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How to Remove the Virtual Cockpit in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 has the absolutely best visual flying experience I've ever seen. Younger me, who had to settle for a lot simpler graphics, would have had his little mind blown. But in what I consider one of the premier fumblings of product management, Microsoft and Asobo Studios turned Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 into Microsoft Dashboard Simulator 2020 by not making it possible to turn off the virtual cockpit. There is even a Home Cockpit mode they taunt us with that claims to do that but, alas, it doesn't work, never did, and likely never will.

2023-03-23More

Another Foggy City Morning

Early mornings and sunrises often result in spectacular atmospheric effects. This morning was no exception.

2023-03-21More

Snowfall

I think we got something like 30cm of snow in a day. It was, of course, chaos.

2023-03-21More

Dark Mode Google Maps

Google Maps doesn't support the prefers-color-scheme: dark media query, and therefore remain bright even when the rest of the website has gone dark. But you can get something close to a dark mode Google Maps with a little bit of JavaScript.

2023-02-28More

Ice Veils

A soft ice sheet that bunches up in the water.

2023-02-20More

More Winter Sunsets

Even more color.

2023-02-13More

Blindsight GPT

An entity that sounds human, can process language and talk to you - but has no consiousness and no idea what it's talking about? I've seen that before. A couple of years ago I read a book, Blindsight by Peter Watts, that described an encounter between humans and an alien that had intelligence but not consciousness. The alien was described as "a Chinese room"; while it gave syntactically correct replies to the messages the humans sent, it became obvious that it had no idea what it was talking about.

With ChatGPT, we now have that alien here on Earth, and I thought I'd see what it would make of some of the messages sent by the humans.

2023-02-11More

Winter Sunsets

Sometimes the sky just explodes with color.

2023-02-10More

For the Last Time

There was this melancholic statement that made the rounds on Swedish Twitter:

Have you thought about the fact that once upon a time you went out and played for the very last time?

A M A N D A (@kaptenamanda)

2023-02-04More

Husby Gård Christmas Lights

I particularly like the snowflake tree.

2023-01-26More

Winter Evening at Kungsholms Strandstig

A walk along the water through the new snow.

2023-01-05More

Grönlandsparken Christmas Lights

It's way too cold for the fountains to work, but with some light strips we can have winter fountains anyway.

2023-01-01More

Layali Dance Academy Student Show, Autumn 2022

Ending the year with a bang!

2022-12-21More

Christmas Lightbulbs

A line of lights. Shot with Nikon 35mm f/1.8 DX on FX, f/1.8 and 1/6s, handheld at ISO 100. Would not have been able to get this level of shadow detail and dynamic range with any other lens that I have.

2022-12-04More

Nikon 35mm f/1.8 DX on FX

Man tager vad man haver, you take what you've got, as Kajsa Warg said. I wanted something for my Nikon D600 that was wider than my 50mm, but not as wide as my 15mm, fast, but not heavy.

2022-11-21More

When It Rains It Pours

...and when it snows it pours, too.

2022-11-21More

The Door to Autumn

A walk from Husby Gård to Akalla.

2022-10-10More