Vim 8.1 is a minor release — a handful of new features have landed since Vim 8.0. The big one for me is that Vim 8.1 can run a terminal inside a Vim window. That sounds great.
So I decided to put Vim 8.1 on my main machine.
Ever since I bought the “Noise Cancelling Beans”, I’ve been using them almost every day. Honestly, I’m happy with them.
Happy to what degree? Let’s put it this way: I’m even thinking about selling off all my audiophile-mysticism gear, because these are just too convenient.
The Beans sound good enough, the battery lasts long enough, and there aren’t many connection dropouts. Apart from a little video latency, they’re more than enough for just listening to music.
But a few days ago the Beans pushed out a 2.0 firmware update, said to further improve stability, so I figured I’d just upgrade.
I installed Unity as the default DE on Ubuntu 18.04, but Nautilus really sucks at desktop management. So I decided to make a change.
Met up with Canadian dalao Siyan Zhang yesterday. Since we’re from the same hometown, I treated him to a meal.
In my memory, turning on the AC is supposed to wait until June 1st.
But global warming, I guess, so the AC-on date moved up. Now it’s May.
The dumbass AC in our office always dies at the worst possible moment and roasts me alive.
So I had to buy some cooling stuff. Like this fan…
Didn’t I buy an open source handheld a while back? The one called Retro Game. At the time I flashed the 1.4 open source firmware, and before long 1.5 showed up too.
Download link is the same place as always:
https://jutleys.wixsite.com/retrogamers97-90/home/new-opendingux-v1.3-firmware-live
Upgrading works exactly the same as when I installed it. If you’ve got old games on there, you can just leave them on the card.
When I first watched Your Name., I saw the heroine frustrated with her mountain village, wanting to go to the big city, wanting to explore a new world.
Honestly this kind of thing isn’t exactly fresh for us. We always see it in Japanese film and TV: the protagonist stuck in the countryside, sighing about how they hate this town, hate the sticks, want to go to Tokyo, want the big city.
But I figure a lot of people might not get that feeling:
“The countryside’s great, what’s so good about the big city? The countryside’s way more free.”
Well, you don’t know what you’re missing till you’ve tasted it. Maybe people who grew up in big cities can’t understand the longing for excitement that exists in small towns. Most of the people talking about going back to the countryside are just sick of the noise of the city.
And a lot of them have no idea what the countryside is actually like. Drop them out there, let them walk into town and fail to find a single Heytea, and no amount of bike-riding with their ass chafing will fill that void inside.
I remember going to the countryside once when I was little. My family’s from a poor county in Kaifeng, Henan — well, not exactly my hometown, my grandma’s side.
How poor was it? I remember when we got there, the relatives served us their best meal: a pot of mian gedda soup with a few beaten eggs in it. That was the top standard. And those eggs only existed because the old hen had graciously laid them that day — otherwise there wouldn’t even be eggs.
The villagers there didn’t even have coops. Just a laying nest. At night the roosters and hens would fly up into the trees to sleep.
Yeah, I only realized chickens were birds too after I personally watched a big rooster fly up to the treetops. They’ve got wings. It’s just that city thinking makes us forget.
As novel as the countryside was, I got bored of it fast. Even with flying chickens, it was just too dull. Too monotonous — not just the food, but the people, the things to do, the scenery.
Lots of people say the mountain valley views are so beautiful. But watch them every day and you’d get sick of them too. Tell someone they have to look at that for the rest of their life and never go back to the city, and they’d probably break.
So maybe now you can understand the mindset of people in the countryside who want to go to the big city. Even with internet and delivery out there now, the exciting world is still better.
And what if that “countryside” is on an island?
As a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2017 owner, I happened to get my hands on an Intel 9260 Wi-Fi card. Naturally, the first thing that came to mind was: let’s install it and see what happens.
There are always people in this world finding ways to piss you off.
Like a guy who’s ridiculously handsome, has a loli girlfriend, and spends his days cuddling and going at it, living a shameless life.
And yet this same person goes online claiming to be a fat loser otaku, says all women are trash, and — get this — puts on this whole virgin-stench act. How obnoxious is that?
Then he plays Honor of Kings, and what’s even more disgusting is he only uses female characters,理由是 they look good. Like some dead gay guy like “Meituan Wang Sicong” who could just play beefcake heroes and rank up, but no, he has to lose streak after streak with the girls. What kind of flex is that?
To punish a show-off like this, relying on Zhu Niubi alone won’t do it. You’ve got to take action, like telling him:
“Zijing, I bought your wife… ’s figure.”
This post has been updated:
Check out the new firmware guide and tinkering notes: /archives/9750/
I loved handhelds as a kid, and the habit stuck. I bought a PSV, I bought a Switch, and I still enjoy just holding a handheld and fiddling with it.
Recently I was bored, stumbled onto this whole open-source handheld scene online, saw a bunch of crowdfunding projects, and ultimately—because I’m broke—went with the cheap Subor Retro Game (RS97).
