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I am likely to write comments in Finnish, English, German, Ukrainian, Russian, Latvian, Estonian, Polish, and Lithuanian.

Most of the comments I write on Piefed are in English because I come from a small country, but I would absolutely prefer them being translated to Finnish instead. Now it apparently works so that I must write comment somewhere in FInnish and delete it so that I will get some French text translated to Finnish instead of English?

And the same, just about a week ago I wrote a comment in Lithuanian. It was just a few words because my Lithuanian has gotten a bit rusty in the 11 years after I quit my university, and my Lithuanian is rusty. Now, if I had wanted a Portuguese text translated after having written that comment, I would have first needed to find some excuse to write a comment in Finnish or at least English or German, because those three are the only three languages in which I can comfortably read a long text.

I would suggest just allowing the user to choose the target language in the settings. Maybe put a tiny arrow next to the globe icon to choose some other language? And then translate by default to the target language that was chosen through that tiny-arrow-menu the previous time?

To underline: You cannot even choose the language a person has used the most, because a lot of people write more posts in English than in their native language. I'm not sure if Finnish is supported as a target language – probably not – but a German person would definitely prefer having German as their target language even if they just took part in a conversation with foreigners. As I am doing right now.

I would like the translation button to appear also when I've just posted in the same language. For example, my Ukrainian is reasonably okay, but I don't read the cyrillic script as fast the latin on, which means it's often more efficient to just copypaste the text to DeepL to translate it.

But if I then write a short answer to any comment, I lose the right to translate the texts? (Of course, since my instance currently only allows me to mark "English" as the comment's language, this doesn't have any real effect on me anyway...)

A citizenship or a personal history is not a race.

Some cool spots, such as calmly ordering a hot dog while cars are flying over your head into their destruction. And the flying ambulance. And the difficulty in leaving the hospital.

But yeah, the traffic is efficient! It's a very dynamic city!

Hydroelectricity can work. It's really destructive for the environment, though. When you have excess solar and wind, pump some water back up behind the dam. Then make more hydroelectric power when there's no wind.

Delighted to see the orcs' losses are over 1000 again. If they drop too much over 1000, the Russia will eventually gain the ability to actually train its soldiers. That would make a huge difference. In a bad way.

That's a very different kind of case, though. Keeping your military from defecting is super difficult when their war is one of genocide.

This is the least mad of all Russian assassinations I know. (Still mad, though!)

There's still a big diplomatic risk involved each time a country kills a person in another country. You can never know what straw is the last one needed for 50 F-35s to fly over Belgorod.

Some people get them from common colds. Just be happy you do not.

I'm not using Lemmy. Do I have to leave?

I do the same. Whenever I'm ill, I eat a lot of canned fish (no cooking required, and it's not nice cooking in a horrible headache).

I tend to get well very soon even if the illness has felt very bad. And sometimes when I don't do the same, for whatever reason, I remain ill much longer.

What about him?