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Vilken toppentid att få uppleva. /s

It reeks of information control. They can control the American narrative using films etc. as propaganda but if people have access to foreign media that will pollute the messaging.

It’s the same tactics that North Korea employs.

Then there’s the whole supporting the AFD. If he’s not a Nazi, why is he supporting Nazis?

Absolutely, but don't AppImage updaters basically just replace the AppImage? They're self-contained, no?

Some AppImages have that built in, like Ente.

Aye. My company has three offices, and people are allowed (and encouraged) to use those as necessary. People do enjoy the social aspect too, hell even I do, but I do best working from home. I've worked in offices previously and while I can manage it for a time, I eventually burn out. I don't exactly wish to burn out so for me to be a functioning member of society I genuinely need work from home.

Good. Return to office is evil and needs to be stopped.

Oh wow, she’s so pretty! The light in this photo really makes her eyes pop.

I get this, haha. I am really photosensitive so summers tend to be rough. Some nice blackout curtains is the way to go. There are ones that you can essentially velcro directly to the window. It involves a bit of work putting them on and taking them off all the time, but it is the most effective. I admit I'm too lazy to do that so I have double sets of blackout curtains and it does the job most of the time.

My (German) roomie had the same general attitude towards winters here when he first moved, but after a year or two he's now firmly in the "I'm going to retire somewhere far south" camp. I'm curious how you'll hold up!

Finding friends here is... well it depends a bit on where you are and what you do, I suppose. We are really into clubs and unions here, so if you find some sort of activity you enjoy doing (board game clubs, choirs, dancing, pottery classes, what have you) I'm sure you can make plenty of friends. One has to kind of put oneself out there and be open to it, then I think most people reciprocate in kind. Swedes have a bit of a rep for being cold and distant, but I think it has to do with our general mentality of not wanting to stick out and take up too much space. It makes us seem more distant than we actually are.

My hometown had a weekly developer meetup that advertised on meetup.com. My roomie found plenty of furries in the area via BARQ. I found a local board game club via facebook, and there will generally be fliers and information available at the local library. If the town you're going to has a Folkhögskola I'd recommend checking that out as well. They usually have smaller courses and classes that can be a lot of fun, and a great opportunity to meet people at, and in addition to that they often host events.

Then of course there'll be a notice board at the university that'll likely have lots of current events listed. The world is your oyster! :)

Yeah, det är vad SAOB säger också, norrlänska tydligen! :)

Yeah that tracks. He was walking my dough at the time.

Duolingo är ju lite speciellt i sättet man lär sig språk via den, så det finns ofta utrymme för misstag. Fast det är ju förstås också fullt möjligt att det finns fel i Duolingo. Verbet "to live smw." på svenska är "att bo någonstans."

• Bo, to reside
• Bor, residing
• Bodde, resided
• Bott, resided

Bodde is past tense (preteritum), and bott is supine (supinum).

• Jag bodde i Spanien i två år (I lived in Spain for two years)
• Jag har bott här sedan 2020 (I have lived here since 2020)

One way to think of it is preteritum is something in the past that has ended. Supinum is also in the past, but it might still be happening.

Och tack så mycket för din hjälp som allt min misstagen, jag tror det finns mer i detta text också

Ah, grammatical gender! Times past Swedish - like German - had masculine, feminine, and neutral words, but we merged masculine and feminine together, and so now we have utrum (en words) and neutrum (ett words). There's no strict rule you can follow to truly know whether a word is en or ett, but in general roughly a third of all nouns are en words. There are however rules for declension based on whether the word is en or ett, and it also affects your personal possessive pronoun.

Misstag is an ett word, so the definite singular for it is "misstaget" (the mistake). Because it's an ett word (ett misstag, a mistake) you need to use the possessive pronoun "mitt", thus "mitt misstag."

Similarly, because it's an et word, if you were to say "this mistake" you'd say "detta misstag."

Thus

• Mitt misstag (my mistake)
• Misstaget (the mistake)
• Detta misstag (this mistake)

Conversely, text is an en word, so...

• Min text (my text)
• Texten (the text)
• Denna text (this text)

Back when I was learning German, whenever we got der/das/die wrong my teacher would say "Oooh no! Now the German will pee their pants a little!" and the same applies to en/ett in Swedish. I mean, obviously it's an exaggeration, but it throws the flow off when you get it wrong.

Think "a apple" or "an pencil." It's wonky in the same way "en äpple" and "ett penna" is.

If you made it this far; I'm sorry for turning this into a Swedish lesson. I am really passionate about languages (my autism really shines through in linguistic discussions) and I enjoy thinking about these things. When this sort of thing happens I often learn new things myself, and that is always incredibly exciting to me.

I don't know if this comment will at all be helpful to you, but I hope that my ramblings at least don't end up making your day worse.