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@kravietz

@gemlog Japanese shouldn't be that hard to learn I think, I had even tried it myself. Not much harder than English and it borrows a lot of English words, learning kanji is the hardest part IMO, but also most fun.
And you are right, people do appreciate small things like that. Nowadays it's often emphasized how Russians don't want to learn other languages, that might be true for a lot of people, but not the ones I know personally, a lot of them know languages other than English and Russian.

@gemlog Fun story!
> We all just want to communicate.
That's right! Some are better at it than the others: some keep thinking over, will they be able to get through with what they say, some don't care — half an hour passes and they are already using some sort of pidgin like they know the language well 😄
I'm probably somewhere in between: "Oh, I think I've used incorrect tense here… Fuck it, native speaker probably won't read too much into it and won't even notice" 🤣

@gemlog
> salamat
🤣
To be honest, when I was watching it for the first time, and that was long time ago, I was certain that they have made that language up. But no, actually that show had a lot more Indonesia/Malay references.

And yes, you are right. I can even read some German in a sense that I get general idea what it is about, but I'd never dare speaking it 😅

@mario Firewire used to be great for peripherals like audio interfaces and digital camcorders, it made possible for external devices to have direct memory access, which was questionable from security perspective but removed the latency entirely. Unfortunately, even when it was hands down better than USB in every way, it was only available in expensive devices and high-end laptops so remained fairly unpopular and was eventually taken over by USB when it achieved higher bandwidths.

@mario

@EricZhang456 had been experimenting with running Windows DAWs in Linux using Wine and it worked quite well — I think that is what I should try. Running Wine would be problematic because I'm running a musl flavour of Void, but having a glibc chroot would probably do the trick… All right, I'm just a lazy ass 😄
With tech, anything is possible, all the problems boil down to someone being lazy.

@mario When you deal with audio, latency is very important, I think general purpose VMs are not up to task. On top of that, I'm fairly certain it's impossible to pass a Firewire device like my audio interface down to guest OS the same way you can with USB devices. I know for sure it wasn't implemented in Parallels Desktop because soon after VT-d was introduced which made something like that possible, Apple had released MacBook Air, which had no Firewire and no one cared about it anymore 😔

@neural_meduza Опять реальные новости! Живут в телевизоре можно сказать 😩

@mario Sure! I've been using linux since my teenage years and I'm very comfortable with it. It would be nice to have a laptop capable of running Ableton Live though. So I could make music when I'm not at home. Newer versions of macOS won't run on this laptop, so maybe I should just run an older release, it's the system this laptop came with after all so it's probably a better choice than Windows anyway. I should just stay off the Internet with that out of date software.

@mario Problem is, it's an old MacBook Pro, EFI in those didn't follow the UEFI spec. There is a way to tell EFI not to initialize this GPU and it's enough to get Mac OS X and linux running, but Windows seems to ignore it and tries to init it anyway. I'm sure there is a way to do it, like booting in safe mode and disabling it in Device Manager, but I'm to lazy to do it 😁
Void Linux runs just fine and is very power efficient — which is a nice thing for a laptop.

@mario I can't use Windows because it tries to use the discrete GPU in this laptop that is fried so it crashes. And I'm clueless about how to tell it not to use it 🤷

@gemlog
Ha-ha-ha, so it wasn't put there by mistake, I see 😏

@imtheq

@PawelK Can you point me to some info on him?
This is not the first time I encounter this name and I'm always like: "The video game designer? Why would he say that, why would he have any thoughts on that at all?"
But when I try looking him up, the game designer is the only one that comes up and I honestly don't believe they are the same person 🤪

@DotardTed

@PawelK
> Peter Molyneuxes
The video game designer, the man behind Dungeon Keeper, Black & White and Magic Carpet? What's with him? 🤨

@DotardTed

@neural_meduza А вот это у них не пройдёт!

@neural_meduza Значит правда!

@imtheq
Agreed!

Ha-ha, autocorrect did an outstanding job here:
"not for everyone hate English is native language"
Microsoft onscreen keyboard got updated with Bing and I have noticed it it inserting words that were not originally there, but why hate? No one hates English, at least not me 😅
@gemlog

@gemlog
Oh, not that bad! 😂
My vocabulary, however limited it might be, is still better than automated translation 😜
But you are right! And there is SimpleTranslate that can use different translation services, is privacy respecting, you can self-host it, and is really easy to use both on mobile and on desktop.

@imtheq

@thor Man, it's a party IN YOUR HEAD 🤣
🎉🎊🍻
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-_FQpobrm60

@imtheq I really do my best to provide reasonably detailed descriptions, but sometimes I think to myself: whoah, I don't even know the proper words to describe that, let's keep it at "two cats chilling". Does it help visually impaired? I don't know, I think not 🤷