I recently tried duo lingo. I have a pretty strong background in Spanish, but want to brush up. It became apparent very quickly that the app is not about learning so much as keeping you in it. The lessons don’t make a ton of sense, and after not using app for a week, it demoted me to just 8 words that you would learn in your first class (hombre, el, agua, tu, etc.). There is no way to skip ahead.
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In addition to dual booting, you can create a persistent USB drive. It’s a little tedious, but kind of a cool way to give your setup a spin.
I think you need Rufus to format the drive, to set up the USB drive so it doesn’t refresh when you reboot. I’m sure there are speed implications, but I’ve actually found it snappy enough for basic stuff once it loads. It’s a cool way to try different distros. I have a handful lying around. I still preferred mint in the end.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•[Serious] What's your favorite non-profit and why?
12·1 month agoACLU. They fight back against shitty laws that repress freedom and equality.
I am now prepared to have my world shattered by someone with an actually…
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Games@lemmy.world•Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody"English
233·1 month agoNo, it will work out for them. They just made a 50% profit increase. I doubt if even 10% of subscribers cancel.
It worked for Netflix, Disney+, Hulu… People just need to stop buying shit, but they won’t.
… And the file is back open somehow. Only now the program throws an error when Windows launches, yet still leeches resources.
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Buildapc@lemmy.world•Any recommendations for large mice?
3·2 months agoSame. I had two. They both started tracking weird after a few months. I’ve never had that issue with another mouse. Aside from that, the physical build of the mouse was the coolest design.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What video game have you always wanted to play but havent yet?
6·3 months agoAnno 1800 and other games like that. I don’t have the patience for the learning curve.
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Games@lemmy.world•Day 389 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playingEnglish
6·3 months agoWhy we can’t have nice things?.. Like Uncharted 5?
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•San Francisco is deploying speed cameras this week. If everything goes according to plan, the number of deaths will be reducedEnglish
284·3 months ago…because adding cameras to watch the public for ‘safety’ has never been horribly abused.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Jury orders Tesla to pay more than $200 million in Autopilot crash caseEnglish
30·3 months agoThis shouldn’t be a fine. Be knowingly lied, which lead to death. Manslaughter. Prison.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing updateEnglish
10·3 months agoMore then 400 charge cycles? So like… All of them
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•[SERIES] What is your opinion on the old saying {"In vino veritas"}?
31·3 months agoYup. We might take things a little further than normal, but start dropping the N-word or beating your spouse and that’s not the alcohol talking. You’re just an asshole.
Hint: it’s not me.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Imagine looking at this gorgeous landscape 100 years ago and thinking the best use of it will be strip malls and ugly roads.English
16·4 months agoEven driving a car, I hate these types of development. They’re ugly as hell, annoying to navigate, and they only get more clumsy as the surrounding areas become population dense.
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Technology@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
1301·5 months agoIt’s almost like we should have strong data privacy laws so companies can’t spy on everything we do…
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What game changing item*s can you buy for $100 or less?
61·5 months agoBidet.
Yeah. I said it.
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Games@lemmy.world•Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind?English
1·5 months agoFor those interested. The game is actually based on a book from the 80’s called Maze. It was a contest offering a reward for the first to solve it. It’s only a maze in the same in the same sense Blue Prince is
By random coincidence, my wife has the book. You can definitely see the resemblance.
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Games@lemmy.world•Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind?English
2·5 months agoYes, you get dead ends a lot in the beginning. Eventually you find strategy and permanent upgrades and many more room types.




I’ve used both. US mobile is much cheaper. It’s also monthly or annual. $220 for a year of unlimited data with hotspot is the best deal I’ve found. If you don’t need more than a couple gigs of data, you can go as cheap as $10/mo.
I won’t swear by US mobile, but so far, no regrets from me.