I get what you are saying, but unless you buy a specific linux phone with some semblance of professional support (e.g. Pinephone) this won’t really get better. The best time to buy a Linux phone was a bit over 10 years ago when Canonical still actually supported Ubuntu Touch. That was pretty much the last time there was any serious effort in that regard. Since then it’s just been hobbyists doing hobby things in hobby quality.

At least ss:mm:hh and DD-MM-YYYY are internally consistent, even if they aren’t consistent with each other.

MM-DD-YYYY isn’t even internally consistent.

Zionism is the one thing where anti-semites and Jews (at least zionist Jews) agree.

Zionist Jews want it because it gives them their own country where they are not persecuted.

Anti-semites want it, because it means that the Jews are not in their country.

That’s why even the literal Nazis supported zionism. Every Jew in Israel was one less Jew in Germany.

You get the same thing still today with the most right-wing politicians supporting Zionism/Israel. On the one hand because it’s a way to keep Jews far away and on the other hand because it can be used as a “I’m supporting Israel, so surely I can’t be a Nazi. Anyway, let’s go shoot some Muslims.”-kind of excuse.

Tbh, unless you want to suffer A LOT, the best option is to get any Android phone, install Termux and on top install any Linux distro you like (if you want easy mode, pay for Andronix which helps with installation).

Then you just run your Linux distro in a container on Android and view its virtual screen using a VNC viewer app.

That way you get a fully-working Android phone that can run most Linux apps without breaking your main phone use case. The only thing you are really lacking is low-level access because it’s running in a root-less proot container. So no hardware acceleration or other fancy hardware stuff.

I’m very open to being an early adopter of mobile Linux phones.

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What you are trying to say is you are very open to be a late adopter of mobile Linux phones, adopting a Linux phone when it actually works.

Early adopters are those who tough out the crap. The issue with Linux phones is they’ve been stuck in early adopter land for the last 20 years.

For consistency, Americans should adopt mm:ss.hh MM-DD-YYYY.

Nope, it clearly should be mmsshhMMDDYYYY

Thanks! Then I actually did find the game. For some reason I thought the story would be set 10-20 years earlier than it actually was (I guess I’m getting old) and I didn’t think that a dancing game was the kind of game the parents specifically objected to.

Now I know more!

Park and ride is what that concept is called.

Even with low parking fees and low public transport fees, you need to incentivize their usage even further by e.g. adding a city toll, so that people have to pay when going into the city by car.

But even then it’s not really THE big solution. In Vienna, for example, about 450 000 cars cross city lines into the city each morning. An average parking spot in a garage is about 12.5m² plus 7.5m² of space to access it, so ~20m² in total.

That’s a total of roughly 9km².

That’s about 2% of the total area of Vienna, and currently it’s provided by thousands of parking garages and parking lots distributed all over the city.

But if you were to build that on the outskirts of the city, the park and ride facilities would have to be enormous.

Even if you build 5-story parking towers that’s still roughly 2km².

It’s not guns that kill people, but missing escape lanes.

Beware, what you are comparing vsync off with vrr.

You have four options when it comes to screen refreshes:

• Vsync off, VRR off: you get frames as fast as possible, no latency, but also tearing
• Vsync on: the frame rate gets synchronised with the screen refresh rate. That means, sometimes the game will wait for the screen, leading to a lower frame rate (limited to the refresh rate of the screen) and slight latency, but no tearing
• VRR: the game can lower (not raise) the refresh rate. Compared to Vsync maximum refresh rate it will lower power consumption and do nothing else
• Triple buffering. Needs to be implemented by the game, not by the OS. Provides maximum frame rate and no tearing with minimal latency.

They don’t even match between Austrian German and German German.

Being from Vienna, my word is naturally an insult.

“Meine Allerwerterste/Mein Allerwerterster” (female and male version)

On the one hand, it’s a formal and very polite address to someone (meaning something like “my dearest”), but at the same time the word means “my ass”.

So with that word you can sound extremely polite and nice while at the same time calling them an ass.

Can’t find the game or the console on google. Anyone got more information?

English spelling is easy enough that in 95% of cases you can match up the spoken word with the written word.

How’s the percentage of that for Chinese?

In fact, if you want a language where it’s actually hard to know how a word is pronounced if you only ever see it in the written form, you gave yourself the answer.

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The thing with English is you just have to learn phonetics by hearing, not by reading. It’s quite simple actually. It only has a very limited amount of language-specific sounds, and you just learn the written and spoken forms of each word individually.

The really nice thing about English is that everything’s prepositions not cases, there are no grammatical genders and half of the words are just Latin. If you know any other romance language, you can just re-use all the latin-based words you know and you’ll be mostly fine. You only have to be aware of a handful of false friends and that’s it.

I don’t think that English has more words with secondary meanings than other languages or anything like that.

I, in fact, do speak German, Italian, Spanish, English and a bit of Welsh. German is my first language, so can’t say how that is to learn as a second language, but English was by far the easiest to learn of these languages. Sure, it’s the least phonetic one of these, but that’s really the only disadvantage it has.

Tell me you are an English Monolingual without telling me you are an English Monolingual.

For context: This happened in a German speaking country.

Friend of mine thought it would be cool to have Bladesaw as a gamer tag, but he was a kid and his English wasn’t great, so he spelled “saw” with German phonetics: “Bladesau”.

Until he was at some gaming event where he entered some competition and was called up to the stage as “Blade Sau” (Fat pig).

Americans don’t memorize all that shit for English either.

… because it doesn’t exist in English. Of course you don’t remember things that don’t exist.

Don’t try and learn it out of a textbook, just start talking and reading.

Yep. That’s why you can pick out every American stumbling through German even after they spent 20 years in the country, because they can’t get any of the things that you have to memorize right.

And the best part is you can pronounce their words pretty logically.

If you think that what they teach in American schools in German, then maybe. But seriously, pronunciation is so not the hardest part about learning languages.

And as I said, German isn’t even a hard language either. That goes to e.g. Finnish or Hungarian (at least for western languages). But English is an easy mode language.