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I remember that somebody made a Language Transfer Portuguese course, but it was heavily criticised and never relaunched

Same here. Language Transfer helped me pick up so many languages in a short time easily.

Far better than every other tool I’ve tried from Duolingo, Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone etc.


This is an iPad, with touch screen taken away and keyboard built in

Same chip (A series), same RAM (8gb), same screen size, probably the exact same camera.

iPad starts at $349 + $199 for Magic Keyboard folio.

$549 for essentially the same thing + a touchscreen.


A lot of devices have fingerprint scanners and faceID. But it isn't used by everybody.

I haven't used it since 2017.


I don't own anything with a fingerprint scanner. My phone has a camera, but I don't use a phone for internet.


They will likely copy it in 8 years and label it innovative.


It looks great

Could you list some use cases? Why would a group of people use this over popular messenger tools?


Yes


thank you


Spotify seems to have mastered music recommendation.

It would be great if somebody could reverse engineer their recommendation algo


Actually, I find Spotify horrible for finding new music outside my bubble that i like. YouTube works much, MUCH better for me for this purpose.


Interesting. Spotify works almost perfectly for my discovery needs. I just pick a track I know that fits my mood, then use the (3-dot menu) "Go to Radio" option, which leads to a playlist that usually includes tracks and/or artists new to me. It's been a reliable discovery mechanism for me for many years. Also, there's a new feature I first saw within the last week, a "non-personalized" option that increases the "new to me" ratio.


Hmm, just tried the non-personalized option for the first time. Is it a reflection on me that I may prefer it over "personalized"?


the "you might also like" for a given artist is usually the most generic related artists - for anything remotely related you'll get basically the same list which is the middle of the venn diagram of everyone who listens to them


I always find this interesting… Spotify is phenomenal for me - about every third Monday Discovery playlist has two or three hits, which feels like a pretty solid ratio, at this point. YouTube has never suggested a single thing I cared for.

I wonder if it’s a curation thing? I’ve been with Spotify since the first day it was available, and rarely use YouTube. I haven’t had a good music ratio as good since newsgroups and (real) forums a decade ago, which were a different form of curation.


This looks incredible


On android there are 1000s of keyboards to choose from. They have various perks, customizable and if you don't like what's available you can simply build your own if you have the skills


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