Same. Grew up watching Cartoon Network, HBO and the Discovery Channel with no subs (or dubs, they are not a thing in RO). Then there was music (lyrics) and later on video games and the Internet. It helped not having any OS or software available in my native language. Even to this day I use my phone and computer in English.

While I did have English classes at school (6th to 12th), the level was rather basic… I also took French for 10 years, and I can barely speak it. Otoh, I didn’t take one Italian class, but I can speak some, and understand almost everything. Again, this is because we had a bunch of Italian TV channels in the early 90s.

Kids are like sponges, especially when it comes to languages.

We lived in Romania until a few years ago, when we moved to Germany. We speak Romanian at home, and they have a decent grasp. The oldest is fluent, with no accent, the youngest lacks vocabulary, applies German grammar rules and has a bit of German accent. All of them speak German fluently, and they use it when they talk to each other, with friends and at school. They are also fluent in English, and that is because of the media. I only use English when it comes to devices OS/interface, streaming services etc, and they are used to it. They consume YouTube, Netflix etc in English only.

They sometimes mix the languages, especially when talking to us, since their exposure to Romanian is limited.

Is there a “light” version, without a WM? I run Hyprland on my current Arch setup.

Will she get taxed for such a low income?

I don’t understand what this is about, but I admire the commitment, the story, the CGI. 7/10.

Slowly.app? It’s like having a snail mail pen-pal.

I used Infinity with Reddit, and now Eternity with Lemmy. Same interface, better platform. :)

As far as I know, MuPDF is not that heavy, and can view both PDFs and EPUBs (and others).

I personally use zathura, which is a very, very light weight document viewer, has vi style key bindings, and has plugins for viewing PDF, EPUB, CB, and others. Works pretty well in a keyboard centric desktop environment (I use Hyprland).

Borș de fasole (sour bean soup), cold, with mămăligă (polenta) and raw onion. 🥲

Ahm, you okay buddy?

I have a dual GPU laptop 🤷

Businesses swap hardware every 2-4 years anyway, for support or warranty reasons.

Drivers aren’t really an issue anymore either…

I have 300+ games in my Steam library, some of them with Linux builds, just a few. The rest work with Proton. I did not find a game yet that didn’t work on Linux…

My wife is very much like you. She lived a hard, misunderstood life, noone in her family believing there’s anything wrong. She had troubles in school too, but she was able to get two master degrees. In Eastern Europe, there is no ADHD, you just didn’t get enough beating as a child. In the last few years, she also had issues at work, being called unfocused, that she talked too loud and too much, didn’t try hard enough, but, like yourself, managed huge projects for corporations with tremendous success.

We got our kids diagnosed a few years ago, and all have ADHD (also dyslexia, tics, ASD). When we learned our kids have ADHD, my wife also got diagnosed, and it’s textbook perfect for her. Very high “score” for ADHD. She got on medication (Ritalin), and, in her words, it changed her life.

She did have to adjust the medication through trial and error, going up and down in dosage until she found the perfect spot (I believe 25mg x2 a day) and even learned that when it’s that time of the month she needs 5mg more than usual.

She can now sit for a movie or dinner with family, can remember stuff without a calendar, and even started going to interviews to go back to work after a long break. She is now part of a couple online ADHD communities talking with others like her and finding people that are not yet convinced they need to get diagnosed and /or medicated on Slowly.

She still obsesses about random stuff for days or weeks and then just switches focus to a new obsession, but hey :)

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

This is pretty cool!

But, in the video there is a quick flash of text that went away after 1s, 120km/h max speed?

The last time I had an issue with Linux drivers was in 2002, trying to set up a pppoe connection. I had no smartphone and there were no YouTube, Reddit, wikis, forums etc.

Back in 2016 I helped install some wifi drivers on a friend’s laptop in Ubuntu 16.04, which was not really a big deal.

I feel like these memes are made by Windows users :)

Fair enough. I just read it like “I need to access a smb share from a Linux machine” :)

You don’t need to join the domain to access that smb share… You have to use the DOMAIN\username when authenticating though.