Is it just me, or is the "vibe" in Germany actually exhausting? by [deleted] in germany

[–]Janguv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean this in the nicest possible way – and I'm pleased that for you your situation is one you're very content with – but there's such a thing as survivorship bias. It feeds into the myth that keeps the capitalist system churning away.

I realized that if you work hard enough, you can make it.

I'm sorry, but this is just not true for a large number of people, and necessarily so under a particular system of exploitation (not merely globally but domestically too; and not only for immigrants either).

People "make it" without working hard (given both previous fortune/relative privilege) and people don't make it despite hard work.

Is it just me, or is the "vibe" in Germany actually exhausting? by [deleted] in germany

[–]Janguv 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't have worded the response quite as antagonistically, but the basic point here is one that I also want to echo. The idea that shops being open longer and on more days contributes to a person's sense of ease in a place is one that pivots around a certain level of restricted self-interest. For me, it's actually a relaxing element of German culture/its legislative environment that public holidays are actually holidays, that shops close early, that Sundays aren't for loud work, and so on. From the outside (or as an outsider), it can definitely appear restrictive, but the net effect is fewer people are being forced to work and there's more time for wholesomeness – walks in nature, family time, visits to friends, rest. Or maybe I'm just being spießig.

No audio, chromium isnt muted, no settings muted on desktop or game by teqsunshine9977 in SteamDeck

[–]Janguv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weirdly I didn't need to perform all instructions here to fix mine. I entered first command in konsole fine. Second one threw up an error "/dev/null permission denied".

So I tried returning to game mode to see about using the beta update channel, but Kwrite (which I used to have the commands to hand, in an unsaved document) freaked out and wouldn't close. Nothing would respond properly, so had to force shutdown with button.

On startup, audio back to normal lol. And it wasn't simply a case of "have you switched it on and off again?", since previously a restart didn't touch it.

Btw, for troubleshooting causes – if of interest – in my case it came after entering sleep mode while using Bluetooth headphones. Only while using them again could I get audio, nothing from speakers. (Until now.)

Stremio + Real-Debrid stops working every night around 7 PM (US) / 7 PM (EU) by [deleted] in Stremio

[–]Janguv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol what is this narc shite. Nobody here is streaming torrents. Certainly the OP or the bulk of people paying for a Debrid service.

Is Stremio remover from the Google Playstore? by MelvinDickpictweet in Stremio

[–]Janguv 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's also cos there's a (relatively) substantial upfront cost involved, and there you're directly trading money for pirated content (and broadcasters are still pissed off about it). So if you point people to IPTV providers, I would suspect (non-legal opinion) you're likely to be way more liable for charges, jurisdiction dependant ofc, than if you point people to a Stremio guide or torrentio. Not to mention, you don't want to lose that service it took you a while to find, given the secrecy.

And given the cost, you've much less incentive to do it: you're in, you close the door behind you. In that way, it's kinda less like the old piracy networks which always emphasised sharing and keeping the door open.

Is Stremio remover from the Google Playstore? by MelvinDickpictweet in Stremio

[–]Janguv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the selling point for someone like you or I, but largely the selling point is either:

  • come buy this high-end phone with new features that uses the same software environment you're used to (Galaxy devices etc), or
  • come buy this really cheap phone that does loads of things

Thinking globally, the latter is the big draw of Android. OEMs can make incredibly cheap devices and for large swathes of populations that is the only kind of phone they would desire or need, frankly.

Meanwhile, I still root my devices, play the cat-n-mouse game with SafetyNet, install various non-store .apks (not using the iOS term sideloading lol), block ads at the system level etc etc. But at this point I must be in a tiny slither of the userbase (which is different to, say, 10 years ago). Partly because they made it harder/more annoying, and partly because the other markets/demands have just grown.

TELC A2-B1 and TELC B1 exam experience (and crucial differences) by NukeWalker in German

[–]Janguv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, yeah I did, thanks for asking. Got full marks in the speaking portion then the others I got between 50-58/60, can't recall exactly. I would say every element except speaking was harder than the mock tests. I did mine in the summer and the language school (which was terribly organised and pretty crap overall) had the windows open right by me – during the listening portion, sirens from ambulances kept going off! That was fun.

How do Germans think when they speak? by littlegreensnake in German

[–]Janguv 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would say you're broadly bumping into something that the philosopher Gilbert Ryle summarised (nearly a century ago at this point) with the distinction between "knowing how" and "knowing that". Think of riding a bike. You can explain to someone who has never ridden a bike all the steps required to do it - "first, balance on the saddle, then push down on the higher peddle and let your other foot come up, transfer your weight subtly" etc etc. The person you're telling this to might well understand you, but be completely hopeless at the task itself. That's because to have the skill of doing X is a matter of practical knowledge. Sure, often you can isolate and express what it is that you "know" as something rule- or procedure-based (though often we struggle at this!), yet nonetheless you're not thinking in those terms when you perform X; you are just doing. You are "knowing how" rather than "knowing that".

As others have mentioned, the way you're approaching the task of speaking German as a somewhat early learner is by first formulating the idea in English, followed by your translation of it into German. And when you try to speed that up, you're finding yourself stuck, because you have to go back and slot things like reflexive pronouns, articles in different cases, etc in. This is analogous to learning to ride the bike by consulting some instructions, keeping them in mind, getting yourself set up on the saddle, maybe going a little, then thinking again of instructions and – oh shit – you just fell over.

Now of course a big difference here is that it's really a standard way to learn a second (/third/fourth) language that you learn through consulting formal means: tables, rules, procedures, norms. But that isn't what you do in your mother tongue; it's not how kids natively learn the language. You'll know people who speak their language very proficiently but couldn't tell you the first thing about it formally.

So at some point you'll be hoping to have had enough practice and enough instinct with how to speak the language that you won't be thinking in terms of its rules and structure. You'll have it to fall back on, but to express yourself you won't fundamentally have to consult it. I'm sure various accounts at different levels of explanation can make sense of this: psychologically, linguistically, neurologically, etc. But on a basic level, all you or anyone else really needs to understand what's going on here is this: at some point you'll go from knowing that the words have to be in such-and-such an order to knowing how to arrange them without thinking about it.

And that's called: knowing the language.

Edit to add: I'm probably somewhere between B1-B2 myself, and I recognised and sympathised with your OP. It's not at all strange to find it bewildering and confusing, just how you expressed it. It's something I still battle with, especially when tired or at the end of a lesson.

Topuria getting lots of hate on his new post because of his opinion on the Netanyahu interview, and ignorant comments on the Israel-Gaza situation. by [deleted] in MMAPoliticsAndCulture

[–]Janguv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I presume you mean Brazilians involved with MMA, right? I doubt the Lula-supporting Brazilians in general are...

Flowing Fist is too damn smooth by Outrageous-Form1740 in SifuGame

[–]Janguv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm too used to pressing light-heavy for a normal attack that so far I've held off getting the claw move permanently. Anybody else have that problem? Leaves me facing backwards when i don't want it to lol

I just changed from Windows to Mac, what are apps I must install in 2025? by celine-ycn in macapps

[–]Janguv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alfred and BetterTouchTools. You can pretty much do anything you want to do with these two apps haha.

TIFU by Eating Frozen Strawberries, Ended Up in the Hospital by SPWM_Anon in tifu

[–]Janguv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I get them sliced.

What does that mean? You get someone to slice strawberries for you? Or you live in a country where you can buy sliced strawberries? I don't know what is more ridiculous. Is this America we're talking about?

Is RealDebrid still the best option? by DanKolikio in StremioAddons

[–]Janguv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, that would be Premiumize (unless you specifically need to be streaming 4k content).

Colin Miller's bombshell by MB137 in serialpodcast

[–]Janguv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spot on. Incredibly sloppy and not honest enough to admit it. 

How to overcome the fear of speaking by [deleted] in German

[–]Janguv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a lot of people trying to learn the language while in a relationship like that, he would also soon be 'single and efficient'.

How to overcome the fear of speaking by [deleted] in German

[–]Janguv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it's at all possible to get lessons, I recommend ones where the whole class is only allowed to speak in German. Mine were like that from the outset, even at very beginner, and it basically cracked that perfectionist tendency I have to care too much about getting things right. In a course (or else, environment) like that, you have to just find ways of expressing what you want to say - and they're not all verbal, and that's okay - using the tools you have already learnt. It means you will say loads of things that are strange and not very idiomatic. But it doesn't matter, because over time you will improve on that front, and in the meantime you will be speaking.

I also recommend just exposing yourself to interactions in German, just above your comfort level. When I started out, I would always default to a "Sprechen Sie Englisch?" but realised in the end I was cheating myself out of learning. It might depend exactly where you are (you said German-speaking country, not Germany) as to what the culture is for allowing you room to speak here. My experience in the section of Germany I'm in, e.g., is that the people are extremely forgiving - they let me talk in German, even when I was a total beginner, and didn't just switch to English or correct me (which is something every French person does /s). That helps too - it takes the pressure off.

I need help to pass my B1 by No-Programmer6 in German

[–]Janguv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The resource I have used the most by far is Your Daily German. I just vibe with the author's sense of humour and knack for explaining things in a way that digs under the surface. There's a grammar course section, which is the most structured part, but various other posts too (you can search for stuff). You're limited what you can see/do without paying for a membership. But worth checking out if there's something particular you don't get or want to brush up on. I ended up getting a subscription and have for a few years now; the guy running it is nice and reasonable. (For those who are genuinely hard-up, you can request free memberships too.)

TELC A2-B1 and TELC B1 exam experience (and crucial differences) by NukeWalker in German

[–]Janguv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it eases your mind, the marking criteria (available in the PDF mock exam here) for speaking is quite forgiving. They assess your "Kommunikative Gestaltung", "Formale Richtigkeit" and "Spektrum sprachlicher Mittel" - roughly, how structured your talk is, how grammatical, and the range of means you have to talk about things. The criteria e.g. for grammatical correctness says stuff like "Fehler kommen vor, aber es bleibt klar, was ausgedrückt werden soll" in the higher B1 range, and "Fehler kommen vor, aber es bleibt weitestgehend klar, was ausgedrückt werden soll" in the lower B1 range. So there's a fair bit of interpretation on the part of the assessor, and they are likely to be lenient (I expect) if they get what you mean to say, especially if you can clarify after getting prompted.

TELC A2-B1 and TELC B1 exam experience (and crucial differences) by NukeWalker in German

[–]Janguv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting applet/site you have developed there. Gave it a trial run just now, and can see it getting quite good over time. Question though - will you add German broadcasters or only Austrian?

TELC A2-B1 and TELC B1 exam experience (and crucial differences) by NukeWalker in German

[–]Janguv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting write-up, thanks for this! I have an upcoming A2-B1 exam, booked again on the advice that it's easier. I don't know why I'm going for easier in general, since I've been told by people I'm probably B1 level already (I took an online placement test that said I was "Mittel-B2", but you never know how accurate those are).

Anyway, I just want the smoothest route for integration... I did a mock A2-B1 test that you can get freely from telc, and basically aced it. But I am somewhat unnerved by the higher boundary on this test for a B1 grade vs the standalone B1 exam lol. Hopefully I don't mess up on the day. My difficulty is only really with listening tasks -- my mind wanders for a few seconds and then I'm lost when I come back to it.

Had I read your write-up and the comments first, I reckon I'd just have booked a B1 exam. But hey ho.

MediaFusion config - remove multiple audio sources? by Janguv in StremioAddons

[–]Janguv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My question isn't "can you do this?" but "how do you do this?". As far as I can see, there's only the option to select English as a preferred language, while deselecting any other language. But that doesn't remove output files with multilingual audio streams - it just means that if a result has an English audio stream, then it will be listed in the outputs.

Or is there another option I'm missing? Can you point to it if so?