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Tonava@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

While I would say that the language barrier is squing things a little

To go on a tangent from this; this is literally the problem I’m constantly struggling with tech stuff. I am not fully illiterate in things (I’ve build my desktop, I’ve booted from USB, I’ve done quite interesting things with php etc. etc. small stuff) but I’m also not on a “Lemmy level”, for example never installed or used Linux, I don’t know Rust, nor do I understand a lot of the talks here.

But; English is my second language, and I’ve never had any formal schooling in IT. There are a lot of tech words that do not translate literally into my native language. So if I want to understand something, searching for things is an absolute nightmare. I often don’t know the English term, and I usually don’t know the proper tech term for it in my native language either. Translating doesn’t help since translators don’t understand the terminology but will translate literally, which again, doesn’t help in either direction. So I’m left guessing and trying to piece things together based on vague descriptions by people who understand what they’re talking about and expect the reader to understand as well.

On top of that the FUCKING SEO has made everything so much worse since trying to search anything with the word “optimizing” will only yield completely irrelevant things about SEO. I hate it I hate I hate it

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