OP is also complaining because he is trying to pirate the game. The process of stripping the DRM is better documented on Windows than on Linux, and somehow it’s the fault of the Linux ecosystem.
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5·8 天前Currently reading my A2/B1 middle difficulty German story book.
I read some kids Easter books this week.
We travelled on trains and I managed asking some questions as well as ordering food in German.
I’m rereading some Dragonball books.
I’ve spoken with some more neighbors, but not nearly enough.
The big motivator is that I’ve applied for a huge opportunity that would require much better German speaking in about 12 months. If I get the job it’ll be do or die time. Machen oder toten zeit!
I don’t feel this push for locking us out of control over our own systems under the cover of “protecting the children with age verification” is anything more than a continued effort to secure a DRM-based hardware system for the MSFT OS and media companies. This smells just like their pushes in the past to steal control over hardware through legal channels. It’s the same war we’ve been fighting for 30 years now.
Read up on the Clipper Chip from the 90’s. What’s old is new again.
The big news is that I took a placement course and it suggested I should be in the first level of a CEFR B1.1 course! Last fall I was going to be placed in a A2.2, so apparently something is sinking in.
I finished another manga book (VizBig style Ranma 1/2 #1) in German. It’s very interesting how the different authors of the different series would use vocabulary. Getting a more diverse set of words was great for the vocab.
I’m applying for a job that would start April 2027 and would require significant German language skills by then. The clock is ticking!
Gotta have my B1 by May 2027 for residency. I’ve got about 68 weeks until I qualify. Continuing the countdown.
Switzerland doesn’t play when it comes to trains:
If there’s nothing else, Germany can complain about Deutsche Bahn! I have a long commute to work (my employer ist sehr schlect in some ways), so I’ve spent many months playing “will it, won’t it” on RE train delays. I even had one vanish on the app after it claimed to pass through my station. Geistbahn!
The dumb part is that I started visiting Germany back in 1995. The trains ran much better. Nich so viel Störungen oder unregelmaßig dingen. Good memories only cover over so many cracks, though.
It’ll only take about 20 years of big investment to rebuild the train network after so many decades of underinvestment by conservative governments. No worries, any day now.
I kept seeing discussions about the way things generally work in Europe, the rights people have, and the cultural appreciation for people’s health and I finally said “fuck it! Let’s move to Europe”. I’d been visiting for decades off and on, so we made it permanent.
It only took three years of applying for jobs, saving, and finally getting all of our family needs in order, but we did it. If you can, give it a look.
Mülltrennung ist seht wichtig! Wir wissen das, aber die Gelbetonne ist komisch.
Unsere Wohnung hat kein nachbar jetzt. Es ist ein neues bau, und die Vermieter ist Meiter suchen. Ruhezeit ist sind die besten teil von Deutschland!
I had my first real sickness for time off since I moved to Germany. I had a call with a doctor, they pushed a sick note into the digital health system, and my company noted it as paid time off.
Modern civilization in a developed nation rocks.
Now if we could just get the paperwork to die down a bit… Oh, and find a way to get the trains on time!
Undeveloped societies can be like that. It’s often places that don’t have many rights for the citizens and are worse off in wealth then the pre French Revolution France. Basically peasants with smart phones given this day and age.
This was a reasonably solid week. I didn’t do enough speaking practice, but I did manage to navigate a couple of government paperwork sessions without much trouble. I’m still having difficulty with filler words, but the key words are getting better when I listen.
We’ve discovered the lexile level of the TV show WaPo Berlin (Water Police - Berlin) is very good for us at the pre-B1 level. The vocabulary is a stretch (perfect), and the speed of most interactions is pretty reasonable. We’ll be watching more of that.
I did re-read through Dragonball manga collection (3 normal books in one) books. I’m up through book 5 and I re-read them off and on to refresh the vocab. I spent time reading a few kids books, translating some 1-3 grade books, and did a couple of days taking on Der Tagesspiegel news.
I am re-reading a German learning book (A1-A2) that I finished a few months back. I’m able to read it about 60% speed with almost no word look ups. That’s huge. Having my reading speed get closer to reasonable is a huge deal.
Oh, and the Berlin Fenster news/entertainment screens on the trains are getting easier to read. I can usually get about 50% of it before it changes screens on me. If they could slow that down just a bit, I’d be very thankful.
I did manage to get partway through a call with a doctor (I was sick most of last week) in German before we switched to English. That was great!
Too bad Germany is currently not entering new people into Integration Courses for immigrants. I was hoping to find one near the almost B1 level to finish up early and get my certificate ASAP. Residency can be had in about 460 days! Lasst uns das Ziel im Auge behalten!
These are awesome. It’s good practice to learn how to build these, meet neighbors, and find out who is on the side of the community.
Shake some hands, learn some names, hear their stories. Some of these people might be holding the line next to you if things go further South and they’ll have your back if you’re a neighbor now.
2·1 个月前Let users make decisions about what they want? That’s not how Microsoft works, at least not for a decade now. It’s their computer according to them.
Vertical spinning wheels to pick the hours suck donkey balls. WTF is up with those? You want to set it to 9 pm, so we get to spin the hour wheel up and down until we hit 9, then it always defaults to the current minute, so you get to spin it up and up and up and up until you get to 00 minutes, overshoot to 05, and then dial it back down.
There’s WAY better solutions for this available. Why use the ones invented 25 years ago?
That’s about right.
I’ve had a handful of past students have this conversation with me. I’m in “whatever floats your boat” crowd, so I basically ask what they’d like to be called and if they have any preferred pronouns. Then, I remind them I have enough trouble learning names on the first pass, but we’ll work it out after I screw up a few times (it’s just me being old brained, not malicious).
Then I make sure to say their name a few times as we wrap up to start learning whatever it is, and move into other topics. I’m not their therapist, so I’ll just be as normal as possible in the face of change. No worries, you do you and I’ll forget any old names/faces soon enough anyway once I stop using them.
4·1 个月前How can you even fit it into a single chunk? You’ve got to set the chunk size big enough to have the room for the whole Redstone network. I made a spot with some simple logic gates (a flip flop and an xor gate for controls) and it took up a lot of volume for even something that simple.
Even just an ALU is going to be physically massive.
I visited a museum today. They had audio guides available. I found they had a guide in a “easy” version of German.
I am so happy they had the easy (leicht Sprache) guide. I managed to understand about half of the sentences and got some nice in-context listening practice.
I also started listening to some B1 German YouTube conversational videos and I’m doing okay at times.
I’ve also got a Scratch Programming book in German. It’s written to elementary school level and it’s great for simple technical language, which is a speciality that I’m going to need soon. Very nice stuff to work with.