GE C44-9W #4762 near Stevenson, Washington in October, 2004. This locomotive was built in 1998.
Thank you!
OldFartPhil
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Sorry, I can't even guess.
The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (Kittyhawk in Commonwealth Air Force service) is an American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground-attack aircraft that first flew in 1938.
Photographed at the Chino Air Show, Chino California, May 2005
an app launcher. Literally every other desktop on the planet has one, how this isn’t considered basic functionality is beyond me. Give your grandparents a vanilla GNOME computer and tell them to get to Facebook and you will see how necessary this is. Default should be dash-to-dock with intelligent autohide so you only see it when you need it. This would fulfill GNOME’s hangups about it while also improving usability, so I fail to see a downside.
GNOME does have a launcher, which works just like the launcher on Mac and Android. You can even select whether to see all your apps or only the most-used ones. I do agree that a taskbar/dock with intelligent auto-hide is a must, though (at least for my usability). That's also not to say that some folks would rather have a Windows style launcher, and there are several DEs that provide that.
Thanks for the reminder about VLC. I don't use it much any more, but back in the wild west days of audio/video codecs (some of which were paid), VLC would play everything.
I don't have an answer for you, but maybe you and your friends could get together and start your own? The beauty of the fediverse and all that.
The web pages for Lemmy and kbin have the ability to filter by subscribed communities, as well. I think what most of us are thinking of is a way to view the "All" feed that gives more weight to the smaller communities, which would help us discover new communities to subscribe to.
Limiting myself to free as in freedom (no ads, not free to use because you are the product): KeePass/KeePassXC, GnuCash, Firefox, LibreOffice, digiKam, GIMP.
In my opinion, microblogging isn't really a conversational platform. It's a creator and audience platform. That format has its place, as well, but Twitter/Threads/Mastodon/etc. isn't a replacement for forums.
A qualified yes. I love the overview, which is, IMO, the most elegant way to launch applications and manage workspaces of any OS or DE. I also love the general look and fluidity of the environment and how it gets out out of your way when you don't need it. But I preferred the pre-GNOME 40 vertical workflow to the new horizontal workflow.
There are also three must-have extensions that make GNOME usable for me:
- AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support. GNOME can wish away tray icons if they want to, but the tray hasn't gone away and is still necessary for some applications.
- DashToDock. Makes app switching more accessible and adds right-click to close.
- Gnome 4x UI Improvements. Increases the size of the workspace thumbnails so you can actually see what's in them (like it was before GNOME 40).
Interesting. Never heard of those before.
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[OC - 1620x1080] Northrop N-9M Flying Wing - Chino (California) Air Show 2005
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The Northrop N-9M was an approximately one-third scale, 60-foot (18 m) span all-wing aircraft used for the development of the full size, 172-foot (52 m) wingspan Northrop XB-35 and YB-35 flying wing long-range, heavy bomber. The XB-35 program was canceled in 1949, but the knowledge gained about all-wing aircraft was put to use decades later in the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bomber.
Sadly, this aircraft and its pilot were lost in a crash on 22 April 2019.
The Lewis and Clark Explorer was a tourist train that operated from Portland to Astoria, Oregon as part of the 200th anniversary celebration of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. The railroad parallels Lewis & Clark's route along the lower Columbia River to their winter camp near Astoria.
Immediately recognizable by the distinctive inverted gull wing, the F-4U Corsair was a carrier-based fighter which saw service in World War II and Korea. Photographed at the 2005 Chino Air Show, Chino California.
This photo seemed appropriate for July 4th. VC-25A 29000 seconds from touchdown at Portland International Airport.
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[OC - 1620x1080] Collings Foundation Nine-O-Nine, B-17G, Aurora Oregon Airport, June 2004
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Nine-O-Nine on the 2004 Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour. Sadly, this aircraft crashed in 2019 at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. The aircraft was destroyed and seven of the thirteen people on board were killed.
GE P42DC #155 leads the southbound Coast Starlight into Vancouver, WA. After a short stop in Vancouver, the train will cross the Columbia River into Oregon.
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[OC - 1620x1080] McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle, PDX, Portland Oregon, April 2005
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Registration 77-0091. A Portland Air National Guard F-15 on final approach to Portland International Airport.
Shot with my first digital camera in 2 megapixel glory. Built by the Lima Locomotive works in May, 1941 and designed to haul the Southern Pacific's famous Daylight passenger trains, 4449 is one of the most well-known operating steam locomotives in the US.
Here the locomotive is seen in the American Freedom Train paint scheme. It wore this livery from early 2002 until fall 2004, when it was repainted in Daylight colors.
Not a wide hood to be seen on this double-stack heading east out of Willbridge Yard.
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I'm a huge fan of the Laundry Files books. Just finished Season of Skulls, the 3rd book in The New Management trilogy. It's a little less bleak than the first two books of the trilogy and very funny.
I'm now reading War Bodies by Neal Asher.