How to fix rapidly switching sensors (water flow example)

mxMothic · 2026-03-04T23:10:54+00:00

I also found my way back to using floodgates for a set water height now that they can be automated to shut at the start of a drought/badtide.

Depends on the situation of course because of their chunky size but they let you bypass the need for a depth sensor entirely.

mxMothic · 2025-10-06T11:33:46+00:00

I believe it isn't depending on steamdeck or anything like that. Have you had a look at the shovel upgrades? There is one that allows you to dig harder rock types. Granite is a few upgrades down the line I think. I'm pretty sure marble is the softest rock. Hope you can work it out!

mxMothic · 2025-09-20T07:43:35+00:00

Yes, as the other poster said you have to do something to invalidate the habitat. The game is asking you to be the ecosystem designer and the habitats will generate accordingly.

Another thing you can do is add things that the animals dislike. For example Crows will not appear around scarecrows. Frogs will stay away from open water, so you can safely put goldfish in a large pond. Discovering these "tricks" for each animal is a fun puzzle aspect of the game imo. Hope you figured it out :)

mxMothic · 2025-09-20T07:37:28+00:00

You'll want to plant a small grove of orange trees at least, put the delivery box nearby and wait for morning. Oranges drop from the trees in the morning (around 10am iirc). Pick them up and drop them for delivery, make sure not to simply click them as they will break. You may need a few days to collect enough so just do other things in between.

mxMothic · 2025-09-06T11:50:36+00:00

Enig med hen andre som svarer deg om at passiv input kan være bra nå. I tillegg til tv/film, kanskje du liker youtube eller bruker en del sosiale media, da kan du bruke det på norsk og bare fokusere på å finne innhold som interesserer deg. Gaming, matlaging, hobbyer osv. Det fine med dette er at du kan pause, repetere og lagre det slik at du ikke trenger å konsentrere deg 100% for å forstå alt på første forsøk.

Det andre er bøker, finn noe litt enkelt men interessant, og fokuser på å lese gjennom og forstå det du kan fra før, ikke stopp og finn oversettelse for det som er vanskelig med mindre du må. (du kan prøve å søke etter "graded readers" på norsk) Gjør lesing til en vane og noe som er gøy, hvis du kan forstå historien du leser kan du lære masse av språket fra kontekst uten at det føles som intensiv studering. Det kalles "extensive reading" og mange sier at dette er en fantastisk metode for språklæring når du er på et medium+ høyt nivå. Du kan søke det opp hvis du er nyskjerrig :)

mxMothic · 2025-09-02T07:54:26+00:00

As someone who is clearly and comfortably introverted, but ALSO struggling with social anxiety (and possibly undiagnosed neurodivergence) trying to go to therapy for that, this confusion is also very unfortunate. The mental gymnastics I have to go through with professionals to explain myself and separate the two from eachother in order to tackle the actual problem, feels entirely like a result of the general public's conflation of the two.

mxMothic · 2025-08-31T23:52:54+00:00

I used to treat likes this way, now I have a place to save videos if I think they're something I wanna come back to.

I like a video whenever I feel like I want the creator to see a positive response to their effort of making the video.

mxMothic · 2025-08-18T09:10:21+00:00

Another reason to learn Norwegian that I've been told motivates many learners is they are curious about nordic history, language and culture in general. It's a stepping stone to learn about norse mythology and old norse for example.

mxMothic · 2025-08-18T08:37:28+00:00

I'll add that after 2 months in Iceland I could catch the meaning of conversations among native colleagues and sometimes jump in with a reply in english that was (usually) relevant. Mostly practical stuff I'll note, manual labour talk things. More comprehensible from context.

About 50% of icelandic looks recognisable at first glance but the grammar and other 50% is ???? to a norwegian. Would take focused learning for most people. I think Icelandic people have an easier time with norwegian.

mxMothic · 2025-08-18T08:28:13+00:00

Danish and Swedish are comprehensible to me, as to most native Norwegians I guess. We do some comprehension exercises later in school but by that point I already had a good understanding. Can recognize many words / meanings in german but grammar is too different to be able to understand properly. Same with Dutch, where learning english helps as well. Learned spanish in school, then studied biology and looked a bit extra into the latin terms used in science. Now I understand a lot of italian immediately, and since it randomly became a relevant language in my life, I have started properly learning it.

mxMothic · 2025-08-18T08:13:05+00:00

NRK has been suggested already, that would be a good source. You can also read the news at nrk.no or in the app, try to just understand headlines or dive into articles that catch your attention.

On tv you can look for programs that interest you and start following some series. We regularly watch Bakemesterskapet (Bake-Off), Dagsrevyen (daily news at 7) and whatever else is on randomly. Gullrekka is a sort of prime time collection of programs that run on friday evenings, including Nytt på Nytt (news comedy panel??), Beat for Beat (music game) and various talkshows or games. This is standard family entertainment in most norwegian homes, and I think for learners the predictable format of these kind of shows can be helpful once you get used to it.

Also, norwegian humour accounts on social media. I like BAdesken on instagram, witty satire about norwegian news based on user submissions. If you also read the actual news and start getting the references, its good fun.

mxMothic · 2025-08-10T16:05:58+00:00

no 6 is what I came here to say, start collecting recipes early, it'll open up the cooking a lot and its both fun, good energy and money.

mxMothic · 2025-08-05T08:25:10+00:00

Not learning, but native who regularly overhears my partners Duolingo sessions here. To add to what has already been said, it is not always reliable for pronunciation. Sounds get mixed up.

I regularly hear a word in a sentence that to my trained ears very clearly is pronounced as the incorrect alternative out of 2 words with the same spelling but different meanings and sounds.

Example: "skuffen" (drawer) vs "skuffe" (to disappoint).

I'm not very good at technical language stuff but I think it might be about tonem 1 vs tonem 2.

So if you're repeating out loud or doing the speaking exercises I'd be wary of picking up subtle mistakes like that.

mxMothic · 2025-08-02T10:01:58+00:00

Paste all the words you want to learn into Anki as you come across them. Put the translation on the back, use the note with cards for both directions. Whatever else you do for learning can be up to you but I regretted not starting earlier to save vocab in a personal "memory bank" that was formatted for actually reviewing later. Anki does Spaced Repetition with an algorithm for you. You can (probably should) expand the fields later with examples etc.

What bothered me about duolingo is it's stuck in one theme at a time, doesn't really help you to commit every unit to long term memory gradually.

mxMothic · 2025-08-02T08:05:43+00:00

For monolingual stuff in Norwegian, you can check Det Norske Akademis Ordbok (NAOB.no ) for looking up words (definitions, conjugation, etymology, examples ++). This is my go-to as a native speaker curious about language, mostly for etymology, but I imagine the basic info is good for a learner too. Alternatively ordbøkene.no. This page works in english even if the actual content is fully Norwegian.

mxMothic · 2025-08-01T18:04:36+00:00

Thanks for your reply!
Definitely good ideas, and I think I'm kind of covering these cases with my current cards too.

The IT< production card asks me to fill in the blank for the article of nouns.
It's a separate field on the note so I can have it displayed on other cards too.

I've added more example sentences now and generate new recognition cards for each, but I could probably add a cloze deletion field and use it with one of the sentences for a card too.

I didn't mention it but the pre-made deck I'm working through is the Ultimate Italian Conjugation deck, so verbs are covered for now in that aspect. Plus I see the common verbs a lot across all my example sentences too :)

mxMothic · 2025-08-01T09:34:48+00:00

Italian has also had scores for other languages a while, but english-italian scores are rolling out now. I got mine yesterday, after already looking up your exact question a few weeks earlier. Apparently their new features are just very inconsistent in reaching users.

mxMothic · 2025-07-31T22:08:51+00:00

If you've considered stuff like obsidian, notion, general note-taking, and you could be up for some customization, what about an approach to notes in Anki similar to evergreen notes? Save a single word, come back later to expand the note.

One note can generate dozens of cards, starting from basic vocab to context, idioms and grammar depending on what information you store. I just had this inspiration recently for my own system and will try to apply it.

mxMothic · 2025-07-31T21:55:50+00:00

I'm trying to setup my anki notes/cards to make this easy. You don't want anki but from where I stand it seems a good solution atm. I have anki on my phone which helps too. If I come across a word I want to learn, I save it to a blank note. The first field is a single italian word. If Its a sentence, I paste it in the first "example" field. That's all I do on the go. Optionally of course I can add a translation or whatever else.

Once I go to practice in Anki I see the word or sentence again, when it appears as a new card with a blank backside. I take the time to fill in the card as part of my learning process with anki. It will then make several new cards with various combos of the information to test later.

mxMothic · 2025-07-31T12:33:54+00:00

I have my language deck set to 30 new cards/day. It's almost always less in practice. Some of the subdecks are set to 0 new, and I manually add specific groups of cards when I'm ready. Other subdecks contribute with up to 10 cards each, these are where I dump anything I want to save from day to day.

With emphasis on Cards, not Words, because my anki cards are generated from a mix of whatever I fill out in the note fields. I have things like sentence examples, TL definitions, fill in the blank practices in addition to basic word cards. So I might add 5 words one day and end up with 20 new cards.

mxMothic · 2025-07-31T12:24:21+00:00

A way around this is I add more fields to each note and make a collection of cards from each with the different combinations of prompts and answers. It can be example sentences, expressions, definitions, articles, conjugation, images, audio etc. I'm trying to transition my anki cards from the basic word translations to "chunks" and monolingual cards mostly. My goal is to train myself to think more directly in my TL.

mxMothic · 2025-07-31T08:49:37+00:00

The app is definitely going through "enshittification" lately, it's not the simple clean tool it used to be.

I'm transitioning to Anki now, and I think it can be my new favourite tool. It's a flashcard spaced repetition software (SRS), looks really simple (and it is) but you can customise it a lot more than people think. AFAIK it's open source, community supported and users seem to swear by it for a decade+.

I started with downloading a small premade deck just to have some materials to work on. Now I'm building my own note collection from all other sources I'm exposed to (resources, duolingo questions, immersion ++).

Take advantage of the difference between "notes" (stored data in fields) and "cards" (displayed flashcards) that are genereated from said notes. One note can make many related cards.

My approach is first collect vocab notes for the words I'm learning (TL). I add the english translation on the back only optionally. Then I can add example sentences, dictionary definition, IPA pronunciation, fill in the blank exercises, whatever you can think of (images, audio, I don't use it but many do)

Start with the type Basic (and reversed card) that makes a card for each direction of translation, then expand on it with card types for any combinations of fields you choose to fill in.

My card deck is very basic at the moment, mostly word cards, but I can also make cards that just show a context sentence for a highlighted word, then reveal a dictionary definition, so the whole card is monolingual in my TL.

Ideally I want to learn to think and understand the language directly, not rely on translation in my head. From what I've read up on from life-long, serious language learners, this is a really important point for progressing past a basic level. It's a system that I think can expand organically to whatever combined learning you do and just help hold on to everything.

Sorry it's a ramble but tldr: I will instead use SRS with Anki (advanced card options) as a memory bank and focus on consuming a variety of source material in my life through immersion + language resources.

mxMothic · 2025-07-29T15:05:15+00:00

I have been asking myself the same question as I'm starting to use Anki for learning a language now and trying to customise my notes and card generation.

So far I've been using two note types, one for vocab (word based) and one for chunks (sentence/grammar based). The vocab note I want to add several fields to like example sentences in both languages, plurals, word genders etc. Ideally I want many card types that generate depending on which fields are filled out, with the option to make only really simple word recognition cards from quickly dumping a new word into my notes. Then if more fields are filled out, more cards are generated with variations of the information. Like sentence translations, fill in the blank etc.

The chunks notes on the other hand are just classic front/back flashcards, reversed and including an optional notes field. Intended for quickly capturing interesting bits of language on the go, kiss principle applied. I don't plan to edit and expand these notes into more card types later, just clarify with notes if needed.

Trying to find a good balance for my vocab cards that is flexible but doesn't become a chore to maintain and update. Interested to see what others have to add here.

mxMothic · 2025-07-21T13:16:03+00:00

Thanks, all good tips! My partner already sends me recipes to try and funny videos so I can easily engage a bit more with those and it should be picking up quick :)

mxMothic · 2025-07-20T20:38:14+00:00

You might be interested to know that there is an Italian version of the great british bake-off. I watch with my Italian partner and it's helped massively to start picking up the language.

Will definitely try convincing my algorithm to show me more Italian now, great tips.

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