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I do think a split keyboard design would serve a slate like this a bit better though.

I'd been looking into building something like this out of a Raspberry Pi, very cool that this is open source.

Workers co-op

That seems really exciting! But don't services like Discord forbid third party clients?

Genuinely the only way I want to use my phone. Everything I use daily is on the home screen, everything else I have to go searching for. White background, black icons, all notifications turned off. Simple and easy!

My general approach is to use Anki as my primary resource with the addition of the Genki textbook, video lectures and grammar videos on YouTube (Toki ni Andy, Game Gengo, Livakivi, etc.), and immersion content (Manga, anime, YouTube). I use Anki because I believe it's the most effective method for me having used it previously to learn Esperanto; although I believe that you should use whatever method is the most fun for you, whatever will keep you coming back for daily work is good. Don't fall for the "Bro Science" language learning people who promise quick shortcuts, there are none, these people are usually trying to sell you something.

My daily study consists of about 40 minutes of Anki per day. I split my time between two decks, which is suboptimal in terms of occasionally containing duplicates, but I like it as it serves as a method of chunking my study out throughout the day and as a way to recognize the same Kanji in different contexts. These two decks are the KanjiTransistion and Core 2.3k decks. I do four new cards from the KanjiTransistion deck and three new cards from the 2.3k deck. Following that if I'm in the mood I'll return to reviewing my Hiragana and Katakana decks (you should do this first if you haven't already!). I also use the Review Heatmap plugin to see my streak, which helps me stay focused on goals and milestones.

You should form your own opinion about what method of learning works best for you, but don't fall victim to spending time strategizing and figuring out the scientifically perfect way to learn the language, there isn't one. If you're spending time planning how you're going to learn the language, you're spending less time actually learning. The only way to get good at a language is to literally be exposed to it and learning it for 1000+ hours.

100 days of studying Japanese every day

Every PSP I own must have the following games ready to go at any time:
-Lumines
-Rock Band Unplugged
-Patapon 2
-WipEout Pulse
-Final Fantasy: Crystal Defenders (gorgeous small tower defense game, but with enough strategy behind it for hours of play)

I acquired my 3DS before the first price drop and unfortunately I never really appreciated it while I had it. It was the first place I played Ocarina of Time, which was a really fantastic experience that I was probably too young to really appreciate at the time. I never got around to playing A Link Between Worlds unfortunately. Beyond that my other favourite was Mario Kart 7. There are a lot of games that I now wish I had picked up but didn't get a chance to.

The 3DS is also really interesting as it's currently the last Nintendo handheld that can fit in a pocket. That era of portable consoles has largely passed out of favour (this is why I've started collecting PSP Go consoles). A lot of the best 3DS games have been somewhat overshadowed by the Switch now. I feel like its game library may be remembered similarly to the Game Boy Advance, more iterating on older franchises rather than having its own hugely impressive identity.

Element, one of the few (only?) entirely open source, encrypted, and federated chat platforms out there.

I'm definitely excited to switch to Wayland properly whenever I build my next machine and escape from my GTX 1060.

Monthly Active Users are unfortunately down for the past several months in a row. Something more needs to happen.