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I’ve got one of mine showing album art for music I’m playing[1], one with an e-ink display that shows which subways are leaving soon near me, one running Homebridge for a variety of sensors[2], one for WireGuard and Pi-Hole, and one to run Klipper/Mainsail for my 3D printer. I guess these are all tinkering as well but they’ve basically been running 24/7 for a few years now!

[1] https://github.com/aaronhktan/rpi-albumart [2] https://github.com/aaronhktan/vesta

Assuming you’re in the US, rpilocator[1] has them available at Digikey, Chicago Electronics Distributors, and Adafruit…

[1] https://rpilocator.com/?country=US

According to the product pages[1][2], no for Final Cut but yes for Logic.

> You can install Final Cut Pro for iPad on your 12.9-inch iPad Pro (5th or 6th generation), 11‑inch iPad Pro (3rd or 4th generation), or iPad Air (5th generation) with iPadOS 16.4 or later.

> You can install Logic Pro for iPad on any iPad with the A12 Bionic chip or later and iPadOS 16.4 or later.

[1]https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro-for-ipad/ [2]https://www.apple.com/logic-pro-for-ipad/

Haha, yeah, works that way for Cantonese and Mandarin. 大麻 daai6 maa4/dà má (marijuana, literally ‘big numb’) vs 大馬 daai6 maa5/dà mǎ (big horse).

Bonus: 大媽 daai6 maa1/dà mā (auntie or father’s elder brother’s wife, literally ‘big mother’).

Somebody made this app[1][2][3] for practicing tones in Cantonese.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Chinese/comments/xx5g39/cantone_an_...

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cantone/id1602297692

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cantone.ca...

Like with any language, there’s gonna be a lot of context-dependent words/phrases with multiple meanings that are hard to segment/parse/translate correctly. Things like DeepL or GTranslate take into account probabilities for segmentation and grammar (or use ICU libraries); but that’s harder to do from a context of using ligatures and basic font engine features.

e.g. The classic example is 大麻煩 - is it 大|麻煩 (a big inconvenience), or is it 大麻|煩 (marijuana annoyance)? Is 粉絲 fan, or vermicelli? Is 早唞！ “good night!” or “go fuck yourself!”?

Yeah, the seventh tone in Guangzhou Cantonese that’s gone in Hong Kong Cantonese is the high-falling tone.

In Guangzhou Cantonese, 衫 (shirt) and 三 (three) are not homophones, but they are in Hong Kong Cantonese. The Jyutping romanization (from the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong) reflects this change in HK Cantonese (saam1), whereas Yale, based on the older pronunciation, could represent the difference in tone (sāam vs sàam).

Interestingly enough, the high-falling tone is still retained in Hong Kong Cantonese for one exceedingly common word, the final particle 㖭 (tim1/tìm)!

Unaffiliated with this group, but there are a bunch of graded readers, romanized with Jyutping, freely available, and very high quality![1]

If you’d prefer physical books, this online store imports quite a few from Hong Kong.[2]

A dictionary program for Windows/Mac/Linux that I make [3], and another for mobile that I don’t make.[4]

Finally, a list of other good resources from Cantonese Alliance.[5]

[1] https://hambaanglaang.hk/

[2] https://kozzi.ca/

[3] https://jyutdictionary.com/

[4] https://www.pleco.com/

[5] https://cantonese-alliance.github.io/language.html

Somebody did actually make an app that does exactly that for Cantonese!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Chinese/comments/xx5g39/cantone_an_...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cantone/id1602297692

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cantone.ca...

I make a Cantonese dictionary app for Windows/Mac/Linux, similar to Pleco (has multiple sources, coloured characters for tones, etc)!

https://jyutdictionary.com/

For European languages (at least French and Spanish), WordReference is pretty good. For everything else, Wiktionary’s a really good resource!

What about Apple Arcade? It's not free, but Apple guarantees that none of the games in it have ads and a single subscription can be shared through Family Sharing.