I thought I heard something about this too not too long ago. I might keep my head up and look for something feasible. I’d love if they released a Pokemon Blue in Irish. Doubt that exists though. Maybe though.

Never knew about this, but I’ll probably only stick with the singular account for now. I follow a few zines, and most of them for languages are sorta dead, so no idea how much traction those smaller communities would take up and how dispersed I’d be with multiple accounts.

Cheers for the advice though.

I never thought to make a post about Irish or the like, but I might at some point. It’s just I feel inadequate to start talking about it just yet, so early in my Irish learning journey. Also on the other both ends, there’s Japanese and Spanish too, but I also haven’t seen much threads on those here yet either. I like Lemmy, but I guess it could use more activity. I’ll see if I can post anything sometime soon then, to see if I can get the ball rolling.

I appreciate you posting these threads however, they’re nice.

Good luck on rejigging the sleep, it takes a fair amount of effort to just go to bed on time, especially so if you just want to stay up and do more since you’re on a roll or something.

More on the ball but still not on the horse. Studying my Japanese and Spanish a lot more. Still have my Irish untouched, but also doing a bit more math again, so there’s that. What happens is I do studies at random times throughout the day, and if I’m waiting on someone for something I just study until they’re ready. So when I’m on Warcraft waiting for my friend to tuck in his kids, I’m studying Spanish for about 15-45 mins. Or if my girlfriend is just out to the shops, I might do a few mins of Japanese, or the like.

Maths is still by far the hardest to get back into. There’s a lot of instilled perfectionism from schooling that I have yet to get over. I do honestly like maths, but it’s also the most taxing. So the Irish would be a lot easier to get into than my maths.

Also sort of put off my Irish due to me hating Rosetta Stone, and the Duolingo Irish is sorta ass. There’s a new app called Sionnach that I found, but it’s in very early Alpha, so it sort of lacks a lot of content. Feel sort of clueless as how I’m supposed to learn on it either. Just has me spell out sentences without going into grammar or phonetics, but it could just be a me issue.

I still don’t feel on the horse yet, but I feel at least forcing myself to study, on the down periods of the day, is helping. Also helps that I’ve been having better sleep hygiene recently, as well as taking vitamin D pills, so mood is also somewhat up too.

Still struggling to get on the horse again. Been somewhat mired in a depressive episode, so it’s hard getting the motivation to do anything, even play video games. Still managing to do the 5 mins or so a day on each language to keep the streak alive, but my hearts not really in anything at the moment.

Genuinely have no idea why I’m so down these days either. Nothings really changed.

In other news the new Duocon was on, and it was going on about removing the AI tools and such and that’s sorta cool they did the uptake on removing the AI toolset they were going to implement. Still not exactly keen on Duolingo as a platform, but at least it’s slightly less worse. They’re really pushing for those points being the main metric, and honestly, hearing that 130 is the go to for employability at least helps give me a target to aim for on Duolingo other than just keep a streak. Not that I’m actually trying to find a job in Spanish or Japanese. But setting goals to target is nice, otherwise you get a bit aimless at times. 130 is just a number, and completely arbitrary, but language is already arbitrary enough so more arbitration isn’t going to cause me much of an upset, so I say, why the fuck not just have an arbitrary goal.

It’s roughly 11pm now. So I’ll try and kick into gear a bit more once midnight passes. Just so I’ve done more in my waking period. And it should keep me good for the Friday streak too. The software I use has sort of lost it’s pull, so I think I’m just going to use the older method of just setting up journaling/timers separately to Steam apps. Going to use Obsidian, some random Linux pomodoro timer, and lofi girl music on YouTube. Should be enough to set me going when the next hour starts. I’ll probably look more into timers after this post to get ready, and also mentally prepare myself.

Was doing super well until I wasn’t anymore. Also trying to claw back the workload. Today’s been really difficult too. I think it’s okay to sometimes just survive a while before you can start to bloom. We’ve all been there.

Missed 2 days of Irish, not back to back, but it’s just one day I was having an episode (still did JP/SP), and then the other day I was knocked out for about 22 hours.

Out of all the languages I study, Japanese is the easiest to study, because I can do parts of it every so often, and also do more dedicated longer routines added and the workload is doable. Irish or Spanish has to have studies done all at once, and it’s harder to manage to slot the time around them then. I’m really all for this hourly SRS based learning, really helps motivate me when I think about languages.

Wall of text about study software, be warned:
Next to this, I ended up getting new study software to try out, since I find new wave of software at times boosts the mood for focusing more. “gogh: Focus with Your Avatar” [sic], but it was very obtuse. It has less in the way of managing tasks and timers, and also ended up having a lot more requirements for completing their achievement system. I’m okay with using a study app for 100 hours, but so long as I can study using the timers I prefer, but this app has study with a timer counting down 100 hours, then counting up 100 hours, and there’s tons of nitpicks like that where it felt it was unnecessary fluff. Next to that, it seems to be very poorly optimised. Even when tabbed out to other apps, it would still constantly be at 5% of a Ryzen 9 processor, meanwhile my other study apps are roughly <1% and only sometimes will boost to 2%, which isn’t a problem. gogh, I constantly hear my PC whirr, and the noise is distracting. Also the music lineup tends to be sort of on the otherside of relaxing, which doesn’t help. But yeah, that software didn’t end up helping me lock in like the other 2 things I tried. I’m back to Spirit City again, despite it not having the best time management, just because it has a better atmosphere, and that helps me focus in more.

I plan on making my own software too at some point, but atm I’m swamped.
Also ended up getting a part time job as a volunteer, so will have my focus drift a bit, but still should be able to manage that and the 3 hours of languages. Maths on the otherhand, I need to dive back into the most, and it’s hard jumping into that when it’s hard completing these baseline tasks first.

Wall of text sorry. But yeah, studying is going good so far. Always pumped to do more.

I’ll check out some gameplay footage of it later today. Thanks for the suggestion.
Cheers!

I’m going to go against the grain and say it’s their VR hardware they’ve been sitting on for years now.

Steam Frame, and then calling glasses “frames” is common.
Either case it seems like a bad name, but I’d reckon it’s their VR/AR device.
Edit: also to add they’ve been working a lot on Proton for ARM as of late, as well as proton in general which they initially set out Proton as being a universal translation layer, not just x86-64.

Might catch flak for this, but Starfield.
I just wanted something mindless where I could mix FPS with base building and RPG elements. I know there’s Fallout 4, but I want my bases looking nice. Starfield isn’t exactly the best for looks either, but it’s the best I have in my library for these aforementioned things. I’m open to suggestions, but until then I’m just going to randomly kill things on Starfield.

After the hiccup I ended up getting back on the horse somewhat. Pumping a whole hour into Japanese, Spanish and Irish, which was more than what I was doing before. 30 mins of that is immersion/listening practise though so it’s less intense than the more direct study is like. I can’t understand anything in Irish besides a few words, but I’m hoping the early immersion is helping train my ear more for the different sounding words/dialects.

Using TG4 for my Irish immersion, and sadly it’s not available outside Ireland like I thought it’d be. Good resource though, for sure.

Many thanks for the list. It’ll take me some time to get through it, but still should be worthwhile. Cheers!

Doing better now. However instead of doing Japanese, Spanish and Irish for 30 mins each, I ended up pumping at least an hour into Japanese and Spanish and next to nothing into my Irish.

I recently found out about Dreaming In Spanish, and have been addicted to that for the last few days. I can understand most of the beginner videos, but I still need a lot of direct studying to do too. So I study for 30 mins then indulge in content for 30 mins.

Nothing close to DiS for Japanese or Irish, but I wish there was.

It’s not the end of the day, so maybe I’ll pick up my Irish in about 5-10 mins, after I get some more tea. Also Spirit City: Lofi Sessions released their latest DLC today, so I have been slowly accruing the latest pets there. At level 56 so already have all hints unlocked, just putting time into unlocking them now.

Edit: Was told of cijapanese, which is simmilar to DiS, so I’ve only begun using that. I’m more confused at to what the beginner Japanese is saying compared to the Spanish, but otherwise I get the gist of somethings.

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Sort of cratered yesterday, so only managed to do my Japanese and a bit of Spanish. Been awake for roughly 20 hours at this point and still need to stay up since I have things to do today, so won’t have energy in me for the full work until maybe a sleep or 2. Will still stick to JP/SP until I’m back on track. If it wasn’t for MaruMori and Duolingos streaks, I’d probably have a few missing days.

(I know Duolingo isn’t so good, but I use it mostly to keep the habit).

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It’ll be worth it in the end. Wherever that end might be. I’m sure. Enjoying the journey is a smart move too.

Thanks. I tried college in the past but never managed to make it far at all. Working on myself these days for growing as a person firstly, but also have better temperment. I have mental health issues where I can hit rock bottom on a dime, so it’s a constant struggle to maintain anything, but I guess I’m finally learning how to manage myself better.

Unfortunate you also go through stresses and pressure, but good to know the meditation helps. Keep on rocking on in your own journey too!

I use a website called MathAcademy, it’s very expensive but I’ve found it’s best for me and motivation. There’s better structure to learning than KhanAcademy I’ve found. Khan teaches you something but doesn’t really reiterate over it later, so you might learn something a few months ago then have to relearn it to get past the next Khan questions. What ended up making me ragequit it completely though was having no idea what I was supposed to search for when they were talking about a maths problem, using maths I had learnt but forgot, and I spent ages trying to find it to not be able to find it. Mixed in with the only weekly streak keeping you going on Khans, it didn’t really motivate me very much, but this other website I use, the daily goals of reaching 30xp or 50xp keeps me active. It constantly reshuffles older teachings into your pile too, which is better for longevity in that knowledge, and the lessons are sort of short and to the point. It felt on Khan, I’d spend about 15 minutes on a lecture to do 5 minutes of maths to have to repeat it, so I also wasn’t very fond of the nature of having to sit through mountains worth of videos to progress.

Long rant, but Khan is free and it’s good, but if you can afford it I’d say mathacademy is probably more worthwhile. I feel like if they lowered the price, I’d probably stick to it long after I’d need it for college based things.

My routine, when my days are stable include: Japanese, Spanish, Irish, Maths, Programming, Blender, Exercise, Meditate. I do projects like VRChat worlds/avatars and stuff if I’m tinkering in Blender, Godot/boot.dev stuff sometimes with programming. I’m actually not good at most of these and still have to rely on friends for input for various aspects like Unity quirks/baking, languages/meanings, programming and the like. The meditation might seem like what’s the point, but I’ve often ended up thinking about what would help me, and it tends to be the main thing popping back up as potential solution, so I also give that time too. I’ve also been on and off these tasks for various years, but I think what I’m learning the most about this trial is just learning to dedicate time towards it and be consistent.

I’m not working at the moment, so I’m sort of preparing myself for a full college life when the time hits. I sort of expect a lot of these tasks to run off into the abyss (except the maths/programming and Japanese/Spanish). So I try keep a rigid schedule so I’m a lot less overwhelmed by college when it starts. I have study sessions with a game developer friend as well as my GF. We all do separate things.

The apps I use to study Japanese are MaruMori and Busuu. For Spanish it’s Duolingo and Busuu (in the near future, also Conjugato). For Irish it’s a mixture of Rosetta Stone and physical books, sometimes Duolingo if Rosetta Stone annoys the crap out of me, because those audio screenings are terrible. Maths is MathsAcademy. Programming is boot.dev, YouTube tutorials (ClearCode on YT is fantastic for starting off), misc other tutorials and friends help. Blender I use Udemy and YT tutorials, along with asking a Blender guru I happen to know. Exercise is my bike/dumbbells. And Meditation I use GuidedMeditationVR (no voices), or Playne, if I don’t want to enter VR, I just put on some low disturbing ambience music then try meditate for 30 mins.

Wall of text. Sorry.

For the loooonnnnngest time, I had issues running VR on Linux. And for a few years when I started off (many years ago), most games wouldn’t run. Things have changed since then however. Now I’m finding all the desktop/handheld based games I want to play; I can just play. In addition, the issues I’ve constantly had with VR now have been alleviated (albeit with some manual tinkering).

Desktop games without anticheat will just work 99/100. VR takes some effort to work, but is worth it. VR on Linux still isn’t exactly perfect either. You sometimes press something in a game, the screen will freeze and you can see/feel it for sure. But, that happens maybe once every 10 mins or so, so it’s workable since all I use VR for is VRChat anyway.

Life’s good on Linux now. Besides college, I don’t think I’ll be needing to switch to Windows at all anymore. Oh, actually, now that I remember. I run World of Warcraft through bottles. Every so often WoW updates and kills functionality. I have to rebuild my Bottle, shift my files over and then it runs again, but that’s also outside of what Steam does, so.

Besides all of the above, I think I can stick full time to Linux now. It feels wonderful having an operating system that doesn’t own you anymore.