[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago

The problem with your first point is that in the case of language acquisition, there is no "aptitude" for it. The process of language acquisition is more or less the exact same in every person, the only exceptions being people with literal neurological disorders. And you don't really need unlimited time for this process. It takes around 1.5 years of immersion at 18 hours per day to reach 10,000 hours, 3 years at 9 hours per day, and 6 years at 4.5 hours per day. The trick for reaching the 10,000 hours is just actively consuming compelling TL content whenever you're free and would normally consume native language content (active immersion), and then listening to them once again while on your way to work or brushing your teeth or something (passive immersion). As an example for compelling content, what drew me to learn English in the first place was mostly popsci and video game content that I was really interested in and that were simply not available in Turkish. I would also recommend having smaller weekly goals instead of one gigantic goal that you are likely to stress over (like the 10,000 hours).

And the concerns you list are mainly time & motivation related, but the OP is asking if some people are literally worse at/incapable of acquiring a foreign language, which is not the case at all.

The guide I mentioned in my comment covers more topics than I could ever fit in a comment, including different types of immersion (passive and active), different types of active immersion (intensive and free flow), SRS, software, other helpful websites, techniques and much more so I would just recommend giving it a read if one decides on diving into language acquisition.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

School is like slavery in many aspects to be honest. Though it‘s really not a physical one, but a mental one.

You can not do much without getting permission from an authority figure first, including relieving basic biological needs such as eating or using the bathroom. You are not allowed to leave the facilities without permission. You are classified into different groups based on your performance on tests, and eventually seperated based on that (usually at high school/university level). You are trained for at least 12 years in this way to obey arbitrary rules and procedures, which are designed to get you ready for the capitalist hellscape that awaits you. Some countries even use this period of time to push another agenda on you, usually one related to religion &\ nationalism. At last, you come out of it (while probably having forgotten many of the things ”taught” to you) and you are immediately put into mandatory military service, or you come to the point of needing a service job just to survive.

Autodidacticism definitely rocks, and homeschooling would be a better idea if one was qualified for it and the child's social needs could be met elsewhere.

Kinda unrelated to your example, but I just wanted to expand on your psyop comment.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

One day we will get another season 🫠

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Just putting this here :)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Suspend doesn't save state to disk, it saves state to RAM. So you don't need swap to be able to suspend.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Why don't they just do a continuation of Nichijou 😭

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Please explain..

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I think he meant as in "if this is the first ever GTK application you install via flatpak". The "Installed Size" on Flathub only indicates the amount of storage the program itself will take up and doesn't take into account the libraries it will install alongside it (installing piper via flatpak takes up 400MB on my device).

I still think it is really negligible because people usually don't install applications that use such a variety of different graphical frameworks, and also because modern PC disk capacities are so absurdly big compared to past ones. I only have a 256GB drive and have never faced any issues regarding how much storage flatpak apps use.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

If your mouse drivers allow setting the debounce timer, you can set it higher so that your system doesn't allow the bouncing to register.

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