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I've been learning Portuguese (Brazilian) off and on for a while. I'm mostly okay-ish at reading it, but it's nearly impossible for me to understand it when spoken.

This might be a weird question, but: Did you have a particular reason to learn Swedish or Norwegian, or is it just for fun?

I've been interested in learning Swedish or Danish, but I haven't been able to find a practical reason to. I hear that almost all of them speak English pretty well, and will prefer speaking English with you if you visit their country. (The curse of being a native English speaker who likes languages.)

I would have had easy access to a native Danish speaker, but sadly, my Mormor ("mother's mother") passed away just last night. Her English was perfect as she lived in the US for >70 years, but her beautiful accent is what originally sparked my interest in Scandinavian languages.

Have you ever considered not being like this?

Yep, that's the main problem: I live alone, and only drink 1-2 cups a day.

I could try practicing with like soapy water or something (I think I've seen that in a YouTube video at some point), but honestly, I'm just not motivated enough for that kind of effort. For me, my coffee looks pretty enough with my "abstract art" 😅

Not professionally, but I got way into learning about coffee during the pandemic. I now have an awesome espresso machine.

I'm horrible at latte art though

This is definitely one of my favorite dog behaviors 😆

Huh, yeah that is kinda weird. 🤔 If most cops and politicians are trying to kill most people, then there should be a lot of self-defense pleas flooding the courts...

I'm just an internet comment though, not a lawyer or whatever

I made a custom Linux image to run inside a web browser. No particular distro, just a Linux kernel (compiled with a custom configuration to produce a tiny binary), a shell, and a few small apps.

When reading from the filesystem, it made HTTP requests for each file (+ browser caching), so no need to load a disk image all at once. IIRC, I got the cold boot time down to <1 second (after assets were already cached from a previous load though).

I also got NixOS to run in the browser, but even after stripping out as much as possible, it was still really slow due to systemd. (I'm not a systemd hater, resources are just very limited when running this way.)

I used an x86 emulator called v86. It's a very cool project 🙂

You guys are really making me consider GrapheneOS.

Did you find a Google Drive alternative? I'm strongly considering Peergos, but still kinda shopping around.

Ohhhh thank you for clearing some of this up! I'm still kinda new to this.

That's wild how many people seem to fit all 3 dimensions — and so strongly that they're seemingly offended by some light criticism of any EV? Am I reading the situation right? (Edit: er, maybe it offended people that fit in one or two of those groups... Unions vs. intersections)

Hot take (apparently): Some vehicles — including but not limited to EVs — are ugly. I stand by that.

The old USPS delivery vehicle wasn't pretty either, but somehow I think nobody would be offended by that.

I swear social media people make me feel like an alien sometimes lol

I'm judging only the vehicle's appearances, not the entire vehicle.

Here's an exhaustive list of things I know about this vehicle.

1. It's ugly.

I assume it's a huge upgrade over the Grumman LLV. For all I know, it could be the best vehicle in the world for that purpose, with the best drivetrain and battery tech available, and a huge cargo area to handle the present day's e-commerce workload.

It's just ugly, that's all.

... that you are qualified enough as an "armchair influencer" to train the vehicle's designer in the new career that you said they ought to seek.

This is the confusing part for me. Where did I say that they should seek a career in being an influencer, or that I'm one? I'm not even remotely qualified in that field, and would never claim to be.