Sorry for the late response (for some reason eternity took a bit to show me this).

I used matrix a long time ago so I don’t remember it too well but from what I recall my reasons for leaving are:

1. lack of proper apps There’s a few apps for matrix; but if you want to use matrix as a discord replacement you are locked into either the official element app or hope a 3rd party app supports it. Additionally most clients are written using electron; which lies at the core of a lot of issues discord has.
2. voice calling This is less of a concern about matrix itself; but if you want to use it as a discord replacement VOIP is a hard requirement, discord has it’s current market share because it had a really easy to set up and use VOIP service compared to skype (which ran itself into the ground to become teams) and teamspeak (which you need to host yourself or rent a server for). Matrix does 1:1 voice calls fine (it beats 2016 discord), but group and video calls are done over jitsi which takes the app from an annoying background electron hog to a devourer of frames when you’re trying to play a game on less than ideal hardware. also because you can host a jitsi conference basically anywhere it defeats the purpose of doing one over matrix.
3. self-hosting This is something I’ve heard from others as I never hosted any of these; but this is from more than just luke smith’s video. Matrix servers are resource hogs, especially compared to the xmpp/jabber servers which I’ve heard are pretty lightweight and have the ability to integrate accounts from mastodon, lemmy, pleroma, … Do note that I don’t have personal experience on this point, so take it with a grain of salt.
4. matrix is unintuitive This is coming from somebody who has braved the discord UI for ages which is far from intuitive either; but matrix takes a special medal in my book. It’s like it’s trying to mimic slack (which discord also does); but channels and servers are mixed? The UI for element (although nice looking) is straight up terrible, settings were all over the place, and when I finally thought I’d figured something out there’s 3 more things I’d have to configure which are in totally different menus, friend and server channels are mixed with no way of separating them (unless there’s an option in a settings panel somewhere; but even I who figured out discord’s community onboarding didn’t find it) The encryption and approval process for new apps is nice, on paper… in reality it means that if you get logged out on your main session (which I found constantly happened on element) you’d be unable to read any messages before and you now had to resecure your account through one of the settings panels which I will tell you right now that no sane person will ever figure out so now all the messages they send come with a warning attached. lastly there’s the same issues you have with trying to onboard people onto mastodon or lemmy where they need to find an instance and deal with defederation; but turned up to 11 with nobody really explaining it. they also tell (suggest strongly so nobody really chooses anything else) you to make your account on the primary matrix server anyways which defeats the point of a decentralized protocol as nearly everyone is on the same instance.

1, 2, and 4 were by far my big gripes; and I probably could overcome 4 today now I’m familiar with the fediverse (which I wasn’t even a year ago) and I bet the UI has improved at least a little since my last endeavor years ago; but 1 and 2 are dealbreakers if it ever wants to pull anyone from discord, either make the official app good, or get decent 3rd party ones; discord is surviving on linux because it’s still the best option and it’s not even a decent one, voice calling also needs to be improved if it wants me; because it’s just easier to set up and host your own mumble server than get any shred of performance in matrix group calls and mumble’s VOIP implementation is nothing short of excellent.

the upgrade from 0.18 to 0.19 apparently changed some things with the login system. I for example had to log out and back in on the Eternity app.

If the issue persists after that then you should probably file a bug report for your mobile app.

Exactly this worked best for me back in the day

Not just you, your brain is wired to pick up language, how did you learn your first one?

I’m German and while we have some mandatory English classes, they’re …well … not good.

I can attest that English classes here aren’t great either (although most people here do speak English as a second or third language)

and at least the teacher I had first also had a VERY thick German accent

This is a known side effect of premature output (writing/speaking before you feel comfortable doing so), you don’t just listen to what’s around you, you primarily listen to yourself and pronunciation differs between languages, this premature output becomes toxic input for your brain which then uses that from then on (you can try and get rid of it; but it is really hard to do)

once I was halfway through the game my brain kinda switched to “English mode” and I actually learned words and grammar in a natural way instead of trying to force myself to understand what the hell a “singular past tense adverb” is.

Yup, that’s natural understanding for you. When you speak a language you don’t care about the rules; you should instinctively know them.

As for my issue with Duolingo: it ignores the amount of time it takes to properly acquire a language, if I were to split up all the time I spent watching english youtube into 5 minute chunks it’d take me well over 15 years (and that’s just accounting for the initial 4 month span; I’ve learned more things after as I naturally used the language). Combine that with the fact it throws established research on this topic to the wayside to push the school-based one which we know goes against the natural way in which we learn. I found a great blog post online about this, while it mostly revolves around learning Japanese; the core principles apply to learning pretty much any language. The beginning of the post does sum the entire thing up pretty well though:

We do not recommend “language learning” apps like Duolingo, Lingodeer, Babbel, and others due to the fact that their methodology conflicts with AJATT’s principles of immersion learning. Such apps do not actually help you with anything. There are no success stories. On the other hand, AJATTers typically reach fluency in just 18 months. The apps prevent you from reading interesting content in your target language, such as manga. And they make you more miserable in the end.

There are some really good parts in that blog that apply to any language; but a lot of it is geared towards Japanese specifically.

The best course of action is to consume as much content in the target language as possible, tv shows, music, YouTube videos… Your brain will eventually pick up on certain parts of the language naturally. Also the best thing you can do is to not force yourself to speak or write in that language until you are comfortable doing so (this is one of the biggest things doulingo does wrong).

I can attest to this method working as I went from barely knowing a couple of English words to speaking it in about 4 months (you could probably do less if you stick to what I outlined above). To back up this method I suggest you look at antimoon which is written by people who have used this to learn English as well.

Heya, seems you made a post to lemmy from a mastodon instance.

You can post to lemmy from mastodon, but there are a few things to keep in mind:

1. The first line of your post is the title (if you only post 1 line lemmy will duplicate it), Lemmy only allows text here and things like links will look broken.
2. Hashtags do work on Lemmy, but they will not be useful for discovery here we use communities instead (which display as groups on mastodon)
3. Only the first image in your post is visible on Lemmy, be mindful of this when posting image or video content

I am a human that stumbled upon your post, if you have any questions feel free to reply.

Except all but 3 apps are built on top of things that don’t support it.

Maybe in the future; but I don’t have too much hope right now.

I’ve been using when, it’s very simple; but so are my needs for a calendar.

Go to the site, right click on the url bar and at the bottom there’s the option.

Any site that implements open search can be added.

Only consistent dark theme so I use it on all the mobile apps, I’d much rather have some way of defining a custom theme for apps to follow like you can do with GTK and Qt on Linux.

I loved the first half of season 1, anything past that was riding on the hype train for me, season 2 felt like shit when it came out so I dropped it a few episodes in.

The whole redemption arc was great and I lived it, sad it decided to keep it so short as it was the highlight for many.

That said, Mushoku Tensei does the whole redemption arc amazingly as you see Rudeus grow throughout the series and it’s second season is a much appreciated slow burn where we get a good idea of his mental state while things are moving off screen.

This is being done by the studio that did S4 of high school DxD and interspecies reviewers which were pretty solid in my book so I have hopes for this one, doubly so since I’ve been looking to get into the series for a bit now

Then it might be one of those scripts

Discord’s electron still hasn’t received the patch for spectre/meltdown mitigation in the browser, I doubt they will ever have to deal with manifest V3 or WEI.

You can save posts on Lemmy, for me it’s a bookmark icon (I use liftoff) they will show up in your bookmarks.

I love this feature as a nice “come back to this later” button

Man, that’s just ice cold

I haven’t had a need for it and it got in my way more than anything else.

No problem, I was looking for this after I tried using fish seriously for a month and it was the only thing I needed

main pc: 2015 toshiba satellite held together by duct tape (runs arch BTW) second pc: an old HP laptop that was given to me recently, don’t know when it was made but it has a windows 7 sticker on it (also runs arch BTW am I good for 2 accounts here now?) and a tower PC I was given and used as makeshift server until the HDD started failing S.M.A.R.T. tests and I haven’t replaced the drive on it yet, ran various things on it, but mostly centos (before it got killed) and then rocky, also has a windows 7 sticker on it.

(and like the true weeb I am I named them all after anime girls)

you should be able to reconfigure the plugin, I have it set to pull from history first and after that look for standard command completion using the following:

ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_STRATEGY=(history completion)

important is that you put this BEFORE sourcing the plugin.

the github should carry more information on how to configure this plugin.

PS: I use all of 4 plugins (fzf-tab-bin, zsh-autosuggestions, zsh-syntax-highlighting, zsh-history-substring-search) and I have a better shell in zsh than I will ever have in fish, I don’t need anything more fancy and oh-my-zsh is hell to work with compared to a simple .zshrc I handrolled because it’s got any other shell I know beat (yes I know of nushell and it is cool, but it’s even less posix than fish). also, once you’re done run zcompile .zshrc, you won’t regret it.

CoC and Nerd tree are popular plugins, but I personally found CoC slow (on a 7 year old laptop) and I’ve switched to using coq with neovim’s native LSP (helped by LSPconfig) and I’ve always used Chad tree by the same author.

A couple of other plugins I commonly use are: fzf, vim-polyglot, auto-pairs, nvim-treesitter (this has many IDE’s beat IMO), vim-which-key, lualine.nvim, nvim-web-devicons, barbar.nvim, gitsigns.nvim, rainbow-parentheses.vim

You can also set scrolloff and sidescrolloff to something like 99999 to keep the cursor centered.

For the rest I have Shift+hjkl for 10 line jumps and Ctrl+hjkl for jumping between panes. You might want to increase your keyboard repeat rate (I have a timeout of 200ms and a rate of 70Hz personally, but that might be a bit fast for you), some hardcore vim users may also like to swap caps lock and escape, but I had mixed results with that.