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When I was choosing a return site it kept saying, “oops there was a mistake. It was not your fault. Try again later”.

Their mobile app sucked too, so I installed chrome to see if it would work and it did right away.

I just had to install chrome to book plane tickets. Kept getting an error on Firefox.

Right, but my mom and dad would not even think that there is a way around it. They wouldn’t even know to look.

Are their interactions any deeper than basically English. Does it require them to learn an entire language? To interact with the minority?

I used some command prompt to get around it, so I’m not saying it’s impossible. but unless you are decently techy, you will not know to do it.

For me it’s also the measles thing currently going on

About a year ago an update came out where even without an internet connection it wouldn’t even let me get past the sign in screen. It just told me to connect to the internet to proceeds or something. Not sure if that’s still a thing or not.

You mean people from other countries who move to America? Or people from other countries in general?

Well, if you move to America and don’t speak English, then that’s on you, but your ability to communicate and work will be limited.

If I moved to China or Japan and looked for a job, then I’d be required to learn the local language or I wouldn’t be able to do my job. (Not counting English teachers or people who are sent to Japan to do a job for an American company).

If you don’t live in the US and don’t want to learn the local language it’s fine, but you will be limited in your ability to do business outside of your country as the language of business is English.

The US government does not require you to speak English and if you don’t and are stopped by the police, they will use a translation service to speak to the person.

It’s also spoken by decent minority of people. Additionally, many Spanish speakers also speak English. It’s great to learn if you have someone to speak it with, but most Americans have no one to speak Spanish with once they learn it.

Additionally learning a language takes a lot of time and practice, people have other things to prioritize in their life than learning a language they don’t have a use for.

I say this as someone who speaks English, Spanish, and is learning a 3rd language as I don’t live in the US anymore.

Learning a language takes years and a lot of work and practice. Asking someone to learn a language is asking a lot of them.

Most Americans do not encounter a foreign language day to day.

Sure there are instances here and there, but they are not significant enough to learn an entire language.

Would you learn to speak Chinese because you couldn’t help someone with directions in China town or your food order was incorrect because of a language barrier?

I learned calculus for the same number of years that I learned Spanish in school.

So by that analogy, most Americans have studied a second language.

The problem is that you need other people to interact with who speak the language.

So, if you don’t naturally have friends or family who speak that language it’s is not really practical to learn as you can immerse yourself in it.

There is also no point in doing it, if you don’t have a way to use it.

Why not learn something else that can actually be used?

Again, this is coming from someone who is currently learning a third language.

So, here is my response to that.

Why? Where I am from in the US, at least 2 years of language classes were required.

I took Spanish as most people did and years later I had a long term relationship with a Mexican, so over time I learned Spanish.

I’m now, not living in the US and learning a third language.

But I’m very much the exception. Most US citizen, never interact with people who don’t speak English as most Americans never leave the US.

No matter how much you study another language, you are not really going to learn it and be competent with it unless you regularly use it.

Most people in the US will not have any exposure to the language they learned or studied. So what’s the point?

It just seems like a wasted effort for most people.

The article is really just a rant, but it does make good points.

I don’t know anyone who wants to use windows after they have tried Linux or macOS and that is Microsoft’s fault for different reasons.

It doesn’t say how long he was looking for a job and what his degrees were in.

Not that anyone deserves to feel suicide is the only option, but I’m curious.

Haha, that’s kinda funny. Then people are like.

Just tell your friends and family to stop using iMessage. Like everyone will be ok to switch their routine just like that.

I thought it said that it cut metadata usage by 100 bytes 😂

I swear I see this story more than once per year.

You mean the usb-c cable?

I just use whatever is laying around. It doesn’t bother me.

Yeah the oled is like a mid generation refresh.

Battery life isn’t too important to me as I only play at home, so chargers are basically everywhere.

But I’m sure the screen is a big improvement. But I’ll get it when the next steamdeck comes out,