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Sure but this isn’t just about reading and writing as skills. So you don’t find it different that everyone used to read out loud to themselves as a common practice and now everyone reads silently? Would it not be strange if everyone read books out loud to themselves on a bus or in their home?

That’s interesting. I suppose it’s similar to having the radio or TV on the background at work.

I have tried a few. Duolingo seemed to be good for making it fun to get interest but a lot of it was semi-random vocabulary. Try the Mango app for more practical conversation practice. It has flash cards that remind me of Anki that are nice for reinforcing memorization. It is free but I think has a premium option now.

Also, Tandem for practicing conversation with real people that speak the language via text, voice message, call, or video call.

Thank you for the list of suggestions; that’s really helpful. I haven’t been on Android in a while, is the Gcam app noticeably better than a stock camera app? What sorts of things would it do better? Low lighting or blur reduction?

I agree about the ROM. I’d really like to have something that is simple and looks to have continued support when necessary for security and other major updates. I also agree about the camera. It seems to be a deciding factor for smartphones. The last I checked the Pixels had excellent sensors but had some camera software issues that I believe were eventually resolved. I’m hoping that isn’t an issue if I’m just using a basic OS.

If you’re on iOS and haven’t tried Lemma, it’s pretty nice. I was on Voyager, then Avelon, then back to Memmy, but I have to say Lemma is my overall favorite right now.

Here is the actual YouTube link: https://youtu.be/g6zXBHdbQJI?si=ST3w3LK92tvfSplP

I didn’t learn this until about a year ago, but fine china is a type of ceramic, similar to porcelain or bone china. They differ in what mixtures they are made of and what temperature they are dried at.

https://www.21oak.com/inspiration/bone-china-vs-porcelain/

I think you have the most accurate answer. The “othering” behavior can be seen in essentially any group of people.

Plus, if you read any of the texts of these religions, I have never come across instructions to shun others. I think people have a surface level of belief and then sophomorically apply it to be “more righteous.” They’re really missing the forest for the trees if they elevate themselves above others.

Not the Middle East, but I remember Hinduism having a caste system that does actually rank people, but from information I got, people were generally on the same page about it.

Can you define what you mean by religious toxicity?

I’m not sure about “not teaching” but probably not adequately teaching the importance of patient-centered care. I know it’s sort of a buzz word, but I can see in a couple of my nursing classes that it really is a different perspective. Taking people seriously about their goals and preferences for care instead of the semi-authoritarian style of “I’m the medical professional, so this is probably best.” Sure, some people wouldn’t make the same medical decision that you would as a professional, but people should get to decide that for their own lives. Sometimes it’s a lack of knowledge but in my experience, health care workers do not consider the patient’s words as much as they should.

I really appreciate that you take the time to understand and implement the changes that people suggest. And Lemma so far has seemed like a very well-rounded project, so props to you.

Are you planning on posting the App Store availability to !lemmyapps@lemmy.world ? Because Lemma is listed on the pinned post but I don’t see any posts made for it yet, and that could be a good place to drop the news.

Honestly, the app is very useable as-is now. The major things I expect in an app are there and they work well. The overall aesthetics seem very nice. The placement of the icons and names/numbers on the posts in the feed all seem to fit together nicely. The scrolling and swiping are very smooth.

I only noticed a couple of small bugs while zooming around the app.

• The text slider resets to the default when returning the settings. The actual text size isn’t affected, but the slider just goes back to the middle.
• The multi-communities will sometimes not load. Not sure if this is instance-related, but one multi will not load with all lemmy.world instances, but another multi with World instances loaded in okay.
• The Sort on a multi did not switch, and quickly switched back to the default.
• After switching accounts, the subscribed communities and multi lists were still the previous account.
• Making a post, I could not scroll down when I get close to the bottom of the post, so I cannot see where I’m typing under the keyboard. https://i.imgur.com/OY3Me3h.jpg
• Also with making a post, sometimes some sentences flash that look like some sort of auto complete suggestions. I’m not sure if that is intentional, but it’s a little distracting.

Thank you for adding the text size options. I have okay eyes, but enlarging the text allows me to not need to hold the phone so close.

Some suggestions

• Add ability to favorite communities and have them at the top of the communities list. Maybe swipe left to Unsubscribe and swipe right to Favorite
• Font options
• Add ability to cross-post
• Add the list of subscribed communities as tick boxes for adding Multi-communities; maybe have Search as a box to select if necessary.
• Draft saving of posts
• Mod options (namely viewing the reported items)
• Eventually some community icons would be neat (although the new icon is very pleasant)

So I logged into a second account and then was indeed able log out of my first account.

And yes, Large view direct image clicking works, just not the Compact view.

You are very welcome! I’m not a developer myself but really value having Lemmy be accessible, so I’m glad to help however I can.

Say what you will, but they’ve always had a stable economy

With the logout one, if I click Account, the three dots, then Logout, it doesn’t appear to do anything. I close the app, reopen, pull down to refresh, and I’m still logged in. I can log into a second account and log out, but the first account that I’m still signed in with, does not appear to log out. I can take a video if that helps, but that’s pretty much the gist.

For the direct clicking images, that might be something that is not broken but just something I’m used to coming from other apps. Someone else can chime in if they prefer a different experience, but I personally like having a post not have the username or community clickable until I open the actual post (as in not clickable from the feed). Otherwise I end up clicking the username by accident instead of opening the post. But for images, if I’m scrolling on Compact view and just want to get a better look at the image, I’ll click the image to open only the image (not the full post), but what happens currently is image does not open and the post dims to show “read.” Really not a big deal, I just open the post and then click the image. I just kind of noticed myself naturally clicking the image sometimes and found out that is how I interact with image post from the Compact feed.

Does that help at all?

Follow up question, what do you use for an abrasive fluid? I’m pretty new to sharpening and just bought diamond stones and lapping fluid, but the fluid is semi-expensive. I’ve seen about anything from just water, Windex, Krud Cleaner, and then all sorts of replies saying that each of those wreck the stone in some way. Is there a cheap alternative that you use, or should I just keep buying the lapping fluid?

I’m not sure how the app and website interact, but in my experience, I turned on hide read posts and my own posts were no longer visible until I disabled that. In the actual Lemmy settings it’s phrased opposite, “Show Read Posts” must be enabled, otherwise your own posts become no longer visible.

So I guess, however you changed that, try changing it back and reloading the app, and see if your posts become visible. Are they visible if you log into Lemmy on a browser? 

It’s a Lemmy thing not an app thing. I just had this issue. So if Hide Read Posts is enabled, it also hides your own posts, because they are all “read” by you. You just have to disable that setting to see your posts.

Depends, am I a horse-sized duck? I might have some people to fight

Maybe try clearing the cache: Settings > General > Advanced > App Cache > Clear Cache