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You can ask and explain to them what kind of traffic you'll have. I've shown them the project I'm migrating, and they've opened ports for me right from the start.

Hmm, or they fabricate the demand so they can fulfill it. SUVs anyone?

True. But you can also be smart about it, and it doesn't have to be something that takes your whole afternoon. 15 minutes of home exercise instead of media scrolling, and at the end of the week, it is 1:45, at the end of the month 7:45 that you've done something. Or just a simple door frame exercise bar where you do a pushup or two now and then. These small things add up. Or to go with friends to play football or my friend started to run, they made a Sunday morning running group. To end with what you've begun, regularity is the key.

Someone has already been thinking along the same lines: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/energy-vault_revolutio...

Volunteering is also nice. People are there because they want to and at the end of the day it gives you a nice feeling of doing something good.

Recently, I've discovered Consent-O-Matic for Firefox [1], which rejects some cookie preferences. Not all of them, but it still helps here and there.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...

Music and other arts are a manifestation of human life and its ephemeral nature. And because human creates it, another human can relate to it because we all share the same fate, in the end.

LLMs have no understanding of the limited time of human nature. That's why what they produce is flat, lacking emotion, and the food they make sometimes tastes bland, missing those human touches, those final spices that make the food special.

What? If something, I'd talk about spirituality instead. There can be a spirituality without religion, but also a religion without spirituality. Beware!

Sometimes I think about what I've read in a book about Japan.

Something along the lines that Japanese people are analog while Westerners are digital.

We try to explain everything, every emotion, feeling, how things are. But sometimes talking about things strips them of their mystery, of the unknowns. We talk too much and get entangled in meanings and what was formless and fluid before suddenly becomes defined and limited.

Some maybe less.. [0]

[0] https://washingtonmorning.com/2025/06/19/how-differently-tik...

Same here. Sometimes I direct it just to specific files related to the feature requested.

Check this out: https://github.com/Authenticator-Extension/Authenticator

For me, it was playing a musical instrument (transverse flute, then shakuhachi) that showed me that I really don't know how to breathe deeply with my diaphragm. Or, that I wasn't aware of it at all, now my breathing is more conscious, and I tend to focus on it many times, for example, when I'm just walking on the street. Concentrating on your breath is a great way to stay rooted in the present and become aware of your thought processes. Breathing is magical :)

I'll chip in with my shameless plug - Latudio [0]. A language learning app where all the content was written and audio recorded by real humans™.

We purposedly went that way, with no ads and a one-time payment option.

I feel that human touch is what makes our interactions special as everyone is different, unique, imperfect while being the same like everyone else, in a way...

Howewer as a relatively new and bootstrapped app in the market we have still some way to go. As a next step we are investigating how to add audiobooks and podcasts. Would someone be interested to cooperate?

To se what's inside: [1]

[0] https://www.latudio.com

[1] https://www.latudio.com/whats-inside

I had turned autocomplete off as well. Way too many times it was just plain wrong and distracting. I'd like it to be turned on for method documentation only, though, where it worked well once the method was completed, but so far I wasn't able to customize it this way.

But why smartphone then? Simple button phone would suffice.

Not at the moment.

Try Spanish in Latudio [0]. It is not quite for beginners, you need to have at least basic vocabulary, but regarding immersion, it should fit what you are looking for. It uses a listening-first approach and contextual translations with vocabulary and lets you explore words you didn't get in other contexts.

[0] https://www.latudio.com/

Adding one more:

* https://www.latudio.com/ - listening first approach, pause and show sentence if you don't understand, practice words you didn't get later, 4 types of exercises, scripted conversations being one of them

And a possibility of a one-time purchase.

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder

Ikigai applies to writing code as well.

Wish we could help. Good luck!

Also, we're happy to give the app away for free to nonprofits who'd find a use for it for their clients. It is also very easy for us to add domain-specific custom content, should there be an ask for it. If interested, PM me, e-mail is in my profile.

Thanks. For now, kindly navigate here: https://www.latudio.com/whats-inside

What's your target language, if you don't mind me asking?

That's what we do at Latudio! [0]

We've created an app with listening-first approach and added some very useful features on top of that, like showing a sentence when requested and saving unknown words for later practicing.

There are three exercise types, one is prerecorded conversation where you pick one side and record your pronounciation so you can compare it with a native speaker.

I'd be curious to hear what you think about it.

[0] https://www.latudio.com

Everyone I know is happy with linux and do not complain at all, instead prefer it over other systems. Me, using linux professionally for the last 15 years I'm just so so happy that system like this exists. Maybe I've been lucky but I've never had permanent problems with it with my last four computers, three of them being notebooks, one desktop. Nothing gets in my way, nothing breaks, I'm more productive than I'd ever be in any other system.

My retired parents would disagree, having happily used Linux Mint for years now. Whenever I need to use Windows while teaching in school, I wonder how people put up with a system that is so user-unfriendly, some would even call it hostile.

The main difference, I feel, is that with Windows you can tell the system is built with a company's interests in mind, while in Linux this feeling is absent, and instead, you can tell the user is at the center of attention. And even if the system may not be perfect, it constantly evolves for the better. Just this difference ensures I will never go back again, nor will I ever recommend anything else.

With Windows, the system is a boss, with linux, you are the boss :)

What about sugar addiction? Read recently an article in the news that that's what is becoming a problem, actually, much more than alcohol or cigarettes. Anecdotally, I see kids around drinking all kinds of sweetened beverages. My friend who cleans at a college picks every day full baskets of empty bottles. And in my school, some parents giving kids chocolates for a snack or kids buying themselves a pack of sweets from their pocket money.

Well, middle way, I guess. Or "We're not rich enough to buy crappy things", as the saying goes.

Well, with Latudio [1] a language learning app, we're 6 years in since the first line of code and we still haven't thrown in the towel even if we have little traction. But we still do those small little steps and hope they add up so we have a snowball big enough that it starts rolling by itself, perhaps, one day.

In my mind, I also had a thought that we would rise and be huge, but I let go of that one. Instead, we just put one foot in front of the other and what warms my heart are those stories like when a person in Uganda got so confident thanks to our app that he opened his own language school. For this it makes sense to continue.

What I want now is just to have a nice work/family balance and the app paying my bills and something extra. That would be a great start.

[1] https://www.latudio.com

Hi, thanks for your feedback.

We were considering making typing practice more forgiving, but in the end, you really need to be precise when writing in another language. But your point about the keyboard is a valid one. However, if you really plan taking on another language and you are serious about it, you get to have multiple keyboard layouts at one point anyway. Still, I understand your point and we'll see how we can improve this experience.

Thank you for mentioning Language Transfer. With the way our app is designed, it is actually very easy to add new content and idea about audio lessons is a good one.

What our strong points are is pausing the audio anytime, tapping and translating words and ease of exploring how one word can be used in different contexts and what forms it can take.