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Oh, that's good to hear! Always had the impression that the blob-free distros caused compatibility headaches, but glad to be wrong I suppose.

Edit: And I should say I didn't mean to pick on Trisquel in particular, it was just the one GNU recommended distro I remembered by name.

I studied some more kanji this week, watched a few videos from Easy German.

Probably my best step this week was finally setting up Yomitan w/ AnkiConnect. Been meaning to for a while, now I can mine cards that aren't so barebones.

Great milestone to go there and get the experience. Thank you for sharing!

Something (at least to me) about going and finding people who don't speak English (or at least don't speak it well) really activates that sense in the brain of like, this is important, it's worth all the learning.

That's really great! Mistakes happen, but sounds like you've hit the important milestone of being able to communicate well enough. Great job!

Also sounds like the calmer parts were the most fun. Do you foresee being able to go back? :)

O-U-L-D

Took me a sec too

I generally think of GNU as being foundational (or, old) and principled.

I really appreciate the contributions they've made to both core utilities and especially philosophy.

But I don't see them as lighting up the world or adding anything new lately. I think of vaporware like Hurd with 1000 year dev cycles. I think of them recommending Linux distributions like Trisquel that let perfect be the enemy of pretty good.

Might be that OP is super awesome or just lucky. I'm no sort of authority, but all the layoff headlines I'm seeing lately make things seem so dire.

I think I had similar impressions. Loved the fast pace, great animations, the plethora of references to all sorts of games. It's a nonstop audiovisual treat of a nostalgia trip.

Thinking about it after, some of the plot really makes me mad. Mainly the backstory of Bowser's bed time story to Jr. Other stuff like that, everything that happens just happens or gets moved on by the dumbest, hollowest reasons. There's no excuse for the choppy story. It can be for children, it can be action focused, but the little bit that is there doesn't have to be frustratingly vapid.

And yet... I come away overall really liking it. I'd hoped I could say without caveats that it was great, and I can't. But I was smiling the whole time, and it didn't overstay the welcome.

I haven't tried it yet, but Mina the Hollower just released and seems really cool. Should be way less than 20 GB.

JPDB.io does something like this for Japanese. Not sure you can really import books, but it basically combines some kind of parser in with a dictionary API, example sentence corpus, and its own spaced repetition system.

Gotta be something along the line out there for most languages, but I can't say I know of the tools. Honestly, the breaking-down-into-a base-word part of it is probably in the dictionary's domain. If you give it a conjugated verb it should usually be able to tell. But then some ambiguities need context, not sure how to account for that.

AnkiConnect lets you tap into the Anki APIs, Wiktionary or (from a quick search) Collins should have a dictionary API available for French-English. If the dictionary APIs are good then you could probably get pretty far with basic sentence parsing.

But yeah, feels like there's gotta be something ready made for it, wish I knew and could point you in a direction.

There are a lot of good ones. I'll just highlight Streets of Rage 2. Plays great, music is great, looks good. It's my favorite game on either system.

Shining Force

It started out really slow, but now I'm mid-late game. I've got a band of characters I like and I'm on the cusp of promoting most of them.

It's older and less refined than other games I've played in the genre (ie, Fire Emblems), but it's been a good time.