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  • The talk about containers as housing made me think about how at least here in Sweden we use modular baracks that can quickly be assembled at job sites, they contain everything from offices, to showers, to kitchens, to toilets, to personal rooms and more.

    These have wooden walls, are insulated, can easily be put up with interior doors between the modules, you can stack them, some even have interior staircases.

    These are insanely common here, if you need to cheaply house people, using these modular units seems far better than using containers.

    I am sure there would be a market for redeveloping units into apartments.




  • stoy@lemmy.ziptolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•RIP Palm and Nokia
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    2 months ago

    Yeah and remember, that happened at the same time as as Steve Ballmer at Microsoft retired and Satya Nadella took over, he was against the deal, and two years later the new company was shutdown.

    From what I have read, the Nokia leadership needed a shake up when Elop was appointed CEO, I absolutely believe that a shake up was needed, but Elop was absolutely the wrong guy to deliver it.

    A dream phone of mine would be the Nokia N950, it was a devkit for the Nokia N9, I played around with Meego for a bit, and it was brilliant, with an added keyboard it would have been awesome.

    I have had plenty of mobile phones in my life:

    • Nokia 3330
    • Sony Ericsson K700i
    • Nokia 5110
    • Nokia 8210
    • Sony Ericsson K800i
    • Nokia 5800
    • Nokia E7
    • Nokia E72
    • Nokia Asha 300
    • Apple iPhone 5S
    • Apple iPhone 6S
    • Apple iPhone SE
    • Nokia 6.1
    • Apple iPhone 12 Mini
    • Apple iPhone 16e

    The one phone I keep thinking of and missing the most is the E7.

    Beautiful phone, brilliant keyboard, great quality, sightly too slippery.

    It was my first big boy phone, I bought mine with my first paycheck, I bought it at Siba on Kungsgatan in Stockholm.

    It got stolen less than a year later, probably pickpoketed on the train…















  • stoy@lemmy.zipOPtopics@lemmy.world•I took a flight today....
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    3 months ago

    Sadly I don’t believe that is possible.

    Everything about the airship makes it clear that it is a different concept than an airline.

    Take boarding for example:

    This is not done as an airplane.

    We were on the first tour of the day, and the boarding process was a bit unusual, the passengers are grouped into pairs, they are then allowed to board two at a time.

    This is done to allow the ground crew time to remove sacks of ballast from the ship as you are boarding.

    Then on landing the process was slightly different yet again.

    This time the ship exchanged passengers.

    It worked like this, first two new pax came aboard, then two of us got off, and so on.