Top panel: man smiling, caption reads “me clicking an ich iel post”. Bottom panel: man sad, caption reads “then remembering I can’t read German”.

  • Not_mikey@slrpnk.net
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    1 month ago

    On android you can hold the bottom gesture area and it brings up Google ai “what’s on my screen” mode and it has a translate function that will replace all the German text on the screen with English, seems to work pretty well at least on the German memes.

    • SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Sure, while simultaneously sending everything on your screen to Google for them to build up a profile of all the content you’re looking at, even when it’s not on their platform…

      • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
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        1 month ago

        Anecdote: This isn’t guaranteed to work, since in ich_iel we somet8mes use “Zangendeutsch” which means, that we forcefully translate words, or parts of word, that are somewhat normalised, but are not native German words, back into German in the dumbest most confusing way possible.

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      1 month ago

      I’m a dinosaur, still browsing on a desktop PC. But I’m going to see if there’s a similar plugin I can use. Thanks for the tip.