I think it’s a punk bar themed around the late Motorhead frontman, but I only walked past it a couple of times

There’s a Lemmy bar in Reykjavik

I wonder how many people are in the middle of that particular Venn diagram

Big thanks for providing this extra context, that made it a lot clearer for me

Firstly it’s a fraction of a percent of the pool of people working as entertainers that get paid anything close to a comfortable salary—many don’t even last a few years and make basically nothing before they change careers.

The successful ones get paid a load basically because the people that invest in funding TV shows & films know that you can generally multiply your investment by attaching a household name to the project. Now this is for several reasons, firstly a household name will generally actually be a good actor. Secondly, people recognising a member of your cast means they’re generally more likely to watch it. Finally, there’s the effect on the rest of the casting—some studios might take the opportunity to push the compensation of the “no-name” actors down because they have an opportunity to work with a star, others might go the other way and use the first star in negotiations to get additional starts signed on to the project.

So essentially, the big projects make a lot of money, and executives attribute a significant part of that generated value to having the big star involved, and so they portion the funding to ensure that happens.

There’s also the negotiation factor on long running shows, main characters end up in good negotiation positions for more money if a show is successful and their character isn’t easy to kill off. This is also why Netflix tries to cancel stuff before the 3rd season—that’s about the point who holds the power in negotiations shifts away from the studio.

An in-demand actor is a finite resource, they can only really work on one or two projects at any given time, so this also pushes their fees up as projects may end up in bidding wars. Conversely most entertainment costs very little to sell beyond the initial production costs, so after that’s broken even it’s free profit they can use for these fees.

Tl;dr capitalism

I’ve not really touched radio stuff in a long while now but here’s my attempt.

Single sideband (SSB) is a radio transmission technique for sending audio (often voice, but many data modes use SSB too) whilst being pretty efficient with the use of radio spectrum. Think like FM and AM modes on a consumer radio, except those approaches take up a bit more bandwidth compared to SSB, so you can’t pack as many stations into a radio band without interference.

And this is where I might be completely off the mark, but this novel approach is interesting compared to the more conventional approaches due to the reduction in the complexity of the components needed to do this and a reduction of waste power. As the other approaches involved essentially generating a double sideband signal (I can’t remember what the technical term is, but part of me thinks this might be standard AM) and filtering out the (typically) lower mirror band.

Not really in a situation where I can watch a video without potentially annoying someone right now, but

A municipal mesh network isn’t a bad idea, but I worry about what security measures are in place, effectively securing a wireless network with hundreds of independent stations feels like it wouldn’t be trivial.

And surely this will need a WAN gateway to the internet somewhere, so it’ll only be as reliable as the route to that uplink.

This might have all been addressed in the video though, I’ll see if I can find an article about it.

Probably true, worth pointing out I browse with the “old.” theme when I’m at my computer which doesn’t come out bad at all given it’s pretty basic HTML (just tried it on my phone too, which is something I wasn’t sure would give a good result)

You’re right though, it would be a good pull request to the Lemmy UI to add a print stylesheet

The linked article is a jargon festival, but that’s to be expected given the topic. I still found it pretty interesting despite not fully understanding it

I was going to say this but using the print to PDF functionality in most OSes

Literally everything with USB can read FAT32, there’s some old or incredibly simple stuff out there that doesn’t read exFAT.

Manufacturers ideally want to spend as little as possible handling support for users, so they go with the option that isn’t going to result in returns from people who think it doesn’t work with their old printer or whatever.

Is it actually missing the engine? That looked like it was there when I skimmed a couple of the repos

Missing assets is pretty common when they open source commercial games, the rights of the art is often more complicated than just doing the game code.

🫸 PEMDAS

👉 BODMAS

IDST

I mean lavender can have calming and sedative effects, could maybe yield a way of making an escape.

Makes me think of the milk guy in the 2nd(?) season of Misfits

Why? If they’ve not done anything wrong, they’ve got nothing to hide

They took out the clause in their policy about not selling user data.

It’s pretty obvious what follows that

Treating it like a joke because half the GOP are probably implicated in some way and this is a flimsy attempt at minimisation

Could have had two terms of this guy now

Truly and harrowingly sadly:

Conservative voters hate trans people simply because they’re told to

Conservative politicians tell their voters to hate trans people because it distracts the voters whilst the politician robs them (of their rights, their potential or simply their actual fucking money)

It’s currently trans people because the previous victim roster of gay dudes and middle eastern people just isn’t cutting it any more.