I'm surprised to hear this. Fortunately it doesn't look like the source code itself got taken over [1], and of course F-Droid, which is always the best place to get any open source Android application, still has the same version as the latest Github release. [2]
These applications are blessedly feature complete, and I haven't noticed any issues being "stuck" on the F-Droid versions.
Just to add my own two cents: Cobi produces exclusively in the EU and with superior quality than Lego, albeit focused mostly on adult market with military stuff.
There is Mould King, Cada, Bluebrixx which also have more decent sets but you need to do your own research and specific sets. Newer sets are generally higher quality than older ones as Lego competition as drastically improved in recent years.
Iirc there are some that are literal direct ripoffs (exact same sets with a ELGO or some obvious ripoff brand) that appeared at a time, and were pretty obviously run off of a Chinese Lego line (I believe Lego got them shut down by winning a copyright case in China).
The quality of off-brand is way up in the last 20 years but it’s still not the same; they run the molds way too long.
Interesting, that one does sound more similar to "Skogsrået"[1]. With the possible exception that Skogsrået was very beautiful, as long as you didn't see her from behind. Apparently there were many different creatures watching over the forest in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe.
The creatures are still there, it is only that we have closed our eyes, ears, hearts and minds to them. And so we destroy their homes because we no longer hear, see, love or understand them.
Here in Sweden it's quite common for newborns to start out as blond and blue eyed only for it to change later. Hair color can take up to four years to darken. Eye color is usually stable within one year, perhaps two.
It is so common that the Swedish phrase for "naive" is "blue eyed".
In France, "têtes blondes" (meaning "blonde heads") means children in general, because most children are born with blonde hair, even though they turn dark later on for most of them. Although this is about hair, eye colour is very much correlated with this.
I'm pretty sure that's only the case for people of European descent though, bar probably a few exceptions.
Children of African descent do sometimes, perhaps often, have blue eyes when very young. A remember a co-worker teased about her child's "contacts". (Let me be clear: teased by other women of color.)
In Germany there's a common folk wisdom that "all babies are born blue-eyed". Of course, as the article points out, the exception is when they're born brown-eyed.
Eastern European here. I was blonde as a toddler and over time my hair turned brown. Eyes on the other hand were deep dark brown in childhood but washed out to a much lighter shade of brown after adolescence.
Same in England, granted there's probably shared genetics in there somewhere. I was bleached blond and had bright blue eyes. Both are now about as dark a brown as you could get.
Not Swedish, but blue-eyed, like my father and maternal grandfather, and I was blonde (like my father, and maternal grandfather) until early puberty, when my hair turned brown and wavy. My mother's hair was jet black.
So it can be more than four years, in my case it started when I was eleven years old.
My parents preserved some of my baby hair in a matchbox. Apparently I was blond like a Lannister at the beginning, even blonder maybe. I still have the blue eyes but I will be considered blond only in the Middle East. Most of the darkening happened before I start school but definitely continued until adulthood.
An easy modified Desktop Environment written in Python was one of the goals of the "One Laptop per Child" project. They succeeded[1], it's now separate from the hardware and can run on anything from your phone, raspberry pi, regular computer and the OLPC-machines.
(Another goal was better sandboxing bitween apps. Their project was called Bitfrost and was in many ways the first step towards flatpak that we use today)
Facebook will have a much lower price anyway. Large industries (like steel plants, mining operations, paper mills, saw mills, and, yes, data centers) in Sweden have not been affected yet since they are not normally directly exposed to the spot price due to different price protection strategies[0]. There is no way Facebook pays consumer spot prices. Plus Sweden has the lowest electricity tax in the EU[1] for these companies. They raised it from 0 in 2019 due to EU regulations to 0.005 SEK/kWh. Consumer electricity tax today is 0.45 SEK/kWh including VAT. I believe there is also a way to write off a part of the electricity costs.
Hello from zone 4. Indeed, people here are pretty pissed about this. Basically, if an exporting transmission line got damaged, zone 4 prices would drop instantly.
