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.
It's funny, I got into my current relationship around the time the apps started coming out so I've never really used them, but I remember people were praising it as a lot safer for everyone involved.
And tbh I can see that being the case compared to the older school approach of nightclubs being majority populated with people actively trying to find someone to sleep with
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
JavaScript can do that, but it would be JavaScript running on the server. Any language capable of working with images and http will be able to do this.
If you're running JavaScript in the browser, any kind of operation on the image would require the image to be downloaded from the server first. You can't resize an image without the image after all. Which I think is where you're getting your wires crossed, a Kotlin app already has the file, a browser does not.
One of the main things you need to care about optimising for a web application is sending as little as possible over the network, so you do anything like image resizing either at dev/build-time or on-the-fly server side. There's little point doing it client-side because the comparatively time consuming part of getting it transferred is already done
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.
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
Cynically, this is because it allows the recipients to feel entitled to it without having to also hold a positive view of taxation. This means a typically conservative demographic (the elderly) can be convinced to vote for things that hurt them (i.e. for tax cuts).
Putin owns him financially and via kompromat. It was in the news last year that Trump personally owed Russia several billion dollars.
Then there's the fairly obvious conclusion that the Kremlin has proof of what Trump was up to on Epstein's island (or worse) that they're using to keep him in line.
Trump is president in name only, the power of the office is wielded by his owner.
You get used to it, I don't even see the code—I just see: group... pattern... read-ahead...