Japanese language is highly contextual. Quite often they omit the Subject in sentences because it is “obvious” from the context… although the context could come from a conversation that happened before. Sometimes they even omit the Object or the Verb. Not sure if it works the same for Mandarin. Anyway, in some cases the context could help you understand even if you don’t know the words, so it could be similar to Mandarin.

Japanese people are always trying to be friendly, so if you start speaking (even broken) Japanese, their eyes will start to glow and will start saying how your Japanese is perfect (even if it may not true). So, if you speak a broken Japanese, they will try to understand you and sometimes even correct you if you say something wrong. So this is probably similar to Chinese people.

As someone who has been learning Japanese for a very long time, I can tell confirm that Japanese grammar is quite complicated, as others have said. One example could be that adjective clauses go before the noun, instead of after the noun, which could be hard to wrap one’s head around it.

The other issue is that the sentence structure is different from other languages. Japanese language uses Subject-Object-Verb structure instead of Subject-Verb-Object - to put it simply, sentences end with a verb. It could be a problem for a beginner, or even when you get to the intermediate level, where you could start hearing 3 complete sentences before getting to the first verb.

And another potential issue is that there are multiple levels of politeness. Each level changes how you say verbs and some other words. The highest levels even change some verbs to different verbs with the same meaning. But this is mainly issue only when you are planning to live there or work in Japanese company.

I don’t know much about Mandarin Chinese other than that it uses different tones to pronounce words. And if you are like me, who doesn’t hear those tones, it could be impossible to learn.

I believe learning Japanese pronounciation is going to be easier for some people, but it really depends where you come from. I never had to learn Japanese pronounciation because it is almost identical to my own (slavic) language.

Don’t worry kids. It will require you to be a slave only for a 30 years.

I feel you.

I heard the banks where I live are thinking about providing multi-generational loans so people would be able to pay for them.

I have mentioned it in the comments below, but to explain it simply, I just wanted to remove all the bracketed text + a dash if there is no other text.

You are right. It is just removal of the bracketed text. The input is multi-line string, so only flag used was the multi-line mode.

These are string lines I have encountered and how I wanted to change them:

1. "[...]"               -> ""
2. "-[...]"              -> ""
3. "-[...] text"         -> "-text"
4. "-text [...]"         -> "-text"
5. "[...] text [...]"    -> "text"
6. "-[...] text [...]"   -> "-text"

The main point is that I needed to remove the dash only if there is no other text on the line.

I have tried the regex you are suggesting at the beginning, but it failed at points (3) and (6).

EDIT: It just occurred to me that the first line of my comment sounds like stupid AI. 🤦

It may feel like it, but I needed to handle all the edge cases. But if you think it can be simplified, I’m willing to learn.

I never understood why are people scared of regular expressions. I love them and they can be quite usefull.

Here is an example of one regex I wrote recently - it is used in replace:

(?:^-\[[^[]+\]$| ?\[.+?\] ?)

It’s not a bad idea but that idea breaks as soon as you have to change the master password. You would have to change every one of those passkeys. Which could be annoying, if you have a lot of them.

Just give any American $1000 and they will be happy to do that.

I’m still scared every time I have to update something, so I try to avoid updates if possible.

Most of the time when I had to update Windows or some software, something would break (and no previous bug would be fixed) and I would have to spend a whole day trying to fix the stupid issue.

TBH, I don’t even remember if an update ever fixed something for me (but it probably happened at least once).

Every insteresting game I “bought” on Steam is backed up (including a crack if required).

Thanks. I did miss that one. I was looking for a “Add to this collection” button inside a selected collection.

However I’m not sure if this collection is visible only to a user that created it, or an admin has to create it and it is visible to everyone?

Thanks. It looks like Plex does have more user friendly features, but still no info about relations. That’s a bummer.

It is really important to know the watch order (even if I had to specify it manually). When I think about it, Jellyfin probably fails even for the simplest watch orders like The Lord of the Rings; not to mention Stargate (Movie 1 -> Show -> Movie 2+3).

Maybe I have missed it somewhere? The UI is pretty confusing.

I never had the chance to try Plex, but how does it compare to Jellyfin? What kind of features does Plex have and Jellyfin does not and vice versa?

Examples of basic features I’m missing in Jellyfin:

• Create a user-defined collection (like group of favourite movies)
• Adding user-defined tags
• Filtering by tags or any meaningful filtering
• Filtering by languages (however this could be done by using combination of 2 different plugins that add tags and create collections)
• [Important] No movie/show relations (e.g. The Lord of the Rings 1 -> 2 -> 3)
• No way to know if movie/show belongs to any collection

I’m really glad that me and my friends decided to build new PCs the second we saw the first rise in RAM prices. It would have been hard to survive this on our 7-10 years old builds.

And that’s why the only correct choice is a piracy. We just cannot afford to waste that kind of money on unfinished games. Especially while the economy is getting worse and worse.

Or one could play FOSS games. However, in such case I would still recommend supporting the developers as much as one can, if the game is enjoyable. Usually, those games are better than any AAA game that came out lately.

For that long? There are only a few left:

• Firefox
• Thunderbird (not loving it, but it is ok)
• 7zip
• My own app for sorting and moving files
• My own password manager

If I include games then:

• OpenTTD
• Quake III Arena (for LAN parties)

There were more that I loved, but I have stopped using them a month ago. (Because I switched to Linux):

• MusicBee
• FastStone Image Viewer
• MPC-HC + madVR
• StrokesPlus
• Q-Dir
• Malwarebytes Firewall Control
• Input Director

This is the one I have been looking for. It is almost perfect. Even though I didn’t want to go the self-hosting way. I will just need to figure out how to deploy it, so it doesn’t conflict with Nextcloud (I’m not that knowledgeable). Thank you.