You needed: kernel driver, closed source userspace driver, GStreamer plugin, v4l2 loopback driver, v4l2 relay daemon copying frames from the GStreamer source into v4l2 loopback. Technically I could have made it work, I just decided not to.

https://launchpad.net/~oem-solutions-group/+archive/ubuntu/intel-ipu6 https://github.com/intel/ipu6-camera-bins

Earlier this year I was given one of those XPS machines with Ubuntu and decided to install Debian on it. The camera driver was so bad - I can’t remember technical details but you can’t simply get it to run on another kernel, it was a mess of hacks to get it to work. I decided I won’t get a camera driver. “We ship a laptop with Ubuntu” does not necessarily mean working Linux drivers.

EDIT: To add insult to injury, the touch bar suddenly decided to stop responding to input. It’s already bad enough to not have tactile feedback for Esc / Fn keys / Delete / Print Screen.

It happened in a Starbucks. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-hSdYkgHuRdU/VNuzCLxuMuI/AAAAAAAADWQ/yHeBV1XPfT4/s640/blogger-image-658967424.jpg

Oh, apparently you’re right! I just made a quick search. I was speaking based on what a Japanese friend had told me long ago, but maybe he had misunderstood it too.

No, くすくす is onomatopoeia for giggling. https://jisho.org/word/くすくす

Ah, no, this is some Internet slang, and oddly enough it comes from the first meaning. AFAIK, the second one doesn’t exist in Japanese.

Basically, “hahaha” in Katakana is written as ハハハ. If you line up enough ハハ’s, it will look like a series of ｗ’s. In chats, they use ｗ (from 笑い、warai) to denote laughter. If you line up enough ｗｗｗｗ’s, it looks like grass. That’s how 草 ended up meaning LOL.

You can immerse yourself into stuff like online articles, blog posts, or Twitter (yes I know, Japanese people don’t seem willing to leave it). This way you can read at your own pace without having to chase after what you hear. You can install a browser add-on like Yomichan for Firefox, that lets you look up words by just hovering over them while pressing Shift. It makes reading 100x easier.

There are also some websites that offer articles for each reading level, such as https://yomujp.com/n5/ and https://www.nihongoschool.co.uk/nihongoblog .

Finally, what I can really recommend is to find some Japanese friends to chat with. Difficult, I know. Back in my day I searched on Skype, I wouldn’t know what to recommend now, sorry. I first did this when I was around N5 level and totally fell flat on my face, but when I was at N4 I could easily hold a conversation about a variety of topics.

Not a native speaker, but nobody else has jumped in, so here’s my understanding of it. Take it with a grain of salt because I’m not a native speaker. If you want I could ask my sensei for clarifications, I just would prefer to not bother her.

These two phrases only have a different nuance, not technically a different meaning. The nuance is exactly what you described in what you consciously know. So you might use the 〜ていた form to say how it was safe for you to go on a hike, and the 〜た form to focus on the season change itself. It’s not necessarily wrong to use them interchangeably.

A “simply explained” kind of book, “even foxes can understand”.

Oh yes, I completely agree with you! I was saying this exact thing to my sensei some time ago and she couldn’t understand what I mean, despite knowing a few foreign languages herself, Japanese is her native language so she couldn’t judge it from the perspective of someone learning it as a foreign language. But I also like how everything is well-structured and it’s also not full of exceptions. My husband only started learning a few months ago but he also agrees!

I hadn’t realised the mistake in Japanese either until my sensei pointed it out, to be fair! 😅

Oh, “kon kon” is the voice of a fox in Japanese! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/コンコン

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