An impulse buy. Officially it retailed for 699 — it was meant to pair with the Xperia line of tablets.
Then it ended up on Taobao at 35 yuan each, buy one get one free (you had to write the secret code “buy one get one free” in the order notes).
So don’t bother hunting for it — probably sold out by now. I grabbed two, the BOGO kind, and messed around with it a bit after it arrived…
My impression? Simple.
Not very useful…
As someone who’s already “retired” from the audiophile hobby, I’m not really interested in mysticism anymore. Mostly I just look for songs to listen to—following arrangers, following singers, seeing which singers look good… oh, I mean sing well.
I used to use the Dunu DN20000J as my retirement IEM, but lately my tastes have gotten a bit heavier. That IEM, well… you know how it is. Back then I fell for the bullshit those KOLs were peddling, chasing after “female poison” and transparency. Who’d have thought I’d end up liking EDM and Hip-Hop?
And even when it’s not EDM or Hip-Hop, ordinary pop just lacks something through the Dunu…
So in the end, I guess I just prefer that dynamic driver feel?
Finally I saw the JVC FX1200 on sale for JD Double Eleven, so I just bought it. As the flagship of dynamic drivers, I figured I’d experience its charm.
papirus-icon-theme is a solid icon theme, and it pairs nicely with the arc-flatabulous theme.
There used to be a PPA for papirus-icon-theme, but the maintainers decided it was too much hassle and stopped maintaining it.
I’ve wanted to listen to a tube amp for ages. Everyone says tube amps are super classy, mostly because they supposedly have this amazing “flavor.”
So I got together with a high school buddy to figure out how to put one together.
He said the circuit and soldering should be fine—schematics are all over the internet—and the tubes are no problem either, you can just buy ready-made ones. Solder it up using the public mold designs online…
So I placed the order. We’d agreed to do the soldering together, but last month his master’s thesis defense was such a pain and kept him so busy that I let him start on his own.
When he finished, he said: after soldering it with someone else’s board, someone else’s case, someone else’s power supply, and someone else’s tubes, it ended up exactly the same as the finished units other people sell. So why not just buy a finished one?
Yeah… for something this cheap, why not just buy a finished one?
There are all kinds of “what if I could go back to school again” hypotheticals online, and plenty of discussions built on top of them.
Not that I haven’t had the same thought. I’ve talked about the possibility with friends too.
In high school I was a waste of space. Every exam I barely scraped a pass, teetering on the edge of the bottom of the year, and I didn’t think there was anything wrong with that. I just kept going out to find internet cafes, or hitting up relatives’ places, or classmates’ houses that had a PC, dicking around on forums to see what was playable. I think I even saved up and bought a Pocket PC, kept refreshing the same few forums, and ended up a moderator on one of them.
Young me was pretty garbage at studying, honestly. Chinese I learned by reading newspapers; English I learned by playing games. Math wasn’t that I didn’t get it — the teacher just never taught you how to derive anything. He’d shove the process at you, tell you to memorize it, and next time you see this kind of problem, do it like this. Physics I thought I knew, but the problems always came out wrong somehow. Chemistry I had zero interest in. My biology teacher looked at me like I was brain-damaged.
Sometimes at night, when I’m studying Japanese and all sorts of stuff, I sigh at how good the internet is now. Never mind whether you can use Google — even if you hit a problem, you can search Quora and find plenty of people explaining the principle in plain terms. Back in my high school days, even getting online was a pain in the ass. And even though I could use Google freely back then, I couldn’t search up anything, because Chinese resources were far too scarce and my English wasn’t good enough yet.
So to me the internet now is more like a “library” — quickly look up whatever knowledge you need. You don’t even need a textbook’s explanation. With some judgment, you can learn basically anything through the internet.
And now I’m always sighing that I don’t have enough time to study, work is full of bullshit, and when I try to read a book my attention gets shredded by the internet after a while. If I could be sent back to school to study, I’d definitely be way more goated than the waste of space I used to be.
So this “what if” — I’ve argued it with people. “You know what, if you put me back in school now to study, I’d absolutely kill it.” Haozhi across from me drained his beer after hearing my bragging.
“Bullshit!”
He dropped those two words…
And left me sitting there dumbfounded.
………………
Same situation as when I swapped in the Intel 8260AC: no whitelist required, it’s supported out of the box.
Ubuntu LTS releases used to pick up the newer MESA and kernel whenever the next regular release came out.
Apparently they’re switching things up now — you can install the Rolling LTS Enablement Stack to get the kernel from the latest stable Ubuntu release.
So basically, if you’re on 16.04 with the default 4.4 kernel, this gets you up to a supported 4.8 kernel.
There’s an official schedule:
If you’re on Intel integrated graphics, there’s a good chance VMware will tell you that 3D acceleration can’t be enabled.
Even if you flip the 3D acceleration switch, it still won’t work…
I looked into it and it seems to be a blacklist thing — some drivers aren’t allowed to use 3D acceleration. Drop the blacklist and it works. It’s a forced override, sure, but I haven’t run into any problems.
Kinda embarrassing to admit, but for someone who thinks of himself as a tough guy, my first time on a roller coaster was only 4 years ago.
My workplace organized a free trip to some place in Zhengzhou called “Fantawild,” so that’s where I rode a roller coaster for the first time in my life.
The feeling… hard to describe. All I know is it made my prostate very uncomfortable.
When I was a kid, I loved watching Disney animated films—stuff like Mulan, Tarzan, Aladdin. Those movies weren’t just well-made; they were fun to watch, and sometimes they’d break into song-and-dance numbers.
So when the teacher asked us to write a review of a film we’d seen, I wrote about those. My feelings were pretty genuine—about as genuine as the game impressions I write now.
And unsurprisingly, the teacher tore me a new one.
She said I was shallow, criticized a bunch of things I’ve long since forgotten (this was primary school), but one line stuck with me.
“American movies are all about commercialization. They have zero artistic value. What’s there to even write a review about?”