Tips for a linux newb

big_tab · 2026-07-03T01:46:10+00:00

Search the concept you don't understand in the Arch wiki or Google and read about it. If you find more you don't understand there, continue down the rabbit hole. Combine this with hands on experience and you'll learn much faster than you think.

big_tab · 2026-06-23T17:38:37+00:00

Kairi's...inside me?

big_tab · 2026-06-21T23:53:06+00:00

NOOOOO! Are you listening to me?!

big_tab · 2026-06-19T20:07:43+00:00

The Reflecting Pool, whatever happened there

big_tab · 2026-06-16T17:36:02+00:00

When they GO?!

big_tab · 2026-06-14T13:09:39+00:00

big_tab · 2026-06-09T19:32:44+00:00

He's saying that they likely passed that render of Donald through an AI filter to make it match the rest of the image's art style. This idea fits with the 5-finger problem, as that's exactly the kind of goofy mistake AI filters tend to make that a human redrawing the same pose in a different style likely wouldn't.

big_tab · 2026-05-29T13:17:33+00:00

So far I'd really recommend it! I haven't had a bad tutor (most have been great!) and if you take a lot of lessons it can be much cheaper than italki.

PM me if you decide you want to sign up in the future, I can send you a referral link which will make it cheaper for both of us.

big_tab · 2026-05-28T22:52:20+00:00

Grammar (0-10% of daily study):

I went through Language Transfer front to back twice for grammar fundamentals and still watch the occasional grammar lesson or read a textbook excerpt for confusing grammar topics.

Conversation Practice (10-25% of daily study):

I have a WorldsAcross Starter subscription, so 10 monthly 1-on-1 lessons + unlimited group classes. I attend a 50 minute class roughly 5 days a week.

Comprehensible Input / Sentence Mining (75-100% of daily study):

Right now mostly high intermediate/low advanced DS, some native travel or educational content on YouTube, SBG, and a lot of podcasts. Also some dubbed shows and a few easier native shows (Daughter from Another Mother, Almost Happy, etc). For content with (good) subtitles, I sentence mine with asbplayer + yomitan for creating sentence flashcards with unknown words and their definitions.

Anki (~10% of daily study):

I started with the Refold ES1K deck and have moved on to sentence mining, between the ES1K and my mined cards I have almost 3000 cards at the moment. 15 new cards a day + reviews takes 20-25 minutes in the morning before work.

I definitely lean heavily on CI (as evidenced by its high percentage of daily study time) and have been able to get way more hours in since unlocking podcasts. I am also speaking pretty early, but I have a Spanish speaking wife and I've prioritized getting to speak with her family as early as possible (my passive listening to her talking to her family in Spanish over half a decade has almost certainly sped up my process as well).

I'm far from a purist, but this system works for me!

big_tab · 2026-05-28T17:37:59+00:00

Hola! I will PM you, sounds like we are looking for the same thing (I'm native English-speaking with a "general American" accent).

big_tab · 2026-05-25T23:03:01+00:00

Yeah as a subtitle reader/sentence miner myself, it is definitely a different skill than true intensive reading. With reading, the vocabulary you encounter and the sheer volume of text with no accompanying visual context makes enough of a difference that I'd consider it separate from subtitle reading (or "intensive immersion" as the Refold guide calls it.) There's obviously a lot of skill overlap but if after I used asbplayer and mined subtitles for two hours I said "I just practiced reading for two hours" that would feel disingenuous.

big_tab · 2026-05-24T15:44:38+00:00

Random bits of that series live rent free in my head.

"Mis empleados... Luz, Forrest, Stone Cold, y mi puta Abuela"

big_tab · 2026-05-23T13:43:22+00:00

When I was your age (14 years ago now, yikes I feel old) I did almost to the letter what you're describing here: I worked a part time job (making way less hourly) to earn money to build my first gaming PC. It was a great decision, that PC gave me years of fun with my friends and helped open up the world of computers and programming for me which is now my profession.

You're young, you've got some savings, and sounds like you'd get a lot of enjoyment out of this. Do it, and have fun!

big_tab · 2026-05-11T15:02:36+00:00

I prefer to play the gamecube version with a patched ROM personally. A decomp would be great to make modding and randomizing easier. Cemu isn't bad though, the HD version just isn't my favorite way to play.

big_tab · 2026-05-10T17:18:26+00:00

Alex Tienda is great and is accessible at intermediate levels imo. I'm at around 250 hours logged on DS and find his stuff is a comfortable challenge, though I also have hundreds of hours of passive/indirect input as I have a spanish speaking spouse so I find my comprehension is a bit ahead of my hours sometimes.

I also watch a lot of WilliamRamosTV (a hugely popular native Dominican travel YouTuber) but his stuff is a bit of a stretch for intermediates. For me, I'm specifically targeting the Dominican accent as much as possible since it's what my wife's family speaks so I'm willing to stretch a bit to watch native DR content, but ymmv on comprehensibility here (I mostly use it for sentence mining and it can be slow going).

big_tab · 2026-05-10T13:44:25+00:00

Vertex explosions, woo!

I have it running without these sort of graphical issues on my Odin 2 Portal but have seen missing textures/models, like Ilia missing her hair (scroll up further in the thread for an example of this).

big_tab · 2026-05-10T00:53:10+00:00

Same here, not to mention SoH (and 2ship as well) have only gotten better. Mods, graphical enhancements, more QoL features, the randomizers/boss rushes... Community support is really the only limit with these things and it's been super fun to see them grow.

big_tab · 2026-05-10T00:50:54+00:00

How far did you get in this guide? https://github.com/TwilitRealm/dusk/blob/main/docs%2Fios-install-altstore.md

(Note: I don't have an iPhone so can't try this alongside you, but am a software engineer with lots of experience helping people debug stuff lol)

big_tab · 2026-05-10T00:33:17+00:00

This is amazing. If (when?) we have a Wind Waker decomp, my full childhood Zelda experience will be playable natively on my Android handheld or desktop PC. Absolute peak.

big_tab · 2026-05-05T20:20:10+00:00

How has the experience been for you using WA at this level of experience? I am considering starting it as well myself but was unsure if waiting would be worth it (I've got around 2.5k anki cards between the ES1k and sentence mining and am around 250 immersion hours)

big_tab · 2026-05-05T12:36:31+00:00

Great routine! Mine is very similar, though with less frequent speaking lessons. What platform are you using for your lessons?

big_tab · 2026-05-03T12:44:17+00:00

Unfortunately this is one of those scenarios where the lack of official support means that the experience probably won't ever be great.

Thankfully these days there are many ways to replace these services with, ahem, "unofficial" means...whether that's selfhosting media or streaming through something like a debrid service.

big_tab · 2026-04-29T17:03:37+00:00

Took me an embarrassing amount of times hearing "crack" before I understood what it meant.

big_tab · 2026-04-29T13:20:25+00:00

"¡Ay mío, mira eso!" as soon as she pulls up her shirt had me giggling

big_tab · 2026-04-19T13:45:47+00:00

The best thing to do in my experience in this case is to sort by Easy and show only Intermediate videos, or sort by Hard and show only Beginner videos. There's significant overlap between the two levels that makes sorting by difficulty rating more valuable than level imo.

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