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I like Busuu. But like Duolingo, using it by itself isn’t a good idea; you need to study grammar and vocabulary separately to learn at a decent pace.

Busuu’s best feature is its community corrections from native speakers, but they’ve been nerfed a lot in the past decade. You can still get something out of it though, just don’t pay for premium (even on sale) because it’s not really worth it.

I want to add, for OP and others’ sake, that you don’t need to add all of your Steam games to Lutris/Heroic/whatever in order to play them. This step (enabling Proton) is all you should need.

Okay, well a national entity of some kind is the one issuing these certificates, from my understanding. If you lived in Scotland, it would be issued by the government of Scotland. In my country, we use the term federal because we are a confederation.

is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard?

It is literally a question of making a postcard.

It’ll be all torn up inside one of the machines, probably rip open the package and create a bunch of plastic shreds, and ruin the day of one of their equipment technicians. USPS is not easy on lettermail, their equipment manhandles it.

Just use the back of a cereal box or something.

being secretive for no reason

You’re not being secretive for no reason. You’re being secretive to avoid harassment from someone you care about. Seems like they don’t really return the favour, they just make fun of you.

Oh, you know, the right to being legally recognized as the gender on your official Gender Recognition Certificate, which cost money and was issued by the federal government (and was explicitly stated on government websites to be legally equivalent to being born the stated gender).

I think maybe he meant “nudging me along”? I imagine Putin there at every step, reassuring Trump that he should just wait and see, that he’ll do all work and make Trump look like the big man who negotiated a historic peace deal.

No peace deal means no publicity for the peace deal, so now Trump is getting worried because he tanked the global economy with nothing to show for it.

I have a “I will not ever go back to Windows” mindset and I think that helps. If I fuck up my system to the point it’s not immediately fixable, I have a separate /home partition so I can wipe / and start over without worrying too much. I look for answers to fix things on my phone when my system is inaccessible so I’m not stuck.

I am really not a Linux expert, but I was a Windows power user and I like to fix things myself and understand the basics of why it broke.

Yeah, I had one working at some point but the others didn’t work out. It really does seem like Wine GE is where it’s at for me, it just works like 99% of the time no matter who the repacker is.

“The GDP warrants were designed for a world that no longer exists,” said Ukraine’s finance ministry on Thursday.

While that’s true, unfortunately you still issued them and powerful people hold them. Billionaires, with or without the IMF, will gleefully wring every dollar from your bones if they have to.

The “investors” even say in the article that if they can’t pay the $2.6B soon they’ll have to pay $6.6B later, so it should be a simple decision for Ukraine. Yes… a simple decision to put your people into poverty for the horrible crime of being invaded.

As we all know, nothing bad has ever happened when a country has an exorbitant debt after the conclusion of a years-long military conflict. So everything will be swell after Ukraine gives away nearly $3B instead of rebuilding the country.

IoT means Internet of Things and it’s mostly for purpose-built commercial applications, like running a computer as a kiosk or industrial controller. You could maybe put it on a Raspberry Pi or something.

If you want to run a gym, homelab, or office, Windows IoT may be for you. Otherwise, it’s not for you. The reason there’s no bloatware is to make your hardware run as smooth as possible so it can fulfill its fixed purpose.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/product-family/windows-iot

If it’s the repacker I’m thinking of (JC), he makes it so complicated for no reason. Was that the case again here or was it someone else? I’d rather just use Lutris than his releases.

I’m a basketball fan, but the draft is a reset, and potentially a renewal for some teams that sucked last year. It’s a time for a fan to get hopeful (unless they drafted low or this year’s class is shitty).

Generally, it’s also an excuse to get really drunk, talk shit (online or in-person), and set up your fantasy league team. It signals the start of the season and gets you hyped up for pre-season matches featuring the new guys, even though you know pre-season doesn’t really mean shit.

There’s not much “special” about it, but if sports are a major hobby for you, following along whenever there’s an “event” is just something some people feel the need to do. Sports fans obsessing over the draft is kind of like people who are really into movies making a spreadsheet of all of the new movies for the year.

I think there must be an issue with federation because it’s still not correct for me.

When I started my last job (big multinational corporation) after an internship, I got 3 weeks of paid vacation right off the bat, with 1 more week every few years, up to a maximum of 7 weeks.

Plus 1 more week if I chose to “buy” a week by estimating the vacation I would accrue throughout the remainder of the year and subtracting 1 week’s pay from that.

The link goes to a completely different article about the sexual assault trial of 5 former world junior hockey players.

I think you meant to post this link.

My aunt is in your situation. French from birth, sprinkled with English, but English-only after age 7. She can still kind of speak French if she thinks really hard and uses English for half the words, but it’s mostly gone. She also speaks Spanish but learned as an adult.

Her native language and her first language are both French, but her primary language is English and her secondary language is Spanish. If you asked, she would probably say that her native language is English because she learned some as a child and barely uses French for anything.

His band is actually going to be doing more stuff now that Angus is winding down his political career and not seeking re-election. He did an interview with Rachel Gilmore a few weeks ago and mentioned it briefly.

Even when I went to elementary school over 15 years ago in Canada, kids weren’t allowed to be held back without written permission from their parents. I thought it was really fucking weird because we literally had a kid whose mom did all of his homework (everyone knew; he had horrible writing and she didn’t) and yet refused to put him in a remedial class or have him repeat a year.