Globes hosting, but now I find his “edginess” and mugging grating.

or

• USS Dan White
• USS Jim Jones
• USS Ashli Babbit

Used computers at school (BBC B), uni and work (beige PCs); and had video game consoles (Intellivision, NES, Atari Jaguar, 3DO, Philips CD-i, etc) but didn’t my own first home computer until relatively late, bought in 2000.

A Dell Inspiron 7500 “desktop-replacement” laptop, with:

• 15-inch 1400x1050 screen (shit hot back then, still higher resolution than many laptops today),
• 6GB HDD
• Intel Mobile Pentium CPU (can’t remember exact specs)
• 128MB RAM (a significantly expensive extra back then)
• ATI Rage Mobility M graphics
• Windows 98 SE (I tried out BeOS R5 PE on it, so much more stable but the only available graphics driver could only give 800x640)

And I’ve been cleaning out my mum’s shoddily built shed and just found it in this sorry state!

The hinge was always super stiff, and after 4-5 years snapped. I kept it alive for a while by rigging up some brackets to hold the screen. Eventually I put it away, and after a few moves it ended up stored at my mum’s. Now wIth a fair bit of opossum crap on and around it, and rainwater from the leaky shed roof.

I wonder if there are still any episodes of The Sopranos downloaded from Dalnet IRC on it.

Do you have a goatee? Because putting that image in our heads is truly evil. :)

We got chips one day. One day out of the whole lot.

This will be the biggest nail in the coffin of the Lido Corfu Sun Hotel management in their crimes against humanity trial.

NEVER FORGET!

In alternate timelines, does Gowron not have a goatee?

TIML

“Today I .ml-ed”

For me, it was instant the moment I saw the thumbnail. Too much Trek-watching?

You’re welcome.

Re Peertube, I believe you can start watching without setting anything up.

Re setting up an account and choosing an instance, I’m not a content creator and just went with peertube.wtf when I saw it promoted by its admin here on Lemmy.

• https://lemmy.wtf/post/15733096

Handy post on Peertube instances here:

• https://lemmy.wtf/post/17976076

Others have already made good suggestions for older movies (libraries, Kanopy, Hoopla, Tubi, Archive.org etc). Also try buying second-hand physical media (DVDs, BDs).

Specifically re an old Kurosawa movie, there are a couple of channels on Peertube with old movies they say are in the public domain (I am not a lawyer).

A couple of such channels

• ClassX https://peertube.wtf/c/classx@blurt.media/videos
• Achives https://peertube.wtf/c/archives@vod.newellijay.tv/videos

And ClassX has Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai

• https://peertube.wtf/w/u6DzMDxEhMa8d1HrnucEYV

There are also YouTube channels that claim to have public domain or licensed movies. I recently found an “all-in-one” site that collates movies from many such channels.

• Cinetimes https://cinetimes.org/

If you don’t want to go via a third-party site like Cinetimes, you can try some supposedly-legally-free channels directly on YouTube:

• DDF: Reel Films https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTjxrujNCF9JSQzXE3th21A
• Filmix https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0igugFRsUPMvGLrv86DIog
• The Archive (nothing to do with The Internet Archive) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCunMgh6zlbhjYLOoU5zKTAA (also you can watch on their own website https://www.thearchive.tv/ )

Warning: the movies on the channels are free, but not necessarily any good :) A lot of dross and only a few gems, unless you love trashy B-movies.

A couple of possibly decent films (in my watchlist, haven’t seen them yet)

• Sorcerer https://youtu.be/LXwfcdkhmE8
• Eight Million Ways to Die https://youtu.be/2G6hJJFzKxo

All the ones I’ve given above are for video on demand (VOD), i.e. you pick what you want, press play and it starts.

There are also linear channels, i.e. like old fashioned TV where things are shown according to a schedule and you see whatever’s on when you tune in. Nowadays sometimes called “live TV”, even when watching stuff made years ago. ( TheArchive.tv does both: VOD and one linear channel.)

A lot of free linear channels (including some with old movies and TV shows) are available through different ways:

• channels / apps on streaming devices like Roku, Firestick, Smart TVs etc
• an app on your phone (currently, I use Televizo on Android)
• an app on your computer (currently, I use Hypnotix on Linux)
• websites

For apps on your phone or computer, you might need to add a “playlist”: a big list of channels that you can pick from to watch. Currently, I use the English language playlist from iptv-org (over 2,000 channels from around the world).

• https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv
• https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/languages/eng.m3u

There is also the IOTV app for Roku, which I think uses the all languages playlist from iptv-org.

Warning: using these playlists can mean a bunch of the included channels won’t work for you, e.g. because they are geoblocked to a specific country.

Some example channels with older stuff:

• Pluto TV has some channels with older stuff
• TVS https://watchyour.tv/
• Cinevault
• FilmRise Classic