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I started to go down that path, but then I heard that there were problems with data corruption

I learned a bit of Esperanto, many years ago. It's crazy how easy it is to progress in that language, compared to natural languages.

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.