Pioneer is a well known Japanese electronics company, they are still going strong, but have exited the optical disc drive business.

So no, Pioneer has not gone out of business, they have however changed focus from optical drives.

I hate that they defined a Copilot key on standard keyboards

Back in my early school years, I attended a school built on top of a hill, it had an exciting school yard, it had a wooded area, a small field, two football pitches and a secluded steep stone staircase where few teachers could see you.

Anyway, during one winter I was down at the bottom end of the staircase playing during recess, and there was a brown plastic pipe leaking warm water coming out of the ground.

I was fascinated by how it melted the snow, so I started playing with the water, it went on for a few days, possibly a week, only then did I suddenly see a tissue paper and brown stuff coming out of the pipe…

Yeah, it was a pipe with raw sewage that I had played with, shortly thereafter the pipe was dealt with by the school.

I am 37 now, and I was seldom sick as I grew up…

Sometimes when my room is very cold, I sleep with socks on, though the rest usually stays off.

20 at home, 18 when away.

As a general rule, I will try to standardize on Dell Ultrasharp monitors, now that they support 120hz, there is little reason for me to pick something else.

I am currently running a U2724D at home and it is brilliant!

IT guy here, what monitors have you used?

I don’t think I have ever found a monitor where you can’t change the input when the screen is off, usually when you press the input button the monitor will turn on to show the input menu.

This works with monitors from Dell, AOC, Philips, Lenovo and others.

You need to press the input button, not the generic menu button, but it has always worked for me.

Ah, I am currently looking for a Trimui Brick Hammer, though I may start with an Anbernic device and they are easier to come by for me…

R36S?

I have been in several situations where preferred names are not permited in official documentations.

In those engagements you are introduced with your full name, but are welcome to ask participants to use your preferred name.

It just can’t be on official documentations

I just checked and his actual name is Peter Brian Hegseth.

It looks ridiculous that the sign only has his nickname.

Putting his real name like this on the sign would at least make him seem like an adult:

Peter B. Hegseth

I guess we should be glad for the sloppy execution, it helps future generations to identify these dipshits.

Oh absolutely, not only that we have separate licenses for motor bikes, the standard car (max weight is 3500kg, including cargo, passengers and possible trailer), and several more:

Here is a list of categories of licenses in use in Sweden:

https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/en/road/driving-licences/im-going-to-take-my-driving-licence/driving-licence-categories/

Here are some more details about driving licenses in Sweden, the restrictions section is interesting.

https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/en/road/driving-licences/im-going-to-take-my-driving-licence/

My standard B license comes with the following restrictions:

1. I must wear my glasses
2. I may only drive a car with an automatic gearbox

Other than those, it is a standard license.

Please feel free to ask if you have further questions about driving and driving licenses in Sweden, I passed my test almost 3 years ago at 35 so it is still fresh in my mind and probably still valid knowledge.

Yeah, I see my 2021 Seat Leon FR PHEV hatchback as an appliance, it takes me where I want to go, I am only licensed to drive an automatic, but do so well.

Now, after two and a half years of driving, I am thinking about learning the paddle shifter, but eh, it just seems like another distraction.

Here in Sweden, since I took my test in an automatic car, I am not allowed to drive a manual car unless I pass a new test in a manual car.

This is perfectly resonable, I would be a terrible driver in a manual car, but driving an automatic, I am perfectly fine.

I mean, I have tried to learn the manual gearbox, and I would have gotten it given more time, but it took me about a year to learn to drive an automatic, this was while working full time at the same time. So I decided that with the rise of EVs and automatic gearboxes, I didn’t want to spend another half a year learning something that is going away.

I agree with you to a point, if you got the same kind of license taking the test in an automatic car as in a manual car, then I agree that a critical component is missing, but here in Sweden you are limited to only being allowed to drive automatic cars if you took the test in an automatic car.

If I need to, I am absolutely not against learning a manual gearbox and taking a new test later.

Me relying on an automatic gearbox does not make me a worse driver than the average driver.

I saw a comment in a car thread in a general interest community that claimed that if you couldn’t drive with a manual gearbox, you shouldn’t be issued a license.

I am a Swede and this was on a Swedish forum.

Most people here knows how to drive manually, I don’t, and I drive far better than plenty of manual drivers.

It is far worse to not use sand, then the wheels will lock up and slide for longer, developing flat spots which will destroy the rails they run on

Yeah, I hadn’t heard any buskers on the Stockholm metro for years until a few weeks ago when a guy I had seen earlier busking, came onboard again with his weird wooden box with metal strings that is played with two hooked sticks and started playing.

Not proper public transport, but my dad is an active member of a heritage railroad.

This railroad rund both steam and diesel trains.

When it is dry outside they will run a fire watch train after the steam train, basically a tank car with water and a petrol pump, pulled by a diesel locomotive.

But this day they didn’t run the fire watch train, and I was tagging along with dad as he drove the classic DMU trains.

We come around a corner and see smoke comming from a farmer’s field, it had caught on fire/smolder from the steam train…

We stop, obviously, bring our large water can and start working the fire, after a few min the fire department came and we could hand it over to them

One morning when I got on the Stockholm metro there was a guy, bombed out of his mind, he had tossed his jacket in the middle of the floor, and was messing about with bottle caps with water and syringes.

No one made a sound (this is normal in the Stockholm rush hour), and I reached out through the SL app chat feature to inform the security center about the situation

I told them that a poor guy on the train clearly needed help, didn’t speculate, but informed them about what I could see, told them what train it concerned and where on the train the guy was and gave a description of him.

Two stops later two security guards boarded the train and quickly lead him out, no screaming or disruption at all.

I don’t know what happened to the guy after that, but I was careful to stay neutral yet concerned for the guy’s health, and I hope he finally got the help he needed if not wanted at the time and is doing much better now.