Yes, and this pricing is quite reasonable too.
I'm even more outside the loop, what happens if on my personal blog I don't have any analytics and don't do any metering so I have no idea how many visitors I get?
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LimeLimestone commented on An opinionated critique of Duolingo isomorphism.xyz/blog/2025... · Posted by u/agnishom
I used Duolingo a fair bit in 2015–2017 to improve my Swedish, and generally enjoyed myself. Having not touched it for most of a decade, I downloaded it earlier this year to try my hand at basic Greek and wow but it’s gone downhill. Everything is massively over the top, all subtlety has left the system, and when I stopped after a couple of days because I couldn’t deal with the intensity they sent me nagging messages for over two weeks in more and more pleading tones trying to get me to come back. I’d never use them again at this point.
Edit: just went to delete my account and they’ve got a tearful owl above the “Erase personal data” button to try to guilt-trip me into staying. https://drive-thru.duolingo.com/static/owls/sad.svg
I had a similar experience, I was a heavy Duolingo user between 2014 and 2016 (I used it for Spanish) and I still believe that back then it was actually a pretty good way to learn the basics and I had learnt enough to be able to get by in Spain, have casual conversations with people, even hang out with a group of natives (but I also was a member of a few WhatsApp groups with Spanish people so I had a bit more practice).
Then they dumbed down the phone app and soon enough they did a similar thing with the website. Tips & Notes section was gone (or they kept it but removed a lot of information? can't remember), the tree-style courses were gone and replaced with some kind of a Path, the exercises became too easy and they'd make you translate from Spanish to English most of the time, which is much easier than the other way around. Then they removed the ability to type with your keyboard, added the "match the word pairs" exercise (which sucks if you use a keyboard and yes, I know you can try to use the numbers on your keyboard), all of which made the whole experience even worse and less effective.
I lost my streak somewhere in the middle of this enshittification process and I've never really gotten back to using the site, other than maybe checking once a year whether it's still shitty (and it always is).
In my opinion, back in 2014 Doulingo used to be a learning website with some gamification aspect that made the learning process a bit easier and more entertaining. Now it's just a gaming app which tries to give you a false sense of learning a language but in reality you aren't learning anything. Just a waste of time.
LimeLimestone commented on What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like? whatdoesonebilliondollars... · Posted by u/alexrustic
When I try to zoom in (by pinching the touchpad) on one of the charts at the bottom of the site, Firefox crashes. I guess there are too many pixels in the black bar :)
MacBook M1 Pro, 32GB RAM, Firefox 141.0
LimeLimestone commented on macOS Tips and Tricks (2022) saurabhs.org/macos-tips... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin
Yes, I was thinking the same.. For several years, I'm pretty happy with PathFinder by Cocoatech: https://cocoatech.io/
The things I miss the most when I accidentically open a Finder window: Cut files wit CMD+X to move them (never understood this when coming from Windows), cycle the files in a folder (start on top if you reach bottom and vice versa) and the comprehensive info bar on the right for files and folders. Give it a try :)
Instead of CMD + X you can do CMD + C and paste with CMD + Option + V
LimeLimestone commented on Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America' theverge.com/news/609772/... · Posted by u/jasperr1
What's next? Will New Mexico be called New America? /s
I love that.
Also the MacOS "Zoom" button makes so much more sense than the OSX/macOS green button - and I still miss window shading.
Press Option and it behave the way it used to. Or you can double click on the top of the app's window
What I miss is not being able to set the priority of WiFi networks
LimeLimestone commented on Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? (2008) moserware.com/2008/02/doe... · Posted by u/hosteur
That’s highly specific to the US. Most other English-speaking countries say “the Fourth of July”. To me it feels weird to say July fourth.
"July fourth" kinda sounds like there are multiple Julies this year and this is the fourth one :D
After looking at the photo, and before actually reading the post, I was sure it was a switch for retrofitted fog lights - they are not required in the US and you must to have them in Europe in order to pass MOT.
I have an almost identical looking switch in my Mustang (which I imported from America) and it does exactly that - turns the fog lights on and off :)
LimeLimestone commented on Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose? blog.alexwendland.com/202... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
It does in sane countries where nutrition labels are required to also include the per-100g stats.
But in North America, they only need to show the per-serving column. Combine that with the <0.5g rule and the fact they are allowed to pick the serving size, you end up with tic tacs which don't mention any sugar on their labels.
> But in North America, they only need to show the per-serving column.
As someone who is from Europe and tracks their calories, I find it appalling and it makes calorie tracking more inconvenient
> The department data reveals that close to 94% of the time people freely revealed their phone passcode to officers, despite there being no legal requirement to do so.
There really needs to be better education in civics. It's so important to know your rights, especially when someone in a position of authority tries to abuse that authority.
Does it apply to non-citizens?
As far as I know, in the US you can politely decline a phone search if you are a US citizen. If you're a foreign tourist your only choice is either to allow the search or be denied entry to the Land of Freedom™
How does it work in Australia?