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.

You can add it yourself too :)

FYI, you can use noai.duckduckgo.com to disable AI searches :)

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?

Nope, sadly not.

The Chinese version is now not unlockable at all AFAIK, and the global version became this way after HyperOS came out.

They’re sadly not available in my country.

I bought a Redmi phone myself because I had heard that it’s really easy to unlock its bootloader.

It isn’t.

You have to install their shitty community app, wait for a month, then try your luck applying to unlock your bootloader everyday at exactly 0:00CST because they only take around 2000 applications per day and it resets at that exact time. If you’re late one second it tells you that the application quota limit has already been reached. But in my experience, even when I do it at exactly 0:00, I get a random unrelated error thrown at me and if I try again after that I get rate limited for that day. Fuck Xiaomi. I’m probably going to just sell this and get a dumb phone because it just isn’t worth it.

I know both terms, I just don’t understand the meme.

I don’t understand 😥

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.

Mullvad VPN?

But I don’t think any frontend allows you to disable those shitty machine translated titles. Like what the fuck is this?:

I’ve had a much better experience with OnlyOffice compared to LibreOffice in terms of MS compatibility, and it’s a Flatpak so it should have no issues running under Bazzite.

If only it was as innocent as “on and off days”. Those statements can be found in this video’s first minute. And I hope you’re saying “Big Science” satirically as science is not a conglomerate, nor does the worldwide scientific community have any ties to a specific corporate entity/state/nation. And she doesn’t “suggest” that “scientific research hasn’t delivered as much as it once did”, she clearly states that in all fields of science, most of the research paid for by your taxes “is almost certainly bullshit”, and that one should not trust scientists. Then after she gets called out for this, she just acts like she was actually only talking about the fundamentals of physics, not every field.

And her defending Eric Weinstein — a man literally directly funded by the Peter Thiel behind the Dark Enlightenment movement — for his pseudoscientific “theory” of everything with obvious fake outrage, saying that “If you take away one thing from this video, let it be that Sabine said Eric’s a good and fairly normal person”, implying that a theory of everything is something that everyone in her circle has, saying that she hasn’t looked into the theory (which is a lie, this gets exposed in the video linked on the original post) and that she “is not interested in unification ideas”. Unification in physics by the way is the thing that has been wildly succesful twice and that has allowed her to post her shitty propaganda online. And this is only the first one and a half minutes of that video of hers. As such, I would recommend being skeptical of her opinions on the fundamentals of physics too.

Edit: My apologies if this reply sounds rude or condescending, that was not my intention. It’s just a side effect of having to describe people such as Sabine.

Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn’t make unhinged statements like “I don’t trust scientists” and “Most of academic research that your taxes pay for is almost certainly bullshit” though, at least as far as I know.

Wow