Thank you.
I’m indeed living in the USA at this time.

In which case, do you have any thoughts about how I might make a donation to this instance? TBH I’m a bit scared about giving out my credit / debit card info, so I tend to err on the side of extreme caution.

Just set up an acct with one of those four agencies, I imagine?

So this is coming up on the one-year anniversary, when I was beyond frustrated with Reddit, when I decided to ‘jump in to the FV,’ and was matched up with this particular random instance / site.

Dudes… I feel like I’m the luckiest person in the universe.

OP has not only taken his personal time to help me across multiple various issues, but even resurrected my community when I accidentally deleted it a couple months ago(!)

Our little Euro-art community, such as it is, would simply NOT be possible without OP.

I am BEYOND grateful, sir. <3

!eurographicnovels@lemm.ee

I… am both dumbfounded and grateful that you appreciate our community, Rolando. <3

You’re a big help.

World collapses and all maps of New Zealand are destroyed.

That made perfect sense to me for a moment because I’ve read several times now that NZ seems to be the preferred location for global billionaires to build their ultimate survival bunkers when collapse happens.

Plus, I imagine they’d want people topside to hang on there reasonably well for several reasons, such as a labor pool, genetics pool, testing pool, and possibly to grow some food on the surface.

I paid around US$700-800 for a nice Neumann mic that I’d researched pretty well, but like a dumbass didn’t realise that it required power, meaning I couldn’t just hook in to my amp like your basic Shure.

So later on as a solution, I got myself a Focusrite powered amp-interface that has a bonus of being able to route guitar and mic input in to USB. Spent hours trying to get everything working and kept running in to problems. IIRC the USB signal was barely received by my computer, and the only way the amp received a signal is if the computer was powering the thing, which shouldn’t have been a requirement as it already had power.

I just went back to my Shure while that fancy stuff gathers dust. Similar thing with my Ableton.

What would be some commonly unused features?

Thank you for these thoughts & interesting perspective. :-)

Maybe your experience was like mine in class. It just wasn’t the right format for me, and I needed to find a different way to unlock the door.

Thanks for explaining. So I guess that kind of thing is an artifact of the language being originally designed… what, ~100yrs ago? Still, since the main point is ease of learning and simplicity, maybe this is just something worth putting up with for the time being, no?

Oh, sorry. It’s a classic Sanskrit Buddhist mantra. I was switching gears there.

Anyway, good to hear about “La,” thanks.

Om mani padme hum.

So do I have it right that gender is mostly neutral? One of the things that kills me about FR (and SP) is the need to clutter my limited brain space with useless gender nonsense.

French.
I figured since I was exposed to it for a year as an infant, it would help me out when I was farting around with electives in school. Well, nope-- that ‘infant period’ was just too early I guess, and classroom learning didn’t work for me, regardless.

What actually helped a tonne was just vacationing in Paris for a week (i.e. helpless immersion), and later, developing a passion for Franco-Belgian comics, which led to me using the DuoLingo app on phone whenever I’m bored or have a spare moment.

~Six months in, I’m just blown away by how much I can read without too much trouble. Google’s vanilla “Translate” app helps a bunch when I’m stuck. Of course it’s also good to have other aids, such as a handy chart of verb conjugations, etc, but really it was just DuoLingo that caught me on fire.

Feel free anyone to drop by our Lemmy community devoted to European graphic novels if you’re interested.

Dear lord, you’re the best!

Oh, oh, oh…

I’m in tears right now

Can I have my community back, please?

https://lemm.ee/post/31540584

I did try logging in that way and then clicked around the stuff you mentioned, damn.

Still nothing.

EDIT: Let me take a nap right now, and hopefully this will all be a ridiculous dream a little later…

Thanks, tried it just now. Got this:

Yes, “DELETED BY CREATOR” was the very first thing I noticed! 😠

But yes, I looked around the upper-right, but didn’t see much of anything like a “Restore” link. Now I did try pressing the “Joined” button, and now it looks like this:

Ugh, so now I’ve made the whole situation somehow worse?

Oh, but check this out-- I have a “homepage” community under my same ID ( https://lemm.ee/u/JohnnyEnzyme) and I notice that the EDIT button:

…sits weirdly right next to the trash-can icon:

So… I guess probably I touched the one whereas I meant the other??

Thing is-- such a thing was almost *inevitable* as someone who tried to keep updating our site documents (resources and FAQ).

Exactly, thanks.
All of our individual post URL’s seem to still be there, but the front-page seems to be weirdly in a “deleted” status.