The reason I bought this keyboard was pretty straightforward: it’s for my dad, who treats keyboards like absolute crap — dust everywhere, grime everywhere.
This one can be rinsed under the tap, so cleaning is a non-issue.
The Netgear R6300V2 is a solid router, and plenty of people say the first thing you should do after buying one is 1.
I had no idea what the hell Merlin even was. I’ve always used Linksys and never touched Netgear’s higher-end stuff, but I finally grabbed an R6300V2 during a JD sale a while back. Not for home, though — it’s for the office, as a plain AP.
The network situation at work is a bit of a mess. For starters, the office has around 20-something phones and tablets that need wireless, plus another 5–6 laptops, so the office Wi-Fi has some actual requirements.
There are three ISPs coming into the building: one China Unicom, one China Mobile, one China Telecom. Telecom has the biggest pipe, Unicom the smallest, Mobile sits in the middle. But for reasons you can probably guess, the best route for circumventing the GFW is naturally Unicom, while Telecom is the fastest domestically, and the awkward one is Mobile — too big to ignore, too small to matter. The gateway router has an address table that decides which exit to use based on the ISP address ranges in it.
That setup doesn’t satisfy me. I want to specify the network exit more brutally than that.
Honestly, I didn’t want to play this at first. The trial version had been out for ages and I kept putting it off, and I had my reasons:
First, the OP just didn’t grab me. I’ve been burned by a good OP more times than I can count—that’s one of my weaknesses when picking games.
Second, the premise is way too light-novel-ish. A princess from the underworld comes to the surface to destroy the world—how many times have we seen that? A girl drops out of nowhere and meets the protagonist? A dime a dozen.
Third, the art style is just too… sultry. I really didn’t like the character designs. Every girl looks like a sexually frustrated rapist. Maybe I’m better off as a simple moe pig—cute art appeals to me more.
So for these pretty flimsy reasons, I kept ignoring the game. But it kept making moves—anime adaptation announced, ads everywhere, constant sales. I couldn’t help but wonder what kind of backer the company had. Eventually I couldn’t take the flood of Twitter bombardment anymore, so I thought I’d check out the trial…
And then I was hooked.
How should I put it? The game is far, far, far, far better than I expected. Actually, it’s a gem.
I’ve been reading this manga a lot lately, so I bought a gachapon to mess around with. The reason I didn’t get the Nendoroid: one, I’m broke; two, I have no money; three, I can’t afford that hobby.
These block-style building bricks are stupidly cheap on Taobao, so I bought a bunch. They look pretty fun.
But I didn’t buy them to play with. They’re for something else.
I’ve got a fair number of devices on hand, and the biggest headache after buying them is buying accessories for them… screen protectors, cases, and all kinds of attachments. I’ve wasted a decent chunk of money on this stuff front and back, so let me just run through what I’ve picked up recently and throw in a few lessons along the way.
Things have been busy lately for various reasons, so I’ll keep this short and to the point.
Emoji support on Linux is kind of crippled. Most guides tell you to install a bunch of fonts, and the result is still your emoji rendered in that ugly black-and-white style. Low-effort, honestly.
The fix is to find an emoji font that plays nice with Linux. SegoeUIEmoji, bundled with Windows since 8, is one option. The other one I’m covering today is Emoji One.
I upgraded my ThinkPad X230 to 16 GB of RAM, so the only thing I’m still unhappy about is the resolution. Even so, 1366x768 on a 12.5-inch screen isn’t exactly unacceptable, right… So I still have no plans to replace it. It’s still plenty fast.
A while back I noticed white blotches on the ThinkPad X230’s screen. After looking around online, it turns out those spots are purely from pressure on the panel. Guess I’ll be more careful from now on. Before that, though, I need to buy a new screen on Taobao and swap it in.
The FiiO X7 is a player I’ve grown to like more and more the longer I use it, but I still have to say this thing has one fatal flaw: the stock AM1 amp module it ships with is just crippled.
When the X7 plays certain tracks, the highs get harsh and grating. But when I ran the X7’s LO output into my car stereo, those highs disappeared. After thinking it over, the only explanation is that crippled amp.
Maybe FiiO did it on purpose, but at least they did release the official mid-tier amp module, the AM2. Swapping modules is easy — all you need is one hex screw.
