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- Comment on What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness? 10 hours ago:
Turkey is an amazing country with amazing people in it
The unfortunate part is their leader is the opposite and is currently holding their country and people hostage
- Comment on [deleted] 12 hours ago:
Sounds like you’re after hackaday and similar specialist blogs
General tech sites will mostly cater to the tech the general public care about, enthusiasts don’t bring in the ad money comparatively
- Comment on community work is revolutionary 18 hours ago:
I never actively sought this life, but I can definitely advocate for it
- Comment on Shenmue beats Doom as the most influential game of all time in BAFTA poll 1 day ago:
Yeah 100%
This was a public poll after all so it smells a bit like fandom bandwagoning
- Comment on Clean butt 2 days ago:
Japanese toilets are so far beyond what we’re doing anywhere else in the world it’s not even funny
Wtaf have our toilet scientists been doing for the last century in the western world?
- Comment on James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis 2 days ago:
Although apparently Cocchi Americano is very close, and therefore a good choice versus the more common substitution of Lillet Blanc
I’ve yet to personally get my hands on a bottle though
- Comment on James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis 3 days ago:
Even a gin martini is a bit of a mid cocktail IMO
There are plenty of much more interesting spirit forward cocktails out there
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 3 days ago:
You can’t wear one leg each from two different pairs of jeans and go about your daily business.
Well not with that attitude you can’t! I can think of several ways to accomplish this
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 1 week ago:
Reddit died June 2023
I don’t know why people are still playing with the corpse
- Comment on Ticketmaster may have violated consumer protection laws | The UK’s CMA weighs in after the Oasis reunion tour ticketing fiasco. 1 week ago:
Ticketmaster only exists to reduce the income of musicians.
The musicians would exist without Ticketmaster
The venues would exist without Ticketmaster
The crowd would exist without Ticketmaster
They only extract value
- Comment on papa I need the borger 2 weeks ago:
oh no
- Comment on Meat flavored with a hint of fruit sounds alright. But fruit flavored with a hint of meat sounds gross. 2 weeks ago:
Tomato is a fruit
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 2 weeks ago:
I was about to remark how this data backs up the events we’ve been watching unfold in America recently
- Comment on It’s SSB, But Maybe Not Quite As You Know It 4 weeks ago:
Big thanks for providing this extra context, that made it a lot clearer for me
- Comment on Ultra Gullible 4 weeks ago:
They did those starter sku users dirty
But yeah this was Microsoft’s strategy for a while (and may still be): they attempted to push small business users to their server products for running servers by limiting the ram and core counts on the non-server skus.
- Comment on Why are entertainers paid so much? 4 weeks ago:
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 make it 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.
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.
Tl;dr capitalism
- Comment on It’s SSB, But Maybe Not Quite As You Know It 4 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on NYC Mesh: The Future of the Internet 4 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Download a Lemmy conversation as a PDF? 4 weeks ago:
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
- Comment on It’s SSB, But Maybe Not Quite As You Know It 4 weeks ago:
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
- Comment on Download a Lemmy conversation as a PDF? 4 weeks ago:
I was going to say this but using the print to PDF functionality in most OSes
- Comment on I give my money to hard working entrepreneurs 4 weeks ago:
I was going to say that Affinity, DxO and DaVinci are right there as free/non-subscription options.
But yeah, going open source is even better, though sometimes a bit of a workflow shift if you’re already used to something like lightroom and you go for darktable, for example. There’s also Rawtherapee for photos but I never tried that one.
I hear kdenlive is a very capable NLE, though I don’t do much video work myself, so I’ve not used it.
InDesign has never struck me as doing much different than any other DTP software, of which there’re plenty of open source options, scribus gets cited a lot
Inkscape has always been pretty decent for vector stuff
Audition has never been much more than a fancy audacity
- Comment on EA open sourced parts some games like Command and Conquer 4 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on The UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryption 4 weeks ago:
Why? If they’ve not done anything wrong, they’ve got nothing to hide
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
If you use something like a MiSTer, you can add the scanlines back in—I wonder what that looks like through a projector
- Comment on BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3! 5 weeks ago:
OpenRA was written from scratch and just uses the assets from the free game.
This is the source of the original game
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 5 weeks ago:
Well I’m very excited to see the injection of life this hopefully gives c&c modding
I wonder how many of the old guard are still around, I’m glad the cncnet project is still going strong
- Comment on The Wipeout-like racer BallisticNG gets Steam Deck Verified 5 weeks ago:
Wait this game has been around for 7 years and I’m just now finding out about it?!
- Comment on Lennox's new extreme cold heat pump operates at as low as -20F 5 weeks ago:
That’s crazy cold
Frankly, I think I would move if this was a temperature I had to plan for.
- Comment on Wife recommended I get a Substack 5 weeks ago:
Friends don’t let friends use it