• Scrappy Doo
• Poochie (on The Simpsons but he was a parody)
• Pretty much any child character added halfway through the show’s run

Edit: The character of Jenny on Unhappily Ever After. She was played by Stephanie Hodge, and she was supposed to be the star of the show. Everyone hated her character, and she eventually got written off, came back as a ghost, and then abruptly left again.

The series was initially written as a starring vehicle for Hodge, whose character Jennifer was the focus of the first few episodes. However, the series soon turned its focus to Jack Malloy, a schizophrenic, alcoholic, and lazy husband who was kicked out of the house in the pilot episode. … By the show’s third season, Tiffany Malloy had become the breakout character, and Cox became the de facto co-star of the show along with Pierson.

In the fourth season, producers decided to kill off Jennifer’s character, but returned her as a ghost. After continuing to torment her family as a poltergeist known as “Dead Mom”, the Malloys realize that the show doesn’t work without Jennifer as their common enemy. Jennifer is then brought back to life after a metafictional sequence, commonly used in the show, in which a network executive enters the house and explains to the characters that, due to the jokes no longer being funny, “Dead Mom” is no longer dead. Jennifer then returns and is overjoyed to be restored to life, until she sees the gigantic mess the family left for her to clean up. Jennifer throws a massive temper tantrum and vows to take terrible revenge. Nevertheless, Hodge decided to leave the show anyway, and several episodes after Jennifer’s “resurrection”, she eloped with a lesbian lover and was never seen again.

– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhappily_Ever_After

But how should voting work here?

Piefed polls but those leave out non-Piefed users. For something lower-tech but effective, I’ve seen mods make a post, make one comment for each choice, and lock the post. Then tally the votes for each comment/choice.

But the answer is Pluribus. lol

Now the show will not address this (and rightfully so)

…yeah. And there’s a hive-mind / transitive property question Carol could have asked Laxmi’s son which would have been a huge wham moment that would have really shaken Laxmi but I’m glad the show didn’t go there.

Also: !pluribus@lemmy.zip

Oh wow. That just makes it even better.

i should clarify a generic radio repeater that inst meshtastic but is able to repeat LORA signal

Well, the numbers I gave would be the same since those Meshtastic “modes” are just profiles for different LoRa settings, and the same LoRa Settings + frequency slot still applies (Meshtastic just runs on top of that).

I think what you’re looking for is a dumb signal repeater, but I’m not super knowledgeable of the pros/cons/legality of those for the entire 915 MHz band. You’d be repeating anything in that frequency range, not just LoRa. And those also repeat noise the same as signal. Basically, it could end up making things worse in the long run by introducing noise.

Probably best to just coordinate with or start a community mesh group and settle on a specific frequency and LoRa settings.

AFAIK, the only way to truly turn them off is to remove the battery or cut the positive lead and splice in a switch. Only drawback is the switch has to be on for it to be able to charge, so that’s a bit awkward. The “soft off” when you hold the power button is just deep sleep.

Mine frequently wake up from deep sleep but not after 5 minutes. More like 3-4 days. Which makes keeping a few always charged difficult.

Edit: I just checked the Power settings in the app (they’ve changed it a bit since I set mine up). The longest it can deep sleep is 72 hours it seems. Maybe yours is set to 5 minutes?

I don’t think what you’re trying to do is very practical.

For US 915, there are between 52 (SHORT_TURBO) and 208 (LONG_SLOW) frequency slots. Each node has to use the same modem presets as well as the same frequency (you can’t mix and match any of those). Nodes can only operate in one mode and frequency at a time.

So to cover all cases, you’d need:

• 52 nodes operating in SHORT_TURBO mode
• 104 nodes operating in SHORT_FAST
• 104 nodes operating in SHORT_SLOW
• 104 nodes in MEDIUM_FAST
• 104 in MEDIUM_SLOW
• 104 in LONG_FAST mode
• 208 in LONG_MODERATE mode
• Plus another 208 in LONG_SLOW mode

Source for those counts

That’s a total of 988 nodes to cover all, and that’s not even getting into the fact that they’d be talking over each other.

Basically, if you want to be a generic repeater (note the docs clearly state to not run repeater mode willy-nilly), it’s best to stick with LONG_FAST, set your custom channels as primary (if you even want to have custom channels, that is), and create a LongFast secondary channel with the default dummy encryption key. Then manually set your radio frequency to the one used by the default LONG_FAST setting (908.875 MHz).

That’s basically what I do and lets me have my own private channels while also relaying for and being able to make contact with anyone else using the default config.

Edit: Coordination of local frequencies, etc is usually done by forming a Meshtastic community group. Then you could just join (or start) that group and use a standardized frequency and LoRa parameters.

Thoughts:

1. Rhea Seehorn can totally carry an episode by herself. That was pretty epic in and of itself.
2. The drone fail 😅
3. I found it interesting how “they” firewalled themselves from Carol by only communicating by recording and interacting via drones. Carol definitely seems to have spooked them.
4. Granted, she did drug and nearly kill one of them so can’t blame “them”
5. I wonder what was on the second take of the second video we saw her record?
6. I’m sad I didn’t wait a bit longer to watch this episode because it’s going to be even longer before we ind out what she found at the food packaging plant.

How the fuck can you expect to be inconspicuous when you’re bringing studio equipment to a restaurant?

Lol, there’s a actually a trope for that: Refuge in Audacity. It’s probably one of my favorite tropes, TBH.

Usually, when characters do something illegal or socially unacceptable, they’ll try to be discreet about it: keep their misdeeds small and subtle enough that either no one knows what they’ve done, or no one cares. Sometimes a character does the exact opposite — take their misdeeds so far over-the-top that there’s no way they can’t be noticed — and they still get away with it.

The key is to be so audacious in how you violate the rules (whether they be laws or a moral/ethical code) that no one can believe you did it.

Might need to dig up my old TV Tropes account and add this article to the “Real Life” examples.

Not my jam (not even sweet potato jam lol) but I can at least see why people like it. I don’t hate sweet potato dishes, but don’t really care for them either.

Doctor in Front: Everyone stay behind me. I’m a doctor of art history. It’s finally my time to shine.

How many other animals did they put through a sieve to reach this conclusion? How many?!

They replied to my request post but unfortunately it doesn’t seem like it’s practical right now. Basically because of inline hashtags and not wanting to try to separate those out. Which, yeah, I get that.

They mentioned the new version would let you filter by software type, so that will probably accomplish the same thing for me.

That and tagging a bunch of communities to spray it out everywhere.

In a nutshell, Mastodon has a different culture than the threadiverse. I’m not a fan of micro-blogging and would be content not having that cross over. It can continue to do so for those who want it, but it would be nice to be able to block it out if you don’t.

^^ Every time I play Skyrim

Ah, okay. Thanks. Was hoping it was just a client thing that caused them to show up.

Gonna put in a feature request to see if it’s possible to hide those.

Wait, do other clients filter those out? I’ve only been running Tesseract for a few weeks. Granted, I don’t see the hashtag spam super often so I don’t recall if I was seeing it this much before I started using this or not.

It was in the feed under one of the Lemmy communities shown in the screenshot. When a mastodon post tags a Lemmy community, it gets posted to it.

Not trying to shame a specific user since it’s bigger than just them, so don’t want to link to it directly. But the hashtag / community tag soup is common enough to get annoying.

Would love to have one of those. Guess I’ll have to settle for 3D printing one and hacking up a Bluetooth headset/speaker to make it work.