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My parents pushed me to learn when I was a kid. The way it worked best for me was just dive headfirst into it.

Watching movies and shows in English with English subtitles, reading books in English, playing video games in English (not necessarily learning ones), etc.

I had a couple of small dictionaries, and English booklets with grammar help, translation dictionaries, etc. I wrote down notes on them all the time.

As others said, AI is not proper for this. Having interiors is strictly a human thing, and companies not wanting to invest in it. There should be lore, coherence with the exterior, items, assets. Many things AI is just not good at.

In the days of Fallout 3, there was a great mod that added interiors to many buildings in the game. It was a lot of effort, and very limited. And back then modding was a hobby, so not a lot of people made donations to keep it going.

At the very least, there should be a way to contribute to building interiors in games with official modding support.

I’m one of the dozen who enjoyed all three movies. The Animatrix is also pretty good and adds some lore.

But with stuff like this, I always say: don’t rely on others’ opinions. Liking or disliking a movie/show/book/game/etc. is entirely subjective.

Edit: accidentally a word

Are you using the nightly channel of yt-dlp? Because it’s highly recommended that you do. In the case of yt-dlp, nightly is pretty stable and dedicated to circumvent daily YouTube changes (YT is constantly fighting back).

Edit: check out their GitHub page, because there was also an announcement about a change in the JS engine, we’ll need to use a third-party engine. Not sure if they gave a specific ETA yet, but they usually give a heads-up a couple of months before such changes.

Edit 2: I also recommend using the binary version of yt-dlp and put it in .local/bin. You can drop ffmpeg and the JS engine there. I found it easier to deal with than apt or pip, because I’m on an outdated system (22.04) and packages keep lagging behind.

Everyone knows the true pronunciation is ñom!

Just a suggestion. You might want to look into getting a decent chair and foot support first. Something like a cushioned office chair, the more “executive” looking ones, where even the arm support is cushioned.

Sit at your current desktop with what you currently have, and write down all the measurements that feel comfortable to you. More important: floor-to-butt, butt-to-head, and butt-to-elbow, width of chair (space between elbows). Whatever chair you get, make sure your head and arms are supported. With that, you can look for a good office chair that fits your particular measurements.

The leg-foot support, if it doesn’t exist for your measures, can easily be done with wood.

I had this stuff done, and nowadays I “lounge” on my desktop. I tried the handheld way, and ended up hating it. The couch makes me lean forward, my arms can’t hold the device for long, and most of the games I play look too small on the screen.

It’s honestly a bit worrying. I’ve been noticing the same trend with cars, where the user has less and less control and knowledge of how their car works.

And I think, contrary to the apparent end goal (to simplify things), this makes everything extremely complex, and it’ll bite us in the ass.

I don’t get it. Can I tell it to move a file from one folder to the other? Can I ask it to give me a diff of two folders? Or tell me if files are missing from one folder? Can it keep a sync between folders? Last time I checked, it only answered a bunch of simple questions.

What can this thing do that they keep trying to push it so bad?

Or AI made lore? Dafuq is that?!

I’ve seen a few videos of that, and it’s generally lauded by people who have no grasp of storytelling. They think lore is a synonym of story, rather than the “decoration” of a story. It reeks of laziness.

gPodder is pretty simple. Link: https://gpodder.github.io/

Other than that, if you want CLI, while it’s not a podcast program, yt-dlp is pretty good for downloading them. You can filter by title, date, etc. It’s got a bit of a learning curve, tho.

That’s good to know. I’ve been thinking of getting a trackpad, but I wasn’t sure if it would work with Wayland, if controlling windows, sending keys depending on the window, etc. would work as it does with X11. I might get one, after all.

If it’s anything like mouse gestures, make sure to verify that it’ll work in Wayland.

The only thing I actually liked from Cosmic is the ability to remove rounded corners, which is something I hate that we’re forced to endure in every single UI at every single level. Even KDE seems to lack that, even though they give a few options for the UI. (Edit: I mean, as far as I saw on Plasma, KDE doesn’t have the option by default. Maybe it can be added or something, but I didn’t see anything in the settings to indicate I can remove rounded corners.)

Tiling is just not to my liking, but maybe it’s because I don’t use huge monitors, so every time I tile a window everything gets bunched up or cut off. Maybe I’ll think differently when I move from 24" to 27", who knows. I ended up disabling tiling and stacking in Pop! OS 22 and just use vanilla GNOME snapping when needed. Stacking also adds a horrible tab UI that can’t be edited (say, make it vertical instead of horizontal), as far as I know.

So, to me, the DE just doesn’t add anything different or extremely necessary. But of course, I can only speak for myself, my tastes. I’m generally very picky and an outlier in most things, so I’m not surprised other people find those things to be essential.

I feel like it was a huge mistake on their part to try to make a whole DE rather than work on a bunch of GNOME extensions, but now they’re trapped and can only keep working on it. I don’t dislike Cosmic, but I just keep asking “why?” every time I look at it.

22.04 currently uses X11, yeah. But the COSMIC DE, as far as I’m aware is Wayland-only. I think they use XWayland or something for some stuff… but I’m not 100% sure about it. All I know is that Wayland kills stuff like xprop and xdotool, and there are no real alternatives. Now it’s up to each DE to figure it out, I think. Supposedly KDE was going to work on mouse gestures, but it’s one of those sponsored works people say they’ll take and then they go AWOL.

Eventually I’ll have to rethink how to place my keyboard and mouse, so I can be comfortable without mouse gestures. I have some physical limitations, so easystroke was helping me a lot, but it’s one of those things most people don’t care about, especially in the Linux community which tends to be more reliant on keyboard. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m using easystroke, which doesn’t work on Wayland. So I’m going to move to some distro that still uses X11. Mouse gestures are essential for me.

Ok, this is both impressive and hilarious.

Wait, seriously? One can’t watch Netflix or HBO or Disney+ on the browser on Linux?

I’ve used Windows since version 95. I even learned how to use version 3.1 back in the day (people actually used to take classes for using the PC!). Every new version after 98 was a pain in the ass, they’d get rid of a lot of functionality, change menus, and add crap no one asked for. XP might be a nostalgic memory now, but I thought the UI was horrible at first. Same with 7 and 10.

I first learned about Linux through forums, and then I found out about Canonical sending CDs with Ubuntu for free. So I gave it a try and I liked it. There was a lot of tinkering to do unfortunately. Stuff like the cheap ADSL modem I was given by my ISP weren’t recognized, so I had to dual boot. Eventually I found some file from one dude who had the exact same modem and knew what to do, and so I was able to go online in Ubuntu. (All of that ended up being very useful knowledge, though. If something happens on my computer, I don’t panic anymore, I roll up my sleeves and try to figure out how to fix it.)

I’ve been alternating between Windows and Ubuntu ever since. I switched permanently to Windows 10 a few years ago for some reason I don’t remember. And last year I switched to Pop! OS after finding out about Recall. I was pleasantly surprised by how far gaming has come in Linux, so the switch is permanent this time. I will switch distros, however, once I switch my hardware to AMD.

Oh so that’s why I got it! I was wondering why I was so special. 😂