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Iâll Wait For You
To be last I am In this fortress of gold And my hearing Virtuous day With nine beams between The card I passed to brothers Who were in my way To stop war And lean entire To solemn wish For rain And motion blue A paw below Eating rain And licking up Beside me Fortunes of dew And all this warmth We live forever In Scandinavia And have a section for the Cathedral That espouses everyone And animals all day To burden against war And be properly protected And seen again Like heaven speaks Tomorrow
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I'm a few days late to the party, but I just heard about the new product announcements from Clicks â the company that makes physical keyboard cases for smartphones â and I haven't been this excited about mobile device announcements since the BlackBerry KEY2 (2018).
Watch the video and check the website for more details, but I'll give a quick summary of each product and my impressions.
This is a bluetooth keyboard that you can pair and use with any device that supports bluetooth keyboards. But what's unique about it and made me pre-order it is that it can attach to my iPhone 17 via MagSafe and I can use it as a slider keyboard in both portrait and landscape.
I had been seriously considering buying a Clicks keyboard case but I didn't hesitate to pre-order the Power Keyboard because of its versatility. I can easily attach it to my iPhone when I want to use it and remove it when I don't. And I can use it for other devices (tablets, Apple TV, etc.), as well.
As someone who loathes typing on glass, this was a no-brainer. Especially since it's cheaper than their keyboard cases!
If you are familiar with Michael Fisher (aka Mr. Mobile) and his content, you know how much of a Trekkie he is and there's no doubt he had something to do with the name of this phone. (And I'm pretty sure most of the folks behind Clicks are all Star Trek fans because they're nerds like me.)
A phone that looks like a BlackBerry that was made by BlackBerry fans and former employees! Finally!
The recognizable form factor and minimalist default launcher instantly hooked me, but what sealed the deal for me is when they announced it will have a SD card slot and a 3.5mm headphone jack! This is how I know Clicks means what they say about giving customers choices and being intentional about how they designed the Communicator, because I believe the real reason both of those features have been removed from mainstream smartphones is to make more money by forcing people to pay for more internal storage and buy wireless earbuds or headphones whose batteries eventually fail, requiring them to buy regular replacements.
I haven't pre-ordered the Communicator yet, but I am very seriously considering it. Given the current state of tech (and everything in general), prices are only going up. So I think the regular price of $499 USD for the Communicator is a steal in a world where $1K+ smartphones are becoming the norm. But the pre-order price of $399 USD is almost too good to pass up.
The only reason I hesitate is that, as part of my personal efforts to reorganize, consolidate, and be more intentional about the tech I use, I am in the market for a new laptop â likely a new MacBook, but I am not 100% settled on that yet.
I also am trying to figure out the best arrangement for my smartphone use. Right now I am using my iPhone mostly for work, church, travel, and iMessage and FaceTime. I am using my Unihertz Jelly 2E as a secondary personal device, mostly for listening to podcasts and music right now, but also for some communication and light app use.
I'm not sure if I need the Communicator if I have the Power Keyboard for my iPhone.
But, without question, I want the Communicator! And if money were no object, I'd pre-order one now. I just need to decide what my my focus and priorities are and whether what I currently have in the way of mobile phones is sufficient, so I'll wait a bit and think about it before pre-ordering one.
I'm pleased to hear about any tech company trying to make products that bring back intentionality and choice to the devices people use every day. Sometimes, less is more. Tried and true designs and features don't need to be forced into obsolescence.
It seems like Clicks is on the right track â their keyboard cases have clearly appealed to enough people that they are in a position to take their offerings to the next level.
I wish them success and am excited to get my hands on the Power Keyboard for sure and, perhaps, the Communicator, too!
#100DaysToOffload (No. 124) #tech #smartphones
I donât earn anything from my writings and thatâs okay. Writing as a career never interested me. Donât like the deadlines and constant editing. Iâll write whenever and wherever.
When self-publishing flourished and despite publishing two short stories on a two-series horror book anthology for fun, I still didnât want to write for a living. While I do have some book ideas publishing isnât a priority right now. But for many writers, I sympathize with your anger, fear, and disappointments.
You want to earn a decent living writing what you love and people reading your content. Second, you also want to leave some sort of legacy. Finally, you want to tell people what many writers have failed to do: âI wrote and published a book.â But like everyone canât be a doctor, engineer, or God forbid, a lawyer, not everyone can be a successfully published writer.
However, continue on writing. Get those experiences, ideas, and thoughts on paper or post them online. Maybe no one else will read them or refuse to give you money when they do. But at least try. Who knows. At least youâre recording them somewhere and itâs not forever lost in your mind as you get older.
#writing #living
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Greenland and The Kingdom of Denmark
To the extended Hand of England Planted Crosses in the blue Of belugas shouting high in stream To be the River David Upon this dance of April rise Was a verdant kind of shore To leap in pride and cease in prayer An honour to the elders May is tide and fusing rain A Neutron Dove for Nice May no more hate but burn the risk Of tropics under oath May men in peril understand A victim of the Cross To newfound law and spinning fate A poor manâs ruin in tome Spirited thinking and across the aisle Greenland is one country Fomented order sailing ships And docks of Greenland Crosses To South and May will win the steppe From far away and first The Holy Year for Greenland June A visit from the Irish In Ulster Rob whose son is near The famed new border airport Sublime and real And made for Mette A play on silent prayer The mode of action in Greenlandâs Cross The highest land of Eden And to sullen discharge, A rifleâs poem That Greenland is a home
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I'm not an oracle, and it's usually easier to solve other people's problems than my own⊠or at least seem to. Even still, when others ask me for advice, I try to help them consider what they can do to improve the situation. I take this approach even when the advisee is the recipient of someone else's bad behavior. If someone is being mistreated by their boss, for example, I might suggest that they quit, talk to HR, or ask for an internal transfer.
If the person seeking advice isn't feeling very receptive, the pushback might not take long. âThey're the jerk. Why don't you tell them to be different!?â
If I can, of course, I will try to. At the same time, bad peopleâthe truly awful, cruel, uncaring people of the worldâthey usually don't take advice. They don't care what I have to say. If they were so reasonable, they probably wouldn't be causing this problem in the first place.
To that point, I try to remind the listener, âyou're the only person you can control.â
It's not fair, but remembering that may be the only strategy that has any chance of succeeding. Jerks are everywhere, and if your happiness depends on them being better, you're probably not going to be very happy.
None of this is to excuse the importance of listening to others and trying to understand their pain without trying to fix anything. I could always do a better job of that.
If you do want something to change, focus on what you can do differently. It may be the only viable solution, because you're the only person you can control.
#Life
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Zéro Janvier

 Auto-Uchronia ou Fugue en zut mineur est un livre de de Francis Berthelot publiĂ© en 2023 chez Dystopia Workshop, qui avait dĂ©jĂ co-Ă©ditĂ© avec Le BĂ©lialâ lâintĂ©grale en 3 volumes de son cycle romanesque Le RĂȘve du DĂ©miurge, qui a occupĂ© avec plaisir toutes mes vacances de fin dâannĂ©e.
Francis Berthelot aime transgresser les limites littĂ©raires et jouer avec les frontiĂšres entre les genres, il lâa dâailleurs thĂ©orisĂ© sous le terme de transfictions. Il nâest donc pas Ă©tonnant de se retrouver face Ă livre un peu inclassable, au point que la couverture est affublĂ©e dâune mention Non-Fiction ? dont le point dâinterrogation ne permet pas de lever le mystĂšre.
Ce qui pourrait peut-ĂȘtre rĂ©sumer le genre de ce livre, ce serait quelque chose comme une autobiographie semi-fictive. Francis Berthelot en dĂ©voile le principe dans lâavertissement prĂ©alable :
NĂ© en 1946, rĂ©primĂ© par une sociĂ©tĂ© homophobe, piĂ©gĂ© dans des Ă©tudes scientifiques, polytechnicien, docteur en biochimie, Francis Berthelot nâa eu de cesse de briser ce multiple carcan. Ă soixante-quinze ans, il dĂ©cide dâappliquer Ă se jeunesse le principe de lâuchronie : changer un Ă©vĂ©nement du passĂ© pour Ă©crire une Histoire diffĂ©rente. Au lieu de refuser lâoffre que lui fit un inconnu en avril 1965, il imagine ce quâaurait Ă©tĂ© sa vie sâil lâavait acceptĂ©e. DâoĂč cette Auto-Uchronia en deux parties : la premiĂšre allant de sa naissance Ă la veille du jour fatal, rĂ©cit authentique semĂ© de vrais fantasmes ; la deuxiĂšme allant du printemps Ă lâautomne 1965, pur mensonge taquinant avec la vĂ©ritĂ©.
La premiĂšre partie raconte ainsi lâenfance et lâadolescence du jeune Francis Berthelot, entre un pĂšre physicien de renom, une mĂšre institutrice, un frĂšre aĂźnĂ© qui suit de brillantes Ă©tudes. Francis suit la voie royale tracĂ©e par ses parents, choisit des Ă©tudes scientifiques devant menĂ©es aux Grandes Ăcoles alors quâil se passionne pour la littĂ©rature et rĂȘve dâĂȘtre Ă©crivain. En parallĂšle, il vit ses premiers Ă©mois et dĂ©couvre son attirance pour les garçons.
La seconde partie imagine le moment oĂč la vie de lâauteur aurait pu diverger, sâil avait fait un choix diffĂ©rent au printemps 1965. Dans cette version fictive, alors quâil est en train de craquer sous la pression de ses parents et des classes prĂ©paratoires, il accepte lâaide dâun garçon rencontrĂ© par hasard dont il devient amant. Il abandonne ses Ă©tudes et sa famille et devient lâassistant de ce garçon, propriĂ©taire et gĂ©rant dâune librairie de quartier.
Ă travers cette autobiographie uchronique, Francis Berthelot dresse en quelque sorte la liste de ses regrets. Dâabord, celui dâavoir suivi des Ă©tudes scientifiques puis une carriĂšre comme chercheur en biologie, et dâavoir attendu plusieurs dĂ©cennies pour revenir Ă ses premiĂšres amours, la littĂ©rature et lâĂ©criture. Ensuite, sans doute, celui de nâavoir pas acceptĂ© et vĂ©cu au grand jour plus tĂŽt son homosexualitĂ©.
Câest peu dire que je me suis reconnu dans ce parcours de vie. Au moins en partie, mĂȘme si la jeunesse de Francis Berthelot sâest dĂ©roulĂ©e plus de trente ans avant la mienne et que je nâai Ă©videmment pas traversĂ© les mĂȘmes Ă©vĂ©nements, ni de la mĂȘme façon. Cela explique pourquoi ce texte mâa tant Ă©mu, au-delĂ de ses qualitĂ©s littĂ©raires intrinsĂšques, qui suffiraient dĂ©jĂ Ă en faire un grand livre.
Bref, lisez Francis Berthelot, câest toujours aussi bon !
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Kwantlen students fund the Kwantlen Student Association with the expectation that when their money is spent, it produces something concrete: better services, stronger advocacy, or at the very least, clear outcomes we can evaluate.
That expectation matters when tens of thousands of dollars are spent on travel.
In late 2025, the KSA approved up to $35,000 in student funds for travel tied to external meetings in Toronto and Montreal. The respective delegations were:
Toronto (Canadian Federation of Students National General Meeting):
Montreal (and Toronto external meetings following the conference):
That money covered flights, hotels, meals, and conference costs. Travel isnât free, and no one is pretending advocating for student rights on a federal level and building relationships with other student organizations isnât important⊠but once you cross into five-figure spending, the burden of proof shifts. Students are entitled to ask a simple question:
So far, the public answer has been underwhelming.
When council later discussed the Montreal visit, including meetings at UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al, the description boiled down to visiting offices, asking about services, and âhaving a chat.â When asked who exactly was met with, the response was vague enough to raise eyebrows. No clear organization. No named contacts. No documented takeaways that students can point to and say, this was meaningful.
Thatâs not a report. Thatâs a lazy travel recap.
If KSA representatives are travelling across the country on student money, meaningful post-trip reporting should be automatic, not optional. At minimum, students should see:
Without that, âexternal advocacyâ becomes impossible to distinguish from networking tourism.
The scale of the spending makes the lack of detail worse. $35,000 is not pocket change. That money could fund multiple clubs, campus events, emergency bursaries, or mental-health programming. When itâs instead used to âvisit offices and chat,â students deserve to know why that was the best use of their fees, and what came out of it.
To clarify the claims made during council discussions, we have reached out to relevant organizations, including student bodies at UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al and its student association FAECUM (FAĂCUM) and the Canadian Federation of Students, to corroborate what meetings took place and what they involved. That kind of verification shouldnât be necessary. The KSA itself should be providing that clarity proactively.
We must demand better standards from our representatives and executives at the Kwantlen Student Association.
Student representation isnât measured by how far you travel or how many conferences you attend. Itâs measured by what you bring back: in writing, in outcomes, and in changes students can actually feel.
Right now, the disconnect between the money spent and the substance reported is too wide to ignore. And until that gap is closed, KPU students are left asking a fair question:
Are our student fees funding advocacy, or just vacations?
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Could You Affect This Purpose
In a new and flowing current I was alone in Sunny Ways For fortunes of unwild In a place of grown rehearse Death made a long statement Which was due and utter mean A place for her in a corner Her name was Alibi
And the Brothers Grimm were seated With a tale for the wise That to speak to all four corners You would win the wooden prize
But unlocking to this paste And a wonderful barren new How I understood the quiet I was saving it for you
And in these hundred years A species made for Poe The forbidden world of isolation And a bobsled for my toe The insane and utter courage My stupidity versus will A chrysanthemum leaping softly That genes would solemn bill
Newer haves of radiation There were carrots and were mine To chaplainâs Cross and trip to Wales We accept just where we dine
In half a column in empty Lear The places fly at night This coloured chart of fakened history It was swollen and it would bite
New Yearâs Day from Roanoke There was mercy on the whale A prion prize for open doors And my duty was unshale
First to be seen And newlyweds forgotten Sinking to Summer Past In a place called Carousel All films in by nine There was history great at lens And the thirteenth wall between A cousin of a country
For new ways to rule the land In a place called America We steeped our own solid red hand A review for the sons of man
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Ensuing Winter
A nation born Higher than time Three peers for an omen And dusting off the individual It is a scientific sign That air war is a worry And the Gospel is good at speaking Listen to life itself And this spiral is yours But I do know a song of Winter When yours is to marry The special view- A place of the sonic And this millholder of one a million A prize this year that isnât peace But rather a fortune for the dollar Kin and country- Weâre never so immune to piracy And the one mule in the world Was afraid of backgammon And Taylor made history
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Amazon vient de déployer officiellement son programme d'accÚs anticipé pour Alexa Plus. Si certains utilisateurs chanceux avaient déjà vu apparaßtre des indices de cette nouvelle mouture, la porte est désormais ouverte à tous. Il suffit de se rendre sur le site pour découvrir la toute nouvelle interface web du chatbot. Ce dernier n'est plus seulement une voix désincarnée dans votre salon, mais devient une entité visuelle et textuelle accessible directement depuis votre navigateur.
Jusqu'Ă prĂ©sent, Alexa Plus Ă©tait confinĂ© aux nouvelles enceintes Echo et, plus rĂ©cemment, via une mise Ă jour sur les modĂšles plus anciens. Il faut malgrĂ© tout se rendre Ă l'Ă©vidence, certaines tĂąches sont tout simplement pĂ©nibles Ă rĂ©aliser uniquement par la voix. Dicter une liste de courses rapide fonctionne Ă merveille, mais organiser une semaine entiĂšre ou gĂ©rer des tĂąches administratives nĂ©cessite souvent la prĂ©cision d'un clavier et d'une souris. Avec cette nouvelle interface web, le gĂ©ant du e-commerce reconnaĂźt que pour ĂȘtre vĂ©ritablement productif, nous avons besoin de nous asseoir devant notre ordinateur portable. Que ce soit pour rĂ©organiser en profondeur votre liste de tĂąches ou pour effectuer une rĂ©servation dans ce nouveau restaurant dont tout le monde parle, l'expĂ©rience promet d'ĂȘtre beaucoup plus fluide et moins frustrante que de rĂ©pĂ©ter trois fois la mĂȘme commande Ă une enceinte connectĂ©e.

La vĂ©ritable nouveautĂ© de cette version web rĂ©side sans doute dans sa capacitĂ© multimodale. Alexa Plus ne se contente plus d'Ă©couter, elle peut dĂ©sormais âlireâ et analyser. L'interface permet de tĂ©lĂ©charger des documents, des courriels et mĂȘme des images pour que l'intelligence artificielle en extraie les informations pertinentes. Les possibilitĂ©s d'application au quotidien sont vastes et prometteuses. Imaginez pouvoir transformer une photo de recette de cuisine directement en liste de courses structurĂ©e, ou tĂ©lĂ©charger une facture vĂ©tĂ©rinaire pour qu'Alexa crĂ©e automatiquement un dossier de suivi des vaccinations. De mĂȘme, une simple photo dâun calendrier peut suffire pour que toutes les dates soient ajoutĂ©es automatiquement Ă votre agenda personnel. C'est ici que l'assistant virtuel prend tout son sens, en agissant comme un vĂ©ritable secrĂ©taire personnel capable de traiter de la paperasse numĂ©rique.
Naturellement, Amazon profite de cette avancĂ©e pour renforcer l'intĂ©gration avec son propre Ă©cosystĂšme commercial. L'entreprise met en avant des fonctionnalitĂ©s capables de gĂ©nĂ©rer des plans de repas complets et de remplir automatiquement votre panier Amazon Fresh. L'IA promet mĂȘme de respecter scrupuleusement vos restrictions alimentaires. ParallĂšlement, l'interface web place les commandes de votre maison intelligente (lumiĂšres, serrures, camĂ©ras de surveillance) directement Ă cĂŽtĂ© de votre fenĂȘtre de discussion. C'est une approche centralisĂ©e qui semble, pour l'instant, plus aboutie que celle de Google Gemini, dont les fonctionnalitĂ©s domotiques manquent encore parfois de fiabilitĂ© selon plusieurs retours d'expĂ©rience.
Il convient pourtant de rester prudent. Les premiers tests avec Alexa Plus ont rĂ©vĂ©lĂ© une expĂ©rience encore un peu chaotique. Bien qu'il soit encourageant de voir Amazon investir massivement dans son assistant IA, la confiance aveugle n'est pas encore de mise. Il est fortement recommandĂ© de vĂ©rifier le travail de l'assistant avant de valider une commande, surtout si vous avez des exigences strictes. Vous ne voudriez pas dĂ©couvrir que votre panier censĂ© ĂȘtre purement vĂ©gĂ©talien contient des produits inadaptĂ©s Ă cause d'une hallucination de la technologie.
Enfin, Alexa Plus s'enrichit de fonctionnalitĂ©s de divertissement destinĂ©es Ă rĂ©duire le temps passĂ© Ă faire dĂ©filer le catalogue de Prime Video sans but prĂ©cis. Si l'idĂ©e de recevoir des suggestions ciblĂ©es envoyĂ©es directement sur votre Fire TV est sĂ©duisante, elle soulĂšve aussi une question sur nos habitudes de consommation. Se laisser guider passivement par un algorithme est prĂ©cisĂ©ment le genre de comportement dont beaucoup essaient de se dĂ©tacher. Pour accompagner ces changements, la marque lance Ă©galement une barre latĂ©rale pour garder vos fonctionnalitĂ©s prĂ©fĂ©rĂ©es Ă portĂ©e de clic sans changer de fenĂȘtre, ainsi qu'une application mobile entiĂšrement repensĂ©e, confirmant sa volontĂ© d'ĂȘtre omniprĂ©sent dans votre vie numĂ©rique.
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Dan Kaufman
So, did you see the news over the weekend?
Trump actually pulled the trigger on capturing NicolĂĄs Maduro and his wife in a middle-of-the-night extraction.
Honestly, the first thing that hits you is just how wild the mission was. Pulling something like that off with zero American casualties is a massive win for the Special Forces involved. You have to give credit where itâs dueâthat is some high-level execution.
But man, Iâm feeling pretty torn about the whole thing.
On one side, Maduro isnât exactly a guy you root for. Heâs a classic autocrat whoâs been tied to the international drug trade while his country crumbled. Millions of people have fled Venezuela as refugees, and the oil industryâwhich should be the country's backboneâis running at maybe 25% capacity because of total mismanagement and the fact that Maduro was a global pariah. Seeing him gone could potentially unlock a better life for millions of people and stabilize the whole region.
On the other hand... whatâs the actual plan now?
This was a totally unilateral move. No Congressional approval, no heads-up. It feels like weâre entering this âlaw of the jungleâ era where superpowers can just snatch foreign leaders whenever they want. It sets a âmight makes rightâ precedent that could really bite usâor the rest of the worldâdown the road.
Itâs also a bit ironic. Trump originally got elected (in part) because people were tired of us playing âworld policeâ in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, here we are, potentially diving back into the nation-building game in Venezuela. Don't get me wrongâIâm not a total pacifist. If thereâs a bad actor hurting Americans and their own people, sometimes doing something is better than doing nothing, especially if they were given plenty of âoff-rampsâ and ignored them. I still like to think America is a force for good in the world.
But in life (and in business), the âgood ideaâ is only about 10% of the battle. The other 90% is the follow-through. I always joke that Iâll have a âgood ideaâ and then spend the next five years of my life actually trying to make it work. You can't run a country from a boardroom thousands of miles away.
The real question is: Are we actually going to stick around for the next 5 to 10 years to make sure life on the ground actually gets better for Venezuelans? Or are we just going to leave a power vacuum?
I have a feeling Trump will be long gone by the time we actually know if this worked, while millions of people will be left living with the consequences. Time will tell, I guess.
from digital ash
A few days ago I informed my friends on Instagram and Facebook that I would be leaving the social media platforms for greener pastures. The constant harvesting of our data and low-quality, scroll-inducing brain junkfood has made remaining on these platforms untenable. So instead of mindlessly scrolling I thought I would try once again to contribute.
Since starting my role at SURF as a technical advisor I have been made acutely aware of the current digital domination of American tech companies (more commonly referred to as Big Tech). I still believe we can turn the tide and I will continue to work on this daily as part of my job, but I also want to contribute outside of that.
One of the most beautiful rights we have as humans is the right to choose, but without information we are sure to choose the wrong things. Through this blog I hope to share my adventures in digital sovereignty, both professional and personal, and show people that we can tip the scales if we make the right choices.
So if you are interested in joining me or feel like sharing something yourself, let me know. I hope to be making my first real post this week.
For the music nerds: The title of this blog and the first post are homages to my favourite band Bright Eyes
#introduction #digitalsovereignty
from An Open Letter
I made a steak quesadilla with E today for about two hours, and they turned out so beyond good. Absolutely to die for. She also then gave me a full spa treatment, and I felt so incredibly pampered and relaxed. Life is good.
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To make things easier for me, I'll do the logbook for WeeklyBeats 2026 here and not on my main blog where posting just takes much more dedicated time.
Week one starts of on familiar territory, a chill dubtechno bop leaning slightly towards classic dub with that slightly cliché bassline in the middle.
I had the idea for that random blippy delay processing for the stab in the morning. Nothing ground breaking, has been done before, but I think it creates a very nice cushion for the rest of the track to sit on. As always, the processing chains for these dub techno stabs can get a bit extreme and I am grateful to live in a time where it's actually not a problem to drop three long reverbs on three separate chains and still have CPU headroom.
I'm quite fond of the drum break that is inserted every now and then â I'm getting much better at drum processing to get from a very dry drum kit (In this case: Klevgrand's One Shot) to something that actually sounds like an old recording. Drowning everything in delay and reverb helps, of course.
The drums themselves are very subdued by design, I didn't want to spend time on them this time and I think they âjust workâ.
I was wondering if maybe I've overdone the compression on the main stab a bit, but I do like the resulting sound aesthetics too much to not try it.
I'm not super happy with the sparse lead melody and the reason is that I had a completely different melody in mind, that sounded totally fine in my head but as soon as I had programmed it, it sounded super off and was conflicting harmony wise with the stab in ways even I wasn't comfortable with.
You can find the track here.
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Si vous suivez l'actualité des technologies d'affichage, vous savez que les moniteurs OLED ont longtemps souffert d'un paradoxe frustrant. D'un cÎté, ils offrent une qualité d'image époustouflante pour le jeu vidéo, avec des noirs parfaits et des temps de réponse instantanés. De l'autre, ils ont souvent été médiocres pour afficher du texte proprement, une tùche pourtant simple. Cette année, tout est sur le point de changer grùce à une évolution technique orchestrée par LG et Samsung Display, les deux grands acteurs de l'industrie.
Le problĂšme rĂ©sidait jusqu'Ă prĂ©sent dans la structure mĂȘme des pixels. Rappelez-vous l'Ă©poque oĂč l'on s'inquiĂ©tait des affichages âPentileâ ? La disposition des sous-pixels (les minuscules points rouge, vert et bleu qui composent le pixel) Ă©tait souvent triangulaire ou atypique sur les dalles OLED. Cela perturbait les moteurs de rendu de polices comme ClearType de Windows, crĂ©ant des franges colorĂ©es et un texte flou, fatiguant pour les yeux lors de la lecture ou du codage. La grande nouvelle de 2026 est le retour en force de la structure âRGB Stripeâ verticale classique.
Les nouvelles dalles intÚgrent enfin ces sous-pixels dans cet alignement, promettant une netteté de texte comparable aux écrans LCD traditionnels, mais avec tous les avantages de l'OLED. Vous pouvez déjà observer cette transition chez des fabricants comme Asus et MSI, qui mettent en avant cette technologie sur leurs nouveaux modÚles phares. Asus la déploie sur ses ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM et PG34WCDN, tandis que MSI l'intÚgre dans ses gammes MEG X et MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36.
Samsung Display a pris les devants en annonçant la production de masse de ce qu'ils appellent la structure de pixels âV-Stripeâ. Bien que le nom puisse prĂȘter Ă confusion, le âVâ ne dĂ©signe pas une forme gĂ©omĂ©trique, mais bien l'orientation verticale des sous-pixels. Cette technologie est au cĆur de leur nouvelle dalle QD-OLED de 34 pouces avec un taux de rafraĂźchissement impressionnant de 360 Hz. La marque corĂ©enne affirme que cette structure amĂ©liore considĂ©rablement la clartĂ© des bords du texte, rendant enfin ces Ă©crans ultrawides idĂ©aux pour les crĂ©ateurs de contenu, les codeurs et quiconque travaille sur des documents textuels. Ces panneaux sont d'ailleurs livrĂ©s Ă des partenaires comme Asus, MSI et Gigabyte depuis dĂ©cembre 2025.
De son cÎté, LG Display ne reste pas les bras croisés et a profité du CES de Las Vegas pour dévoiler une premiÚre mondiale avec une dalle OLED 4K de 27 pouces à 240 Hz utilisant également une structure RGB Stripe. C'est un changement notable pour la marque, historiquement connu pour sa technologie WOLED qui ajoutait un sous-pixel blanc pour la luminosité, ou utilisait des motifs triangulaires. En adoptant l'alignement vertical RGB, elle optimise spécifiquement ses écrans pour les systÚmes d'exploitation comme Windows, garantissant une lisibilité excellente tout en conservant des performances optimales pour les jeux de tir à la premiÚre personne.
La clartĂ© n'est pas le seul champ de bataille. La luminositĂ© reste le nerf de la guerre. Alors que Samsung mise sur les points quantiques (Quantum Dots) pour booster l'Ă©clat de ses dalles, LG Display contre-attaque avec sa technologie âPrimary RGB Tandem 2.0â. Il s'agit d'une mĂ©thode sophistiquĂ©e qui empile plusieurs couches indĂ©pendantes de rouge, vert et bleu pour gĂ©nĂ©rer de la lumiĂšre. Cette architecture en tandem permet d'atteindre des pics de luminositĂ© spectaculaires, comblant ainsi l'une des rares faiblesses de l'OLED face aux Ă©crans Mini-LED.
Pour les joueurs, les promesses sont allĂ©chantes. LG annonce que le Primary RGB Tandem 2.0 permettra aux moniteurs d'atteindre un pic de luminositĂ© de 1 500 nits, et jusqu'Ă 4 500 nits pour les tĂ©lĂ©viseurs Ă©quipĂ©s de la mĂȘme technologie. Asus a d'ailleurs indiquĂ© que son modĂšle PG27UCWM bĂ©nĂ©ficierait Ă la fois de la structure RGB Stripe et de la technologie Tandem OLED, offrant ainsi le meilleur des deux mondes: une prĂ©cision chirurgicale pour le texte et une luminositĂ© Ă©blouissante pour le HDR. AprĂšs avoir Ă©tĂ© impressionnĂ©s par la premiĂšre version de cette technologie sur le tĂ©lĂ©viseur LG G5, l'arrivĂ©e de la version 2.0 sur les bureaux des gamers s'annonce comme l'Ă©volution la plus excitante de l'annĂ©e.
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Selbstgesteuertes Lernen gilt als SchlĂŒssel zur Innovation â doch wer einfach âmehrâ lernt, lernt nicht zwingend besser. Neue Forschung zeigt: Entscheidend ist nicht die Menge, sondern die Abfolge der LernaktivitĂ€ten. Wer eigenstĂ€ndig lernt, sollte zwischen explorativen Phasen (z.âŻB. durch Lesen, Ausprobieren oder Perspektivenwechsel) und reflexiven Phasen (z.âŻB. durch Nachdenken, Einordnen, Priorisieren) klar unterscheiden. Erst diese Trennung schafft Raum fĂŒr Klarheit, reduziert kognitive Ăberforderung und erhöht die Wirksamkeit des Lernens.
Konkret bedeutet das: Lerneinheiten sollten nicht zu viele Funktionen auf einmal erfĂŒllen. Wer brainstormt, sollte nicht gleichzeitig planen. Wer reflektiert, sollte nicht gleichzeitig neue Inputs suchen. Der Wechsel zwischen diesen Lernformen braucht ein bewusstes Zeitdesign â vergleichbar mit Atemrhythmen oder musikalischen Spannungsbögen. Erst durch den Wechsel von Spannung und Entspannung, von Informationsaufnahme und Integration entsteht nachhaltiges Lernen.
FĂŒr das individuelle Lernen heisst das: Plane bewusste Lern-Zyklen. Widme eine Phase ganz der offenen Erkundung â ohne Bewertung. Folge darauf mit Phasen der gezielten Strukturierung, Reflexion und Konsolidierung. Und nimm Dir schliesslich Zeit fĂŒr bewusste Auswertung und Auswahl. Diese rhythmische Gliederung macht Lernen nicht nur effektiver, sondern auch nachhaltiger â ganz gleich, ob Du an einer neuen Idee arbeitest, ein komplexes Thema durchdringen willst oder eigene Denkprozesse verbessern möchtest.
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