Its not really something kids can do though. The overwhelming majority of parents neither. Hell, I consider myself somewhat tech savvy, but I’m just starting on that journey.

I have no idea what a good regulation might look like, but just letting techbros do whatever they want is not an option.

A tiny niche that’s only accessible to people who know how the internet works. Ask your regular Joe if they’ve even ever heard of the Fediverse. Kids will flock to the easiest accessible and largest platforms. Not Lemmy. And even Lemmy would be toxic for kids.

The internet is firmly in the grasp of mega corporations. There is no free internet anymore. This shit needs to be regulated.

I just installed Pop!OS :)

Smouldering Durtles is great for learning kanji, if that’s part of your goal. In all likelihood you won’t want to do that though.

Human Japanese is great for learning grammar!

Any communities you can recommend? In the past I had many unfortunate encounters with toxic users that had no patience for newbies. If they’re anything like you, I’d be very happy!

I started out with memrise, as it was very accessible and I wanted to start learning Japanese. It was fun but it’s also very limiting. A mixture of Smouldering Durtles, Human Japanese and Ankidroid really accelerated things. And then the ginormous post-covid upswing in my industry came, with less colleagues than before and my brain got fried. Still trying to recover from that with therapy and whatnot. Yeah, I lost a lot of progress that way.

Any who, that was specific to learning Japanese. Wishing you success with your endeavors! Learning other languages is a huge Eye-opener for understanding other cultures better.

Mate, thanks for the information! I saved the comment and will setup a dual boot on my laptop during my next vacation. I really want to make the switch finally. I’m fed up with these mega corporations shoving their bullshit on us.

Why not Anki? Ankidroid works well and there are many great community decks for all kinds of languages (and other topics too BTW).

Maybe my info on sound drivers is outdated… I play guitar and rely on low latency for my interface. I use neuralDSP plugins (not just for recording, also for jamming). Is it possible to get this running somehow? Any good DAWs you know of?

Holy crap, that’s me! Just with heavy machinery.

I often wish my old job at Lidl back. I very often also regret buying a house that makes me reliant on a well-paying job.

Have you tried it since 1.0? It’s pretty ok.

What keeps me from making the switch is music-making. None of my plugins run on Linux and sound drivers supposedly are a huge mess.

What kind of a backward ass piece of shit country would allow these things to fly all over the place? This entire industry is ridiculous and doomed to fail from the start.

Can I subscribe to your social media accounts? I would like to follow your opinions.

Nah, for real though, I’m so glad my best friend is still fairly analog and we use the phone for what it is (we just call each other when we want to meet up).

Lemmy is the last of social media that I use and I regularly take breaks from it because the echo chamber is very apparent and not something I wish to be consumed by.

I believe the equivalent saying would be “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good”.

I couldn’t give a single shit about these twitter alternatives, because the whole concept is stupid.

Maybe you should try it. That might get you off your weird trip.

Are you paid by China? Nice propaganda, m8. I dare you to go live in China as a non-rich Person for more than a year. Let’s see how much you like the country then.

I’m sorry, but what kind of bullshit data is this? Asking Chinese people if whether the like China or not? When everyone fears being executed, no one will say anything bad. Lmao, tankie bullshit.

I had to google that first. Had no idea what the sahel states had to do with socialism or communism.

Those AES states are mostly highly corrupt though. I wouldn’t refer to north Korea as a livable place, plus the leaders are bathing in money while the populace dies from hunger. In Vietnam, if you know someone in politics, you can get whatever you want. I know this (nearly) first-hand. Laos, lol. And why the hell is China on that list? They’re way too deep in the capitalist game to be on that list, no? People also don’t mean shit to the ones in charge. Their people are executed by the thousands every year and they like to keep minorities in concentration camps. I’m sorry, those states are failed states in my opinion.

And as long as there is corruption, communism is not going to work. It’s a nice theory, but it just takes one black sheep to fuck it up for everyone. I wish it weren’t that way. It’d be nice to live in a world where people work for a purpose and everyone gets the same and no one has to suffer. Not going to happen.

Capitalism is plain evil though, I’ll give you that.

Ever seen Communism working as intended? There’ll always be power hungry assholes ruining these things for everyone.