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I just had a conversation with two Russian people in Japanese. (sh.itjust.works)
 

I met two Russian people who were running a booth at a festival. One greeted me and tried to converse with me in English, but it soon became apparent that that wouldn't get us very far. So, we switched to Japanese, and made small talk for a few minutes before I made my purchase.

Not a huge deal overall, but I thought it was super cool to be able to make use of Japanese in a novel context. It was also interesting to meet someone where the best language for communication for both of us was an L2. As a native English speaker, that doesn't happen very often.

Links now opening in Chrome instead of my default browser Firefox on Android in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I had the same issue. I enabled the option "Open links in external browser," and now it uses Firefox again, albeit by launching the full app separately instead of as an embedded activity.

What is the easiest way to try all the DEs? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

This OS seems to have fixed all the things, based on what I constantly hear about it. Is Nix really all it's cracked up to be?

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I haven't figured out an easy way to install a specific version of an app, which means that when an app update is broken I'm out of luck until a fix is released, so I'll install the snap of the app until then (Spotify is a recent example). Don't like that.

Shout-out to Grayjay in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I literally just watched the video from Louis Rossman, and came straight here. Pleased to see everyone already talking about it!

Which one do you trust the most for your privacy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah bro they just all cheap asf

Which one do you trust the most for your privacy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

me and my zero friends who use it

Which one is yours? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I honestly can't say I've noticed much of a quality difference, so it doesn't seem like a huge value add. I might just be oblivious though.

Which one is yours? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Currently trying out Kagi, still on the fence. Boy am I blowing through the trial searches though.

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Use yourei.jp for better example sentences (yourei.jp)
 

When I encounter a new vocabulary word, it is often useful to see how that word is used in other contexts. Previously, I would use Jisho.org and do a sentence search for the word, but they really only have sentences from tatoeba.org, which are not always the most natural, and sometimes, there just aren't very many. I've found yourei.jp to be significantly better, as they take example sentences from real books and display them in order of readability.

Compare (example word: 円満)

One disadvantage is that yourei.jp doesn't provide English translations, so if you need those you might be better served elsewhere.

(For this particular example word I chose, weblio.jp seems to have decent results, but it overall seems to be hit-or-miss. For instance, ぼかす. Lots of sentences, but they're all basically useless. Most seem to be excerpts from technical manuals.)

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Sharing a small win (sh.itjust.works)
 

I've been semi-casually studying Japanese for around 5 years. I currently live in Japan, but since I already have a remote job for an English-speaking software company, I've never had an interest in getting a job for a Japanese company, and having a good level of Japanese was really only ever a matter of convenience and personal achievement.

On a whim, I participated in a mock JLPT session that was held by a local university. To my surprise, I passed the N2 level. Not with flying colors, but with enough margin that if it were the real thing, I probably would have passed.

This is a win, because I have never passed the JLPT before, and haven't done any test preparation. I mostly just read books and participate in daily life. I have some Anki flashcards, but I'm far from consistent with it.

I signed up for the December test!

Do X(Twitter) spy on what I'm doing on my phone? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hanlon's razor, but with coincidence instead of stupidity.

Remember when they'd send you these for free? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

As much as I prefer other distributions over it, I am grateful for everything that Ubuntu has done to grow the Linux userbase.