Over the years, I keep facing this issue of upgrading yt-dlp using winget. I had to search the resolution over and over with many people pointing to different places, but only this worked for me, so I’m documenting it for myself.
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Last year in 2023 in Review, I picked that the yearly theme would be “Year of Experience”. Indeed, this year I experienced a lot of things. Experience came in different forms, from travelling, events, meet ups, and many more. In this post, I’ll share several memorable experiences.
…Duolingo is a language-learning app that’s based on spaced repetition concept. It is a gamified app that structured each language courses around lessons. In each lesson, there are several questions, and each time you answer a question incorrectly, you lose a heart. For the free tier, there are limited amount of hearts which regenerate over some period of time. I find that the concept of losing hearts over making mistakes is counter-productive for language-learning, since language-learning means making mistakes and correcting them often.
They also annoy you with ads while you’re doing lessons. The goal of this is to entice you to subscribe to their “Super Duolingo” plan. Having interruptions during lessons is extremely frustrating because it distracts you from learning and forces you to focus on something else.
However, there is a legitimate feature that bypasses the annoyances of limites hearts and ads during lessons: Duolingo for Schools.
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I have some Japanese e-books that I am reading in my Kindle (mine is Kindle 8th Generation). I use Calibre to manage file format conversion and sending them to Kindle.
However, when I send them to my Kindle, I encountered some problems:
So after scouring Calibre’s forums, this is happeneing because of two reasons:
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On Windows 10 and Windows 11, sometimes “United States-International” keyboard layout will appear in Window’s keyboard layout options. This keyboard layout is not what you normally want since most keyboard uses the normal US keyboard layout and not the US-International layout.
There’s something strange going on. I do not have any memory of adding it. When you check the keyboard settings in Time & Language > Language & Region > English (United States) > Language options, you won’t see it listed in the keyboard list. This seems like a Windows bug that happened to some users since Windows 10 era.
Apparently, the workaround for this is to add the keyboard layout “United States-International” from “Add a keyboard”.
After this, “United States-International” will show up in the keyboard list. Then, you can find the option to remove it. After you removed it, it will disappear from the Keyboard layout list.
However, this is not permanent. Seems like after some time, perhaps after some Windows Update, it will appear again in the list. However, when it happen again, one can re-apply the same trick again. Let’s hope that it will be fixed in future Windows versions.
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I finally went to Japan! It was really nice. I found myself enjoying through both the ups and downs. Many things happened in the planning and execution of the trip. In this post I reflect on what happened, what I enjoyed and not, what I learned, and what I hope to do next.
The initial idea was sparked many years ago (maybe it was 2019?), thrown around occassinally when chatting with Leo or with the Unyu group. But that idea stuck at being just an idea as there was no more concrete planning that happened since then. Also the Covid travel restrictions happened so I couldn’t really act on it int the past few years. Then last year around August, after more deliberations and encouragements, I took the risk and booked the flight tickets.
Once I booked the non-refundable tickets, the journey started becomnig real. I even thought of a quote from the anime A Place Further Than The Universe:
…If you can still turn back, it’s not really a journey. When you hit the point of no return, that’s the moment it becomes a journey.
Hinata Miyake
When I wrote Seasons of Anime, it was just middle of the year. Since then, I watched a lot more anime titles. I decided to use MyAnimeList to keep track of the titles I’ve watched and its ratings. Here, I will list some titles that are really exceptional to me in no particular order.
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