I remember this brilliant meme from the start of the pandemic!

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.

Aparantly you could not.

What historians will point to in my opinion are two key point in modern American history that unleashed the decent into madness.

1. Raegan, his financial policies laid the groundwork for the modern ultra wealthy tech bros.
2. 9/11, 9/11 turned patriotism into a national psychotic duty.

After 9/11 you could slap a US flag on basically anything, shout patriotism and make a shit load of money while being thanked for it.

Then it just rolled on.

This can probably only be enforced legally, not technologically…

One blurred house among many unblurred houses will attract attention toward the house.

Better to keep a thick hedge…

Streisand effect?

Under the current regime I am not sure that .gov can be trusted.

Now, I know the basics of vaccine theory, you expose a host to a weak strain of an infection, their immune response deals with it and learns how to fight the real thing.

That is a very simplistic way of explaining it, I know, but it is accurate for most people.

Anyway, this conversation has clearly devolved far away from the article and my, admittedly, bad, though not completely inaccurate joke.

I am sorry for the bad joke, yes, but the fact is that it is accurate enough for the common man.

I get what you mean, but yeah, if the soldiers are on duty and haven’t got permission from the other country to enter their land, technically it is an invasion.

I get what you mean, but if you read the comment I responded to, it mentions a weakened version of the virus, not a dead one.

Well that is a matter of definition, I consider breaking a finger and breaking a leg to both mean that you have broken a bone.

Your body still fights the measle virus, you are still infected with it, even if it is a lesswr variant.

Fascinating, I get downvoted a lot, ok, I can see that this might not have been the best joke, that is fine, but apparently I am factually wrong as well, though no one could be bothered to tell me why.

Ok, I get it, wrong place for a joke, though the general concept of a vaccine is to infect you with a weak/dead version of the agent causing the infection causing the body to learn how to fight the real thing.

mRNA vaccines do differ in that they send in building blocks for the body to produce the weak strain itself.

Well that sort of is what a vaccine is…

"Due to government short staffing, created by the current Trump/Musk administration, we are unable to render assistance since you have a net worth of less than 100 billion dollars. We can however refer you to our private partner “Guard”, Guard - the X in security, can be requested through X following an AI loyalty analysis of your Xeet history.

Once approved for Guard services you can expect one part time Guard to protect your Tesla for two total hours a week."

Gunderson’s nuts!

I am a hobby photographer, and I am interested in some photo editing software, I heard great things about DoX Photo Lab, and wanted to check it out, I am not opposed to paying for software, if I get a perpetual license for a version, ok, they have that, looks good, so I try and find a trial version, ah, sweet they have that as well!

But I need to register to get access to download it…

Sigh…

Just allow me to get a trial version without registring, then I can decide later if I want it, I have bought several programs this way!

The only thing you will accomplish with forcing a registration on me in this case is a database full of temp emails…

STOP. DOING. THIS.

I need to see the regulations before I make a prediction.