That’s me, I have ADHD. Your daughter might have it too. This behavior is one of the clearer indicators for having ADHD.

Nah. Brother inkjets were the inky ones that didn’t require chips on the inktanks. Don’t know how it is nowadays but they were the only company that didn’t make everything shitty.

We now have a brother color laser and it’s a godsend.

Yeah, mikrocontroller.net is still going strong :) The internet overall just was more interesting than today, simply because big corporations didn’t pollute it yet with their garbage.

Nah. Forums are mostly dead, most websites are ad-enhanced garbage and the proliferation of right-wing fucking morons in ALL THE COMMENT SECTIONS turned the internet to mostly shit. Its not anywhere near the quality from back in the days.

You should always drive an ICE car as long as you can. Or at least sell it to someone who doesn’t just dismantle it for parts.

Cities should be carless (only renting cars should be allowed), rural areas should be EVs only, and only if you have photovoltaics on your roof.

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.

You do know that Scandinavia has a very high PHEV quota, right? Sure, would have liked to see this news coming from Norway, but this is still very much relevant.

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.

I know how this works. It’s still a ridiculous echo chamber and I stumbled into a meme community on that instance and didn’t know it and started to discuss Communism. They were very adamant on their stance, despite showing them contradicting evidence. Only then I noticed I was on Lemmy.ml, lol. Shortly after, I was banned.

Tankies suffer from similar delusions as Nazis do. They seem to be smarter however.