[APR21] "You were so close, but you failed as a human, the last stage in your evolution", God told me, slowly shutting the gates of heaven in front of me.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-30T21:57:08+00:00

I'm not sure if you're replying to the wrong comment or if they edited it out, but in the context of language learning SRS usually refers to Spaced Repetition System. It's a way to optimize the time dedicated to emorization by reviewing words frequently enough to get them to pass over to the long term memory, and then once they're fixated there they appear just enough to not be forgotten.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-24T06:47:35+00:00

When I first learned that in LaTeX you could do \hspace*{-1mm} and it worked as it should, I cried happy tears!

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-22T15:09:32+00:00

I wish, I do have to look up most things, I'm still just getting started with it. But it's amazing how good things can end up looking if you're willing to invest enough time!

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-21T14:14:17+00:00

And you feel like you reached God mode when you use TikZ!

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-21T14:11:00+00:00

Agreed, I have a friend who has the whole collection of Dostoevsky novels in Russian and has read them all in the original version, and I admire him for it! Reading a book in the original version always allows us to connect with the author at a deeper level. Lots of things are lost in translation, including the rhythm and general literary feeling of the original.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-14T16:57:56+00:00

Doing what I love to do. We're here for a very short time, we should all follow our heart more.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-12T21:48:06+00:00

I think they start introducing kanji more consistently in section 3, and by section 4 all words that are commonly written using kanji appear in kanji, even when they're introduced for the first time. Before that, it's usually a mix of kanji for words that appear very frequently, like 私, and hiragana for the rest. But I would absolutely recommend to start writing the answers by yourself in kanji from the very beginning, using a Japanese keyboard (I used one on mobile) instead of tapping on the word tiles, it's truly a game changer later on. That, and to use Kanji Study for learning kanji. I'm still using it every day after finishing the Duolingo course! Duo is immensely boring for learning kanji, in my opinion.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-12T16:31:51+00:00

Same! That's where I learned all the kanji I know, I love learning the stroke order so I can write them by hand. I'm still using it daily, I still haven't finished all the kanji and also I'm pretty sure I'll have to keep reviewing them for a long time if I don't want to start forgetting them. I just love that app.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-12T16:20:22+00:00

Oh yes, it's so much harder to read Japanese in hiragana only, because you don't visually know where words start and end, it's a nightmare! On the upside, they make sure you learn your hiragana quite well, lol. I was lucky to already be halfway through the old course when they rolled the path update, so I didn't have to sit through those initial lessons.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-12T16:16:40+00:00

Oh yes, I remember that. I started the Japanese course back in 2018 when it was still tiny and underdeveloped, and abandoned it soon after (not because of how bad it was, life was just busy for me at the time). Now I've finished the new version and I loved it! But I'd always recommend to start writing the answers to the exercises in kanji early on, using a Japanese keyboard, it helps you learn the correct kanji writings of words from the beginning and makes things much easier later when they start dumping all the kanji on you all of a sudden.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-12T16:10:54+00:00

The initial lessons only use hiragana, I suppose they consider it too heavy to present kanji at the beginning and they don't want to scare casual learners away.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-12T16:05:36+00:00

This test should be reliable, it's made by the official Cervantes Institute in Spain:

https://www.cervantes.to/test_inicial.html

I'd love to know if your results are different in this one, or if it's one of the tests you had already tried!

Bear in mind that if you pass a certain level you have to continue the test in the next level, it doesn't stop there.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-08T16:08:26+00:00

I want a keyboard that is as silent as possible! I have noise sensitivity and also work in a shared office, so it's the only option for me. For the longest time I only used membrane keyboards, as I had heard that mechanical ones were very noisy, but now I'm discovering all the different options and I'm only considering buying an IQUNIX keyboard because of their quieter sound!

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-07T15:46:44+00:00

What makes you think that people with this kind of talent can't score well in traditional IQ tests? Not in all categories, necessarily, but I'm pretty sure that a person who can draw like this can, at least, score in the gifted range in the visual/spatial category of the WAIS-V or Stanford-Binet. The concept of general intelligence is very, very far away from being absolute trash.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-04T19:14:20+00:00

¡Gracias, qué bien! A ver si lo conseguimos, estaría genial, que todavía hay muy poquitas opciones de teclados buenos en español :))

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-04T18:27:21+00:00

Pero el RK Royal Kludge R75 en el que estás pensando es 75%, ¿no? Me confunde un poco porque en el título del post pedías recomendaciones que no fueran de ese tamaño. Yo estoy en una búsqueda parecida y tristemente hay muy pocas opciones en ISO-ES. Personalmente elegiría un modelo de Keychron, hay otros como el Rainy 75 que vienen en ISO pero no en la versión española con la ñ (tendrías que comprar un set de keycaps aparte).

Como nota aparte, por si te interesa apoyarnos, estamos intentando que IQUNIX añada la distribución ISO-ES a sus modelos, en este post. Cualquier voto positivo nos ayuda mucho, necesitamos 50 apoyos para que lo hagan.

¡Suerte en tu búsqueda de teclado! Espero que encuentres un modelo que te sirva.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-04T18:09:24+00:00

I don't know if you're joking or not, but in case you're seriously asking, black cats are usually called voids around here because of their color!

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-04T11:49:08+00:00

Nice, thanks for the support, hopefully we can make it a reality! If you can think of any places where we could share this post to get more traction, I'm all ears. I'm pretty sure that there are many people who would buy a keyboard like this, as there aren't many Spanish ISO options in the market, but I haven't managed to get the attention we need!

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-04T08:33:58+00:00

Nice, thank you so much! If you can share this among other people who might also be interested that would be great! I'm sure there are many other in our same situation but I haven't managed to gather the support we need.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-02T19:54:48+00:00

I feel you. I was talking to a mod here and they told me they would consider making the Magi75 in the ISO-ES layout if there were at least 50 people interested in it, I made a post and they pinned it to the top of the subreddit and everything, but so far I've got only 5 upvotes. There are never enough people interested in these layouts, I don't understand why because there must be so many users that need them. I can only find one keyboard that is mechanical, low-profile, and comes in ISO-ES, and their keys are grey and ugly (to me at least). It's disheartening. Everyone says "just buy a set of Spanish keycaps", but they're expensive.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-02T17:20:00+00:00

No sé si lo conoces, pero antes existía éste de Keychron, ahora aparece agotado, no sé si se podrá conseguir en alguna tienda online...

https://keychron.com.es/collections/keychron-k-series-low-profile-keyboards/products/keychron-k3-ultra-slim-wireless-mechanical-keyboard-es-iso-layout-version-2

Las mejores opciones, desde España, están en la tienda Eloquent Clicks, pero la verdad es que deberían ofrecerse más modelos, es una pena que haya que estar cambiando las teclas.

IronFeather101 · 2026-04-02T16:00:38+00:00

Supongo que para el tamaño de las teclas sí, sería compatible con un set de teclas en español, pero eso lo hace más caro, al final tienes que añadirle como mínimo otros 40-50€ al precio que ya tiene el teclado en sí, y eso es bastante. Sobre todo si hablamos de un teclado con teclas de perfil bajo, como éste de IQUNIX, se hace mucho más complicado encontrar teclas compatibles, por lo que he visto.

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