i know of, for example, russian-americans who have their google in russian
my lemmy is in spanish and my search engine, portuguese
All English. It’s just more practical. Every software is first and foremost written in English, for English UIs, for English-speaking users, and then internationalized. I’ll just stick to the primary design for simplicity’s sake and to reduce potential issues.
Also, English tends to be more terse and less verbose than almost all other languages when abbreviated.
same - why try to decipher someone else’s often flawed attempts at translation, when the original text is available?
More verbose happens to every translation. Because the original text could choose to communicate things in a way that works with that language but every translation has to include all the information in the original version.
Exactly the same reasons for me. And I even got used to the US and UK keyboard layouts, especially selecting the “dead keys” layout on the OS so I can easily type the specific letters/accents needed for many European languages (the few ones I speak anyway :) ).
Another advantage of the US layout is that it’s the default on any live / installation media / remote server ecc.
I keep my OSs set in English, although it’s not my native language. Simply, because most articles and forum posts for troubleshooting are in english and it makes translating sub-menu titles obsolete
This is exactly what I wanted to comment.
I usually keep all my settings in English. It makes it easier when you’re looking for help online when you need something
Regardless what i do, the results are shit. If i set language to English, it tries to present me with English tranlations of German YouTubers, if i set it to German, it tries to translate English YouTubers to German. Both kinds of tranlations suck.
That might be more of a VPN issue, no?
Nah, its an issue of Youtube pushing/forcing their bs “AI-“Features””
everything in english
i’m better at english than my native language lul
english, it is better handled by computers at all levels
I am Hungarian, but everything I use is in English. As a software developer it’s basically the language of my work and I started consuming media in English at a young age.
All my devices (PC, Smartwatch, Steam Deck etc) are in (British) English, with the exception of my phone, which is in my native German.
I’m a native English speaker but my phone and fitbit are in French. I minored in French in college and I’m trying to shake off the rust.
My phone and YouTube are in French, everything else is in English. No idea why YouTube (and only YouTube, not google, gmail, etc) is French, one day it was and I’ve never put in the effort to change it.
Native English speaker also.
I’ve got my stuff in Japanese. Just trying my best to keep it sharp and not let English kick it out of my brain (which it is aggressively trying to do.)
Most things are in German, but if something isn’t translated to German yet or I can’t be bothered to change it from English, it doesn’t bother me much to use it in English either.
English, which is not my native language
I have everything in English, even though it is not my native language. It was what the versions of DOS were as a kid, and I got so used to it that using the Danish version seems odd to me.
Native Spanish and English speaker, Lemmy settings are in Spanish. I’m used to my settings being in Spanish because I grew up in South America with electronics naturally being set to Spanish.
Also, when I’d go to Google something for my friends, it was more efficient to have them read it, rather than just translating.
For example:
I remember someone asking me about religion in Poland (they were Polish and didn’t know and also didn’t have their phone with them) so they asked me to look it up. It was more efficient, like I said, to just have them read this.
i thank you for this as a hispanic dude with a polish mom
I used to have everything set to English (my second language), but nowadays I use Spanish when available (third language). I use my native language only for a handful of local apps and websites if Spanish is unavailable.
same
