Curious to see whether they combine HBO and Netflix. In the article netflix answers in an ambiguous way.

I bet they are trying to calculate whether this will bring in less money if they combine them, because they can’t just jack up the price of netflix subscription to double immediately after the merging of the two platforms. Many have both Netflix and HBO subscription so it might actually reduce the revenue.

Think I have to give that a try, thanks for the recommendation! Though the reason I haven’t tried any yet is because I don’t get much time on my PC. But hopefully soon again.

I also did the LoFi study videos on youtube a lot in the past, they are also nice.

Might have missed this last week but glad you got back into Irish!

Ad yeah… also had some issues when I made a OS switch from windows at home. Takes a bit to find your new workflows and getting cozy with your new OS.

I still haven’t given Steam study software a try, but damn I want to based on all your recommendations.

That’s awesome! Maybe also your ability to interpolate information has gotten more advanced? I have noticed that I do that as well and it works pretty well now. Early on I got stuck on words that I didn’t understand and couldn’t keep up with the conversation, but now I don’t let that stop me from hearing rest of the sentence. And picking up based on context.

Maybe! In reality this is 100% you, be proud of yourself that you have made it this far!

Obviously because of our weekly threads, right? ;)

Jokes aside I’m super happy to hear that!

Do it, 100% worth it! Also has some extra stuff for already-experienced users if it gets too easy :)

I had the same issue, this is indeed perfect for that level and a nice cozy start for your server admin journey :) I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

I hope someone else can pitch in with a more indepth instructions, but two things I wanted to mention:

First, forget about hosting your own email from home. Seriously. Even those who do it professionally don’t want to deal with that at home. You’ll find people on fediverse who do it but I’m sure plenty will give you this same recommendation/warning. It’s a huge hassle and it’s so easy to get your domain blocked/ending up on a blacklist and way harder to get out of it.

Second, I can personally recommend https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/ if you are really starting from scratch ( there’s a community here: [email protected] ). This is how I started and set up my own linux server and started self hosting stuff on it. It’s really basic and won’t teach you everything you need but it’s a great start for setting up your own server. You can do everything with a local server at home that you have set up.

DW is such a nice resource, I started myself with Nico’s weg learning materials from them.

Wish you good time on your journey, keep us updated :)

That’s really impressive, nicely done! And thanks for the tip. Think I’ll give that story a go as well.

I think that’s a nice way to go about it with learning enough to be able to read a story and seeing that as a goal. Way more motivating than “want to pass an exam”.

I understand. A dedicated class is definitely the nicest way to do it with someone keeping you accountable :)

Yeah and it’s also super rewarding. I sometimes feel discouraged when I read something and I don’t understand, but talking to someone can fix that (when the person compensates for my lack of skill/vocabulary).

I was wondering about that awhile back. Spanish (and now that you mentioned, Japanese) sound insanely fast!

I also tried no-lookup reading recently and it was great for seeing progress! Probably didn’t understand everything I thought I understand but that’s secondary for now.

That’s exciting! Trips are awesome motivators for me to put time into a language.

The listening must be hard since it’s such a fast phased language, but I really like the attitude of Spanish speakers, think you’ll have a nice environment to practice there :)

Since I also struggle with vocab I just learned some keywords to use like “thing” and “don’t know the word” lol.

Yeah I tried once and that was super confusing. Maybe (hopefully) lemmy and mastodon work on better interoperability in the future.

Meanwhile voyager users:

That’s the way to go. I mean sometimes it’s nice that you have the option to use English if you really feel like it’s a bit much at times. I take advantage of this as well in Vienna. Sometimes I’m just too tired to form a German sentence.

But yeah I also try to communicate in German as much as possible to get comfortable with the language :)

No worries :)

@[email protected] we rarely get answers in our thread from mastodon, cool! Glad to hear you are picking it up. We all move at our own pace, no stress :)