Cooling water intake temperatures were higher than the typical output temperatures, so one reactor was shut down and another ran at reduced power for something like two days. Fortunately, Sweden's power need in the summer is only half of the need in winter due to electric heating and most Swedish homes don't have AC. And even if they did it wouldn't use that much power since our houses are typically very well-insulated. We are now in the process of shutting down two reactors permanently within two years. We are lucky Norway has an abundance of hydro we can import. Otherwise it would get cold in the winter.

Swedish company Ericsson has all the gear they could ever want to buy when it comes to 5G or any other mobile communication infrastructure.

The Swedish word for straw literally translates to "suction pipe". Straw, as in from a plant, is a different word.

Norway doesn't have any poor people. Not in any true sense of the word.

In Sweden, we have something called "Swish". All transactions are done on your smart phone using the sellers mobile phone number. Both buyer and seller has configured which bank account the money gets transferred to and from. Only thing that gets shared is your phone number. The service is 100% free for both buyer and seller. This has replaced paypal and cash in almost all transactions (Sweden is estimated to be 97% cash free).

But the neighbour countries Norway and Sweden haven't used coal in decades. For electricity generation, Norway is basically 100% hydro and Sweden is 45% hydro, 40% nuclear and 15% wind, solar, woodburning and minor natgas. Pressure from Denmark forced Sweden to shut down their most southern nuclear plant, so a small natgas plant had to be built(2 TWh of the total 160 TWh generated). The natgas is bought from... Denmark.

Swedish video surveillance laws are extremely strict. I am not allowed to on my own property place a camera that monitors my lawn, because said lawn can be visited by the public. I can only, without a permit, monitor locked areas never available for the public. A shop owner is not allowed to put a camera that is only on when the shop is closed. In my home town, an unmanned gym that is open 24/7 has repeatedly been denied a permit and have opted to keep paying the fine for their cameras. Fines are incredibly low, about 10k USD, so they don't care.

Visible light is divided into frequencies. Blue is a set of frequencies that our brains simplify by telling us it's "blue". Having sensitivity for telling frequencies apart helps us distuingish objects. Example: red apple on green treetop. There is no need to understand exactly what "blue" looks like, just what it is and why it helps us.

Not where I live (Sweden). Here, a meal at McDonald's is 70 SEK. A nutritious meal of chicken fillet, rice and broccoli cooked at home is 20-30 SEK. No dollar menu available anywhere.

Svedish-Inglish is de vorst...

Yes. Mine uses about 1.6GB.

I would say at least FreeBSD is not a toy and is definitely in use. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Correct. I disabled the power down timeout. It stopped the on/off cycles, but didn't improve performance. I ended up buying regular 7200 rpm Seagate disks. Sold them after 4 years and replaced with my current Seagate NAS disks. They run 5 degrees cooler than my old disks with no noticable performance decrease. Highly worth the small price difference.

My 3x Seagate NAS 4TB drives sitting in my file server have power-on hours of about 19000 without any sign of problems. I will replace them at the 3 year running mark anyway, but mostly because I am running out of space. If you wanna talk about really horrible drives, look at first generation WD Green. I sold mine after 2 months because of extremely lacking performance and worrying mechanical noises. During the 20 years I have been using hard drives I have come to the conclusion that one should never buy the largest drives and not the first generation of new technology drives. Choose the safe middle-ground.

I, living in Sweden, pay VAT on all purchases. It doesn't matter if I buy locally, from a Swedish retailer online or from a German online retailer without any "presence" in Sweden. Consistency makes sense and I don't understand why it's even a topic for you in the US. Live in state X = pay sales tax demanded by X.