I recently reached the stage where katakana are worse because you kind of have to find out what they are supposed to mean to get the intonation right. Sometimes it’s freaking impossible without looking it up, like with オードブル

And you consider Japanese Kanji easy (context of the post)? What I heard from Chinese friends is that it’s just a chaotic mess

I also told my wife about my itchy knees and she go lookin’ in a hot jacuzzi.

(best I could improvise… The jacuzzi is a bit off though)

German certainly has a steep learning curve in the beginning, but I would argue it gets easier if you’re an advanced learner. Most more complex words are just compositions of easier words, pronunciation makes sense, the complex grammar quirks are either not used in everyday life or irrelevant (nobody cares if your say der, die, or das for any noun that’s not Nutella).

English on the other hand is easy to start but the learning curve never flattens. To pronounce a word correctly you often have to know the specific word beforehand or you’re lost (like with read, thyme, zealot, advertisement, …). To understand a new word you often have to look it up because compositional nouns are less common. That makes many new cool words but is less accessible.

Japanese Kanji are complicated. Ask a Chinese person learning Japanese, they will give you a good rant. Or ask a Japanese person who has been living abroad for a few years, they often forget many Kanji and have to relearn them. Main reason imho is that a lot of this has grown organically and the world has changed a lot over the past centuries, so many things would be done differently today.

I recommend using these $0.21 to buy an avocado toast, or at least a piece of one

Hard to say without more context. I’d check the existing distributions and pick one that suits you. Their websites usually have lists with compatible devices.

PostmarketOS is interesting for tinkering, grapheneOS just works reliably. Everything else in between

There is is, listen to uncle/auntie fartographer.

Protests have a lot of very concrete benefits besides just the signal. You meet people who are on your side and can form large and small networks. People internalize the political opinion and you have a shared experience to talk about later. You get pictures to use in campaigning. You maintain the practice of protesting. Etc.

It’s not just about counting the number.

It’s more likely that most people wouldn’t pass high school anymore

But I’m level 3 genius!

Okay, so same issue as I have. But I think we’re getting there. There is a dedicated section already in my local electronics store which tells me this is becoming mainstream already

I haven’t heard of ads, but there was flattr which didn’t work out for some reason

Diablo 2

And recommended resources to learn about this and what to look out for? Appropriate size per use case etc? I like the idea of getting one+solar panel for my rental apartment, but i have zero clue which one would be good or if it’s just a waste of money.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no-you-cant-make-an-open-source-hdmi-2-1-driver/

What about server OSs? That would rescale the mainstream/niche dimension quite drastically

Optimize for minimal complainability, maximal annoyance and minimal effect of actual complaints

Consider yourself lucky if you haven’t been there in the times before systemd. It streamlined a lot of things under the hood that were stupidly varied among distros, like where certain configurations were placed. Really, nobody needed that and it broke a lot. Systems also introduced some sanity through service dependency awareness, e.g., which service needs to be running before the next can be started. You might find that obvious, but Linux was still stuck in the 80s on that level and essentially a guessing game.

That said, if you want to try something else, the most reasonable but quite involved alternative is probably guix with shepherd.

I got this in a restaurant but it seems like basically:

• lots of chili
• lots of Sichuan pepper
• deep fried chicken with a coating
• peanuts
• way too much oil
• some sesame
• few green onions

If I were to replicate that at home, I’d probably fry the green onions, chicken, Sichuan pepper in a pan first with a lot less oil and without coating. Then add the chopped chilli, fry a bit more, add some sesame.

The chili looks much scarier than it is. I’m somewhat spiciness resistant but not that much, and I ate quite a few of them. They probably take a mild variant.

Peanuts are optional imho.

Chinese friends, feel free to tear this apart.

There is a hint of chicken and peanuts in there, but tofu would fit well I think