i know of, for example, russian-americans who have their google in russian
my lemmy is in spanish and my search engine, portuguese
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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.
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.
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.
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.
This is my reasoning, too. I keep my keyboard QWERTZ + German Umlaute, but almost everything else is set to English. Pretty much the only exception are videogames and movies that have a superior German version to them (like Kingdom Come Deliverance)
I usually keep all my settings in English. It makes it easier when you’re looking for help online when you need something
everything in english
i’m better at english than my native language lul
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””
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.
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.
Interesting! My google apps all changed to French, I wonder why yours didn’t.
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
English, which is not my native language
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.
Persian is my mother tongue but the most disappointing day in my life is when I realized I dreamed in English because it has been my primary language most of my life. I honestly don’t even know if I can set lemmy to Persian, I’ve never checked.
edit: well, how about that you can.
I’m so used to seeing English everywhere that I actually have trouble navigating things like settings in my native Serbian.
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.
All my devices (PC, Smartwatch, Steam Deck etc) are in (British) English, with the exception of my phone, which is in my native German.