Last time we sorted out the NAS and the router, so eventually the network itself had to be dealt with.
First, getting online in the new place. I signed up for Henan Unicom broadband, and they threw in a cable TV service. Free is free.
Moving to a new place means setting up a new router. This time, though, I decided to do something a little different. Soft routers have been popular for a while, so I figured I’d give one a try.
A while back I moved, and I ended up fiddling with the network at the new place — got a new router, got a new NAS, so I figured I’d write it down. Call it impressions of new gear plus the pits I fell into. This is a three-parter: one part NAS, one part router, one part linking the two locations’ networks together.
I forget exactly when I bought it — sometime around the October National Day holiday, when I joined the crowdfunding campaign.
Honestly I regretted it the moment I backed it. But then I found out, to my surprise:
Crowdfunded items can’t be returned!
And it hit me right then why China’s “crowdfunding” is really just “preorder” and still insists on the crowdfunding label — it’s to stop you from buying and then returning it…
Anyway, it arrived, and it’s not bad:
Just a few days ago, my fcitx input method started crashing for no apparent reason. Basically, I’d start it up, type a few characters, and it would die.
I dug through the logs and found the problem: it’s related to the fcitx-cloudpinyin module — the “cloud pinyin” thing.
The Japanese eroge maker CUFFS has a whole pile of sub-brands — Sphere, CUBE, miniCUBE, SONORA, and HULOTTE, which looks unrelated but apparently isn’t. I hadn’t touched a CUFFS game in ages. CUFFS games are all basically the same: same engine, same font, same choice-navigation UI, same Duca songs covering everything, same marketing playbook, same coloring style, and… the only thing that really differs is the artist.
So CUFFS games get old fast, because there’s just too much that’s identical. Sure, sometimes they roll out a “story premise” that looks decent, but the actual execution always disappoints. Well, not disappoint exactly — it’s more that there’s just nothing interesting there. CUFFS announces a new title, you look at the character setup and you can already guess how the plot will unfold. Beat the game and sure enough, it played out exactly as you expected. No surprises. If anything it’s less exciting than what you imagined…
Which leaves you with disappointment… emptiness… and self-loathing for wasting your time on this game.
I’ve been tinkering with open-source handhelds for a long time. The last one was probably the Retro Game 97 — I reflashed its firmware several times and even swapped the conductive pads. It worked well enough, but I always felt it wasn’t perfect and still had a lot of problems.
So a while back I was browsing the forums and found that a successor to the Retro Game 97, the Retro Game 350, had been released. The price seemed acceptable, so I bought one to check it out.
The hairy crabs were a gift from someone, some kind of gift voucher I think — you book through WeChat and then just go pick them up.
I’d never actually cooked hairy crabs before. My wife knows how to eat them, though, so I decided to give it a go myself under her advice.
Recently, in order to play World of Warcraft Classic, I dug out an SSD portable drive, installed Windows to Go on it, and set up all sorts of software for gaming.
Then I noticed the problem:
The time shown under Linux and under Windows is always different
Truth is, the reason is simple enough. The two systems handle time differently: Linux sets the BIOS clock to GMT 0 (UTC) and works out the local time from the time zone, while Windows just writes local time straight into the BIOS.
I.
I’m a 20-year-old virgin. The no-sex kind.
A friend invited me to a Christmas party and, beating his chest to pieces, swore he’d introduce me to all sorts of cute girls there.
But as a great virgin, how could I possibly hold court at such an event?
So I made a decisive choice!
I chickened out… again.
