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@ forestbeasts @pawb.social

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3 yr. ago

  • Anyone else learn languages by immediately getting a dictionary and grammar reference and trying to bang out sentences?

  • Huhh! That makes total sense.

    Yeah the way we're doing it you kinda need friends who know the language better than you do (ideally native). When we were starting German I got TONS of incredibly helpful feedback from our German now-ex, which unfortunately we don't get anymore, but we still have a couple friends who speak German and can correct me from time to time. And for Chinese we've got a couple friends who speak Chinese (one is native and has been being super helpful, one I'm pretty sure is a learner like us just farther along than we are). We don't have any Japanese friends and I bet that's why I kinda burnt out on it pretty early, no way to get feedback.

    -- Frost

  • How the heck do you type Traditional Chinese with pinyin, without using rime?

  • Pupdate: TURNS OUT the reason the normal pinyin IME didn't have a simplified/traditional switch like everything seemed to indicate we SHOULD... was because we were missing the fcitx5-module-chttrans package!

    *snootdesks.*

    That should really be marked as a dependency or at LEAST a recommends.

    -- Frost

  • How the heck do you type Traditional Chinese with pinyin, without using rime?

  • Like I alluded to in the OP, the spaces for indentation thing!

    For context, YAML literally WILL NOT LET YOU use tabs. The spaces people, not content with beating the tabs people into submission culturally, took it upon themselves to start effectively banning them at the tools level. It really worries me, not to mention being kinda offensive. There isn't even an "ease of parsing" excuse, since tabs are easier to parse than spaces (one tab = one indent level, done).

    People have written YAML parsers with tabs support and got told off for it by the guy who came up with YAML. So yeah, it's very much intentional.

    -- Frost

  • Linux Furs @pawb.social
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    How the heck do you type Traditional Chinese with pinyin, without using rime?

  • Linux Furs @pawb.social
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    If you've been having your keyboard layout settings wiped on every login on KDE Wayland, it's apparently fcitx's fault

  • What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling?

  • Ooh nice!!! Good luck out there!

    -- Frost

  • What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling?

  • We should be taking a shower and eating. (Unfortunately we can't do both of those at the same time but both have to get done.)

    We are doing neither and also have to pee. So yeah, this is going well.

    -- Frost

  • Is it possible for someone in America to not know who Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi is?

  • We were born in America and literally have zero clue who you're talking about. So, uh, yeah.

    -- Frost

  • PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)

  • Yeahhh. We've got a PS4, and no PS5, initially because of the whole "you cannot back up your saves, at all, except with a cloud subscription" thing but now with this shit... yeah, nah. We're good with Linux PC (and our PS4 for a very few things).

    -- Frost

  • They are smashing

  • Oh totally, wolves totally have nipples and stuff!

    It's just not like, y'know, Two Big Honkers haha. Boobs as a sexual thing actively turn me off.

    -- Frost

  • People don't hate on plane travel enough

  • Cars are pretty great too. /c/fuckcars but literal!

    And don't get me started on motorcycles...

    -- Frost

  • What to do when you are sure you family member is both Autistic and has ADHD but they refuse to accept or see a professional help for it

  • "Professional help" is overrated honestly.

    Well. Like. It can be useful sure (particularly ADH"D" medication from what we hear, we've never actually had any though).

    But it is NOT a thing to "fix" her, to make her like the gross textures, etc. (in case you were thinking it was). Just. No. It doesn't, and shouldn't, work like that. Ever.

    What ACTUALLY helps is meeting other autistic/whatever people, and realizing that you're not A Problem™ for not liking gross textures, talking "weird", etc.

    -- Frost

  • rm -rf /usr due to typo

  • Oh and BTW Mint is fine! It's based on Ubuntu sure, but actively undoes and strips out the crappy stuff Ubuntu adds.

    They also have Linux Mint Debian Edition as a backup in case Ubuntu goes really evil.

    -- Frost

  • They are smashing

  • *raises paw* It me, I dislike boobs.

    (male, gay, wolf-in-all-but-body here. Even female wolves don't have boobs, hah! They're a weird human thing.)

    -- Frost

  • Your Windows PC Has a Permanent ID That Follows You – Even With a VPN

  • We tossed systemd out the window on our Debian. Stuff broke when we removed /etc/machine-id.

    Turns out dbus ALSO uses it, but if it's not in /etc, it makes its own at /var/lib/dbus/machine-id (which was symlinked to /etc/machine-id on our system).

    So we just wrote 00000000000000000000000000000000 to it instead. 🙃

    -- Frost

  • Debian as out of the box

  • PSA: The Tesseract frontend includes a hardcoded hidden instance blacklist with all leftist and trans-friendly instances.

  • Yiiiikes. I can't even.

    -- Frost

  • They should make boxers with pockets

  • Pretty sure they do actually! We were at the store once and saw some underwear with pockets. Looked like a neat concept.

    -- Frost

  • How come people have so called "sex addiction"? So much they have rehab places for it. Why not just masturbate and be done with it?

  • Honestly, from what we hear, "sex addiction" is made-up bullshit by puritans to try and keep people in line and feeling properly ashamed about getting off.

    Sex is totally normal. Porn is totally normal. Being horny is totally normal! Some people are just naturally hornier than others. (Some are less horny than the norm, too.) Being horny all the time isn't an "addiction", it's just having a different baseline horniness level. But even besides that, how much of "sex addiction" is people with perfectly average horniness looking at porn or whatever a perfectly average amount being shamed for it, combined with everyone else around them hiding their own wanking/porn/whatever because "oh it's shameful", making the baseline look artificially low?

    -- Frost

  • I just wanted to play games with my friends

  • KDE Connect is great for one-off "shoot file to other device" transfers. (Less helpful for huge copies.)

    -- Frost

  • I just wanted to play games with my friends

  • PS4 controllers work perfectly fine. Heard PS5 controllers do too but we don't have one of those to test.

    -- Frost

  • Coffee @lemmy.world
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    How fine is fine enough for Turkish coffee?

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    NMS added pokemon and it's pretty fun!

  • Debian @lemmy.world
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    apt full-upgrade won't update on Debian testing

  • Linux Furs @pawb.social
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    apt full-upgrade won't update on Debian testing

  • Linux Furs @pawb.social
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    How to ditch systemd on Debian if you don't like the recent changes

    frost.brightfur.net /blog/ditching-systemd-on-debian/
  • Linux Furs @pawb.social
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    Is there etiquette on posting your own blog posts here?

  • Linux Furs @pawb.social
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    Running older Linux-native games on modern systems

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    Space dump trucking is really fun.

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    There's an even faster speed glitch than the punch boost??

  • Godot @programming.dev
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    uh,

  • Unixporn @lemmy.ml
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    Pretty basic KDE!

  • Pawb.Social Feedback @pawb.social
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    Image upload doesn't seem to be working

  • Furry Technologists @pawb.social
    forestbeasts @pawb.social

    Stripped laptop screw, tried cutting a slot with a dremel, botched it. Any ideas?