I’ll wait for the official announcement before getting hyped up.

I don’t agree that these are an eyesore, they are not as pretty as a tree, no, but disgustingly ugly? Nah.

Seems like a decent idea if you have an over developed location where you can’t plant a tree.

If I understand this correctly, this is the 2025 winner song:

https://youtu.be/qOa6GJ6_les

It’s great!

From Wikipedia:

Coherent Corp. (formerly II-VI Incorporated) is an American manufacturer of optical materials and semiconductors. As of 2023, the company had 26,622 employees. Their stock is listed at the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol COHR. In 2022, II-VI acquired laser manufacturer Coherent, Inc., and adopted its name.

Damn!

That is a tall pantograph!

This is the first time I am hearing about that site, I have just not been in the scene much… could it be a temporary problem?

I have four private planes I’d like to fly.

The Diamond Air DA62 - Just a gorgeous plane!

The Grumman Goose - with a water landing

The Cirrus Vision SF50 - A super tiny jet!

A Dassult Falcon trijet - Trijets are cool!

I would love to get to try the whole jet experience, but I am not interested in doing it regularly.

I came as close as you can while flying normally during the start of the pandemic.

I am an IT guy and was tasked with flying to one of the company owner’s country retreats with a new computer and set it up to be ready for the summer…

I get to the airport, the main airport of Sweden, Arlanda, at 07:45 on a normal weekday.

Attached is a photo of what the check in hall looked like…

Anyway, I get checked in and get to my gate, there are a few others there, my flight is called, I walk down and board the transfer bus, and the doors close behind me…

I am the only one on the bus!

I get to the aircraft, a Fokker F50, no company markings at all…

A cute flight attendant welcome me onboard saying that I can pick any seat as I am the only passenger…

And we fly away, it was super weird yet really cool.

Oh, I absolutely agree, but it is what the guys upstairs want…

I am an IT technician, I get paid to solve problems.

A user can’t send emails? I’ll check the logs and error messges, find the problem and is I am allowed to, solved the problem.

Oh, we need to setup up a new firewall rule?

Ok, I’ll log on to the Palo Alto appliance and have a look at the logs.

We need to configure our systems so that we get our logo as the avatar of sent emails?

Ok, I have no idea on how to do that, so I’ll start googling, ah it is all BIMI, and shit, I need to speak with legal, and set up a new certificate vendor? Crap… Shit, our logo isn’t actually trademarked? What? Fuck, we need to do a DORA check on the certificate vendor? Crap…

I would simply decide that a film that destroys so much of an established storyline can’t be canon and exclude it from my headcanon.

It will only do that if you let it.

No?

I recently rewatched the original three Indiana Jones movies, and they are still brilliant despite the last two crap films.

I don’t believe that my copy of the original Naked Gun movies will be any different.

The old ones does not get ruined due to a new movie.

Yeah, dad has had an idea to use geothermal cooling in addition to using geothermal heating

I am very worried for the summer here in Stockholm, we should still have plenty of snow outside, it is far too warm this time of year.

Municipalities have already started sweeping the roads free of grit, that normally doesn’t happen until may.

It is quite possible that we get a few dm of snow yet, that will mess will the seasons even more.

It is just the start of April, it should not be 16C outside in Stockholm! Yet it still is…

I know, I know, “car bad” and everything, but if it gets too hot I will spend several hours driving around to cool down with the AC, I don’t have an AC unit at home

Two ways:

1. I got annoyed after years of being a slow mess, I finally had enough of deviantART and started designing my own HTML/CSS landing page, started exporting galleries from digiKam, linked it together on the landing page and uploaded it on a webhotel.

It is extremely quick and easy to navigate, but I only share the URL in a more private manner.

2. Pixelfed, I run the account @stoy@metapixl.com it is decently fast and people are engaging.

At this point, the feddiverse is growing fast, and demeta/degoogle/dex are not new concepts.

At this point, it isn’t about what service you use, but what you post.

Dell Ultrasharp 27” 1440p 2024

Using that as a product name will introduce more risk of errors, and for the main consumer, businesses, it makes more sense to use a short product code.

Imagine an IT manager ordering new monitors, they can just call their supplier up and say:

Hey, I need some new monitors, can I order 8 new U2724D monitors and 8 new U2724DE?

Instead of saying

Hey, I need some new monitors, can I order 8 new Dell Ultrasharp 27” 1440p 2024 monitors, and 8 new Dell Ultrasharp 27” 1440p 2024 monitors with the built in dock with networking?

The first one is far easier to parse and make sure you get the stuff you want, the other is far more prone to errors.

This is not even getting into the issues with product databases and inventory management.

Ok there are often resons for the madness.

Lets look at the naming standard of Dell monitors:

I have a Dell U2724D as my main monitor.

The syntax is [Series][Diagonal Size][Year][Ratio/Resolution][Features]

In my case the code for the Series is “U”

Since about 2010 their standard series has been:

E: Essential - Normally a TN anti glare panel, internal power, simple stand, 3 year warranty.

P: Professional - Normally an IPS anti glare panel, internal power, height/rotate adjustable stand, 3-year warranty.

S: Small Office/Home - Can be IPS, TN or VA panel, usually external power supply, slim stand, 1-year warranty.

U: Ultrasharp - IPS anti glare panel, internal power, height/rotate adjustable base, 3 year warranty.

UP: Ultrasharp with PrimerColor - additional color gamut.

AW: Alienware - High-end gaming

C: Commercial displays - Large format (50"+), for conference rooms and classrooms.

Ok so looking at my monitor, U2724D, we can see that it is from the Ultrasharp series.

The next section is the diagonal size, Dell uses two digits to represent the size, in my case it is 27, so I have a 27" monitor.

Then we come to the year section, this tells us the year the monitor was released, in my case it says 24, so my monitor was released in 2024.

Then we come to the resolution part:

S: standard ratio - 4:3 or 5:4.

no letter: computer widescreen - 16:10

H: HD widescreen - 16:9

W: Ultrawide - 21:9

D: QHD - 1440p

Q: 4K - 2160p

K: 8K - 4320p

In my case, the resolution letter is D, meaning my monitor is a QHD/1440p monitor.

Finally we have come to the Features section:

C: USB-C input - can accept DisplayPort over USB-C.

X: HDMI cable included, instead of standard DsiplayPort cable.

T: Touchscreen

G: nVidia G-sync

F: AMD Freesync

J: Wireless charging stand

Z: Videoconference camera

A: Monitor arm included, no stand

E: Ethernet networking, works like a proper dock.

S: Built in speakers.

My monitor does not have any extra features, but my dad has the U2721DE monitor which has a built in dock and networking.

The reason for the annoying names is to differentiate features, series, year releases and more.