Scraft161

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The best course of action is to consume as much content in the target language as possible, tv shows, music, YouTube videos... Your brain will eventually pick up on certain parts of the language naturally. Also the best thing you can do is to not force yourself to speak or write in that language until you are comfortable doing so (this is one of the biggest things doulingo does wrong).

I can attest to this method working as I went from barely knowing a couple of English words to speaking it in about 4 months (you could probably do less if you stick to what I outlined above). To back up this method I suggest you look at antimoon which is written by people who have used this to learn English as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

If I can give my thoughts on what I've seen in research and linking various factors together.

  1. A not insignificant amount of neurodivergent people tend to pursue a career in IT (mainly people with ASD), these people can learn a lot through self study as it tends to align more with their personal interests, at some point through this they may become exposed to Linux and open source and subsequently choose to learn about that.
  2. Research has revealed a strong link between ASD and gender dysphoria. People diagnosed with ASD are ~4 times more likely to experience it.
  3. Even if you go through gender reassignment, you are still subject to the societal programming associated with your initial gender (which for boys tends to include videogames).

While these 3 facts on their own don't mean much, I can see how these come together to create an above-average amount of trans women in the IT and Linux spheres and this only gets amplified by stereotypes.

That said, this is mere speculation on my end based on the things I mentioned above, I am sure it plays a role; but I cannot be sure as to how significant that is in the grand scheme of things.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love how musk is trying to make X the everything app all on his centralized network, and here we are building a decentralized everything network with dozens of open platforms and good 3rd party clients outpacing whatever musk is trying to cook.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I've been using Vendetta with a custom stylesheet for mobile which does the AMOLED theme much better than discord, haven't used the new app yet and I'm honestly contemplating whether I should get the old android native app running again.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Looks very interesting, love to see how well it works (and interoperates between different fediverse platforms)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Tbh, I would not mind a proper chat standard built on activitypub, it's obvious that this protocol works, now if only somebody built a secure messaging platform with it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's because they rewrote the app from the ground up. They had a lot of issues getting the AMOLED theme to work because the base of the entire thing was written with the idea that there will only ever be 2 themes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yup, still mad about that one. Some day nobody will remember that the mobile app was somewhat responsive. I do know that there are projects that still allow you to use the old app; but I don't know how long the API for it will still be supported by discord.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Knowing how their desktop app works on Linux (or more specifically doesn't and requires you to mingle with it if you want any degree of Wayland awareness) it doesn't surprise me their app remake (because it's not just a redesign) is total garbage. I hope they get around to fixing the performance and bugs; but as things are right now I'm staying on Vendetta and refuse to update.

[โ€“] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

Simple, they stand up on flat ground

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Heya, seems you made a post to lemmy from a mastodon instance.

You can post to lemmy from mastodon, but there are a few things to keep in mind:

  1. The first line of your post is the title (if you only post 1 line lemmy will duplicate it), Lemmy only allows text here and things like links will look broken.
  2. Hashtags do work on Lemmy, but they will not be useful for discovery here we use communities instead (which display as groups on mastodon)
  3. Only the first image in your post is visible on Lemmy, be mindful of this when posting image or video content

I am a human that stumbled upon your post, if you have any questions feel free to reply.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Except all but 3 apps are built on top of things that don't support it.

Maybe in the future; but I don't have too much hope right now.

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