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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Learned English as my second language instead.

    Yeah it’s broken, but y’all have tenses that sorta make senses (in Estonian we have present and past - future is implied by context!) and you don’t need 14 noun cases because y’all have prepositions.

    At the same time, English borrows words from over 9000 different languages, nothing is pronounced the way it’s written, and to be quite honest, I never bothered learning any of the rules in school. The rule for ordering adjectives so they wouldn’t sound off was impossible to remember, but because I’ve been terminally online since I was like 7, it just came naturally.

    TL;DR: English is a great language to just know natively, horrifying one to learn systematically.



  • Lifelong iOS hater who moved to iOS 2 years ago here. They’re different strokes for different folks.

    If you’re like I used to be, get an Android! Flash a custom ROM on it! All the freedom is amazing.

    Now I have an iPhone. It may even lack some features Android has. It gets them slower. But the experience is ridiculously polished and consistent. This is a device I can’t have fail on me.

    I still use Linux on my gaming PC and one of my work laptops. I love it. I love fiddling with things. I just want my phone to be an appliance like my fridge now. I buy it and forget it for the next few years.






  • I think it’s because there’s no real competition and nobody wants to be buying DVDs (blu-rays?) nowadays.

    Consider that the only other storefront that treats its’ users with any sort of dignity is GoG and many major publishers would rather avoid it because it has a policy of being DRM free, so you lose out on a lot of games by sticking to GoG for everything.

    You’re left with Steam, Epic Games Store, and some other platforms nobody’s ever heard of. Epic Games’ policy is “we don’t need a better store interface because it doesn’t affect sales” and “there’s no need to support Linux, nobody uses it”. Steam has a good-enough UI and not only supports Linux for Linux-native games, but also integrates Proton (which Valve also develops) so you can play Windows games on Linux.

    Sure Epic will take less of a cut from publishers, but I’ll have an inferior experience and probably pay the same.