u/Big-Vegetable4550 — reddlx

A modest proposal - don’t count time waiting for lessons to load against XP boosts

So I’m sure I’m not the first Duolingo user who has been watching the clock count down on minutes left for a boosted XP bonus, while waiting anxiously for the next lesson to load (which I swear sometimes takes 60 seconds or longer). Couldn’t those minutes not count as time deducted from your boost? I mean, when the quest is minutes spent learning, they only count the time you’re actually in lessons - so surely it’s possible to only count lesson-minutes towards the count down!

Sure, people would use it to draw out the time that their XP bonus lasts (i.e. start at 6 am, do one lesson at 3X XP, wait an hour in-app to do the next one etc., drawing out the time to do their morning lessons). But it doesn’t seem that would be so bad. Or instead, maybe Duolingo could not ‘stop the clock’ except only count time that you weren’t waiting for the next lesson to load.

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u/Big-Vegetable4550 — 5 days ago

▲ 40 r/duolingo

I REALLY don’t care that T and his 11000 friends had 35,000+ idiots like that he reached an 800 day streak. I don’t know T, I don’t follow T, and he doesn’t follow me. PLEASE STOP PUTTING RANDOM PEOPLE IN MY FEED! I pay for Duolingo Max. I like the social connection aspects. I DO NOT WANT RANDOM PEOPLE SHOWING UP IN MY FEED!

u/Big-Vegetable4550 — 13 days ago

▲ 71 r/Charcuterie

(This is a duplicate of a post I made a couple of months ago on r/fermentation, but this seems to be a more appropriate subreddit.)

I live on the Croatian side of the Adriatic coast, and regularly visit my local fishmongress. She had a beautiful large Kovač (John Dory or San Piere) one morning that I bought for grilling on a wood fire. Cleaning the fish, I realized she had some pretty large roe sacks, so I decided to make bottarga (salt cure dried fish roe). I was careful not to cut the roe membrane, packed them in salt for three days, then rinsed them, wrapped them in paper towel and pressed them between two small clay plates in the fridge for four days. Unwrapped them, tied in twine and hung to dry in my frost-free fridge for a month.

The end result grated with olive oil over fresh cooked pasta was awesome. I didn’t bother to try to peal the membrane before grating and it worked fine. Only problem is now I have to wait almost a year until the breeding cycle comes back around - LOL 😂. I was a bit worried at first if John Dory was an appropriate fish roe to use, and found out later that it is in fact well-reputed.

u/Big-Vegetable4550 — 18 days ago