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I recently reached the stage where katakana are worse because you kind of have to find out what they are supposed to mean to get the intonation right. Sometimes it’s freaking impossible without looking it up, like with オードブル

And you consider Japanese Kanji easy (context of the post)? What I heard from Chinese friends is that it’s just a chaotic mess

I also told my wife about my itchy knees and she go lookin’ in a hot jacuzzi.

(best I could improvise… The jacuzzi is a bit off though)

German certainly has a steep learning curve in the beginning, but I would argue it gets easier if you’re an advanced learner. Most more complex words are just compositions of easier words, pronunciation makes sense, the complex grammar quirks are either not used in everyday life or irrelevant (nobody cares if your say der, die, or das for any noun that’s not Nutella).

English on the other hand is easy to start but the learning curve never flattens. To pronounce a word correctly you often have to know the specific word beforehand or you’re lost (like with read, thyme, zealot, advertisement, …). To understand a new word you often have to look it up because compositional nouns are less common. That makes many new cool words but is less accessible.

Japanese Kanji are complicated. Ask a Chinese person learning Japanese, they will give you a good rant. Or ask a Japanese person who has been living abroad for a few years, they often forget many Kanji and have to relearn them. Main reason imho is that a lot of this has grown organically and the world has changed a lot over the past centuries, so many things would be done differently today.

Hard to say without more context. I’d check the existing distributions and pick one that suits you. Their websites usually have lists with compatible devices.

PostmarketOS is interesting for tinkering, grapheneOS just works reliably. Everything else in between

It’s worse if the audience leaves and the band wants them to come back but they don’t

What’s the show?

It’s more likely that most people wouldn’t pass high school anymore

But I’m level 3 genius!

IKR get your own drink girl

I haven’t heard of ads, but there was flattr which didn’t work out for some reason

Diablo 2

Yes, people tend to support fucked up regimes in their home countries if they don’t have to suffer the consequences.

Cheers

The beer for gurgling after brushing teeth

Optimize for minimal complainability, maximal annoyance and minimal effect of actual complaints

Why did it take him all the way to her room to find out it’s a croc? He doesn’t seem to be very bright

Yes, just a joke.

I’d have a hard time preparing for a school shooting or similar, simply based on the mere lack of guns in my environment. I think I held an actual gun in my hand once in my life and that was in Murica. And it was a civil war times rifle. Not sure I’d even be able to do a shoot without hurting myself.

Finally, proof that homicides cause gun ownership

Consider yourself lucky if you haven’t been there in the times before systemd. It streamlined a lot of things under the hood that were stupidly varied among distros, like where certain configurations were placed. Really, nobody needed that and it broke a lot. Systems also introduced some sanity through service dependency awareness, e.g., which service needs to be running before the next can be started. You might find that obvious, but Linux was still stuck in the 80s on that level and essentially a guessing game.

That said, if you want to try something else, the most reasonable but quite involved alternative is probably guix with shepherd.