Avi Loeb is a crackpot who has been pushing these kinds of bullshit “interstellar alien spacecraft” ideas ever since Oumuamua (we now have naturalistic explanations for his objections on that comet), mostly for money and fame. He also pushes the usual “crisis in science” rhetoric other grifters such as Eric Weinstein love:
And his YouTube appearances don’t really make him seem any more trustworthy:
The reason for this is simply that the people who wrote those books were ignorant.
Do flatpak remove --unused, it will clear up unused dependencies.
What do you install for that much space to be taken up??
On Linux you can set a compose key, press it and then do 3 consecutive dashes (—) for an m-dash, and 2 consecutive dashes with a dot at the end (–.) for an n-dash.
You don’t need HTTPS Everywhere anymore by the way, it has native support in Firefox now.
Book’s Story e-reader supports this by the way:
uBlock Origin
Dark Reader
FastForward
Search by Image
Yomitan
I’m not sure what the other two would be.
Immersion. Books or apps won’t teach them anything.
Here are some resources:
Input hypothesis
Tatsumoto’s Guide to Learning Japanese (or any other language for that matter, just skip the kanji specific parts, and I wouldn’t recommend joining their community)
Antimoon’s Learner Reports
I had already written at length about the topic, but the OP I had replied to seems to have deleted their post so I’m just going to do it again.
My native language is Turkish. I reached basic English fluency when I was ~14 years old and I’m currently doing Japanese immersion with my comprehension rate of the Japanese content I consume being around 90% (mostly video game content and anime). I achieved this primarily by consuming interesting content in my target language. I didn’t go to any language classes at all in both cases, and school itself likely only made my English skills worse.
This technique essentially aims to replicate how people acquire their first language when they’re babies, which essentially means lots of comprehensible input and no output initially. Input comes first, output comes a few thousands of hours later, similar to how it takes 4 years for a human baby to have acquired the language just enough to be able to start speaking. How language acquisition itself works can be explained like this.
Though in the case of adults this can take much less time with the help of flashcards, dictionaries, and reading (you should not start reading from the get-go though). And getting that much input is thankfully much easier in our age because of the Internet, and essentially all you need to do is watch interesting, comprehensible (visual cues help a lot) content in your target language. You should aim for 10,000 hours of comprehensible input for basic fluency, which would take around 4 years at 7 hours per day, or more unrealistically 1.5 years at 18 hours per day.
I haven’t yet come across any guide other than Tatsumoto’s that promotes using only libre tooling for language acquisition, so that’s why I primarily recommend his website.
I honestly don’t know why smartphones got so powerful and expensive, and why everyone just rolled with it. No one iPhone user needs the hardware that the latest iPhone provides, and I’m sure as hell Apple doesn’t even let you push that hardware to its limits. The average Joe just uses an instant messenger app and maybe a few social media apps, and that’s it. Who in the world actually needs hardware so powerful and compact on a phone that it is on the verge of experiencing quantum tunneling?
I know both terms, I just don’t understand the meme.
Sorry, I had just woken up so I missed it 😓. I would suggest asking this in your distro’s forum if you still have Linux installed on that laptop.
What GPU does your laptop have?
What phone model is it? You can probably unlock the bootloader and install a de-googled rom, or get root access and de-google it yourself.
She used to be a pretty popular popsci content creator and still continues to be one to this day, though the reason for her popularity now is that she has started feeding conspiratorial narratives.
You are likely experiencing drowsiness & headaches because you’re not getting enough sleep. Happens to me too when I get less than 7 hours of sleep.