MMA (at aleast) has attracted far right people for a long time. I quit my local MMA club over a decade ago when I noticed that there are people there who train just so they can use those skills on a night out.
Edit: and in retrospect those folks were clearly neo-nazis. I was naive.
I have to say I really loved RuneScape quests. Some of the quests are incredibly humorous and really clever.
The quest about neighbourhood wizard robbing a bank and the accompanying "security cam footage" of him "pwning noob players" during robbery but denying everything has stuck with me as a core memory.
Yeah the debate on whether linux would need an antivirus is bit difficult. I feel like experienced linux users forget that there is a huge amount of people between "I only need browser and libreOffice" and "I can confidently review the source code and scripts of a package" that want to switch to linux.
I know the first line of defence is you, the second is linux permission system, but the third is missing to my limited knowledge.
Ny understanding is that ClamAV is for scanning windows viruses on linux and don't know about any other linux virus scanning software. The userbase growing is bound to bring more linux desktop targeted malicious software.
I can vouch for gaming also! I did have to sit down and pick a book at some point though, I was struggling with grammar. Glad to hear you have had productive procrastination sessions :)
That's an awesome achievement! I get it with the lack of motivation once you are back in your home country, really hope you'll find the motivation / need again at some point to continue learning.
I know that feeling. When I was in Germany on exchange I felt like I made significant progress, but let it fade away by not using it and studying afterwards. And yes, Duolingo is fun but for German it also lacks stuff like proper grammar rules and it really doesn't help that it doesn't force you to learn definite articles...
I hope you pick it up again at some point - it will come back faster since you have made good progress already before :)
I say if you plan to stick around and have patience to cultivate your community: do it.
If you don't, then please don't create them. You could join and post in existing communities that are close to those topics instead.
You are of course free to do as you will, but the reason I say don't go for it if you don't have the patience is because dead and unmoderated communities cause more issues than they solve.
Additionally: if you are new it's possible some of the communities you are looking for already exist. Searching in https://lemmyverse.net/ might give you better results in case you are on a small instance.
Edit: I feel like I should elaborate: a community that is left unmoderated might end up with horrible content and the instance admin will be clueless until someone bumps into said content and reports it.
You could create your commmunities but lock them if you decide to ditch lemmy.
You don't understand how happy this makes me to know I am not the only one. Pretty sure my employer silently just accepted it (although they wouldn't have to).
Just a headsup: I just crossposted this and am not the original poster :) wanted to share this here since I know there are lots of eyes on this community and many of us are thinking about fairphone as our next phone.
But sadly as @Dequei said already: grapheneOS only works on pixel phones :(
That's awesome. I've read the hunger games trilogy in my native language and they were absolutely brilliant. Might have to give it a try in my target language with audio too!
Sounds like a good goal with the A2 by the end of the year, looking forward to read here how it is going! And a phone call sounds really nice, I noticed at my workplace there is someone practicing their british english that way on their lunchbreaks (I was wondering why they are just repeating mundane stuff in british accent and realized this must be it).
And same. I actually kept myself from progressing by being stuck on "how to progress, how to optimize learning, what do I need..." etc. Best method has been to just dive into the most obvious stuff and just practicing without overthinking. This is why I buy study books: they have a clear path for learning that you can follow.
And I'm glad to hear that! We'll keep the weekly threads going - it's an accountability thing for me and reminds me on bad weeks to not give up (you guys are inspiring too).
MMA (at aleast) has attracted far right people for a long time. I quit my local MMA club over a decade ago when I noticed that there are people there who train just so they can use those skills on a night out.
Edit: and in retrospect those folks were clearly neo-nazis. I was naive.