Sweden has the smallest average household size in Europe
This is an interesting factor regarding COVID-19 transmission — the majority of Swedish households have a single occupant, unlike everywhere else in Europe (twice the rate of Ireland, for instance).
(tags: covid-19 sweden households europe statistics eu housing)
Raspberry Pi USB Boot – UASP, TRIM, and performance
In the past few weeks, I reviewed USB drive performance on the Raspberry Pi 4, and the importance of UASP support for USB drive performance. Both posts generated great discussion, and there were three things I wanted to cover in this follow-up, namely: Which drives support UASP; Real-world performance benchmarks; TRIM support.
(tags: raspberry-pi optimization linux trim ssd filesystems usb)
Brand New Retro: Survival in a Nuclear War
Brian dug up an old nuclear-war survival pamphlet from the Irish Government, published circa 1965
(tags: 1960s nuclear-war history ireland ephemera civil-defence)
Coronavirus Pandemic Data Explorer – Our World in Data
Cumulative deaths per 100k, Finland/Sweden/Denmark/Norway. Bookmarking for the inevitable discussions with COVID deniers (thanks Soren!)